HomeMy WebLinkAbout05-26-1975 Regular MeetingSTATE OF ALABAMA
COUNTY OF BALDWIN
The City Council of the City of Fairhope met in regular session
at the City Administration Building, 387 Fairhope Avenue, on
Monday, May 26, 1975 at 7:00 P.M. with the following members
present: Mayor James P. Nix, Councilmen: David E. Bishop, H. G.
Bishop , Sam E. Box, 011ie E. Deese and Barney L. Shull.
Minutes of the previous regular meeting were approved.
Motion by Councilman Barney Shull seconded by Councilman 011ie
Deese that Ordinance #551, AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 13,
DISTRICT BOUNDARIES OF ZONING ORDINANCE NO. 295 , introduced at
dthe regular meeting of May 12, 1975 be adopted as introduced.
Motion carried.
Motion by Councilman H. G. Bishop seconded by Councilman David E.
Bishop that request for on premises beer permit at Watkins Grocery
be denied. Motion carried.
Motion by Councilman H. G. Bishop seconded by Councilman Sam Box
that Workmen's Comp. bill be approved for payment. Motion carried.
This being date set for opening bids on waility poles, the follow-
ing bids were received:
Huxford Pole and Piling Co.
20 = 30' poles @ $34.70
15 - 35' poles @ 52.31
10 - 40' poles @ 68.41
Baldwin Pole and Piling Co.
20 - 30' poles @ 45.45
15 - 35' poles @ 64.95
10 - 40' poles @ 75.56
International Paper Co.
20 - 30' poles @ 47.00
15 - 35' poles @ 63.00
10 - 40' poles @ 86.50
T. R. Mills
20 - 30' poles @ 38.20
15 - 35' poles @ 58.95
10 - 40' poles @ 73.10
Escambia Pole and Piling
20 - 30' poles @ 39.20
15 - 35' poles @ 57.50
10 - 40' poles @ 73.65
Motion by Councilman David E. Bishop seconded by Councilman Sam
E. Box that City accept low bid provided bid meets specifications.
Motion carried.
Motion by Councilman H. G. Bishop seconded by Councilman Sam E.
Box that Mrs. Melba McCawley be appointed as Chairman of the
Bi-centennial Committee. Motion carried.
Motion by Councilman Sam Box seconded by Councilman Barney Shull
that the City purchase Hustler mower. Motion carried.
Motion by Councilman Sam Box seconded by Councilman Shull that _
City ask for bids on approximately 400 ft. of 24" culvert. Motion
carried.
Motion by Councilman Sam Box seconded by Councilman H. G. Bishop
that the City Atty. be authorized to offer $800.00 counter offer
to Larkin Harris as Agent for Mrs. Carreno on property for lead
bed for cathodic protection. Motion carried.
Motion by Councilman Sam Box seconded by Councilman David Bishop
that the Chairman of the Airport Board present report on Airport
at the next regular meeting of the Council. Motion carried.
The following Resolution was introduced in writing by Councilman
H. G. Bishop and considered by the Council:
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE, EXECUTION,
SALE AND DELIVERY OF $650,000 PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF
GENERAL OBLIGATION REFUNDING WARRANTS OF THE CITY
OF FAIRHOPE FOR THE PURPOSE OF FUNDING OR REFUNDING
A LIKE OR GREATER AMOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL OF AND
INTEREST ON THE OUTSTANDING INTEREST BEARING WARRANTS
AND NOTES OF THE CITY OF FAIRHOPE
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL (the "Council") of
the City'of Fairhope (the "City") as follows:
Section 1. The City by and through its Council, does
hereby find and determine, represent and warrant as follows:
(a) The assessed value of the taxable property within
the corporate limits of the City as assessed for municipal
taxes as of October 1, 1974, is not less than $6,935,735.00.
