AN ORDINANCE
GRANTING A SPECIAL USE
FOR UNIQUE USE
LOCATED IN
NORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP
AS AUTHORIZED BY
THE COOK COUNTY ZONING ORDINANCE
WHEREAS, the owner of certain property located in Northfield Township described in Section 1, herein, has petitioned the Cook County Board of Commissioners for a Special Use for Unique Use permit in the R-4 Single Family Residence District for the operation of a landscape business and office, and
WHEREAS, the said petition was received by the Zoning Board of Appeals of Cook County as Docket #7203 and a public hearing was held in regard to said request after due notice, all in accordance with the Cook County Zoning Ordinance and the Statutes of the State of Illinois, and
WHEREAS, the Zoning Board of Appeals entered detailed findings in accordance with the standards set forth in the Ordinance recommending that the Cook County Board of Commissioners grant said applications for a Special Use for Unique Use permit, and
WHEREAS, it is the determination that said request be granted in accordance with the recommendations of the Zoning Board of Appeals.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners of Cook County, Illinois:
Section 1: That a Special Use for Unique Use for the operation of a landscape business and office is hereby authorized as set forth in the Findings and Recommendations of the Zoning Board of Appeals.
LEGAL
DESCRIPTION
Legal Description of Entire Property: The N. 264.0 ft. of the S. 528.0 ft. of the W. 330.0 ft. of the SE 1/4 of Section 20, being a part of Lot 3 of the Superior Court Partition of the S. 3/4's of the SE 1/4 and the S. 1261.0 ft. of the E. 351.50 ft. of the SW 1/4 of Section 20, Township 42 North, Range 12, East of the Third Principal Meridian (excepting the N. 30 ft. for use as a public road), all in Cook County, Illinois
Lease Site Legal Description: The S. 55 ft. of the E. 70 ft. of the N. 264 ft. of the S. 528 ft. of the W. 330 ft. of the SE 1/4 of Section 20, being a part of Lot 3 of Superior Court Partition of the S. 3/4's of the SE 1/4 and the S. 1,261 ft. of the E. 351.50' of the SW 1/4 of Section 20, Township 42 North, Range 12 (except the North 30 ft. for use as a public road), all in Cook County, Illinois.
commonly described as approximately 1.9116 acres, located on the East side of Landwehr Road, approximately 102 ft. North of Hampton Court in Northfield Township.
Section 2: That the Special Use for Unique Use located in the R-4 Single Family Residence District as mentioned in Section l of this Ordinance is hereby authorized.
Section 3: That this Ordinance under the provisions of Section 13.10-7 of the Cook County Zoning Ordinance be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval, except that if said use is not established within one year as provided in Section 13.10-11, said Special Use for Unique Use shall be null and void. That said property be developed and constructed pursuant to the detailing set forth in the testimony and contained in the exhibits and Findings of the Cook County Zoning Board of Appeals hereby incorporated by reference into this ordinance, as provided by law.
This Ordinance adopted by the Cook County Board of Commissioners this 21st day of February 2002.
JOHN H. STROGER, JR., President
Cook County Board of Commissioners
(S E A L)
Attest: DAVID ORR, County Clerk
ORDINANCE
An
Ordinance providing for the issuance of one or more series of
General
Obligation Bonds, Series 2002, of The County of Cook, Illinois.
WHEREAS,
Section 6(a) of Article VII of the 1970 Constitution of the State of Illinois
provides that “a County which has a Chief Executive Officer elected by the
electors of the County ... (is) a Home Rule Unit” and The County of Cook,
Illinois (the “County”), has a Chief
Executive Officer elected by the electors of the County and is therefore a Home
Rule Unit and may, under the power granted by said Section 6(a) of Article VII
of the Constitution of 1970, as supplemented by the Local Government Debt
Reform Act, as amended, and the other Omnibus Bond Acts, as amended
(collectively, the “Act”), exercise
any power and perform any function pertaining to its government and affairs,
including, but not limited to, the power to tax and to incur debt; and
WHEREAS,
pursuant to the provisions of the Act, the County has the power to incur debt
payable from ad valorem property tax receipts or from any other lawful source
and maturing within 40 years from the time it is incurred without prior
referendum approval; and
WHEREAS,
the Board of Commissioners of the County (the “Corporate Authorities”) has not adopted any ordinance, resolution,
order or motion or provided any County Code provisions which restrict or limit
the exercise of the home rule powers of the County in the issuance of general
obligation bonds without referendum for corporate purposes or which provides
any special rules or procedures for the exercise of such power; and
WHEREAS,
the County, by its Corporate Authorities, has previously made and does now
affirm the determination that it is desirable and in the public interest of the
County to undertake certain County construction, acquisition and equipment
projects, being the Public Safety Funds Project, the Health Fund Project, the
Corporate Fund Project and the Capital Equipment Project, each as hereinafter
further itemized, to create certain reserves for tort immunity and
self-insurance purposes, being the Insurance Reserve Project, and to increase
the working cash fund of the County, being the Cash Management Project; and
WHEREAS, the
Public Safety Funds Project includes, but is not limited to the construction,
equipping, renovation and replacement of court, jail and related facilities;
and
WHEREAS, the
Health Fund Project includes, but is not limited to the construction,
equipping, renovation and reconstruction of various County health facilities,
including but not limited to, the new Cook County Hospital and County health
clinics; and
WHEREAS, the
Corporate Fund Project includes the improvement and renovation of county
facilities, including but not limited to the County Building, the Cook County
Administration Building, elevator modification and telecommunication wiring;
and
WHEREAS, the
Capital Equipment Project includes the purchase of capital equipment for use by
various County departments; and
WHEREAS,
the Insurance Reserve Project includes, but is not limited to, the
establishment of reserves for expected losses for liability or any liability
for which the County is authorized to purchase insurance, including the payment
of any tort judgment or settlement for compensatory damages for which the
County or an employee while acting within the scope of his or her employment is
liable; and
WHEREAS,
the Cash Management Project includes the establishment of a fund for the
purpose of enabling the County to have in its treasury at all times sufficient
money to meet demands thereon for ordinary and necessary expenditures for
general corporate purposes; and
WHEREAS,
the aggregate costs of the Public Safety Fund Project, the Health Fund Project,
the Corporate Fund Project, and the Capital Equipment Project, including
landscaping and improvement of grounds, the acquisition of real property or
rights therein and such personalty or rights therein as may be necessary for
the efficient acquisition, construction or operation of the projects, operating
costs, legal, financial, consulting, engineering, architectural and related
professional services, and such appurtenances as shall be necessary, together
with the aggregate costs of the Insurance Reserve Project and the Cash Management
Project (collectively, the “Projects”),
are in excess of funds lawfully available and on hand and anticipated to be on
hand from time to time; and
WHEREAS,
the Corporate Authorities do hereby determine that it is advisable and in the
best interests of the County to borrow from time to time for the purpose of
paying the costs of the Projects, and to pay costs of issuance, and, in
evidence of such borrowing, to issue one or more series of full faith and
credit bonds (collectively, the “Bonds”)
of the County as hereinafter authorized, provided that at any given time the
aggregate principal amount of the Bonds outstanding shall not exceed the amount
of $600,000,000:
NOW THEREFORE Be
It Ordained by the Board of Commissioners of The County of Cook, Illinois, as
follows:
SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS.
The following
words and terms used in this ordinance shall have the following meanings unless
the context or use indicates another or different meaning:
“Act” means Section 6(a) of Article VII of the
1970 Constitution of the State of Illinois, as supplemented and amended by the
Local Government Debt Reform Act of the State of Illinois, as amended, and the
other Omnibus Bond Acts, as amended.
“Agency
Obligation” means
obligations issued or guaranteed by any of the following agencies, provided that such obligations are
backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America: Export-Import Bank of the United States
direct obligations or fully guaranteed certificates of beneficial ownership; Federal
Financing Bank; Farmers Home Administration certificates of beneficial
ownership; Federal Housing Administration Debentures; Government National
Mortgage Association guaranteed mortgage-backed bonds; General Services
Administration participation certificates; United States Maritime
Administration obligations guaranteed under Title XI; New Communities
Debentures; United States Public Housing Notes and Bonds; and United States
Department of Housing and Urban Development Project Notes and Local Authority
Bonds.
“Authorized
Denomination” means (i)
for Current Interest Bonds, $5,000 or any integral multiple thereof, (ii) for
Capital Appreciation Bonds, Original Principal Amounts of such Capital
Appreciation Bonds or any integral multiple thereof, and (iii) for Variable
Rate Bonds, the amounts as provided in an Indenture executed by the County in
connection therewith.
“Bond
Fund” means the account
of that name established and further described in Section 12 of this Ordinance.
“Bond
Order” means each
written Bond Order and Notification of Sale signed by the Designated Officers
and setting forth certain details of the Bonds as hereinafter provided.
“Bond
Register” means the
books for the registration and transfer of the Bonds to be kept by the Trustee
on behalf of the County.
“Bonds” means the bonds authorized under this
Ordinance and to be issued in one or more series pursuant to this Ordinance and
one or more Bond Orders. Any reference
in this Ordinance to “Series 2002A Bonds,” “Series 2002B Bonds,” or “Series 2002C
Bonds” shall mean one of such series of Bonds as so designated.
“Book
Entry Form” means the
form of the Bonds as fully registered and available in physical form only to
the Depository.
“Capital
Appreciation Bonds”
means Bonds payable in one payment on only one fixed date.
“Chief
Financial Officer” means
the Chief Financial Officer of the County.
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended.
“Commitment” means (i) a commitment to issue a
financial guaranty or municipal bond insurance policy issued by an Insurer and
relating to a series of Bonds and (ii) any separate insurance agreement between
the County and an Insurer executed in connection with the issuance by such
Insurer of its insurance policy with respect to the Bonds.
“Compound
Accreted Value” means, for any Capital Appreciation
Bond, on any date of determination, an amount equal to the Original Principal
Amount of such Bond (or integral multiple thereof) plus an investment return
accrued to the date of such determination at a semiannual compounding rate
which is necessary to produce the approximate yield to maturity borne by such
Bond.
“Convertible
CABs” means Bonds issued
initially as Capital Appreciation Bonds containing provisions for the
conversion of the Compound Accreted Value of such Bonds into Current Interest
Bonds at such time following the issuance thereof as shall be approved by the
Chief Financial Officer.
“Corporate
Authorities” means the
Board of Commissioners of the County.
“County” means The County of Cook, Illinois, and
its successors and assigns.
“County
Clerk” means the County
Clerk of the County.
“County
Collector” means the
County Treasurer, acting ex-officio
as the Collector for the County.
“Credit
Facility” means any
letter of credit, bank bond purchase agreement, revolving credit agreement,
surety bond, bond insurance policy or other agreement or instrument under which
any person (other than the County) undertakes to make or provide funds to make
payment of the principal or premium, if any (if at the election of the County
the Credit Facility secures premium payable upon an optional redemption of
Bonds supported by such Credit Facility), and interest on Bonds, delivered to
and received by the Trustee.
“Current
Interest Bonds” means
Bonds bearing interest at fixed rates and paying interest semiannually (which
may have a first odd period for interest not greater than one year).
“Defeasance
Obligation” means any
Federal Obligation or any Agency Obligation, in each case not subject to
redemption at the option of the issuer.
“Depository” means The Depository Trust Company, a
New York limited trust company, its successor or a successor depository
qualified to clear securities under applicable state and federal law.
“Designated
Officer” means the
President, Chief Financial Officer or any other officer or employee of the
County so designated by a written instrument signed by the President or the
Chief Financial Officer and filed with the Trustee.
“Federal
Obligation” means any
direct obligation of, or any obligation the timely payment of principal of and
interest on which is fully and unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States
of America.
“Indenture” means a trust indenture by and between
the County and the Trustee as authorized herein for the issuance of Variable
Rate Bonds.
“Insurer” means any recognized issuer of a
municipal bond insurance policy insuring one or more series of Bonds as
selected by the Chief Financial Officer and so designated in a Bond Order.
“Maturity
Amount” means, for
Capital Appreciation Bonds, Compound Accreted Value at maturity.
“Ordinance” means this ordinance as originally
introduced and adopted and as the same may from time to time be amended or
supplemented in accordance with the terms hereof.
“Outstanding
Bonds” means Bonds which
are outstanding and unpaid; provided,
however, such term shall not include Bonds (a) which have matured and
for which monies are on deposit with proper paying agents or are otherwise
properly available sufficient to pay all principal thereof and interest
thereon; or (b) the provision for payment of which has been made by the
County pursuant to Section 20 of this Ordinance.
“Pledged
Taxes” means the
unlimited ad valorem taxes levied herein and pledged hereunder by the County as
security for the Bonds, any additional taxes as may be hereafter levied for any
Variable Rate Bonds pursuant to the covenant contained in Section 9 of
this Ordinance and any accrued interest received upon the sale of the Bonds and
deposited into the Bond Fund.
“Project
Fund” means each fund
included in the Project Funds established and further described in
Section 12 of this Ordinance.
“Projects” means, collectively, the Public Safety
Fund Project, the Health Fund Project, the Corporate Fund Project, the Capital
Equipment Project, the Insurance Reserve Project and the Cash Management
Project described in the preambles hereto.
“Purchase
Price” means the price
for the Bonds as provided in a Bond Order.
“Qualified
Investments” means:
(a) Federal
Obligations;
(b) Deposits
in interest-bearing accounts or certificates of deposit or similar arrangements
issued by any bank, trust company, national banking association, savings bank
or savings and loan association, including the Trustee, which deposits are
(i) insured or secured as required by Section 12(E) or
(ii) insured by an insurance policy or surety bond issued by an insurance
company rated in the highest rating category by Fitch, Moody’s and S&P, or
by any two of said rating agencies;
(c) Bonds
or notes issued by any State of the United States of America, or any political
subdivision thereof, that are rated in either of the two highest rating
categories by Fitch, Moody’s and S&P, or by any two of said rating
agencies;
(d) Bonds,
debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued or guaranteed by
any of the following: Federal Home Loan
Bank System senior debt obligations; Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
participation certificates and senior debt obligations; Federal National
Mortgage Association mortgage backed securities and senior debt obligations;
and the interest component of Resolution Funding Corporation obligations in
book-entry form, which have been stripped by request of the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York;
(e) Agency
Obligations;
(f) Repurchase
agreements entered into with financial institutions that are either
(i) banks, trust companies or national banking associations that are rated
“A” or higher by Moody’s, Fitch and S&P, or by any two of said rating
agencies, or (ii) a government bond dealer reporting to, trading with, and
recognized as a primary dealer by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York,
provided that each such repurchase agreement is secured as provided in
Section 12(F);
(g) Money
market funds registered under the Federal Investment Company Act of 1940, whose
shares are registered under the Federal Securities Act of 1933 and having a
rating by S&P of “AAAm-G,” “AAAm” or “Aam”;
(h) Commercial
paper rated, at the time of purchase, “Prime-1” by Moody’s, “F-1” or better by
Fitch, and “A-1” or better by S&P, or by any two of said rating agencies;
(i) The
Public Treasurers’ Investment Pool of the State of Illinois;
(j) Federal
Funds or bankers’ acceptances, with a maximum term of one year, of any bank
that has an unsecured, uninsured and unguaranteed obligation rating of
“Prime-1” or “A-3” or better from Moody’s, “F-2” or “A” or better by Fitch, and
“A-1” or “A” or better by S&P, or by any two of said rating agencies; and
(k) Investment
agreements, including without limitation repurchase agreements not described in
clause (f) above, with a bank, investment bank, financial institution or
insurance company provided that such bank, investment bank, financial
institution or insurance company maintains an office in the United States and
such bank, investment bank, financial institution or insurance company or whose
guarantor is rated in one of the three highest rating categories by Moody’s,
Fitch, and S&P, or by any two of said rating agencies, or if such
institution is not so rated, that the agreement is collateralized by securities
described in clauses (a), (d) or (e) above, having a market value at all times
(exclusive of accrued interest, other than accrued interest paid in connection
with the purchase securities) at least equal to the principal amount invested
pursuant to the agreement.
