HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 065-22 - Resolution - 2022 Mayo Conduit Bonds
RESOLUTION
Approving the Issuance of Revenue Bonds Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Sect.
469.152 through 469.165 on behalf of the Mayo Clinic and Authorizing Preparation
of the Necessary Documents.
BE IT RESOLVED by the Common Council of the City of Rochester, Minnesota (the “City”),
as follows:
Section 1. Recitals and Findings.
Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Sections 469.152 through 469.165 (the
“Act”) and a Trust Indenture dated as of December 1, 1987, as amended (as amended
through the date hereof, the “Original Indenture”), between the City and Computershare
Trust Company, National Association (successor to Wells Fargo Bank, National
Association and Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association), as Trustee (the
“Trustee”), the City provided for the issuance from time to time of revenue bonds of the
City (as defined in the Original Indenture, the “Bonds”) on behalf of Mayo Clinic, a
Minnesota nonprofit corporation (the “Corporation”), and certain affiliates.
By a Loan Agreement dated as of December 1, 1987, as amended and
restated by an Amended and Restated Loan Agreement dated as of May 2, 1998 and as
amended to the date hereof (the “Original Loan Agreement”), between the City and the
Corporation and its affiliates, the City agreed to lend the proceeds of each series of the
Bonds, when and if issued, to the Corporation and its affiliates.
The Corporation has requested that the City issue its Bonds, in one or more
series, in an approximate principal amount of $300,000,000 (the “Series 2022 Bonds”)
pursuant to the Act to pay (i) costs of issuance of the Series 2022 Bonds, (ii) costs of
construction, improvement and equipping of the Corporation’s facilities in the City,
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including Saint Marys modernization and growth located at the 1200 to 1400 block of 2
Street SW and other capital projects involving renovations, acquisition of equipment and
construction at buildings at or near 200 First Street SW; Rochester Methodist Hospital at
201 West Center Street, and St. Mary’s Hospital (the “Improvements”); (iii) costs of
refinancing the City’s Health Care Facilities Revenue Bonds (Mayo Clinic), Series 2012,
issued and outstanding in the amount of $200,000,000 (“the Refunded Bonds”; the
refinancing thereof, together with the Improvements, the “Project”).
At a public hearing, duly noticed and held on the date hereof, in accordance
with the Act and Section 147(f) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, on
the proposal to finance the Project, all parties who appeared at the hearing were given
an opportunity to express their views with respect to the financing, and interested persons
were given the opportunity to submit written comments to the City Clerk before the time
of the hearing.
1.05 The Corporation anticipates that the Improvements, once completed, will
enhance employment in the City and the State, and will enhance the Corporation’s ability
to provide
quality health care services at reasonable cost. The Corporation has represented to
the City that the issuance of the Series 2022 Bonds is essential to the successful
completion of the Improvements.
Drafts of the following documents relating to the Series 2022 Bonds have
now been presented to the Common Council and shall be filed in the office of the City
Clerk:
(a) a Twenty-Second Supplemental Indenture (the “Twenty-Second
Supplemental Indenture;” the Original Indenture as so amended, the
“Indenture”) to be entered into between the City and the Trustee, whereby the
Series 2022 Bonds, denominated “Health Care Facilities Revenue Bonds
(Mayo Clinic), Series 2022” are created and their terms, conditions and forms
established;
(b) an Amendment No. 23 to the Original Loan Agreement
(“Amendment No. 23;” the Original Loan Agreement as so amended, the
“Loan Agreement”), to be entered into between the City and the Corporation,
whereby the City agrees to lend the
proceeds of the Series 2022 Bonds to the Corporation and the Corporation agrees
to repay the loan from the City and all costs and expenses of the City in connection
with the issuance and sale of the Series 2022 Bonds;
(c) a Bond Purchase Agreement (the “Bond Purchase Agreement”),
to be entered into between the City, the Corporation and the underwriter or
underwriters named therein (the “Underwriter”), which provides for the sale by
the City and the purchase by the Underwriter of the Series 2022 Bonds; and
(d) an Official Statement relating to the Series 2022 Bonds (the
“Official Statement”).
The Twenty-Second Supplemental Indenture, Amendment No. 23 and the Bond
Purchase Agreement are collectively called the “Bond Documents.” The Bond
Documents are hereby made a part of this Resolution as fully as though set forth in full
herein.
This Council hereby declares its present intent to proceed with the
Project and its financing and to have the City issue its revenue bonds under the Act for
these purposes. All details of the issuance of the Series 2022 Bonds for purposes of
financing the Improvements and the provisions for payment thereof shall be subject to
final approval by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic
Development and may be subject to such further conditions as the City may specify.