(b) The City has outstanding and proposes to refund by
the issuance of the Warrants herein authorized, the follow-
ing warrants, notes, or other obligations, each of which is
a general obligation of the City, secured by its full faith
and credit and taxing power, and each of which was validly
issued by the City for the purpose of borrowing money for
the following respective lawful uses and purposes:
(i) $300,000 General Obligation Warrants dated August
1, 1970, payable to First National Bank of Fairhope, issued
to evidence the indebtedness of the City for money borrowed:
$150,000 for street improvements, the cost of which was as-
sessed in whole or in part against the property abutting and
benefited by such improvements, $103,000 for electric system
equipment, and $47,000 for automotive equipment, maturing
over a period of 10 years with interest at 6 percent per
annum, authorized by resolution duly adopted by the Council
on August 10, 1970, the principal balance remaining due on
which is now $200,000
(ii) $72,000 General Obligation Warrants dated October
9, 1970, payable to Fairhope Building Corporation and
assigned by said Corporation to First National Bank of
Fairhope, issued to evidence its obligation to pay a part of
the purchase price of the Bank of Fairhope Building, now
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used as the Administration Building of the City, payable in
the amount of $8,000 in each year for 10 years, with interest
at the rate of 5 percent per annum, authorized by Ordinance
No. 453, duly adopted by the City Council on September 14,
1970, the principal balance remaining due on which is now $48,000
(iii) $42,834 Municipal Airport Warrants originally dated
October 13, 1972, payable to First National Bank of Fairhope,
issued to evidence an indebtedness incurred for the improve-
ment and expansion of the airport of the City, maturing over
a period of 10 years ending October 13, 1984, with interest
at the rate of 6 percent per annum, authorized by resolution
duly adopted by the Council on June 26, 1972, the principal
balance presently remaining outstanding on which is $36,514.51
(iv) $116,000 General Obligation Promissory Note dated
March 19, 1974, payable to First National Bank of Fairhope,
issued to evidence money borrowed to pay the cost of pur-
chasing equipment necessary for the operation and main-
tenance of the sanitary landfill and other necessary ma-
chinery and to pay a judgment in the amount of approximately
$48,000 in favor of the Town of Daphne rendered by the
Circuit Court of Baldwin County, payable over a period of 84
months in monthly installments of $1,666.98 each, with
interest at the rate of 5-1/2 percent per annum on the
unpaid balance, authorized by resolution adopted by the Council
on March 11, 1974, the principal balance remaining due on
which is now $100,865.47
(v) $200,000 General Obligation Promissory Note dated
August 2, 1974, payable to First National Bank of Fairhope,
issued to evidence $100,000.00 borrowed for general municipal
purposes and $100,000.00 borrowed for the purchase from
Riviera Utilities Company of electric service utility lines
and facilities located within the corporate limits of the
City; and said Note matures one year from date with interest.
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at the rate of 6-1/2 percent per annum, payable quarterly,
authorized by resolution adopted by the Council on July
30, 1974, the outstanding principal balance on which is
now
(vi) $55,500 General Obligation Warrants or Notes,
$25,000 of which are dated February 18, 1975, and $30,500
of which are dated April 4, 1975, payable to First National
Bank of Fairhope, issued to evidence money borrowed for
street improvements purposes, maturing annually on demand
bearing interest at the rate of 5-1/2 percent per annum,
authorized by the Council by resolution adopted February 10,
$200,000
1975, the balance remaining outstanding on which is $55,500
(c) The City also has outstanding .the following bonds,
warrants, notes and other obligations which are chargeable -
against its constitutional debt limit, but which are not to
be refunded by the warrants hereinafter authorized to be
issued:
(i) $500,000 General Obligation Electric Warrants,
dated July 1, 1973, payable to First National Bank of Fairhope,
issued for the purpose of acquiring and installing additions
and improvements to the electric system of the City, maturing
over a period of 15 years ending July 1, 1988, bearing
interest at the rate of 5.20 percent per annum, authorized.
by the Council by resolution adopted August 13, 1973, the
outstanding principal balance due on which is now $478,000
(d) The City has outstanding vouchers, contracts and
accounts payable in a total principal amount not exceeding
$ El,� but the City has cash on hand exceeding
such amount of payables set aside for the payment of such
vouchers, contracts and accounts payable.