“Regular
Record Date” means, for
any Current Interest Bonds or Capital Appreciation Bonds, the 1st day of the
month in which any regularly scheduled interest payment date occurs on the 15th
day of such month and, in the event of a payment occasioned by a redemption of
Bonds on other than a regularly scheduled interest payment date on the 15th day
of a month, means the 15th day next preceding such payment date and, for
Variable Rate Bonds, has the meaning set forth in a relevant Indenture.
“Representations
Letter” means such
letter to or agreement, by and among the County, the Trustee and the Depository
as shall be necessary to effectuate a book-entry system for the Bonds, and
includes the Blanket Letter of Representations previously executed by the
County and the Depository.
“Stated
Maturity” means with
respect to any Bond or any interest thereon the date specified in such Bond as
the fixed date on which the principal of such Bond or such interest is due and
payable, whether by maturity or otherwise.
“Tax
Exempt” means, with
respect to the Bonds, the status of interest paid and received thereon as not
includible in the gross income of the owners thereof under the Code for federal
income tax purposes, except to the extent that such interest is taken into
account in computing an adjustment used in determining the alternative minimum
tax for certain corporations and in computing the “branch profits tax” imposed
on certain foreign corporations.
“Trustee”
means Amalgamated Bank
of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, as bond registrar, paying agent and trustee, and
successors and assigns.
“Underwriters” means (i) for the Series 2002A Bonds,
collectively, Jackson Securities, Inc., George K. Baum & Co., Podesta &
Co., and Lehman Brothers, (ii) for the Series 2002B Bonds, collectively,
William Blair & Company and SBK Brooks Investment Corp., and (iii) for the
Series 2002C Bonds, collectively, LaSalle Capital Markets, Inc., A Division of
ABN AMRO Financial Services, Inc., Salomon Smith Barney, Loop Capital, Apex
Securities, Banc One Capital Markets, Inc., and Siebert, Brandford & Shank.
“Variable
Rate Bonds” means Bonds
which are issued at rates subject to change from time to time, payable from
time to time, and subject to various options for payment by the owners thereof,
as more fully provided for herein.
“Yield
to Maturity” means, for
any Capital Appreciation Bond, the approximate yield to maturity borne by such
Bond.
SECTION 2. FINDINGS.
The
Corporate Authorities hereby find that it is necessary and in the best
interests of the County that the County provide for the Projects; that each of
the Projects is expressly authorized under the Act, and that the Bonds be
issued to enable the County to pay the costs of Projects. The Corporate Authorities hereby find that
all of the recitals contained in the preambles to this Ordinance are full, true
and correct and do hereby incorporate them into this Ordinance by this
reference. It is hereby found and
determined that the Corporate Authorities have been authorized by law to borrow
not less than the aggregate sum of $600,000,000 upon the credit of the County
and as evidence of such indebtedness to issue at this time Bonds in the
aggregate principal amount of $600,000,000, more or less, as herein provided,
in order to pay the costs of the Projects.
The Bonds shall be issued pursuant to the Act.
SECTION 3. BOND DETAILS.
There
shall be borrowed on the credit of and for and on behalf of the County the sum
of not to exceed $600,000,000 plus an amount equal to the amount of any
original issue discount used in the marketing of the Bonds for the purposes
aforesaid; the Bonds shall be issued from time to time in said aggregate
amount, or such lesser amount, in one or more series, all as may be determined
by the Chief Financial Officer, and shall be designated substantially as
“General Obligation [Variable Rate Demand] Bonds, Series 2002__,” with such
additions or modifications as shall be determined to be necessary by the Chief
Financial Officer at the time of the sale of the Bonds to reflect the purpose
of the issue, the order of sale of the Bonds, whether the Bonds are Current
Interest Bonds, Variable Rate Bonds, Capital Appreciation Bonds or Convertible
CABs, and any other authorized features of the Bonds determined by the Chief
Financial Officer as desirable to be reflected in the title of the Bonds being
issued and sold. Any Bonds issued as
Current Interest Bonds shall be dated as of March 1, 2002, or such later
date at or prior to the date of issuance thereof as may be provided in the
relevant Bond Order. Any Bonds issued
as Capital Appreciation Bonds shall be dated the date of issuance thereof. Any Bonds issued as Variable Rate Bonds
shall be dated such date not earlier than March 1, 2002, and not later than the
date of issuance thereof as shall be provided in the Indenture. All Bonds shall also bear the date of
authentication, shall be in fully registered form, shall be in Authorized
Denominations as provided in the relevant Bond Order (but no single Bond shall
represent installments of principal or Compound Accreted Value maturing on more
than one date), shall be numbered 1 and upward within each series, shall
bear interest at the rates percent per annum and shall become due and payable (subject
as hereinafter provided with respect to prior redemption) on November 15 (or
such other date as may be provided in the relevant Bond Order) of the years as
provided in the relevant Bond Order, subject to the limitations set forth
below.
All
or any portion of the Bonds may be issued as Current Interest Bonds.
All
or any portion of the Bonds may be issued as Capital Appreciation Bonds. Each Original Principal Amount of Capital
Appreciation Bonds shall represent a Maturity Amount of $5,000 or any integral
multiple thereof.
All
or any portion of the Bonds may be initially issued as Convertible CABs. While in the form of Capital Appreciation
Bonds, Bonds issued as Convertible CABs shall be subject to all of the
provisions and limitations of this Ordinance relating to Capital Appreciation
Bonds, and while in the form of Current Interest Bonds, Bonds issued as
Convertible CABs shall be subject to all of the provisions and limitations of
this Ordinance relating to Current Interest Bonds. In particular, when Convertible CABs are in the form of Capital
Appreciation Bonds prior to their conversion to Current Interest Bonds, the
transfer, exchange and replacement provisions of this Ordinance with respect to
Capital Appreciation Bonds shall apply to such Convertible CABs; provided that the Convertible CABs
delivered in the form of Capital Appreciation Bonds in connection with any such
transfer, exchange or replacement shall have identical provisions for
conversion to Current Interest Bonds as set forth in the Convertible CABs being
transferred, exchange or replaced. In
connection with the issuance and sale of any Convertible CABs, the terms and
provisions relating to the conversion of the Compound Accreted Value of such
Convertible CABs into Current Interest Bonds shall be as approved by the Chief
Financial Officer at the time of sale of such Convertible CABs.
All
or any portion of the Bonds may be issued as Variable Rate Bonds. Any Variable Rate Bonds shall be subject to
the provisions of the Indenture for same, to be by and between the County and
the Trustee. The President or the Chief
Financial Officer is hereby authorized to enter into any Indenture on behalf of
the County. Any Indenture shall be in
substantially the form of trust indentures previously entered into by the
County in connection with the sale of variable rate general obligation bonds or
notes, but with such revisions in text as the President or the Chief Financial
Officer shall determine are necessary or desirable, the execution thereof by the
President or the Chief Financial Officer to evidence the approval by the
Corporate Authorities of all such revisions.
All
or any portion of the Bonds may be issued as Tax Exempt or not Tax Exempt as
the Designated Officers shall determine upon consultation with counsel and as
shall be provided in a relevant Bond Order.
All
Bonds shall become due and payable as provided in the relevant Bond Order, provided, however, that no Bond shall
have a Stated Maturity which is later than November 15, 2032.
The
Current Interest Bonds and the Variable Rate Bonds shall bear interest at a
rate or rates percent per annum and any Capital Appreciation Bonds shall have
Yields to Maturity not to exceed ten percent (10.0%) per annum and no Capital
Appreciation Bond shall have a Yield to Maturity in excess of ten percent
(10.0%) per annum. The Current Interest
Bonds and the Variable Rate Bonds shall bear interest at the rate or rates
percent per annum and the Capital Appreciation Bonds shall have Yields to
Maturity as provided in the relevant Bond Order or Indenture.
Each
Current Interest Bond shall bear interest from the later of its dated date or
the most recent interest payment date to which interest has been paid or duly
provided for, until the principal amount of such Bond is paid, such interest
(computed upon the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months) being
payable, subject to the provisions of any Bond Order, on each May 15 and
November 15, commencing on such May 15 or November 15 as determined by the
Chief Financial Officer in the Bond Order therefor.
Each
Capital Appreciation Bond shall bear interest from its dated date at the rate
percent per annum compounded semiannually, subject to the provisions of any
Bond Order, on each May 15 and November 15, commencing on such May 15 or
November 15 as determined by the Chief Financial Officer in the Bond Order
therefor, which will produce the Yield to Maturity until the Stated Maturity
thereof or conversion date to Current Interest Bonds. Interest on the Capital Appreciation Bonds shall be payable only
at Stated Maturity.
Each
Variable Rate Bond shall bear interest (computed from time to time on such
basis and payable in such manner as shall be set forth in the Indenture
therefor) payable on such dates as shall be set forth in the Indenture
therefor. Any Variable Rate Bonds may
be made subject to optional or mandatory tender for purchase by the owners
thereof at such times and at such prices (not to exceed 103 percent of the principal
amount thereof) as shall be set forth in the Indenture therefor. In connection with the remarketing of any
Variable Rate Bonds so tendered for purchase under the terms and conditions so
specified by the Chief Financial Officer, the President and the Chief Financial
Officer are each hereby authorized to execute on behalf of the County a
remarketing agreement in customary form at customary fees used for variable
rate financings of the County with appropriate revisions to reflect the terms
and provisions of the Bonds sold as Variable Rate Bonds and such other
revisions in text as the Chief Financial Officer shall determine are necessary
or desirable in connection with the sale of the Bonds as Variable Rate Bonds.
So
long as the Bonds are held in Book Entry Form, interest on each Bond shall be
paid to the Depository by check or draft or electronic funds transfer, in
lawful money of the United States of America, as may be agreed in the
Representations Letter; in the event the Bonds should ever become available in
physical form to registered owners other than the Depository, interest on each
Bond shall be paid by check or draft of the Trustee, payable upon presentation
thereof in lawful money of the United States of America, or by electronic funds
transfer of lawful money of the United States of America, as may be provided,
to the person in whose name such Bond is registered at the close of business on
the applicable Regular Record Date, and mailed to the address or transferred to
such account of such registered owner as it appears on the Bond Register or at
such other address or account as may be furnished in writing to the Trustee.
Principal
of and premium (if any) on each Current Interest Bond and Variable Rate Bond
and the Compound Accreted Value of each Capital Appreciation Bond shall be paid
upon surrender in lawful money of the United States of America, at the
principal corporate trust office of the Trustee or its proper agent.
The
Bonds shall have impressed or imprinted thereon the corporate seal or facsimile
thereof of the County and shall be signed by the manual or duly authorized
facsimile signatures of the President and County Clerk, as they shall
determine, and in case any officer whose signature shall appear on any Bond
shall cease to be such officer before the delivery of such Bond, such signature
shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes, the same as if
such officer had remained in office until delivery.
All
Bonds shall have thereon a certificate of authentication substantially in the
form hereinafter set forth duly executed by the Trustee as authenticating agent
of the County and showing the date of authentication. No Bond shall be valid or obligatory for any purpose or be
entitled to any security or benefit under this Ordinance unless and until such
certificate of authentication shall have been duly executed by the Trustee by
manual signature, and such certificate of authentication upon any such Bond
shall be conclusive evidence that such Bond has been authenticated and
delivered under this Ordinance. The
certificate of authentication on any Bond shall be deemed to have been executed
by the Trustee if signed by an authorized officer of the Trustee, but it shall
not be necessary that the same officer sign the certificate of authentication
on all of the Bonds issued hereunder.
SECTION 4. BOOK-ENTRY PROVISIONS.
The
Bonds shall be initially issued in the form of a separate single fully
registered Bond for each of the maturities of the Bonds. Upon initial issuance, the ownership of each
such Bond shall be registered in the Bond Register in such name as may be
provided by the Depository (the “Book
Entry Owner”) and, accordingly, in Book Entry Form as provided and defined
herein. Any Designated Officer is
authorized to execute a Representations Letter or to utilize the provisions of
an existing Representations Letter.
Without limiting the generality of the authority given with respect to
entering into the Representations Letter for the Bonds, it may contain
provisions relating to (a) payment procedures, (b) transfers of the Bonds or of
beneficial interests therein, (c) redemption notices and procedures unique to
the Depository, (d) additional notices or communications, and (e) amendment
from time to time to conform with changing customs and practices with respect
to securities industry transfer and payment practices. With respect to Bonds registered in the Bond
Register in the name of the Book Entry Owner, neither the County nor the
Trustee shall have any responsibility or obligation to any broker-dealer,
bank, or other financial institution for which the Depository holds Bonds from
time to time as securities depository (each such broker-dealer, bank, or other
financial institution being referred to herein as a “Depository Participant”) or to any person on behalf of whom such a
Depository Participant holds an interest in the Bonds. Without limiting the meaning of the
immediately preceding sentence, neither the County nor the Trustee shall have
any responsibility or obligation with respect to (a) the accuracy of the records
of the Depository, the Book Entry Owner, or any Depository Participant with
respect to any ownership interest in the Bonds; (b) the delivery to any
Depository Participant or any other person, other than a registered owner of a
Bond as shown in the Bond Register or as expressly provided in the
Representations Letter, of any notice with respect to the Bonds, including any
notice of redemption; or (c) the payment to any Depository Participant or any
other person, other than a registered owner of a Bond as shown in the Bond
Register, of any amount with respect to principal of or interest on the
Bonds. No person other than a
registered owner of a Bond as shown in the Bond Register shall receive a Bond
certificate with respect to any Bond.
In the event that (a) the County determines that the Depository is
incapable of discharging its responsibilities described herein or in the
Representations Letter, (b) the agreement among the County and the Depository
evidenced by the Representations Letter shall be terminated for any reason, or
(c) the County determines that it is in the best interests of the County or of
the beneficial owners of the Bonds that they be able to obtain certificated
Bonds; the County shall notify the Depository of the availability of Bond certificates,
and the Bonds shall no longer be restricted to being registered in the Bond
Register to the Book Entry Owner. The
County may determine at such time that the Bonds shall be registered in the
name of and deposited with a successor depository operating a book entry only
system, as may be acceptable to the County, or such depository’s agent or
designee, but if the County does not select such successor depository, then the
Bonds shall be registered in whatever name or names registered owners of Bonds
transferring or exchanging Bonds shall designate, in accordance with the
provisions hereof.
