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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS-1974-007-R-74RESOLUTION to deposit sufficient funds with paying agent to pay interest maturing on July 1, 1974 and January 1, 1975 on Corporate Purpose Bonds, Series 1974 in the aggregate amount of $1,210,000, dated January 1, 1974, of the City of Evanston, Cook County,*Illinois. WHEREAS, the City of Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, has entered into a contract for the sale of and is about to deliver to the purchaser thereof, $1,210,000 Corporate Purpose Bonds, Series 1974 of said City, dated January 1, 1974, numbered from 1 to 242, inclusive, of $5,000 denomination, due serially on January 1 in each of the years and in amounts and bearing interest per annum, as follows: _ • Year Amount Interest Rate 1977 $25,000 6.25% 1978 30,000 6.25% 1979 35,000 4.75% 198o 35,000 4.75% 1981 35,000 4.75% 1982 40,000 4.75% 1983 4o,000 4.75% 1984 45,000 4.75% 1985 45,000 4.75% 1986 50,000 4.7596 *4.75% 1987 50,000 1988 55,000 4.75% 1989 55,000 5.00% 1990 6o,000 5.00% 1991. 65,000 5.00% 1992 65,000 5.00% 1993 703000 5.00% 1994 75,000 5.00% 1995 0,000 5.2 1996 80,000 5.20% 1997 85,000 5.25% 1998 905000 5.25% said 'bonds having been authorized to be issued pursuant to an ordinance providing for their issuance adopted by the City Council • of said City on January 21, 1974; and WHEREAS, in recognition of the fact that the public offering of said bonds would be more attractive to prospective bidders and • such attractiveness would be reflected in lower interest rates to be bid for said bonds, if, in the terms of such offering, it was provided that the interest to be payable on said bonds would be payable within a shorter interval than would be provided if the first maturing interest coupon was expressed to be payable as of a date subsequent to the date that the bond and interest taxes to be levied by the City for the year 1974 to pay the principal and interest requirements of the bonds above referred to would have been collected and available in the hands of the City Treasurer to pay such interest, and the City Council did heretofore determine that it was for the best interest of the City that the interest to become due on said bonds above described be represented by interest coupons maturing on July 1, 1974, and semi- annually thereafter; and • WHEREAS, sufficient monies to be received from the proceeds of the sale of said bonds will be available and can be temporarily advanced and deposited with the bank acting as the paying,agent for said bonds and in an amount sufficient to pay the interest becoming due on said bonds on July 1, 1974 and January 1, 1975, which said monies shall thereafter 'be replaced to such bond proceeds from the proceeds to 'be received from the taxes levied for the year 1974 under the terms of said bond ordinance adopted on January 21, 1974, above referred to; NOW, THEREFORE, It Is Hereby Resolved by the City Council of the City of Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, as follows: Section 1, That immediately upon the receipt of the proceeds of the sale of the Corporate Purpose Bonds, Series 1974 hereinabove • referred to, the City Treasurer who receives the taxes of said City is hereby ordered and directed to withdraw from such proceeds the sum of $60,870, which amount is equal to the interest becoming due on - 2 - • • July 1, 1974 and January 1, 1975, on said bonds above referred to and said City Treasurer is ordered and directed to deposit with Evanston. Bank, in the City of Evanston, Illinois, being the bank designated as the paying agent for said bonds, said sum of $60,870 with appropriate instructions that such amount shall be held in trust by said bank and be used and applied solely and only to the payment of the interest coupons numbered one and two, pertaining to said above described bonds and representing the interest becoming due on said bonds on July 1, 1974 and January 1, 1975. Section 2. That as soon as the taxes heretofore levied for the year 1974 in and by the provisions of the bond ordinance adopted on January 21, 1974, above referred to (and collectible in 1975), have been collected, said City Treasurer be and is hereby ordered and directed to reimburse to said bond proceeds, the amount so withdrawn from such proceeds and deposited with said paying agent as hereinabove directed in Section 1 hereof. Section 3. That this resolution shall be in full force and effect immediately upon its passage. _ /st Maurice F. Brown Clerk _[s Edgar VAnneman1 .Tr. Mayor - 3 -