(e) Interest accrued to the date of adoption of this
resolution on the warrants and notes described in subparagraphs
(b) and (c) above totals $2&�2
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(f) The City has outstanding no other bonds, warrants,
notes or other obligations and has incurred no other indebted-
ness of any nature whatsoever, except (1) temporary loans,
to be paid within one year, made in anticipation of the col-
lection of taxes and not exceeding one-fourth of the annual
revenues of the City, (2) bonds or other obligations issued
for the purpose of acquiring, providing or constructing
school houses, to the payment of which obligations the City
has pledged a tax sufficient to pay principal and
interest of such obligations at their respective maturi-
ties, (3) obligations incurred and bonds issued for pro-
viding or constructing sanitary or storm water sewers or
street or sidewalk improvements, the cost of which, in
whole or in part, is assessed or to be assessed against
the property drained, served or benefited by such sewers
or abutting said improvements, (4) revenue bonds or other
obligations payable solely from the revenues of the facili-
-'ties acquired from the proceeds of the sale of said bonds
or obligations, none of which are includible in the limita-
tion of the indebtedness of the City under Section 225 of
the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended by Amendment
No. 268.
(g) First National Bank of Fairhope is now the
holder of all of the notes and warrants listed in subparagraph
(b) above and has agreed to surrender such notes and warrants
to the extent of $650,000 in exchange for the Warrants
herein authorized, the remaining principal and interest balance
on said notes and warrants to be paid to said Bank in cash.
The above refunding will provide a debt service schedule
which the City will be able to meet without hampering its
ability to provide the usual municipal services. It is
therefore necessary, advisable and in the public interest
to authorize and issue the warrants herein authorized.
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(h) The aforesaid warrants and notes described in sub-
paragraph (b) above were duly authorized by resolutions or
ordinances duly adopted by the City Council, and each of
said resolutions and ordinances is hereby readopted as if
presented at this meeting and is hereby ratified and af-
firmed as the action of the Council. Each of the afore-
said warrants and notes were duly executed, issued and
delivered upon receipt by the City of sums in cash equal to
the face value thereof. The City hereby recognizes each of
said notes and warrants as evidence of the valid and sub-
sisting indebtedness of the City to the extent of the prin-
cipal and interest balances now remaining outstanding there-
on.
Section 2. The City shall for the purpose of funding
or refunding of a like or greater amount of the principal of
and interest on the outstanding interest bearing warrants
and notes of the City described in subparagraph (b) of Sec-
=-tion 1 of this Resolution, and now held by First National
Bank of Fairhope, Fairhope, Alabama, shall, pursuant to the
Constitution and laws of the State of Alabama, including
Code of Alabama of 1940, Title 37, Section 253, issue
$650,000 aggregate principal amount of its General Obliga-
tion Refunding Warrants (the "Warrants"). The Warrants shall
be dated as of the date of their issuance, shall bear inter-
est at the rate of 6.25 percent per annum, payable on October
1, 1975, and on April 1 and October 1 in each year there-
after until maturity, shall mature on April 1 in each of the
following years in the following principal amounts, shall
be in the following.denominations, and shall be numbered
consecutively, as follows:
Year Amount Maturing Denomination
Number
1976
$40,000
$40,000 1
1977
40,000
40,000 2
1978
40,000
40,000 3
1979
40,000
40,000 4
1980
40,000
40,000 5
1981
40,000
40,000 6
1982
40,000
40,000 7
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Year
Amount Maturing
Denomination
Number
1983
$40,000
$40,000
8
1984
40,000
40,000
9
1985
40,000,
40,000
10
1986
50,000
50,000
11
1987
50,000
50,000
12
1988
50,000
50,000
13
1989
50,000
50,000
14
1990
50,000
50,000
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Section 3. The Warrants shall be redeemable at the
option of the City in whole or in part, and, if in part,
in the inverse order of maturities and identification numbers,
latest maturities and highest numbers first, on any interest
payment date on or after April 1, 1985, at a redemption price -
equal to the principal amount of each Warrant to be redeemed,
plus accrued interest thereon to the redemption date and a
premium equal to one-half of one percent (1/20) of -the
principal amount of each Warrant redeemed for each 6 months
period intervening between the date fixed for redemption
and the stated maturity date of such Warrant, but not to
exceed in any event two and one-half percent (2-1/20) of
such principal amount. Thirty days' notice of the intended
redemption of any of the Warrants shall be given by regis-
tered mail to the payee thereof or to any assignee whose
identity has been made known to the City. In the event that
the identity of the assignee is not known, notice of such
redemption shall be published once not more than 60 days
and not less than 30 days before the date fixed for redemp-
tion in a daily newspaper published in the City of Mobile,
Alabama. Notice of such redemption having been so given
and funds for the redemption price having been set aside
and made available for the payment of such redemption price,
each of the Warrants so called for redemption shall cease
to bear interest from and after the date fixed for redemp-
tion unless default shall be made in the payment of the
redemption price thereof.