SECTION 5. REDEMPTION.
If
so provided in the relevant Bond Order or Indenture, any Bonds may be
redeemable prior to maturity at the option of the County, in whole or in part
on any date, at such times and at such redemption prices (to be expressed as a
percentage of the principal amount of Current Interest Bonds or Variable Rate
Bonds to be redeemed and as a percentage of the Compound Accreted Value of
Capital Appreciation Bonds to be redeemed) not to exceed one hundred three
percent (103.00%), plus, in the case of Current Interest Bonds or Variable Rate
Bonds, accrued interest to the date of redemption, as determined by the Chief
Financial Officer at the time of the sale thereof. If less than all of the outstanding Bonds of a series are to be
optionally redeemed, the Bonds to be called shall be called from such series,
in such principal amounts and from such maturities as may be determined by the
County and within any maturity by lot within a maturity in the manner
hereinafter provided. Any Current
Interest Bonds or Variable Rate Bonds may be made subject to mandatory
redemption, at par and accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption, as
determined by the Chief Financial Officer at the time of the sale thereof and
as set forth in the relevant Bond Order or Indenture. The terms and provisions for any redemption of Variable Rate
Bonds shall be as determined by the Chief Financial Officer at the time of sale
of the Bonds and as set forth in a relevant Indenture, provided that such terms shall be within the limitations set forth
in this Section.
In
connection with any mandatory redemption of Bonds as authorized above, the
principal amounts of such Bonds to be mandatorily redeemed in each year may be
reduced through the earlier optional redemption thereof, with any partial
optional redemptions of such Bonds credited against future mandatory redemption
requirements in such order of the mandatory redemption dates as the Chief
Financial Officer may determine. In the
absence of such determination, partial optional redemptions of such Bonds shall
be credited against future mandatory redemption requirements in inverse
chronological order of such payments beginning with the amount scheduled to
become due at Stated Maturity, then the amount subject to mandatory redemption
in the year preceding Stated Maturity, and so on. In addition, on or prior to the 60th day preceding any mandatory
redemption date, the Trustee may, and if directed by the Chief Financial
Officer shall, purchase Bonds of such maturities in an amount not exceeding the
amount of such Bonds required to be retired on such mandatory redemption date
and at a price not exceeding par plus accrued interest. Any such Bonds so purchased shall be
cancelled and the principal amount thereof shall be credited against the
payment required on such next mandatory redemption date.
The
County shall, at least 45 days prior to the redemption date (unless a shorter
time shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such
redemption date, the years of maturity and principal amounts of Bonds to be
redeemed and, if applicable, the mandatory redemption payment so affected. Current Interest Bonds shall be redeemed only
in the principal amount of $5,000 each and integral multiples thereof, and
Capital Appreciation Bonds shall be redeemed only in amounts representing
$5,000 Maturity Amount and integral multiples thereof. In the event of the redemption of less than
all the Bonds of a series of like maturity, the aggregate principal amount or
Maturity Amount (as appropriate) thereof to be redeemed shall be $5,000 or an
integral multiple thereof, and the Trustee shall assign to each such Bond of
such maturity a distinctive number for each $5,000 principal amount or Maturity
Amount (as appropriate) of such Bond and shall select by lot from the numbers
so assigned as many numbers as, at $5,000 for each number, shall equal the
principal amount or Maturity Amount (as appropriate) of such Bonds to be
redeemed. The Bonds to be redeemed
shall be those to which were assigned numbers so selected; provided that only so much of the principal amount or Maturity
Amount (as appropriate) of each Bond shall be redeemed as shall equal $5,000
for each number assigned to it and so selected.
The
Trustee shall promptly notify the County in writing of the Bonds or portions of
Bonds selected for redemption and, in the case of any Bond selected for partial redemption, the principal amount
thereof to be redeemed.
Unless
waived by the owner of Bonds to be redeemed or as otherwise provided in an
Indenture for Variable Rate Bonds, notice of any such redemption shall be given
by the Trustee on behalf of the County by mailing the redemption notice by first
class mail not less than 30 days and not more than 60 days prior to the date
fixed for redemption to each registered owner of the Bond or Bonds to be
redeemed at the address shown on the Bond Register or at such other address as
is furnished in writing by such registered owners to the Trustee.
All
notices of redemption shall include at least the information as follows:
(1) the
redemption date;
(2) the
redemption price;
(3) if
less than all of the Bonds of a particular series are to be redeemed, the
identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the respective
principal amounts) of the Bonds to be redeemed;
(4) a
statement that on the redemption date the redemption price will become due and
payable upon each such Bond or portion thereof called for redemption and that
interest thereon shall cease to accrue from and after said date; and
(5) the
place where such Bonds are to be surrendered for payment of the redemption
price, which place of payment shall be the principal corporate trust office of
the Trustee.
Such
additional notice as may be agreed upon with the Depository shall also be given
so long as the Bonds are held by the Depository.
On
or prior to any redemption date, the County shall deposit with the Trustee an
amount of money sufficient to pay the redemption price of all the Bonds or
portions of Bonds which are to be redeemed on that date.
Notice
of redemption having been given as provided therefor, the Bonds or portions of
Bonds so to be redeemed shall, on the redemption date, become due and payable
at the redemption price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless
the County shall default in the payment of the redemption price) such Bonds or
portions of Bonds shall cease to bear interest. Neither the failure to mail such redemption notice nor any defect
in any notice so mailed to any particular registered owner of a Bond shall
affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other registered
owners. Notice having been properly
given, failure of a registered owner of a Bond to receive such notice shall not
be deemed to invalidate, limit or delay the effect of the notice or the
redemption action described in the notice.
Such notice may be waived in writing by a registered owner of a Bond,
either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of
such notice. Waivers of notice shall be
filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to
the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver. Upon surrender of such Bonds for redemption
in accordance with said notice, such Bonds shall be paid by the Trustee at the
redemption price. Interest due on or prior to the redemption date shall be
payable as herein provided for payment of interest. Upon surrender for any partial redemption of any Bond, there
shall be prepared for the registered owner a new Bond or Bonds of the same
Stated Maturity in the amount of the unpaid principal or Maturity Amount.
With
respect to any redemption of Bonds, unless moneys sufficient to pay the
redemption price of the Bonds to be redeemed shall have been received by the
Trustee prior to the giving of the notice of redemption, such notice may, at
the option of the County, state that such redemption shall be conditional upon
the receipt of such moneys by the Trustee on or prior to the date fixed for
redemption. If such moneys are not
received, such notice shall be of no force and effect, the Trustee shall not
redeem such Bonds, and the Trustee shall give notice, in the same manner in
which the notice of redemption shall have been given, that such moneys were not
so received and that such Bonds will not be redeemed.
If
any Bond or portion of Bond called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, in the case of Current Interest Bonds, the
principal shall, until paid, bear interest from the redemption date at the rate
borne by the Bond or portion of Bond so called for redemption; in the case of
Variable Rate Bonds, the principal shall, until paid, bear interest as provided
in a relevant Indenture; and, in the case of Capital Appreciation Bonds, the
Compound Accreted Value at such redemption date shall continue to accrue
interest from such redemption date at the Yield to Maturity borne by such
Capital Appreciation Bond, or portion thereof, so called for redemption. All Bonds which have been redeemed shall be
cancelled and destroyed by the Trustee and shall not be reissued.
Upon
the payment of the redemption price of Bonds being redeemed, each check or
other transfer of funds issued for such purpose shall bear the CUSIP number
identifying, by issue and maturity, the Bonds being redeemed with the proceeds
of such check or other transfer.
SECTION 6. REGISTRATION OF BONDS; PERSONS TREATED AS OWNERS; BONDS LOST,
DESTROYED, ETC.
The
County shall cause the Bond Register to be kept at the principal corporate
trust office of the Trustee, which is hereby constituted and appointed the
Registrar of the County. The County is
authorized to prepare, and the Trustee shall keep custody of, multiple Bond
blanks executed by the County for use in the transfer and exchange of Bonds.
Subject
to the provisions hereof relating to the Bonds in Book Entry Form, upon
surrender for transfer of any Bond at the principal corporate trust office of
the Trustee, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument or
instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and duly executed
by, the registered owner or his or her attorney duly authorized in writing, the
County shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate, date and deliver in
the name of the transferee or transferees (a) in the case of any Capital
Appreciation Bond, a new fully registered Capital Appreciation Bond or Bonds of
the same series and of the same Stated Maturity of Authorized Denominations,
for a like aggregate Original Principal Amount or (b) in the case of any
Current Interest Bond or Variable Rate Bond, a new fully registered Bond or
Bonds of the same tenor, of the same interest rate and Stated Maturity, of Authorized
Denominations, for a like aggregate principal amount. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance relating to Book
Entry Form any Capital Appreciation Bond or Bonds may be exchanged at said
office of the Trustee or its proper agent for a like aggregate Original
Principal Amount of Capital Appreciation Bond or Bonds of the same maturity of
other Authorized Denominations; and any fully registered Current Interest Bond
or Bonds or Variable Rate Bond or Bonds may be exchanged at said office of the
Trustee or its proper agent for a like aggregate principal amount of such Bonds
of the same tenor, of the same interest rate and Stated Maturity, of other
Authorized Denominations.
The
execution by the County of any fully registered Bond shall constitute full and
due authorization of such Bond, and the Trustee or its proper agent shall thereby be authorized to authenticate,
date and deliver such Bond in accordance with the terms of this Ordinance and
of any Indenture.
The
person in whose name any Bond shall be registered shall be deemed and regarded
as the absolute owner thereof for all purposes, and payment of the principal
of, premium (if any) or interest on or any Maturity Amount of any Bond shall be
made only to or upon the order of the registered owner thereof or his or her
legal representative. All such payments
shall be valid and effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability upon such
Bond to the extent of the sum or sums so paid.
No
service charge shall be made for any transfer or exchange of Bonds, but the
County or the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax
or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any
transfer or exchange of Bonds exchanged in the case of the issuance of a Bond
or Bonds for the outstanding portion of a Bond surrendered for redemption.
If
any Bond, whether in temporary or definitive form, is lost (whether by reason
of theft or otherwise), destroyed (whether by mutilation, damage, in whole or
in part, or otherwise) or improperly cancelled, the Trustee or its proper agent
may authenticate a new Bond of like date, maturity date, interest rate (or, in
the case of Capital Appreciation Bonds, Yield to Maturity), denomination and
Original Principal Amount (in the case of Capital Appreciation Bonds) or
principal amount (in the case of other Bonds) and bearing a number not
contemporaneously outstanding; provided
that (a) in the case of any mutilated Bond, such mutilated Bond shall first be
surrendered to the Trustee, and (b) in the case of any lost Bond or Bond
destroyed in whole, there shall be first furnished to the Trustee evidence of
such loss or destruction, together with indemnification of the County and the
Trustee, satisfactory to the Trustee.
In the event any lost, destroyed or improperly cancelled Bond shall have
matured or is about to mature, or has been called for redemption, instead of
issuing a duplicate Bond, the Trustee shall pay the same without surrender
thereof if there shall be first furnished to the Trustee evidence of such loss,
destruction or cancellation, together with indemnity, satisfactory to it. Upon the issuance of any substitute Bond,
the Trustee may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto.
SECTION 7. SECURITY.
The
full faith and credit of the County are hereby irrevocably pledged to the
punctual payment of the principal of, interest on and Maturity Amount of the
Bonds. The Bonds shall be direct and
general obligations of the County and the County shall be obligated and hereby
covenants and agrees to levy ad valorem taxes upon all the taxable property in
the County for the payment of the Bonds and the interest thereon, without
limitation as to rate or amount. The
County hereby pledges, as equal and ratable security for the Bonds, all present
and future proceeds of the Pledged Taxes on deposit in the Bond Fund for the
sole benefit of the registered owners of the Bonds, subject to the reserved
right of the Corporate Authorities to transfer certain interest income or
investment profit earned in the Bond Fund to other funds of the County.
SECTION 8. FORMS OF BONDS.
The
Current Interest Bonds and the Capital Appreciation Bonds shall be in
substantially the forms hereinafter set forth; provided, however, that
if the text of the Bonds is to be printed in its entirety on the front side of
the Bonds, then the second paragraph on the front side and the legend “See
Reverse Side for Additional Provisions” shall be omitted and the text of
paragraphs set forth for the reverse side shall be inserted immediately after
the first paragraph. The Convertible
CABs shall be prepared incorporating the provisions of the forms of Current
Interest Bonds and Capital Appreciation Bonds set forth below as necessary to
reflect the terms and provisions of the sale of the Convertible CABs pursuant
to Section 11 hereof. Variable
Rate Bonds shall be prepared in substantially the form provided in the relevant
Indenture.
(Form of
Current Interest Bond - Front Side)
REGISTERED REGISTERED
NO. _______ $_________
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
STATE OF ILLINOIS
THE COUNTY OF COOK
GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND, SERIES 2002__
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See
Reverse Side for
Additional Provisions |
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Interest Rate: |
Maturity Date: |
Dated Date: ________ 2002 |
CUSIP: |
Registered
Owner: CEDE & Co.
Principal
Amount:
[1] KNOW
ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the County of Cook, Illinois (the “County”), a home rule unit duly
organized and incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois, hereby acknowledges
itself to owe and for value received promises to pay from the sources and as
hereinafter provided to the Registered Owner identified above, or registered
assigns as hereinafter provided, the Principal Amount identified above and to
pay interest (computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months)
on such Principal Amount at the Interest Rate identified above, from the Dated
Date or from the most recent interest payment date to which interest has been
paid, on each May 15 and November 15, commencing _______, 20__, until said
principal sum is paid, except as the provisions hereinafter set forth with
respect to redemption prior to maturity are and become applicable hereto. Both principal hereof and premium, if any,
hereon are payable in lawful money of the United States of America at the
principal corporate trust office of Amalgamated Bank of Chicago, Chicago,
Illinois, as bond registrar, paying agent and trustee (the “Trustee”), or at any successor trustee and locality as in the
hereinafter defined Bond Ordinance provided.
Payment of interest shall be made to the Registered Owner hereof on the
registration books of the County maintained by the Trustee at the close of
business on the Regular Record Date and shall be paid by check or draft of the
Trustee mailed to the address of such Registered Owner as it appears on such
registration books or as otherwise agreed by the County and CEDE & Co., as
nominee, or successor for so long as this Bond is held by the Depository or
nominee in book-entry only form as provided for same.
[2] Reference is hereby made to the further
provisions of this Bond set forth on the reverse hereof and such further
provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this
place.