The Series 2022 Bonds, if issued, shall not constitute an indebtedness, a pecuniary
liability, a moral or a general obligation or a loan of the credit of the City or a charge,
lien or encumbrance, legal or equitable, upon any property of the City, except the
revenues specifically pledged to the payment thereof, and each Series 2022 Bond,
when, as and if issued, shall recite in substance that the Series 2022 Bond, including
interest thereon, is payable solely from the revenues and property specifically pledged
to the payment thereof, and shall not constitute a debt of the City within the meaning
of any constitutional, statutory or charter limitation.
The Mayor and the City Clerk are authorized to cooperate with the
Corporation in obtaining the approval of the Commissioner of the Department of
Employment and Economic Development for the issuance of the Series 2022 Bonds for
purposes of financing the Improvements, as required by the Act. The application
prepared for such purpose, with attachments, in substantially the form heretofore
submitted to the Council, is hereby approved, and the Mayor and the City Clerk are
authorized to execute said documents on behalf of the City.
Section 2. Authorization of the Series 2022 Bonds; Approval and Execution of
Documents.
The City hereby approves the issuance of the Series 2022 Bonds under
the Act and the Indenture, the sale thereof to the Underwriter in accordance with the
Bond Purchase Agreement, and the loan of the proceeds of the Series 2022 Bonds to
the Corporation in accordance with the Loan Agreement.
The forms and the execution and the delivery of the Bond Documents
submitted to this Council are hereby approved, with such additions or modifications
thereto and deletions therefrom as may be approved by the Mayor and the City Clerk
prior to the execution and delivery thereof and subject to the review and comment of
the City’s special issuer’s counsel for the Series 2022 Bonds, Kennedy and Graven,
Chartered, the approval thereof to be conclusively evidenced by the execution and
delivery of the Bond Documents by the appropriate officers of the City. The City
recognizes that as of the date of adoption of this Resolution the detailed terms of the
Series 2022 Bonds are not finally resolved, and consequently when issued the Series
2022 Bonds may be in fewer or more series than the forms of Bond Documents
currently provide, and will bear interest at rates not yet determined, but the Series 2022
Bonds to be issued shall be issued in the approximate principal amount of
$300,000,000, the price at which the Series 2022 Bonds are sold to the Underwriter
shall not be less than 98% of their principal amount (exclusive of any “original issue
discount”), and the interest rate on the Series 2022 Bonds shall not exceed 5.00% per
annum, and shall be set forth in the Twenty-Second Supplemental Indenture, as finally
executed. The Series 2022 Bonds are expected to mature no later than 40 years from
the date of issuance thereof.
The Mayor and the City Clerk are hereby authorized in their discretion at
such time, if any, as they may deem appropriate, to execute and deliver the Bond
Documents in the name and on behalf of the City, following the review and comment
of the City’s special issuer’s counsel for the Series 2022 Bonds.
The City hereby consents to the preparation and distribution by the
Corporation and the Underwriter of the Official Statement and, if necessary, a
Preliminary Official Statement (together, the “Official Statement”). The City has not
participated in the preparation of or reviewed, and will not participate in the preparation
or review of the Official Statement and has not made and will not make any
independent investigation of the facts and statements provided therein; accordingly,
the City assumes no responsibility with respect thereto, including without limitation as
to matters relating to the accuracy, completeness or sufficiency of the Official
Statement.
The Mayor, the City Clerk and the other officers of the City are hereby
authorized to prepare and furnish to Bond Counsel certified copies of all proceedings
and records of the City relating to the Series 2022 Bonds and such other affidavits and
certificates as may be required to show the facts relating to the Series 2022 Bonds as
such facts appear in the books and records in the officers’ custody and control or as
otherwise known to them. All such certified copies, affidavits and certificates, including
any heretofore furnished, shall constitute representations of the City as to the truth of
all statements contained therein.
The Series 2022 Bonds shall not constitute an indebtedness, a pecuniary
liability, a moral or general obligation, a loan of the credit of the City or a charge, lien
or encumbrance, legal or equitable, upon any property of the City, except the revenues
specifically pledged to the payment thereof, and each Series 2022 Bond, when, as and
if issued, shall recite in substance that such Series 2022 Bond, including interest
thereon, is payable solely from the revenues and property specifically pledged to the
payment thereof, and shall not constitute a debt or pecuniary liability of the City.
In the absence of the Mayor or the City Clerk, any of the documents
authorized by this Resolution to be executed and delivered may be executed and
delivered by the acting or deputy Mayor or City Clerk, respectively.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this Resolution is immediately in effect upon adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA, THIS __________ DAY OF _______________, 2022.
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PRESIDENT OF SAID COMMON COUNCIL
ATTEST: __________________________
CITY CLERK
APPROVED THIS _____ DAY OF ______________________, 2022.
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MAYOR OF SAID CITY
(Seal of the City of
Rochester, Minnesota)