Section 4. The Warrants shall be payable to John M.
Beasley, or his assignees, at First National Bank of
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Fairhope, in the City of Fairhope, Alabama, in lawful money
of the United States of America. Said Warrants shall con-
stitute orders to the City Treasurer to pay the face amount
thereof, at par and without deduction for exchange or
costs of collection, plus interest thereon, on the due date
thereof, and the City hereby covenants and agrees to have
available adequate funds at said Bank for such purposes at
such times and to provide for the payment of all fees,
exchange and charges for effecting payment at par and without
any deduction.
Section 5. The Warrants and the form of assignment and
the form of registration of the Warrants shall be in substan
tially the.following form:
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(Form of Warrant)
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
STATE OF ALABAMA
BALDWIN COUNTY
CITY OF FAIRHOPE
GENERAL OBLIGATION REFUNDING WARRANT
No.
The CITY OF FAIRHOPE, a municipal corporation organized
and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of
Alabama (herein called the "City"), for value received, here-
by acknowledges itself indebted to John M. Beasly or his
assignees, in the principal sum of
THOUSAND DOLLARS
and hereby orders and directs the City Treasurer of the City
to pay to said payee or its assignees noted hereon said sum on
April 1, 19 (unless this Warrant shall have been called for
prior redemption and payment of the redemption price duly
made or provided for) in lawful money of the United States
of America and to pay interest on said sum at the.rate of
six and one-fourth percent (6.250) per annum, payable on
October 1, 1975, and semiannually thereafter on April 1 and
October l in each year until the principal amount of this
Warrant has been paid, upon the presentation of this Warrant
to the City Treasurer for the purpose of noting on the re-
verse hereof each such interest payment. Both principal and
interest are payable at the principal office of First National
Bank of Fairhope, in the City of Fairhope, Alabama, at par and
without deduction for exchange or costs of collection.
This Warrant is one of a duly authorized issue of $650,000
principal amount of General Obligation Refunding Warrants of
the City, issued or to be issued for the funding or refunding
of a like or greater amount of the principal of the outstand-
ing interest bearing warrants and notes of the City pur-
suant to the Constitution and laws of the State of Alabama,
including the provisions of Alabama Code of 1940, Title 37,
Section 253, and a resolution and proceedings of the City
Council of the City duly held, passed and conducted. The
indebtedness evidenced by this and the other Warrants of
this issue is a general obligation of the City and the full
faith and credit of said City are hereby sacredly and irre.-
vocably pledged to the punctual payment of the principal
thereof and interest thereon.