[3] This bond and each bond of the series of
which it forms a part (together, the “Bonds”),
are issued pursuant to Section 6 of Article VII of the 1970 Constitution of the
State of Illinois, as supplemented and amended by the Local Government Debt
Reform Act of the State of Illinois as amended (the “Act”). The Bonds are being
issued for the purpose of paying the costs of the Projects (as defined in the
hereinafter defined Bond Ordinance), all as more fully described in proceedings
adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the County (the “Corporate Authorities”) and in an ordinance authorizing the
issuance of the Bonds adopted by the Corporate Authorities on the 21st day of
February, 2002 (the “Bond Ordinance”),
to all the provisions of which the holder by the acceptance of this Bond
assents. For the prompt payment of this
Bond, both principal and interest, as aforesaid, at maturity, the Pledged Taxes
are hereby irrevocably pledged.
[4] It is hereby certified and recited that
all conditions, acts and things required by the Constitution and Laws of the
State of Illinois to exist or to be done precedent to and in the issuance of
this Bond, including the Act, have existed and have been properly done,
happened and been performed in regular and due form and time as required by law;
that the indebtedness of the County, represented by the Bonds, and including
all other indebtedness of the County, howsoever evidenced or incurred, does not
exceed any constitutional or statutory or other lawful limitation; and that
provision has been made for the collection of a direct annual tax, in addition
to all other taxes, on all of the taxable property in the County sufficient to
pay the interest hereon as the same falls due and also to pay and discharge the
principal hereof at maturity.
[5] This Bond shall not be valid or become
obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall
have been signed by the manual signature of the Trustee.
[6] IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, The County of Cook, Illinois, by its Board of
Commissioners, has caused this Bond to be signed by the manual or duly
authorized facsimile signatures of the President and County Clerk, and its
corporate seal or a facsimile thereof to be impressed or reproduced hereon, all
as appearing hereon and as of the Dated Date identified above.
[SEAL]
_________________________
President
_________________________
County Clerk
Date of
Authentication: ______________, _____
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CERTIFICATION OF AUTHENTICATION |
Bond Registrar, Paying Agent and
Trustee: Amalgamated Bank of Chicago Chicago, Illinois |
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This Bond is one of the Bonds
described in the within mentioned Bond Ordinance and is one of the General
Obligation Bonds, Series 2002__, of The County of Cook, Illinois. |
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AMALGAMATED BANK OF CHICAGO, as Trustee |
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By_______________________________ |
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Authorized Officer |
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[Form of Current Interest Bond - Reverse
Side]
The County of Cook, Illinois
General Obligation Bond, Series 2002___
[7] This Bond is transferable by the
registered holder hereof in person or by his or her attorney duly authorized in
writing at the principal corporate trust office of the Trustee in Chicago,
Illinois, or at any successor Trustee and successor location, but only in the
manner, subject to the limitations and upon payment of the charges provided in
the Bond Ordinance, and upon surrender and cancellation of this Bond. Upon such transfer a new Bond or Bonds of
the same series and Authorized Denominations of the same maturity and for the
same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange
therefor. The Trustee shall not be
required to transfer or exchange this Bond during the period beginning at the
close of business on the fifteenth day next preceding any interest payment date
for this Bond, after notice calling this Bond for redemption has been mailed,
or during a period of 15 days next preceding mailing of a notice of redemption
of this Bond.
[8] The Bonds are issued in fully registered
form in the Authorized Denomination of $5,000 each and integral multiples
thereof. This Bond may be exchanged at
the principal corporate trust office of the Trustee for a like aggregate
principal amount of Bonds of the same maturity of other Authorized
Denominations, upon the terms set forth in the Bond Ordinance.
[9] The County and the Trustee may deem and
treat the registered holder hereof as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose
of receiving payment of or on account of principal hereof, premium, if any, and
interest due hereon and for all other purposes, and neither the County nor the
Trustee shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
[10] The Bonds coming due on and after November
15, 20__, are subject to redemption prior to maturity at the option of the
County, from any available moneys, on November 15, 20__, and any date thereafter,
in whole or in part, and if in part, in such principal amounts and from such
maturities as determined by the County and within any maturity by lot, the
Bonds to be redeemed at the redemption prices (being expressed as a percentage
of the principal amount of the Bonds to be redeemed) set forth below:
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DATES OF REDEMPTION |
REDEMPTION PRICE |
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[11] [Provisions
relating to mandatory redemption will be inserted here.]
[12] Written notice of the redemption of any or
all of said Bonds shall be given by the County to the registered holder thereof
by first class mail to the address shown on the registration books of the
County maintained by the Trustee or at such other address as is furnished in
writing by such registered owner to the Trustee. The date of the mailing and filing of such notice shall be not
more than sixty (60) and not less than thirty (30) days prior to such
redemption date, and when any or all of said Bonds or any portion thereof shall
have been called for redemption and payment made or provided for, interest
thereon shall cease from and after the date so specified. With respect to any redemption of Bonds,
unless moneys sufficient to pay the redemption price of the Bonds to be
redeemed shall have been received by the Trustee prior to the giving of the
notice of redemption, such notice may, at the option of the County, state that
such redemption shall be conditional upon the receipt of such moneys by the
Trustee on or prior to the date fixed for redemption. If such moneys are not received, such notice shall be of no force
and effect, the Trustee shall not redeem such Bonds, and the Trustee shall give
notice, in the same manner in which the notice of redemption shall have been
given, that such moneys were not so received and that such Bonds will not be
redeemed.
[13] The rights and obligations of the County
and of the registered owners of Bonds of the series of which this Bond is one
may be modified or amended at any time as more fully set forth in the Bond
Ordinance.
[ASSIGNMENT]
FOR VALUE RECEIVED,
the undersigned sells, assigns and transfers unto _______________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
(Name
and Address of Assignee)
the within Bond
and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ____________________ or its
successor as attorney to transfer the said Bond on the books kept for
registration thereof with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated: _______________________ ______________________________
Signature
guaranteed:
________________________________________________________
NOTICE: The
signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of the registered
owner as it appears upon the face of the within Bond in every particular,
without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever.
INSURANCE LEGEND MAY APPEAR HERE
(Form of Capital Appreciation Bond -
Front Side)
Registered $__________________
No. _____ Compound
Accreted
Value
at Maturity
(“Maturity Amount”)
UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
STATE OF
ILLINOIS
THE COUNTY OF
COOK
GENERAL
OBLIGATION BOND, SERIES 2002__
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See Reverse
Side for Additional
Provisions |
Original Original Principal
Maturity Yield to Amount per $5,000 Dated
Date Maturity Maturity Amount Date CUSIP
_________, ____ ___________ $____________ _________, ____ _________
Registered
Owner:
[1] KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, the
County of Cook, Illinois (the “County”)
hereby acknowledges itself to owe and for value received promises to pay to the
Registered Owner identified above, or registered assigns as hereinafter
provided, on the Maturity Date identified above, the Maturity Amount identified
above. The amount of interest payable
on this Bond on the Maturity Date hereof is the amount of interest accrued from
the Dated Date hereof at a semiannual compounding rate necessary to produce the
Original Yield to Maturity set forth above, compounded semiannually on each May
15 and November 15, commencing __________ 15, _______. The Maturity Amount of this Bond is payable
in lawful money of the United States of America upon presentation and surrender
of this Bond at the principal corporate trust office of Amalgamated Bank of
Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, or its successor, as trustee, bond registrar and
paying agent (the “Trustee”), or at
successor trustee and locality as in the hereinafter defined Bond Ordinance
provided. The Compound Accreted Value
of this Bond per $5,000 Maturity Amount on May 15 and November 15 of each year,
commencing _________________ 15, ______, determined by the semiannual
compounding described in this paragraph shall be as set forth in the Table of
Compound Accreted Value Per $5,000 of Compound Accreted Value at Maturity
attached hereto.
[2] Reference
is hereby made to the further provisions of this Bond set forth on the reverse
hereof and such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect
as if set forth at this place.
[3] This
bond and each bond of the series of which it forms a part (together, the “Bonds”), are issued pursuant to Section
6 of Article VII of the 1970 Constitution of the State of Illinois, as
supplemented and amended by the Local Government Debt Reform Act of the State
of Illinois as amended (the “Act”). The Bonds are being issued for the purpose
of paying the costs of the Projects (as defined in the hereinafter defined Bond
Ordinance), all as more fully described in proceedings adopted by the Board of
Commissioners of the County (the “Corporate
Authorities”) and in an ordinance authorizing the issuance of the Bonds
adopted by the Corporate Authorities on the 21st day of February, 2002 (the “Bond Ordinance”), to all the provisions
of which the holder by the acceptance of this Bond assents. For the prompt payment of this Bond, both
principal and interest, as aforesaid, at maturity, the Pledged Taxes are hereby
irrevocably pledged.
[4] It
is hereby certified and recited that all conditions, acts and things required
by the Constitution and Laws of the State of Illinois to exist or to be done
precedent to and in the issuance of this Bond, including the Act, have existed
and have been properly done, happened and been performed in regular and due
form and time as required by law; that the indebtedness of the County,
represented by the Bonds, and including all other indebtedness of the County,
howsoever evidenced or incurred, does not exceed any constitutional or
statutory or other lawful limitation; and that provision has been made for the
collection of a direct annual tax, in addition to all other taxes, on all of
the taxable property in the County sufficient to pay and discharge the Maturity
Amount at Stated Maturity.
[5] This
Bond shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until the
certificate of authentication hereon shall have been signed by the manual
signature of the Trustee.
[6] IN WITNESS WHEREOF, The County of Cook,
Illinois, by its Board of Commissioners has caused its corporate seal to be
imprinted by facsimile hereon and this Bond to be signed by the manual or duly
authorized facsimile signatures of the President and the County Clerk, all as
of the Dated Date identified above.
[SEAL]
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President, Board of Commissioners
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County Clerk
Date of
Authentication: ________________,
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Bond Registrar,
Paying Agent and Trustee: Amalgamated Bank of Chicago Chicago, Illinois |
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This Bond is one of the Bonds described in the within
mentioned Bond Ordinance and is one of the General Obligation Bonds, Series
2002__, of The County of Cook, Illinois. |
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AMALGAMATED
BANK OF CHICAGO, as Trustee |
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By_______________________________ |
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Authorized
Officer |
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[Form of Capital
Appreciation Bond - Reverse Side]
THE COUNTY OF
COOK, ILLINOIS
GENERAL
OBLIGATION BOND, SERIES 2002__
[7] This Bond is transferable by the Registered
Owner hereof in person or by his or her attorney duly authorized in writing at
the principal corporate trust office of the Trustee in Chicago, Illinois, or at
successor Trustee and successor location, but only in the manner, subject to
the limitations and upon payment of the charges provided in the Bond Ordinance,
and upon surrender and cancellation of this Bond. Upon such transfer, a new Bond or Bonds of authorized
denominations, of the same maturity and for the same aggregate Original
Principal Amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange therefor. The Trustee shall not be required to
transfer or exchange this Bond during the period beginning at the close of
business on the fifteenth day next preceding the Maturity Date for this Bond,
after notice calling this Bond for redemption has been mailed, or during a
period of 15 days next preceding mailing of a notice of redemption of this
Bond.
[8] The Bonds are issued in fully registered
form in Original Principal Amounts representing $5,000 Maturity Amount or any
integral multiple thereof. This Bond
may be exchanged at the principal corporate trust office of the Trustee for a
like aggregate Original Principal Amount of Bonds of the same Stated Maturity,
upon the terms set forth in the Bond Ordinance.
[9] The Bonds maturing on or after November 15,
____, are subject to redemption prior to maturity at the option of the County,
from any available moneys, on November 15, _____, and any date thereafter, in
whole or in part, and if in part, in such Maturity Amounts and from such
maturities as determined by the County and within any maturity by lot, the
Bonds to be redeemed at the redemption prices (being expressed as a percentage
of the Compound Accreted Value of the Bonds to be redeemed) set forth below:
DATES OF REDEMPTION REDEMPTION PRICE
[10] Written
notice of the redemption of any or all of said Bonds shall be given by the
County to the registered holder thereof by first class mail to the address shown
on the registration books of the County maintained by the Trustee or at such
other address as is furnished in writing by such registered owner to the
Trustee. The date of the mailing and
filing of such notice shall be not more than sixty (60) and not less than
thirty (30) days prior to such redemption date, and when any or all of said
Bonds or any portion thereof shall have been called for redemption and payment
made or provided for, interest thereon shall cease from and after the date so
specified. With respect to any
redemption of Bonds, unless moneys sufficient to pay the redemption price of
the Bonds to be redeemed shall have been received by the Trustee prior to the
giving of the notice of redemption, such notice may, at the option of the County,
state that such redemption shall be conditional upon the receipt of such moneys
by the Trustee on or prior to the date fixed for redemption. If such moneys are not received, such notice
shall be of no force and effect, the Trustee shall not redeem such Bonds, and
the Trustee shall give notice, in the same manner in which the notice of
redemption shall have been given, that such moneys were not so received and
that such Bonds will not be redeemed.
[11] The County and the Trustee may deem and
treat the Registered Owner hereof as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose
of receiving payment of or on account of the Maturity Amount hereof and
redemption premium, if any, hereon and for all other purposes, and neither the
County nor the Trustee shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
INSURANCE LEGEND MAY APPEAR HERE
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TABLE OF COMPOUND ACCRETED
VALUE
PER $5,000 OF COMPOUND ACCRETED VALUE AT MATURITY
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(ASSIGNMENT)
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned sells, assigns and transfers unto
______________________________________________________________________________
(Name
and Address of Assignee)
the within
Bond and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint
______________________________________________________________________________
attorney to transfer the said Bond on the
books kept for registration thereof with full power of substitution in the
premises.
Dated:
Signature guaranteed: ________________________________
NOTICE: The
signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of the Registered
Owner as it appears upon the face of the within Bond in every particular,
without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever.
SECTION 9. GENERAL OBLIGATIONS; PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL, PREMIUM AND INTEREST;
TAX LEVY; ABATEMENT.
For
the purpose of providing the funds required to pay the principal of and
interest on, or Maturity Amount of, the Bonds promptly as the same become due,
there is hereby levied upon all taxable property in the County, a direct annual
tax sufficient for those purposes in addition to all other taxes, for the years
and in the amounts as shall be provided in each relevant Bond Order. For this purpose, interest to accrue on
Variable Rate Bonds shall be deemed to be that rate which, in the reasonable
estimation of the Chief Financial Officer as he may from time to time
determine, will be sufficient to pay principal of and interest on such Variable
Rate Bonds when due.
The
Pledged Taxes and other moneys on deposit in the Bond Fund shall be applied to
pay principal of and interest on, or Maturity Amount of, the Bonds.
Interest
or principal coming due at any time when there are insufficient funds on hand
from the Pledged Taxes to pay the same shall be paid promptly when due from
current funds on hand in advance of the collection of the Pledged Taxes herein
levied which funds are hereby appropriated for such purpose as necessary; and
when the Pledged Taxes shall have been collected, reimbursement shall be made
to said funds in the amount so advanced.