This Warrant and the other Warrants of this issue of War-
rants are redeemable at the option of the City in whole or in
part and, if in part, in the inverse order of maturities and
identification numbers, latest maturities and highest numbers
first, on any interest payment date on or after April 1, 1985,
at a redemption price equal to the principal amount of the War-
rant or Warrants to be redeemed, plus accrued interest thereon
to the redemption date plus a premium equal to one-half of
one percent (1/20) of the principal amount of each Warrant
redeemed for each 6 months period intervening between the
date fixed for redemption and the stated maturity date of
such Warrant, but not to exceed in any event two and one-half
percent (2-1/20) of such principal amount. Thirty days`
notice of the intended redemption shall be given by regis-
atz
tered or certified mail to the payee or to any assignee whose
identity has been made known to the City. In the event that
the identity of the assignee is not known, notice of such
redemption shall be published once not more than 60 days
and not less than 30 days before the date fixed for redemp-
tion in a daily newspaper published in the City of Mobile,
Alabama.. If any of said Warrants so redeemable shall have
been called for redemption as hereinabove provided, inter-
est shall cease to accrue from and after the date fixed for
redemption, unless default shall be made in the payment of the
redemption price thereof.
This Warrant is non-negotiable but is transferable by as-
signment noted hereon. Each taker, owner, purchaser or holder
hereof, by receiving or accepting this Warrant, shall consent
and agree and shall be estopped to deny that the City may treat
any person in possession of this Warrant, regardless of how
such possession may have been acquired and regardless of the
genuineness or effectiveness of any assignment, as the absolute
owner for all purposes and payment of principal or interest
to any such person shall discharge all obligations hereunder.
It is hereby recited, certified and declared that all
acts, conditions and things required by the Constitution and.
laws of the State of Alabama to happen, exist and be performed
precedent -to and in the execution, registration and issuance
of this Warrant, and the adoption of the resolution author-
izing its issuance, have happened, do exist and have been
performed as so required and that the principal amount of
this Warrant, together with all other indebtedness of the
City, are within every debt and other limit prescribed by
the Constitution and laws of the State of Alabama.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the CITY OF FAIRHOPE, acting by and
--through its City Council, has caused this Warrant to be exe-
cuted in its name and on its behalf by its Mayor and attested
by its City Clerk, and its corporate seal to be impressed here-
on, all on this day of , 1975.
S E A L
CITY OF WAIRHOPE,
Attest:
yor
City Clerk
It is hereby certified that this Warrant and the interest
thereon have been registered by me as a claim against the
City of Fairhope, in the State of Alabama, and the revenues
pledged to the payment thereof.
City Treasurer of the City of Fairhope
A S S I G N M E N T
For value received, the Warrant on the reverse hereof is
assigned to the assignee designated in the left-hand column
below by the owner and assignor designated in the right-hand
column below, without recourse on or warranty by such assignor
except that he warrants that he is the owner of said Warrant
and has a right to assign it.
ASSIGNEE
ASgTrunR
Record of Interest Payments
The holder of this Warrant acknowledges payment of
interest as follows:
Date Amount
Name of Holder
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Section 6. The Warrants shall be executed in the name
and on behalf of the City by the Mayor and attested by the
City Clerk and its official corporate seal shall be impressed
thereon and a record kept thereof. Each Warrant shall be
dated as of the date of its issuance. The Warrants and the in-
terest thereon shall be registered by the City Treasurer in the
records maintained by said Treasurer as a claim against the City,
which registration shall be made simultaneously as to all of said
Warrants. Said officers are hereby directed to execute, attest,
date and register said Warrants.
Section 7. The Warrants shall be general obligations of
the City and the full faith and credit of the City are hereby.
sacredly and irrevocably pledged to the punctual payment of
the principal thereof and interest thereon. The City hereby
represents that ad valorem taxes have been levied and hereby
covenants and agrees that such taxes will be levied and
collected, insofar as such taxes may be permitted by the
present or any future provisions of the Constitution of
Alabama, on all taxable property in the City and applied to
the payment of the principal of and interest on said .warrants
as they respectively mature and come due in amounts sufficient
for such purpose.