The
County covenants and agrees with the purchasers and registered owners of the
Bonds that so long as any of the Bonds remain outstanding, the County will take
no action or fail to take any action which in any way would adversely affect
the ability of the County to levy and collect the Pledged Taxes. The County and its officers will comply with
all present and future applicable laws in order to assure that the Pledged
Taxes may be levied, extended and collected as provided herein and deposited
into the Bond Fund. With respect to
Variable Rate Bonds, in furtherance of the general obligation full faith and
credit pledge of the County to the punctual payment of the principal of and
interest on the Bonds set forth in Section 7 of this Ordinance, the County will
take all actions necessary to levy in addition to the taxes described above,
any direct annual tax required in excess of that levied in this Ordinance for
collection on a timely basis to make all payments of the principal of and
interest on such Variable Rate Bonds.
A
copy of this Ordinance, together with a subsequent copy of each Bond Order,
duly certified by the County Clerk, shall be filed in the office of the County
Clerk, and such filings shall constitute the authority for and it shall be the
duty of said County Clerk, in each year as aforesaid, to extend the taxes
levied pursuant to this Section and said Bond Order(s) for collection, such
taxes to be in addition to and in excess of all other taxes heretofore or
hereafter authorized to be levied by the County on its behalf.
All
receipts of the Pledged Taxes received by the County Collector shall be
deposited daily, as far as practicable, with the Trustee. All other moneys appropriated or used by the
County for the payment of the principal or redemption price of, and interest
on, or Maturity Amount of, the Bonds shall be paid to the Trustee. The Trustee shall be accountable only for
moneys actually so deposited with the Trustee.
The Trustee is hereby expressly authorized to establish such accounts
within the Bond Fund as shall be necessary to account for the Pledged Taxes
levied for each series of Bonds issued hereunder. All Pledged Taxes, and all such moneys, shall be deposited by the
Trustee into the Bond Fund.
The
County Treasurer and the County Collector are hereby expressly authorized and
directed to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary to provide for the
prompt deposit with the Trustee, in accordance with this Ordinance, of all
Pledged Taxes.
Except
as may be otherwise provided in a relevant Bond Order or Indenture, at any time
and from time to time as the Chief Financial Officer shall determine to be
necessary or advisable, the Chief Financial Officer is hereby expressly
authorized, without further official action of the Corporate Authorities, to
abate any portion of the Pledged Taxes levied to pay principal of and interest
on Variable Rate Bonds, in the event and to the extent that the Chief Financial
Officer shall determine that the collection of such Pledged Taxes will not be
necessary to provide for the timely payment of the principal of and interest on
such Variable Rate Bonds. The filing
with the County Clerk of a certificate of abatement, signed by the President
and the Chief Financial Officer, shall constitute due authorization for the
County Clerk to effectuate such abatement.
SECTION 10. POWERS AS TO BONDS AND PLEDGE.
The
County is duly authorized to pledge the Pledged Taxes and other moneys,
securities and funds purported to be pledged by this Ordinance in the manner
and to the extent provided in this Ordinance.
The Pledged Taxes and other moneys, securities and funds so pledged are
and will be free and clear of any pledge, lien, charge or encumbrance thereon
or with respect thereto prior to, or of equal rank with, the pledge created by
this Ordinance. The County shall at all
times, to the extent permitted by law, defend, preserve and protect the pledge
of the Pledged Taxes and other moneys, securities and funds pledged under this
Ordinance and all the rights thereto of the Bondholders under this Ordinance
against all claims and demands of all persons whomsoever.
SECTION 11. SALE OF THE BONDS; FORMS OF DOCUMENTS
APPROVED.
The
Chief Financial Officer is hereby authorized to sell all or any portion of the
several series of the Bonds to the respective Underwriters from time to time on
such terms as he may deem to be in the best interests of the County; provided that (a) the Purchase Price
shall be at least ninety-eight percent (98%) of the proceeds of the Bonds
(exclusive of any net original issue discount used in the marketing of the
Bonds, not to exceed 10% of the principal amount thereof), plus accrued
interest on the Bonds from their dated date to the date of their issuance, and
(b) the aggregate amount of principal of and interest on and Maturity Amount of
the Bonds (based, for Variable Rate Bonds, on the reasonable estimate of the
Chief Financial Officer as hereinabove provided) in any year shall not exceed
the aggregate amount levied therefor pursuant hereto plus capitalized interest,
if any. The Bonds may be sold from time
to time as the Chief Financial Officer shall determine that the proceeds of
such sales are needed. Nothing
contained in this Ordinance shall limit the sale of the Bonds or any maturity
or maturities thereof at a price or prices in excess of the principal amount
thereof.
Subsequent
to each such sale of the Bonds, the Chief Financial Officer shall file in the
office of the County Clerk a Bond Order directed to the Corporate Authorities
identifying (i) the terms of the sale, (ii) the amount of the Bonds being sold
as Capital Appreciation Bonds, Convertible CABs or Current Interest Bonds,
(iii) the amount of Bonds being sold as Variable Rate Bonds and attaching the
related Indenture or Indentures, (iv) the dated date of the Bonds sold, (v) the
aggregate principal amount of Bonds sold, (vi) the principal amount of Bonds
maturing and mandatorily redeemable in each year, (vii) the optional redemption
provisions applicable to the Bonds sold, (viii) with respect to any Capital
Appreciation Bonds being sold, the Original Principal Amounts of and Yields to
Maturity on such Capital Appreciation Bonds and a table of Compound Accreted
Values per $5,000 Compound Accreted Value at Maturity for such Capital
Appreciation Bonds, setting forth the Compound Accreted Value of each such
Capital Appreciation Bond on each semiannual compounding date, (ix) the
interest rate or rates on any Current Interest Bonds sold, or, in the case of
any series of Variable Rate Bonds the estimated rate used to determine the
Pledged Taxes for such Variable Rate Bonds and a description (which shall be in
the relevant Indenture therefor) of the methods of determining the interest
rate applicable to such Variable Rate Bonds from time to time and the identity
of any remarketing agent retained in connection with the issuance of Variable
Rate Bonds, (x) the identity of any Insurer, (xi) the portion, if any, of the
Bonds which are not Tax Exempt, (xii) the identity of any provider of a
Credit Facility, and (xiii) the information regarding the title and series
designation of the Bonds, together with any other matter authorized by this
Ordinance to be determined by the Chief Financial Officer at the time of sale
of the Bonds, and thereafter the Bonds so sold shall be duly prepared and
executed in the form and manner provided herein and delivered to the respective
Underwriters in accordance with the terms of sale.
Any Designated Officer and such
other officers of the County as may be necessary are hereby authorized to
execute such other documents, as may be necessary to implement the Projects and
to effect the issuance and delivery of the Bonds, including but not limited to:
(a) those
certain Contracts of Purchase by and between the County and the Underwriters,
such contracts to be provided by Altheimer & Gray and William P. Tuggle,
P.C., as co-Underwriters’ counsel, which forms shall be acceptable to the Chief
Financial Officer and as customarily entered into by the County; and
(b) such
certification and documentation as may be required by Chapman and Cutler,
Chicago, Illinois, and Pugh, Jones & Johnson, P.C., Chicago, Illinois,
as co-bond counsel, including, specifically, a tax agreement, to render their
opinions as to the Tax Exempt status of the interest on any Tax Exempt Bonds;
and execution
thereof by such officers is hereby deemed conclusive evidence of approval
thereof with such changes, additions, insertions, omissions or deletions as
such officers may determine, with no further official action of or direction by
the Corporate Authorities.
The
preparation, use and distribution of a preliminary official statement and an
official statement relating to each sale and issuance of the Bonds are hereby
ratified and approved. The President
and Chief Financial Officer are each hereby authorized to execute and deliver
an official statement relating to each sale and issuance of the Bonds on behalf
of the County. The preliminary official
statement and official statement herein authorized shall be in substantially
the forms previously used for general obligation financings of the County with
appropriate revisions to reflect the terms and provisions of the Bonds and to
describe accurately the current condition of the County and the parties to the
financing.
In
connection with any sale of the Bonds, the President or the Chief Financial
Officer is hereby authorized to obtain a Credit Facility with one or more
financial institutions. The President
or the Chief Financial Officer is hereby authorized to enter into a
reimbursement agreement and to execute and issue a promissory note in
connection with the provisions of each Credit Facility. Any Credit Facility and any reimbursement
agreement shall be in substantially the form of the credit facilities and
reimbursement agreements previously entered into by the County in connection
with the sale of general obligation bonds or notes, but with such revisions in
text as the President or the Chief Financial Officer shall determine are
necessary or desirable, the execution thereof by the President or the Chief
Financial Officer to evidence the approval by the Corporate Authorities of all
such revisions. The annual fee paid to
any financial institution that provides a Credit Facility shall not exceed
three-quarters of one percent of the average principal amount of such Bonds
outstanding during such annual period.
The final form of reimbursement agreement entered into by the County
with respect to the Bonds shall be attached to the notification of sale filed
with the County Clerk pursuant to this section. Each such promissory note shall mature not later than the final
maturity date of the Bonds and shall be a general obligation of the County for
the payment of which, both principal and interest, the County pledges its full
faith, credit and resources. Each such
promissory note shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding 18 percent per
annum. The President or the Chief
Financial Officer is hereby authorized to execute and deliver each such
reimbursement agreement, under the seal of the County affixed and attached by
the County Clerk.
In
connection with any sale of the Bonds, the President or the Chief Financial
Officer is hereby authorized to obtain a policy of bond insurance from an
Insurer if the Chief Financial Officer determines such bond insurance to be
desirable in connection with such sale of the Bonds or any portion thereof. The President or Chief Financial Officer is
hereby expressly authorized, on behalf of the County, to make such customary
covenants and agreements with such Insurer as are not inconsistent with the
provisions of this Ordinance.
The
President or the Chief Financial Officer is hereby authorized to execute and
deliver from time to time one or more agreements with counterparties selected
by the Chief Financial Officer, the purpose of which is to hedge or manage the
County’s interest cost with respect to the Bonds (or any portion thereof), or
to reduce the County’s exposure to fluctuations in the interest rate or rates
payable on the Bonds or to insure, protect or preserve its investments from any
loss (including, without limitation, loss caused by fluctuations in interest
rates, markets or in securities). The
stated aggregate notional amount under all such agreements authorized hereunder
shall not exceed the principal amount of the Bonds issued hereunder (net of
offsetting transactions entered into by the County). Any such agreement to the extent practicable shall be in
substantially the form of either the Local Currency - Single Jurisdiction
version or the Multicurrency - Cross Border version of the 1992 ISDA Master Agreement
accompanied by the U.S. Municipal Counterparty Schedule published by the
International Swap Dealers Association (the “ISDA”)
or any successor form to be published by the ISDA, and in the appropriate
confirmations of transactions governed by that agreement, with such insertions,
completions and modifications thereof as shall be approved by the officer of
the County executing the same, his or her execution to constitute conclusive
evidence of the Corporate Authorities’ approval of such insertions, completions
and modifications thereof. Amounts
payable by the County under any such agreement (being “Swap Payments”) shall constitute operating expenses of the County
payable from any moneys, revenues, receipts, income, assets or funds of the
County available for such purpose or be payable from the sources pledged to the
payment of the Bonds, as the Chief Financial Officer may from time to time
determine. Such amounts shall not
constitute an indebtedness of the County for which its full faith and credit is
pledged. Nothing contained in this
Section shall limit or restrict the authority of the President or the Chief
Financial Officer to enter into similar agreements pursuant to prior or
subsequent authorization of the Corporate Authorities.
SECTION 12. CREATION OF FUNDS AND APPROPRIATIONS.
A. There
is hereby created the “General Obligation
Bonds, Series 2002, Bond Fund” (the “Bond
Fund”), which shall be the fund for the payment of principal of and
interest on and Maturity Amount of the Bonds.
The Bond Fund shall be held and maintained as a separate and segregated
account by the Trustee. Accounts within
the Bond Fund may be created as necessary for any series of Bonds as specified
in a relevant Bond Order or, for Variable Rate Bonds, as provided in a relevant
Indenture. Accrued interest, capitalized
interest and premium, if any, received upon delivery of the Bonds shall be
deposited into the Bond Fund and be applied to pay first interest coming due on
the Bonds.
The
Pledged Taxes shall either be deposited into the Bond Fund and used solely and
only for paying the principal of and interest on or Maturity Amount of the
Bonds or be used to reimburse a fund or account from which advances to the Bond
Fund may have been made to pay principal of or interest on or Maturity Amount
of the Bonds prior to receipt of Pledged Taxes. Interest income or investment profit earned in the Bond Fund
shall be retained in the Bond Fund for payment of the principal of and interest
on Current Interest Bonds and Variable Rate Bonds and Maturity Amount of
Capital Appreciation Bonds on the interest payment date next after such
interest or profit is received or, to the extent lawful and as determined by
the Chief Financial Officer, transferred to such other funds as may be
determined. On or after April 1,
2005, capitalized interest, if any, deposited to and remaining in the Bond Fund
for any Variable Rate Bonds shall be transferred to such other funds or
accounts as the Chief Financial Officer shall determine.
B. The
remaining proceeds of the Bonds shall be set aside in one or more separate
funds of the County, hereby created, and designated as the “Public Safety Project Fund,” the “Health Fund Project Fund,” the “Corporate
Project Fund,” the “Capital Equipment
Project Fund,” the “Insurance Reserve
Fund” and the “Working Cash Fund”
(collectively, the “Project Funds”). Any Project Fund may further be divided into
accounts and designated the “Series
______ Bonds Project Account”(an “Account”). The Project Funds shall be held and
maintained as separate and segregated accounts by the Trustee. Moneys in the Project Funds may be withdrawn
or may be transferred among the Project Funds by the County to pay the costs of
the Projects upon requisition by the Chief Financial Officer or any other employee
of the County designated by the Chief Financial Officer.
Alternatively,
the Chief Financial Officer may allocate the proceeds of the Bonds to one or
more related project funds or accounts of the County already in existence; provided, however, that this shall not
relieve the County and such officer of the duty to account for the proceeds as
if any Project Fund or Account were created as herein provided. The County by its Corporate Authorities
reserves the right, as it becomes necessary from time to time, to change the
purposes of expenditure of any Project Fund or its accounts, to change
priorities, to revise cost allocations between expenditures and to substitute
projects, in order to meet current needs of the County; subject, however, to
the provisions of the Act and to the tax covenants of the County relating to
the Tax Exempt status of interest on Tax Exempt Bonds.
C. The
sum necessary, as determined by the Chief Financial Officer, of the principal
proceeds of the Bonds shall be deposited into a separate and segregated fund,
hereby created, to be known as the “Expense
Fund” (the “Expense Fund”) and
shall be used by the County to pay costs of issuance of the Bonds in accordance
with normal County disbursement procedures.
Any funds remaining to the credit of the Expense Fund on the date which
is six months following the date of delivery of the Bonds shall be transferred
to the County Treasurer for deposit into such fund or account of the County as
the Chief Financial Officer may direct.
D. The
moneys on deposit in the Bond Fund may be invested from time to time in
Qualified Investments. Any such
investments may be sold from time to time by the Trustee without further
direction from the County as moneys may be needed for the purposes for which the
Bond Fund has been created. The moneys
on deposit in each Project Fund shall be invested in any lawful investment for
County funds. In addition, the Chief
Financial Officer shall direct the Trustee (which direction may be by facsimile
transmission by the County to the Trustee and confirmed by facsimile
transmission by the Trustee to the County) to sell such investments when
necessary to remedy any deficiency in the Bond Fund, any Project Fund or any
accounts created therein. All other investment earnings shall be attributed to
the account for which the investment was made.
E. All
moneys (not including securities) held by the Trustee subject to the provisions
of this Section may be deposited by it, on demand or time deposit, in its
banking department or with such banks, national banking associations, trust
companies, savings banks or savings and loan associations, that are members of
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as may be designated by the President
or the Chief Financial Officer. No such
moneys shall be deposited with any such financial institution in an amount
exceeding 50 percent of the amount that an officer of such financial
institution shall certify to the Trustee and the Chief Financial Officer as the
combined capital and surplus of such financial institution. No such moneys shall be deposited or remain
on deposit with any such financial institution in excess of the amount insured
or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, unless (a) such
financial institution shall have lodged with the trust department of the
Trustee or with a Federal Reserve Bank or branch or, with the written approval
of the Trustee and the Chief Financial Officer, pledged to some other financial
institution for the benefit of the County and the holders of Bonds, as
collateral security for the moneys deposited, Federal Obligations or Agency
Obligations having a market value (exclusive of accrued interest) at least
equal to 100 percent of the amount of such moneys, and (b) the Trustee shall
have a perfected first lien in the Federal Obligations or Agency Obligations
serving as collateral, and such Federal Obligations or Agency Obligations shall
be free from all third party liens. The
Trustee shall allow and credit interest on any such moneys held by it at such
rate as it customarily allows upon similar funds of similar size and under
similar conditions or as required by law.
Interest in respect of moneys or on securities in any fund shall be
credited in each case to the fund in which such moneys or securities are held.
F. The
County may invest any moneys in a repurchase agreement. Each repurchase agreement shall meet the
requirements of the Public Funds Investment Act of the State of Illinois, as
amended, or be secured by Federal Obligations or Agency Obligations or
obligations described in clause (d) of the definition of Qualified Investments
having a market value, marked to market weekly, at least equal to 102 percent
of the amount invested in the repurchase agreement plus accrued interest. The Trustee shall at all times have a first
lien in such Federal Obligations or Agency Obligations perfected (i) by
possession of certificated securities held by the Trustee or held by a third
party acting on behalf of the Trustee if the Trustee is providing the
collateral securities, or (ii) under the book-entry procedures specified in 31
Code of Federal Regulations 306.1 et seq.
or 31 Code of Federal Regulations 350.0 et
seq. The President or the Chief
Financial Officer is hereby authorized to enter into, execute and deliver any
investment or repurchase agreement authorized by this Ordinance, and any
additional documents as shall be necessary to accomplish the purposes of any
such agreement.
G. Other funds or accounts appropriate for
Variable Rate Bonds, such as a purchase fund to accommodate demands for
purchase of such Bonds and the remarketing of same to other Bond owners, may be
created in the Indenture.
SECTION 13. GENERAL TAX
COVENANTS.
A. NOT
PRIVATE ACTIVITY BONDS.
None
of the Tax Exempt Bonds is a “private
activity bond” as defined in Section 141(a) of the Code. In support of such conclusion, the County
certifies, represents and covenants as follows:
1. No
more than five percent of the sale proceeds of each series of Tax Exempt Bonds,
each considered separately, plus investment earnings thereon, will be used,
directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, in any activity carried on by any
person other than a state or local governmental unit.
2. The
payment of more than five percent of the principal of or the interest on each
series of the Tax Exempt Bonds, each considered separately, will not be, used,
directly or indirectly (i) secured by any interest in (A) property used or to
be used in any activity carried on by any person other than a state or local
governmental unit or (B) payments in respect of such property or (ii) on a
present value basis, derived from payments in respect of property, or borrowed
money, used or to be used in any activity carried on by any person other than a
state or local governmental unit.
3. No
more than the lesser of five percent of the sale proceeds of each series of the
Tax Exempt Bonds and investment earnings thereon or $5,000,000 will be or was
used, directly or indirectly, to make or finance loans to any persons.
4. No
user of any Project financed by Tax Exempt Bonds (collectively, the “Infrastructure”) other than a state or
local governmental unit will use more than five percent of the Infrastructure,
in the aggregate, on any basis other than the same basis as the general public;
and no person other than a state or local governmental unit will be a user of
more than five percent of the Infrastructure, in the aggregate, as a result of
(i) ownership, (ii) actual or beneficial use pursuant to a lease or a
management, service, incentive payment, research or output contract, or (iii)
any other similar arrangement, agreement or understanding, whether written or
oral.
5. The
County has not and will not enter into any arrangement that conveys to any
person, other than a state or local government unit, special legal entitlements
to any portion of the Infrastructure that is available for use by the general
public. No person, other than a state
or local governmental unit, is receiving or will receive any special economic
benefit from use of any portion of the Infrastructure that is not available for
use by the general public.
6. No
more than the lesser of five percent of the proceeds of each series of the Tax
Exempt Bonds (each considered separately) or $5,000,000 have been or will be
used to provide professional sports facilities. For purposes of this paragraph, the term “professional sports
facilities” (i) means real property or related improvements used for
professional sports exhibitions, games or training, regardless of whether the
admission of the public or press is allowed or paid and (ii) includes any use
of a facility that generates a direct or indirect monetary benefit (other than
reimbursement for out-of-pocket expenses) for a person who uses such facilities
for professional sport exhibitions, games or training.
B. PERTAINING TO REBATE.
The
County further certifies and covenants as follows with respect to the
requirements of Section 148(f) of the Code, relating to the rebate of “excess
arbitrage profits” (the “Rebate
Requirement”) to the United States:
1. Unless
an applicable exception to the Rebate Requirement is available to the County
will meet the Rebate Requirement.
2. Relating
to applicable exceptions, any Designated Officer is hereby authorized to make
such elections under the Code as either such officer shall deem reasonable and
in the best interests of the County. If
such election may result in a “penalty in lieu of rebate” as provided in the
Code, and such penalty is incurred (the “Penalty”),
then the County shall pay such Penalty.
3. The
Designated Officers may cause to be established, at such time and in such
manner as they may deem necessary or appropriate hereunder, a “2002 General
Obligation Bonds Rebate [or Penalty, if applicable] Fund” (the “148 Compliance Fund”) for the Tax Exempt
Bonds, and such officers shall further, not less frequently than annually,
cause to be transferred to the 148 Compliance Fund the amount determined to be
the accrued liability under the Rebate Requirement or Penalty. Said Designated Officers shall cause to be
paid to the U.S., without further order or direction from the Corporate
Authorities, from time to time as required, amounts sufficient to meet the
Rebate Requirement or to pay the Penalty.
4. Interest
earnings in the Bond Fund and any Project Fund are hereby authorized to be
transferred, without further order or direction from the Corporate Authorities,
from time to time as required, to the 148 Compliance Fund for the purposes
herein provided; and proceeds of the Tax Exempt Bonds and other funds of the
County are also hereby authorized to be used to meet the Rebate Requirement or
to pay the Penalty, but only if necessary after application of investment
earnings as aforesaid and only as appropriated by the Corporate Authorities.
SECTION 14. REGISTERED FORM.
The
County recognizes that Section 149 of the Code requires Tax Exempt Bonds to be
issued and to remain in fully registered form in order to be and remain Tax
Exempt. In this connection, the County
agrees that it will not take any action to permit Tax Exempt Bonds to be issued
in, or converted into, bearer or coupon form.
SECTION 15. FURTHER TAX-EXEMPTION COVENANTS.
The
County agrees to comply with all provisions of the Code which, if not complied
with by the County, would cause Tax Exempt Bonds not to be Tax Exempt. In furtherance of the foregoing provisions,
but without limiting their generality, the County agrees: (a) through its officers, to make such
further specific covenants, representations as shall be truthful, and
assurances as may be necessary or advisable; (b) to comply with all
representations, covenants and assurances contained in certificates or
agreements as may be prepared by counsel approving the Tax Exempt Bonds; (c) to
consult with such counsel and to comply with such advice as may be given; (d)
to file such forms, statements and supporting documents as may be required and
in a timely manner; and (e) if deemed necessary or advisable by its officers,
to employ and pay fiscal agents, financial advisors, attorneys and other persons
to assist the County in such compliance.
The
County also certifies and further covenants with the Underwriters and
registered owners of the Tax Exempt Bonds from time to time outstanding that
moneys on deposit in any fund or account in connection with the Tax Exempt
Bonds, whether or not such moneys were derived from the proceeds of the sale of
the Tax Exempt Bonds or from any other source, will not be used in a manner
which will cause the Tax Exempt Bonds to be “arbitrage bonds” within the meaning
of Code Section 148 and any lawful regulations promulgated thereunder, as the
same presently exist or may from time to time hereafter be amended,
supplemented or revised.
The
County further covenants that it will not take any action, or omit to take any
action or permit the taking or omission of any action within its control
(including, without limitation, making or permitting any use of the proceeds of
the Tax Exempt Bonds) if taking, permitting or omitting to take such action
would cause any Tax Exempt Bond to be a private activity bond within the
meaning of the Code or would otherwise cause interest on the Tax Exempt Bonds
to be included in the gross income of the recipients thereof for federal income
tax purposes.
SECTION 16. REIMBURSEMENT.
None
of the proceeds of the Tax Exempt Bonds will be used to pay, directly or
indirectly, in whole or in part, for an expenditure that has been paid by the
County prior to the date hereof except architectural, engineering costs or
construction costs incurred prior to commencement of any of the Projects or
expenditures for which an intent to reimburse was properly declared under
Treasury Regulations Section 1.150-2.
This Ordinance is in itself a declaration of official intent under
Treasury Regulations Section 1.150-2 as to all costs of the Projects paid after
the date hereof and prior to issuance of the Bonds.
SECTION 17. OPINION OF COUNSEL EXCEPTION.
The
County reserves the right to use or invest moneys in connection with the Bonds
in any manner, notwithstanding the tax-related covenants set forth in Sections
13 through 16 herein, provided, that
it shall first have received an opinion from an attorney or a firm of attorneys
of nationally recognized standing as bond counsel to the effect that such use
or investment as contemplated is valid and proper under applicable law and this
Ordinance and that such use or investment will not adversely affect the Tax
Exempt status of the Tax Exempt Bonds.
SECTION 18. FINANCING TEAM APPROVED.
The
selection of the following party or parties in the capacities as indicated is
hereby ratified and approved:
|
CAPACITY |
PARTY OR
PARTIES |
|
Trustee |
Amalgamated Bank of Chicago |
|
Series 2002A Underwriters Series 2002B Underwriters |
Jackson Securities, Inc. George K. Baum & Co. Podesta & Co. Lehman Brothers William Blair & Company SBK‑Brooks Investment Corp. |
|
Series 2002C Underwriters |
LaSalle Capital Markets, Inc., A
Division of ABN AMRO Financial Services, Inc. Salomon Smith Barney Loop Capital Apex Securities Banc One Capital Markets, Inc. Siebert, Brandford & Shank |
|
Co-Bond Counsel |
Chapman and Cutler Pugh, Jones & Johnson, P.C. |
|
Co-Financial Advisors |
A.C. Advisory, Inc. Davis Financial, Inc. |
|
Co-Underwriters’ Counsel |
Altheimer & Gray William P. Tuggle, P.C. |
SECTION 19. INDENTURE.
Any
Indenture for Variable Rate Bonds shall conform as fully as may be practicable
to the provisions of Sections 20 to 46, inclusive, hereof, but need not be
identical, giving effect to the unique features of such Bonds.
SECTION 20. PAYMENT AND DISCHARGE; REFUNDING.
Variable
Rate Bonds shall be subject to payment, provision for payment and defeasance as
provided in a relevant Indenture.
Current Interest Bonds and Capital Appreciation Bonds may be discharged,
payment provided for, and the County’s liability terminated as follows:
(a) Discharge of Indebtedness. If (i) the County shall pay or cause to be
paid to the registered owners of the Bonds
the principal, premium, if any, and interest, in the case of Current
Interest Bonds, and the Maturity Amount, in the case of Capital Appreciation
Bonds, to become due thereon at the times and in the manner stipulated therein
and herein, (ii) all fees and expenses of the Trustee shall have been paid, and
(iii) the County shall keep, perform and observe all and singular the covenants
and promises in the Bonds and in
this Ordinance expressed as to be kept, performed and observed by it or on its
part, then these presents and the rights hereby granted shall cease, determine
and be void. If the County shall pay or
cause to be paid to the registered owners of all Outstanding Bonds of a
particular series, or of a particular maturity within a series, the principal,
premium, if any, and interest, in the case of Current Interest Bonds, and the
Maturity Amount, in the case of Capital Appreciation Bonds, to become due
thereon at the times and in the manner stipulated therein and herein, such
Bonds shall cease to be entitled to
any lien, benefit or security under the Ordinance, and all covenants,
agreements and obligations of the County to the holders of such Bonds shall thereupon cease, terminate and
become void and discharged and satisfied.
(b) Provision for Payment. Bonds
for the payment or redemption or prepayment of which sufficient monies or sufficient Defeasance Obligations
shall have been deposited with the Trustee or an escrow agent having fiduciary
capacity (whether upon or prior to the maturity or the redemption date of such
Bonds) shall be deemed to be paid within the meaning of this Ordinance and no
longer outstanding under this Ordinance; provided,
however, that if such Bonds are
to be redeemed prior to the maturity thereof, notice of such redemption shall
have been duly given as provided in this Ordinance or arrangements satisfactory
to the Trustee shall have been made for the giving thereof. Defeasance
Obligations shall be considered sufficient only if said investments mature and
bear interest in such amounts and at such times as will assure sufficient cash
to pay currently maturing interest, principal or Maturity Amount, as
applicable, and redemption premiums if any when due on the Bonds without
rendering the interest on any Bonds taxable
under the Code.
The
County may at any time surrender to the Trustee for cancellation by it any
Bonds previously authenticated and
delivered hereunder, which the County may have acquired in any manner
whatsoever, and such Bonds, upon such surrender and cancellation, shall be
deemed to be paid and retired.
(c) Termination of County’s Liability. Upon the discharge of indebtedness under
paragraph (a) hereof, or upon the deposit with the Trustee of sufficient money
and Defeasance Obligations (such sufficiency being determined as provided in
paragraph (b) hereof) for the retirement of any particular Bond or Bonds, all
liability of the County in respect of such Bond or Bonds shall cease, determine
and be completely discharged and the holders thereof shall thereafter be
entitled only to payment out of the money and the proceeds of the Defeasance
Obligations deposited with aforesaid for their payment.
SECTION 21. DUTIES OF TRUSTEE.
(a) Subject
to a different provision in an Indenture for Variable Rate Bonds, the Trustee
shall exercise its rights and powers and use the same degree of care and skill
in their exercise as a prudent person would exercise or use under the
circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs.
(b) Subject
to a different provision in an Indenture for Variable Rate Bonds, the Trustee
need perform only those duties that are specifically set forth in this Ordinance
and no others. In the absence of bad
faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the
statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed, upon certificates or
opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this
Ordinance. However, the Trustee shall
examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether they conform to the
requirements of this Ordinance.