Section 8. The City shall, on or before the 20th day of
each month, set aside and pay into a special account, to be
designated "City of Fairhope April 1, 1975, General Obligation
Warrants Principal and Interest Fund", and to be held by First
National Bank of Fairhope, Alabama, to be applied to the pur-
poses hereinafter provided, the total of the following:
(a) Beginning April 20, 1975, an amount equal
to 1/6 of the interest due and payable on the
next succeeding interest payment date;
(b) Beginning April 20, 1975, an amount equal
to 1/12 of the principal maturing and becoming
due and payable on the next ensuing April lst;
(c) All sums which should have been paid into
said Fund and which have not been so paid.
Said payments shall continue until there shall be held
in said Account a sum sufficient to pay the principal and
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interest then due and thereafter to become due on all of the
Warrants outstanding. The moneys held in said Account shall
be applied solely to the payment of the principal of and
interest on the Warrants or to the payment of the redemption
price of the Warrants dully called for redemption and the
expenses of such redemption; provided, however, that said
First National Bank of Fairhope shall pay interest at the
rate of 5 per cent per annum on all moneys on deposit in said
Account, unless such moneys shall be then invested by said
First National Bank of Fairhope in bonds, notes, certificates
and other general obligation indebtedness of the United States
of America which mature or are subject to redemption at the
option of the holder within 24 months from the date of purchase.
Section 9. The City hereby covenants and agrees that,
if the principal of and interest on said Warrants are not paid
promptly as such principal and interest mature and come due,
--it will pay to the payee or assignee of said Warrants all
expenses incident to the collection of any unpaid portion
thereof, including a reasonable attorney's fee. The Narran.ts
will bear interest at the rate of 8 per cent per annum from
.and after maturity.
Section 10. The terms, provisions, conditions and cove-
nants set forth in this resolution constitute a contract
between the City and each owner of any of said Warrants and
shall remain in effect until the principal of and interest on
said Warrants shall have been paid in full.
Section 11. The Warrants, duly executed, shall be
delivered to the payee named therein in exchange for the out-
standing interest bearing warrants or notes of the City
described in subparagraph (b) of Section 1 of this Resolution,
not exceeding the principal amount thereof and interest thereon.
The warrants and notes so received in exchange shall be can-
celled and a certificate of cancellation shall be filed in the
records of the City Treasurer. The mayor and the City Clerk
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and the City Treasurer, or either of them, are hereby authorized
and directed to effect such delivery and, in connection there-
with, to deliver such closing papers containing such representa-
tions as are required to demonstrate the legality of said
Warrants, including the assessed value of taxable property in
the City and the indebtedness of the City.
Section 12. In the event that any one or more of the
provisions of this resolution or of the Warrants shall, for any
reason, be held illegal or invalid, such illegality or invalid-
ity shall not affect the other provisions of this resolution or
said Warrants and this resolution and each of the Warrants shall
be construed and enforced as if such illegal or invalid pro-
vision had not been contained therein.
Section 13. All ordinances, resolutions and orders or
parts thereof in conflict with this resolution are, to the
extent of such conflict, hereby repealed.
Section 14. That this resolution shall take effect
immediately upon its adoption.
S E A L
Attest:'
y c: l e
Approved:
Mayor
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It was moved by Mr. 5,,., (I that all rules and
regulations which, unless suspended, would prevent the immediate
consideration and adoption of said resolution be suspended, and
that unanimous consent to the immediate consideration and adop-
tion of said resolution be given. The motion was seconded by
Mr.'Go-M �36X and on roll call was unanimously adopted,
those answering aye being:
Mayor James P. Nix
Councilmen:
Nays: None
David E. Bishop
H. G. Bishop
Sam E . -Box
011ie E. Deese
B. L. Shull
The Mayor declared the motion carried..
After said resolution had been discussed and considered
in full by the Council, it was moved by Mr. �.07. fr S M-o
that said resolution be now placed upon its final passage and
---adopted. The motion was seconded by Mr. Y� The -
question being put as to the adoption of said motion and the
final passage of said resolution, the roll was called with the
following results:
Ayes: Mayor James P. Nix
Councilmen:
Nays: None
David E. Bishop
H. G. Bishop
Sam E. Box
011ie E. Deese
B. L. Shull
The Mayor declared the motion carried and said resolution
passed and adopted as introduced and read.