(c) Subject
to a different provision in an Indenture for Variable Rate Bonds, the Trustee
may not be relieved from liability for its own gross negligent action, its own
gross negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(1) this paragraph does not limit the effect
of paragraph (b) of this Section,
(2) the
Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a
responsible officer of the Trustee, unless it is proved that the Trustee was
negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts,
(3) no
provision of this Ordinance shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own
funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of
its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it
shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or
adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to
it.
(d) Subject
to a different provision in an Indenture for Variable Rate Bonds, every
provision of this Ordinance that in any way relates to the Trustee is subject
to all the paragraphs of this Section.
(e) Subject
to a different provision in an Indenture for Variable Rate Bonds, the Trustee
may refuse to perform any duty or exercise any right or power, or to make any
payment on any Bond to any holder of such Bond, unless it receives indemnity
satisfactory to it against any loss, liability or expense.
(f) Subject
to a different provision in an Indenture for Variable Rate Bonds, the Trustee
shall not be liable for interest on any cash held by it except as the Trustee may
agree with the County or as set forth herein.
SECTION 22. RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE.
Subject
to the foregoing Section and subject to a different provision in an Indenture
for Variable Rate Bonds:
(a) The
Trustee may rely on any document reasonably believed by it to be genuine and to
have been signed or presented by the proper person. The Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the
document.
(b) Before
the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require a certificate of an
appropriate officer or officers of the County or an opinion of counsel. The Trustee shall not be liable for any
action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on the certificate
or opinion of counsel.
(c) The
Trustee may act through agents or co-trustees and shall not be responsible for
the misconduct or negligence of any agent or co-trustee appointed with due
care.
SECTION 23. INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE.
The
Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee
of Bonds and may otherwise deal with the County with the same rights it would
have if it were not Trustee. Any paying
agent may do the same with like rights.
SECTION 24. TRUSTEE’S DISCLAIMER.
The
Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this
Ordinance or the Bonds; it shall not be accountable for the County’s use of the
proceeds from the Bonds paid to the County, and it shall not be responsible for
any statement in the Bonds other than its certificate of authentication.
SECTION 25. ELIGIBILITY OF TRUSTEE.
This
Ordinance and any Indenture shall always have a Trustee that is a commercial
bank with trust powers or a trust company organized and doing business under
the laws of the United States or any state or the District of Columbia, is
authorized under such laws and the laws of the State to exercise corporate
trust powers and is subject to supervision or examination by United States or
State authority. If at any time the
Trustee ceases to be eligible in accordance with this Section, the Trustee
shall resign immediately as set forth in Section 26.
SECTION 26. REPLACEMENT OF TRUSTEE.
Subject
to a different provision in an Indenture for Variable Rate Bonds, the Trustee
may resign with thirty (30) days’ written notice to the County, effective upon
the execution, acknowledgment and delivery by a successor Trustee to the County
of appropriate instruments of succession.
Provided that no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
the County may remove the Trustee and appoint a successor Trustee at any time
by an instrument or concurrent instruments in writing delivered to the Trustee;
provided, however, that the holders
of a majority in aggregate principal amount of Bonds outstanding at the time
may at any time remove the Trustee and appoint a successor Trustee by an
instrument or concurrent instrument in writing signed by such Bondholders, and
further provided that any conflict between the County and such holders
regarding such removal and appointment shall be resolved in favor of such holders. Such successor Trustee shall be a
corporation authorized under applicable laws to exercise corporate trust powers
and may be incorporated under the laws of the United States or of the State. Such successor Trustee shall in all respects
meet the requirements set forth in Section 25 hereof.
Subject
to a different provision in an Indenture for Variable Rate Bonds, if the
Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of Trustee
for any reason, the County shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee.
Subject
to a different provision in an Indenture for Variable Rate Bonds, a successor
Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring
Trustee and to the County. Immediately
thereafter, the retiring Trustee shall transfer all property held by it as
Trustee to the successor Trustee; the resignation or removal of the retiring
Trustee shall then (but only then) become effective, and the successor Trustee
shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee under this
Ordinance and the relevant Indenture.
Subject
to a different provision in an Indenture for Variable Rate Bonds, if a
successor Trustee does not take office within 60 days after the retiring
Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee, the County or the
registered owners a majority in principal amount of the Bonds then outstanding
may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a
successor Trustee.
SECTION 27. SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE BY MERGER.
Subject
to a different provision in an Indenture for Variable Rate Bonds, if the
Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or
substantially all its assets (or, in the case of a bank or trust company, its
corporate trust assets) to, another corporation, the resulting, surviving or
transferee corporation without any further act shall be the successor Trustee.
SECTION 28. COMPENSATION.
All
reasonable fees and expenses of the Trustee shall be paid by the County from
cash on hand and lawfully available.
SECTION 29. DEFINITION OF EVENTS OF DEFAULT; REMEDIES.
Subject
to a different provision in an Indenture for Variable Rate Bonds, if one or
more of the following events, herein called “Events of Default”, shall happen,
that is to say, in case:
(i) default
shall be made in the payment of the principal of or redemption premium, if any,
or the Maturity Amount on any Outstanding Bond when the same shall become due
and payable, either at maturity or by proceedings for redemption or otherwise;
or
(ii) default
shall be made in the payment of any installment of interest on any Outstanding
Bond when and as such installment of interest shall become due and payable; or
(iii) the
County shall (l) commence a voluntary case under the Federal bankruptcy laws,
as now or hereafter constituted, or any other applicable Federal or state
bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, (2) make an assignment for the
benefit of its creditors, (3) consent to the appointment of a receiver of
itself or of the whole or any substantial part of its property, or (4) be
adjudicated a bankrupt or any petition for relief shall be filed in respect of
an involuntary case under the Federal bankruptcy laws, as now or hereafter
constituted, or any other applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or
other similar law and such order continue in effect for a period of 60 days
without stay or vacation; or
(iv) a
court of competent jurisdiction shall enter an order, judgment or decree
appointing a receiver of the County, or of the whole or any substantial part of
its property, or approving a petition seeking reorganization of the County
under the Federal bankruptcy laws or any other applicable Federal or state law
or statute and such order, judgment or decree shall not be vacated or set aside
or stayed within 60 days from the date of the entry thereof; or
(v) under
the provisions of any other law for the relief or aid of debtors, any court of
competent jurisdiction shall assume custody or control of the County or of the
whole or any substantial part of its property, and such custody or control
shall not be terminated or stayed within 60 days from the date of assumption of
such custody or control;
then in each and
every such case the Trustee may, and upon the written request of the registered
owners of twenty-five percent (25%) in principal amount of the Bonds (measured
by principal amount of Current Interest Bonds and Variable Rate Bonds and by
the then Compound Accreted Value of Capital Appreciation Bonds) affected by the
Event of Default and then outstanding hereunder shall, proceed to protect and
enforce its rights and the rights of the holders of the Bonds by a suit, action
or special proceeding in equity or at law, by mandamus or otherwise, either for
the specific performance of any covenant or agreement contained herein or in
aid or execution of any power herein granted or for any enforcement of any
proper legal or equitable remedy as the Trustee, being advised by counsel,
shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce the rights aforesaid.
During
the continuance of an Event of Default, all Pledged Taxes received by the
Trustee under this Ordinance from the County shall be applied by the Trustee in
accordance with the terms of Section 37 of this Ordinance.
SECTION 30. NOTICES OF DEFAULT UNDER ORDINANCE.
Subject
to a different provision in an Indenture for Variable Rate Bonds, promptly
after the occurrence of an Event of Default or the occurrence of an event
which, with the passage of time or the giving of notice or both, would
constitute an Event of Default, the Trustee shall mail to the Bondholders at
the address shown on the Bond Register, the Insurer, and also directly to any
beneficial owner of $500,000 or more in aggregate principal amount of Current
Interest Bonds or Variable Rate Bonds or Original Principal Amount of Capital
Appreciation Bonds then Outstanding at such address as the Trustee shall obtain
from the Depository, notice of all Events of Default or such events known to
the Trustee unless such defaults or prospective defaults shall have been cured
before the giving of such notice.
SECTION 31. TERMINATION OF PROCEEDINGS BY TRUSTEE.
Subject
to a different provision in an Indenture for Variable Rate Bonds, in case any
proceedings taken by the Trustee on account of any default shall have been
discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or shall have been determined
adversely to the Trustee, then and in every such case the County, the Trustee,
the Bondholders shall be restored to their former positions and rights
hereunder, respectively, and all rights, remedies and powers of the Trustee
shall continue as though no such proceeding had been taken.
SECTION 32. RIGHT OF HOLDERS TO CONTROL PROCEEDINGS.
Subject
to the provisions of any Commitment, and subject to a different provision in an
Indenture for Variable Rate Bonds, anything in this Ordinance to the contrary
notwithstanding, the registered owners of a majority in principal amount of the
Bonds (measured by principal amount of Current Interest Bonds and Variable Rate
Bonds and by the then Compound Accreted Value of Capital Appreciation Bonds)
then outstanding shall have the right, by an instrument in writing executed and
delivered to the Trustee, to direct the method and place of conducting all
remedial proceedings to be taken by the Trustee hereunder in respect of the
Bonds, respectively; provided that
such direction shall not be otherwise than in accordance with law and the
Trustee shall be indemnified to its satisfaction against the costs, expenses
and liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby.
SECTION 33. RIGHT OF HOLDERS TO INSTITUTE SUIT.
Subject
to the provisions of any Commitment, and subject to a different provision in an
Indenture for Variable Rate Bonds, no holder of any of the Bonds shall have any
right to institute any suit, action or proceeding in equity or at law for the
execution of any trust hereunder, or for any other remedy hereunder or on the
Bonds unless such holder previously shall have given to the Trustee written
notice of an Event of Default as hereinabove provided, and unless also the
registered owners of twenty-five percent (25%) in principal amount of the Bonds
(measured by principal amount of Current Interest Bonds and Variable Rate Bonds
and by the then Compound Accreted Value of Capital Appreciation Bonds) then
outstanding shall have made written request of the Trustee after the right to
exercise such powers, or right of action, as the case may be, shall have
accrued, and shall have afforded the Trustee a reasonable opportunity either to
proceed to exercise the powers hereinbefore granted, or to institute such
action, suit, or proceeding in its name; and unless, also, there shall have
been offered to the Trustee security and indemnity satisfactory to it against
the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby, and the
Trustee shall have refused or neglected to comply with such request within a
reasonable time; and such notification, request and offer of indemnity are
hereby declared in every such case, at the option of the Trustee, to be
conditions precedent to the execution of the powers and trusts of this
Ordinance or for any other remedy hereunder; it being understood and intended
that no one or more holders of the Bonds shall have any right in any manner
whatever by his, her or their action to affect, disturb or prejudice the
security of this Ordinance, or to enforce any right hereunder, except in the
manner herein provided, and that all proceedings at law or in equity shall be
instituted, had and maintained in the manner herein provided and for the equal
benefit of all holders of the outstanding Bonds, respectively.
Nothing
in this Section contained shall, however, affect or impair the right of any
Bondholder, which is absolute and unconditional, to enforce the payment of the
principal of and redemption premium, if any, and interest on his or her Bonds,
respectively, out of the Bond Fund, or the obligation of the County to pay the
same, at the time and place in the Bonds expressed.
SECTION 34. SUITS BY TRUSTEE.
All
rights of action under this Ordinance, or under any of the Bonds, enforceable
by the Trustee, may be enforced by it without the possession of any of the
Bonds or the production thereof at the trial or other proceeding relative
thereto, and any such suit, or proceeding, instituted by the Trustee shall be
brought in its name for the ratable benefit of the holders of the Bonds
affected by such suit or proceeding, subject to the provisions of this
Ordinance.
SECTION 35. REMEDIES CUMULATIVE.
No
remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee, the Bondholders, or to
the Insurer is intended to be exclusive of any other remedy or remedies, and
each and every such remedy shall be cumulative, and shall be in addition to
every other remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in
equity or by statute.
SECTION 36. WAIVER OF DEFAULT.
No
delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Bondholder to exercise any right or
power accruing upon any default shall impair any such right or power or shall
be construed to be a waiver of any such default, or an acquiescence therein;
and every power and remedy given by this Section to the Trustee and the
Bondholders, respectively, may be exercised from time to time, and as often as
may be deemed expedient. In the event
any Event of Default shall be waived by the Bondholders or the Trustee, such
waiver shall be limited to the particular Event of Default so waived and shall
not be deemed to waive any other Event of Default hereunder.
SECTION 37. APPLICATION OF MONIES AFTER DEFAULT.
Subject
to a different provision in an Indenture for Variable Rate Bonds, and subject
to any Commitment, the County covenants that if an Event of Default shall
happen and shall not have been remedied, the Trustee shall apply all monies,
securities and funds received by the Trustee pursuant to any right given or
action taken under the provisions of this Article as follows:
(1) First,
to the payment of all reasonable costs and expenses of collection, fees, and
other amounts due to the Trustee hereunder; and thereafter,
(2) Second,
to the payment of amounts, if any, payable to the United States Treasury
pursuant to any Tax Agreement;
(3) All
such monies shall be applied as follows:
(A) first,
to the payment to the persons entitled thereto of all installments of interest
on Outstanding Bonds then due, in the order of the maturity of such
installments, and, if the amount available shall not be sufficient to pay in
full any particular installment, then to the payment ratably, according to the
amounts due on such installment, to the persons entitled thereto, without any
discrimination or preference;
(B) second,
to the payment to the persons entitled thereto of the unpaid principal or then
current Compound Accreted Value of and premium, if any, on any of the
Outstanding Bonds which shall have become due (other than Bonds matured or
called for redemption for the payment of which monies are held pursuant to the
provisions of this Ordinance), in the order of their due dates, with interest
upon such Outstanding Current Interest Bonds from the respective dates upon
which they became due, and, if the amount available shall not be sufficient to
pay in full Outstanding Bonds due on any particular date, together with such
premium, then to the payment ratably according to the amount of principal and
premium due on such date, and then to the payment of such principal or then
current Compound Accreted Value ratably according to the amount of such
principal due on such date, to the persons entitled thereto without any discrimination
or preference; and
(C) third,
to the payment of Swap Payments.
Whenever monies
are to be applied by the Trustee pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph,
such monies shall be applied by the Trustee at such times, and from time to
time, as the Trustee in its sole discretion shall determine, having due regard
to the amount of such monies available for application and the likelihood of
additional monies becoming available for such application in the future. The deposit of such monies with the paying
agents, or otherwise setting aside such monies, in trust for the proper
purpose, shall constitute proper application by the Trustee; and the Trustee
shall incur no liability whatsoever to the County to any Bondholder or to any
other person for any delay in applying any such funds, so long as the Trustee
acts with reasonable diligence, having due regard to the circumstances, and
ultimately applies the same in accordance with such provisions of this
Ordinance as may be applicable at the time of application by the Trustee. Whenever the Trustee shall exercise such
discretion in applying such funds, it shall fix the date (which shall be an
interest payment date unless the Trustee shall deem another date more suitable)
upon which such application is to be made and upon such date interest on the
amounts of principal paid on such date shall cease to accrue. The Trustee shall give such notice as it may
deem appropriate of the fixing of any such date and of the endorsement to be
entered on each Bond on which payment shall be made, and shall not be required
to make payment to the holder of any unpaid Bond until such Bond shall be
presented to the Trustee for appropriate endorsement, or some other procedure
deemed satisfactory by the Trustee.