It was moved and seconded that the meeting be adjourned.
Motion carried.
tes approved: i
A V'
mayor
S E A L \
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Attest:
Ci y Clerk
STATE OF ALABAMA )
BALDWIN COUNTY )
The undersigned, as City Clerk of the City of Fairhope,
Alabama, hereby certifies that the foregoing pages constitute
a complete, verbatim and compared copy of all those portions
of the minutes of the regular meeting of the City Council of
said City held on 41 �6 _, 1975, pertaining to the issuance
of $650,000 principal amount of General Obligation Refunding
Warrants of the City and the adoption of a resolution author-
izing such issuance; that the copy of the resolution entitled
"A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE, EXECUTION, SALE AND
DELIVERY OF $650,000 PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF GENERAL OBLIGATION
REFUNDING WARRANTS OF THE CITY OF FAIRHOPE FOR THE PURPOSE OF
FUNDING OR REFUNDING A LIKE OR GREATER AMOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL
OF AND INTEREST ON THE OUTSTANDING INTEREST BEARING WARRANTS.
AND NOTES OF THE CITY OF FAIRHOPE" set forth therein is a
complete, verbatim and compared copy of the resolution duly
introduced and adopted at said meeting, the original of which
is on file and of record in the minute book of the City.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the official corporate seal of the City of Fairhope,
Alabama, this day of 4ua, 1975.
City Cler
S E A L
CERTIFICATE CONCERNING INDEBTEDNESS
I, the undersigned Treasurer of the City of Fairhope,
Alabama (hereinafter called the "municipality") do hereby certify
as follows:
1. That the assessed value of taxable property
in the municipality, as fixed by the last pre-
ceding assessment for municipal taxation is $6,935,735.00
2. That the only outstanding bonds of the
municipality to which the credit of the
municipality is pledged are:
(Specify for each bond issue the date of
issue, interest rate, place of payment,
and principal amount outstanding)
3. That the only outstanding notes and warrants
of the municipality to which the credit of
the municipality is pledged are:
(i) General Obligation warrants dated 8/l/70 $ 200,000
(ii) General Obligation Warrants dated 10/9/70 48,0.00
(iii) Municipal Airport Warrants dated 10/13/72
(iv) General Obligation Promissory Note dated
3/19/74 payable to First National Bank of
Fairhope
(v) General Obligation Promissory Note dated
8/2/74, payable to First National Bank of
Fairhope -
(vi) General Obligation Warrants or Notes, dated
February 18, 1975, and April 4, 1975, payable
to First National Bank of Fairhope
(vii) General Obligation Electric Warrants dated
July 1, 1973
Accrued interest on above
4. That the municipality owes accounts payable in
the amount of not less than
5. That the municipality has cash in banks immed-
iately available to pay the aforesaid accounts
of at lease
36,514.51
100,865.47
200,000.00
55,500.00
478,000.00
$yq q. 9
$
6. That of the above described obligations,
temporary loans to be paid within one year,
made in anticipation of the collection of
taxes, not exceeding one-fourth of the annual
revenues of said municipality, total $ o -
7. That the municipality has outstanding the
following bonds or other obligations which
are not debts of the municipality within
the meaning of Section 225 of the Constitu-
tion, as amended:
Water, Gas & Sewer Revenue Bonds, Series 1972
dated December 1, 1972 $ - o
8. That.the municipality has outstanding no other
pecuniary obligations, except as follows;
The Funding Agreement between the municipality
and Alabama Pollution Control Finance Authority
dated March 21, 1973, by which the municipality
agrees to provide funds for the payment of the
principal of and interest on $320,000 Special
Obligation Bonds, Fairhope Series 1973, of said
Alabama Pollution Control Finance Authority, the
obligation of the municipality to make which
- payments is limited to the revenues derived by
the municipality from the operation of its sanitary
sewer system remaining after the expenses of
operation and maintenance thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the official corporate seal of the municipality, this
,2� day of riay, 1975.
Treasur
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