SECTION 38. THIS ORDINANCE A CONTRACT.
The
provisions of this Ordinance shall constitute a contract between the County and
the registered owners of the Bonds, and no changes, additions or alterations of
any kind shall be made hereto, except as herein provided.
SECTION 39. SUPPLEMENTAL ORDINANCES.
Supplemental
ordinances may be passed as follows:
(a) Supplemental Ordinances Not Requiring
Consent of Bondholders. The County
by the Corporate Authorities, and the Trustee from time to time and at any
time, subject to the conditions and restrictions in this Ordinance and any
Commitment contained, may pass and accept an ordinance or ordinances
supplemental hereto, which ordinance or ordinances thereafter shall form a
part hereof, for any one or more of the following purposes:
(i) To
add to the covenants and agreements of the County in this Ordinance contained,
other covenants and agreements thereafter to be observed or to surrender,
restrict or limit any right or power herein reserved to or conferred upon the
County;
(ii) To
make such provisions for the purpose of curing any ambiguity, or of curing,
correcting or supplementing any defective provision contained in this
Ordinance, or in regard to matters or questions arising under this Ordinance,
as the County may deem necessary or desirable and not inconsistent with this
Ordinance and which in the opinion of the Trustee shall not adversely affect
the interests of the registered owners of the Bonds;
(iii) To
designate one or more tender or similar agents of the Trustee, bond registrars
or paying agents;
(iv) To
comply with the provisions of Section 20 hereof when money and the
Defeasance Obligations designated therein sufficient to provide for the
retirement of Bonds shall have been deposited with the Trustee; and
(v) as
to Bonds which are authorized but unissued hereunder to change in any way the
terms upon which such Bonds may be issued or secured.
Any
supplemental ordinance authorized by the provisions of this Section may be
passed by the County and accepted by the Trustee without the consent of or
notice to the registered owners of any of the Bonds at the time outstanding,
but with notice to the Insurer, notwithstanding any of the provisions of
paragraph (b) of this Section, but the Trustee shall not be obligated to accept
any such supplemental ordinance which affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties
or immunities under this Ordinance or otherwise.
(b) Supplemental Ordinances Requiring Consent of
Bondholders. With the consent
(evidenced as provided in Section 43) of the registered owners of not less than
a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Bonds, at the time outstanding,
and subject to any Commitment, the County, by the Corporate Authorities may
pass, and the Trustee may accept from time to time and at any time an ordinance
or ordinances supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to
or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this
Ordinance or of any supplemental ordinance; provided that no such modification
or amendment shall extend the maturity or reduce the interest rate on or
otherwise alter or impair the obligation of the County to pay the principal,
interest or redemption premium, if any, at the time and place and at the rate
and in the currency provided therein of any Bond, without the express consent
of the registered owner of such Bond or permit the creation of a preference or
priority of any Bond or Bonds over any other Bond or Bonds, or reduce the
percentage of Bonds, respectively, required for the affirmative vote or written
consent to an amendment or modification, or deprive the registered owners of
the Bonds (except as aforesaid) of the right to payment of the Bonds from the
Pledged Taxes without the consent of the registered owners of all the Bonds
then outstanding. Upon receipt by the
Trustee of a certified copy of such ordinance and upon the filing with the
Trustee of evidence of the consent of Bondholders as aforesaid, the Trustee
shall accept unless such supplemental ordinance affects the Trustee’s own rights,
duties or immunities under this Ordinance or otherwise, in which case the
Trustee may in its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, accept such
supplemental ordinance.
It
shall not be necessary for the consent of the Bondholders under this paragraph
to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental ordinance, but it
shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof.
Promptly
after the passage by the County and the acceptance by the Trustee of any
supplemental ordinance pertaining to the Bonds pursuant to the provisions of
this paragraph, the County shall publish a notice, setting forth in general
terms the substance of such supplemental ordinance, at least once in a
financial newspaper or journal printed in the English language, customarily
published on each business day and of general circulation among dealers in
municipal securities in the City of New York, New York. If, because of temporary or permanent
suspension of the publication or general circulation of any financial newspaper
or journal or for any other reason it is impossible or impractical to publish
such notice of supplemental ordinance in the manner herein provided, then such
publication in lieu thereof as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall
constitute sufficient publication of notice.
Any failure of the County to given such notice, or any defect therein,
shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such
supplemental ordinance.
(c) Supplemental Ordinance to Modify this
Ordinance. Upon the execution of
any supplemental ordinance pursuant to the provisions of this Section, this
Ordinance shall be modified and amended in accordance therewith and the
respective rights, duties and obligations under this Ordinance of the County,
the Trustee and all registered owners of Bondholders, respectively, outstanding
thereunder shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder
subject in all respects to such modification and amendments, and all the terms
and conditions of any such supplemental ordinance shall be and be deemed to be
part of the terms and conditions of this Ordinance for any and all purposes.
(d) Trustee May Rely Upon Opinion of Counsel
Re: Supplemental Ordinance. The Trustee may receive an opinion of
counsel as conclusive evidence that any supplemental ordinance executed
pursuant to the provisions of this Section complies with the requirements of
this Section.
(e) Notation. Bonds authenticated and delivered after the execution of any
supplemental ordinance pursuant to the provisions of this Section may bear a
notation, in form approved by the Trustee, as to any matter provided for in
such supplemental ordinance, and if such supplemental ordinance shall so
provide, new bonds, so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee
and the Corporate Authorities, to any modification of this Ordinance contained
in any such supplemental ordinance, may be prepared by the County,
authenticated by the Trustee and delivered without cost to the registered
owners of the Bonds then outstanding, upon surrender for cancellation of such
Bonds in equal aggregate principal amounts.
SECTION 40. EFFECT OF CONSENTS.
After
an amendment or supplement to this Ordinance becomes effective, it will bind
every Bondholder. For purposes of
determining the total number of Bondholders’ consents, each Bondholder’s
consent will be effective with respect to the Bondholder who consented to it
and each subsequent holder of a Bond or portion of a Bond evidencing the same
debt as the consenting holder’s Bond.
SECTION 41. SIGNING BY TRUSTEE OF AMENDMENTS AND
SUPPLEMENTS.
The
Trustee will sign any amendment or supplement to the Ordinance or the Bonds
authorized hereunder if the amendment or supplement does not adversely affect
the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee. If it does, the Trustee may, but need not,
sign it. In signing an amendment or
supplement, the Trustee will be entitled to receive and (subject to Section 21
of this Ordinance) will be fully protected in relying on an opinion of counsel
stating that such amendment or supplement is authorized by this Ordinance.
SECTION 42. NOTICES.
(a) Subject to a different provision in an
Indenture for Variable Rate Bonds, any notice, request, direction, designation,
consent, acknowledgment, certification, appointment, waiver or other
communication required or permitted by this Ordinance or the Bonds must be in
writing except as expressly provided otherwise in this Ordinance or the Bonds.
(b) Subject
to a different provision in an Indenture for Variable Rate Bonds, any notice or
other communication shall be sufficiently given and deemed given when delivered
by hand or mailed by first-class mail, postage prepaid, addressed as follows: if to the County, to the County of Cook,
Illinois, 118 North Clark Street, Room 500, Chicago, Illinois 60602,
Attention: Chief Financial Officer; if
to the Trustee, to Amalgamated Bank of Chicago, One West Monroe Street,
Chicago, Illinois 60603, Attention:
Corporate Trust Administration.
Any addressee may designate additional or different addresses for
purposes of this Section.
(c) Subject
to a different provision in an Indenture for Variable Rate Bonds, any notice or
other communication required to any Bondholder shall be sufficiently given and
deemed given when delivered by hand or mailed by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, addressed to such Bondholder
at the address set forth in the Bond Register.
(d) Any
notice or other communication required to be given directly to any beneficial
owner of $500,000 or more in aggregate principal amount of Bonds then
outstanding shall be sufficiently given and deemed given when delivered by hand
or mailed by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to such beneficial owner at the
address provided by the Depository.
SECTION 43. BONDHOLDERS’ CONSENTS.
Subject
to a different provision in an Indenture for Variable Rate Bonds, any consent
or other instrument required by this Ordinance to be signed by Bondholders may
be in any number of concurrent documents and may be signed by a Bondholder by
the holder’s agent appointed in writing.
Proof of the execution of such instrument or of the instrument
appointing an agent and of the ownership of Bonds, if made in the following
manner, shall be conclusive for any purposes of this Ordinance with regard to
any action taken by the Trustee under the instrument:
(a) The
fact and date of a person’s signing an instrument may be proved by the
certificate of any officer in any jurisdiction who by law has power to take
acknowledgments within that jurisdiction that the person signing the writing
acknowledged before the officer the execution of the writing, or by an
affidavit of any witness to the signing.
(b) The
fact of ownership of Bonds, the amount or amounts, numbers and other
identification of such Bonds and the date of holding shall be proved by the
registration books kept pursuant to this Ordinance.
Any
action, consent or other instrument shall be irrevocable and shall bind any
subsequent owner of such Bond or any Bond delivered in substitution therefor.
For
purposes of determining consent under this Ordinance of holders of the Bonds,
the outstanding principal amount of the Bonds shall be deemed to exclude the
Bonds owned by or under the control of the County.
SECTION 44. LIMITATION OF RIGHTS.
Nothing
expressed or implied in this Ordinance or the Bonds shall give any person other
than the Trustee, the County, or the Bondholders any right, remedy or claim
under or with respect to this Ordinance.
SECTION 45. PARTIAL INVALIDITY.
If
any section, paragraph, clause or provision of this Ordinance shall be held
invalid, the invalidity of such section, paragraph, clause or provision shall
not affect any of the other provisions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 46. LIST OF BONDHOLDERS.
The
Trustee shall maintain a list of the names and addresses of the holders of all
Bonds and upon any transfer shall add the name and address of the new
Bondholder and eliminate the name and address of the transferor Bondholder.
SECTION 47. RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF TRUSTEE.
If
requested by the Trustee, the President and County Clerk of the County are
authorized to execute the Trustee’s standard form of agreement between the
County and the Trustee with respect to the obligations and duties of the Trustee
as Bond Registrar hereunder which may include the following:
(a) to
act as bond registrar, authenticating agent, paying agent and transfer agent as
provided herein;
(b) to
maintain a list of Bondholders as set forth herein and to furnish such list to
the County upon request, but otherwise to keep such list confidential;
(c) to
give notice of redemption of Bonds as provided herein;
(d) to
cancel and/or destroy Bonds which have been paid at maturity or upon earlier
redemption or submitted for exchange or transfer;
(e) to
furnish the County at least annually a certificate with respect to Bonds
cancelled and/or destroyed; and
(f) to
furnish the County at least annually an audit confirmation of Bonds paid, Bonds
Outstanding and payments made with respect to interest on the Bonds.
The
County Clerk of the County is hereby directed to file a certified copy of this
Ordinance with the Trustee.
SECTION 48. PRIOR INCONSISTENT PROCEEDINGS.
All
ordinances, resolutions, motions or orders, or parts thereof, in conflict with
the provisions of this Ordinance, are to the extent of such conflict hereby
repealed.
SECTION 49. IMMUNITY OF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF COUNTY.
No
recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or premium or
interest on any of the Bonds or for
any claim based thereon or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement in this
Ordinance contained against any past, present or future elected or appointed
officer, director, member, employee or agent of the County, or of any successor
public corporation, as such, either directly or through the County or any
successor public corporation, under any rule of law or equity, statute or
constitution or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise,
and all such liability of any such elected or appointed officers, directors,
members, employees or agents as such is hereby expressly waived and released as
a condition of and consideration for the passage of this Ordinance and the
issuance of such Bonds.
SECTION 50. CONTINUING DISCLOSURE UNDERTAKINGS.
The
Designated Officers are hereby authorized to execute and deliver one or more
Continuing Disclosure Undertakings, each in customary form, to effect compliance with Rule 15c2-12 adopted by the Securities
and Exchange Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. When any Continuing Disclosure Undertaking
is executed and delivered on behalf of the County, it will be binding on the
County and the officers, agents, and employees of the County, and the same are
hereby authorized and directed to do all such acts and things and to execute
all such documents as may be necessary to carry out and comply with the
provisions of such Continuing Disclosure Undertaking as executed and
delivered. Notwithstanding any other
provisions hereof, the sole remedies for failure to comply with any Continuing
Disclosure Undertaking shall be the ability of the beneficial owner of any Bond
to seek mandamus or specific performance by court order, to cause to the County
to comply with its obligations thereunder.
SECTION 51. PASSAGE AND APPROVAL.
PRESENTED, PASSED, APPROVED AND RECORDED by The County of Cook, Illinois, a home
rule unit of government, this 21st day of February, 2002.
JOHN
H. STROGER, JR.,
President
Cook County Board of Commissioners
(S E A L)
Attest: DAVID
ORR, County Clerk
STATE OF ILLINOIS )
) SS
COUNTY OF COOK )
CERTIFICATION OF ORDINANCE,
MINUTES AND PUBLICATION IN PAMPHLET FORM
I,
the undersigned, do hereby certify that I am the duly qualified and acting
County Clerk of The County of Cook, Illinois (the “County”), and that as such official I am the keeper of the records
and files of the Board of Commissioners of the County (the “Corporate Authorities”).
I
do further certify that the foregoing is a full, true and complete transcript
of that portion of the minutes of the meeting of the Corporate Authorities held
on the 21st day of February, 2002, insofar as same relates to the adoption of
an ordinance numbered _____ entitled:
AN ORDINANCE
providing for the issuance of one or more series of General Obligation Bonds,
Series 2002, of The County of Cook, Illinois.
(the “Ordinance”), a true, correct and
complete copy of which Ordinance as adopted at said meeting appears in the
foregoing transcript of the minutes of said meeting.
I
do further certify that the deliberations of the Corporate Authorities on the
adoption of the Ordinance were conducted openly, that the vote on the adoption
of said ordinance was taken openly; that said meeting was held at a specified
time and place convenient to the public; that notice of said meeting was duly
given to all of the news media requesting such notice; that said meeting was
called and held in strict compliance with the provisions of the Open Meetings
Act of the State of Illinois, as amended, and that the Corporate Authorities
have complied with all of the provisions of said Acts and the Counties Act, as
amended, except as said Acts may be and are validly superceded by the powers of
the County as a home rule unit, and with all of the procedural rules of the
Corporate Authorities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF,
I have hereunto affixed my official signature and the seal of the County, this
21st day of February, 2002.
JOHN
H. STROGER, JR.,
President
Cook County Board of Commissioners
(S E A L)
Attest: DAVID
ORR, County Clerk