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HomeMy WebLinkAbout~Master - Providing for Issuance of General Obligation Sewer Bonds ORDINANCE NO. 1023 An ordinance providing for the issuance of Gene al Obligation Sewer Bonds in the sum of $235,000 for the purpose of paying the cost to that amount, of the construction of sewers in the City of Ames, Iowa, and for providing for an annual levy upon all the taxable property in said City sufficient to pay the interest on and principal of said bonds. WHEREAS, the City of Ames, in the County of Story, State of Iowa, is a municipal corporation under the Mayor-Council form of government, duly incorporated, organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws and constitution of the State of Iowa, and not under any special charter or provisions, and has not adopted the Commission form of government or the Council-Manager form of government by popular election; and WHEREAS, said City, pursuant to and in strict compliance with all laws applicable to said City, has lawfully ordered and con- tracted for the construction of sanitary and storm sewers in said City, the cost thereof to be paid to the amount of $235,000 at the general expense of said City, and it is now necessary to make definite provision relative to payment for said construction of storm and sanitary sewers, such provision having not yet been made; and WHEREAS, notice of hearing on the initiation of proceedings for the issuance of said bonds has heretofore been given in manner and form as required by Section 23.12 of the Code of Iowa, 1958, and no petition nor protest has been filed; now therefore IT IS ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Ames, in Story County, Iowa, as follows : Section 1. That in pursuance of Section 396.22 of the Code of Iowa, 1958, there are hereby authorized to be issued Two Hundred Thirty-five (235) negotiable General Obligation Sewer Bonds of said City, numbered consecutively from One (1) to Two Hundred Thirty-five (235), inclusive, in the denomination of $1, 000 each, said bonds to be dated the First day of April, 1962, of which Bonds numbered consecutively from One (1) to Seventy ( 70 ), inclusive, shall bear interest rom and after the 'da te t ereof until paid at the rate of Two and three-fourths Per Cent (2-3X%) per annum, Bonds numbered consecutively from Seventy-one 7171 ) to One Hundred ( 100 ), inclusive, shall ear in erest from and after tKe date ereo until paid at the rate of Two and one-half Per Cent (2, %) per annum, Bonds numbered consecutively from One Hundred' One 101 ) to One Hundred Sixty ( 160 ) , inclusive, shali bear interest from and afEer e a e ereo un it paid at the rate of Two and three-fourths Per Cent (2- 4%) per annum, Bonds numbered consecutively from One Hundred to- Two Hundred Thirty -five ( 2 ), inclusive, shall ear in e(est from and a er the datethereof' unit paid at the rate of Three Per Cent (_ 3 %) per annum, HERRICK, LANGDON. SANDFSLOM & BELIN, LAWYERS, DES MOINES, IOWA said interest payable on the First day of November, 1962, and semi-annually thereafter on the First day of May and November in each year, such interest to be evidenced by negotiable coupons attached to each bond; both principal and interest payable in lawful money of the United States of America, at the office of the City Treasurer, in the City of Ames, State of Iowa. Said bonds shall become due and payable in their numerical order, as follows : Bonds Nos . 1 to 10, inc. 10,000 on November 1, 1963 Bonds Nos. 11 to 25, inc. $15,000 on November 1, 1964 Bonds Nos. 26 to 40, inc. $15,000 on November 11 1965 Bonds Nos . 41 to 55, inc. 15, 000 on November 1, 1966 Bonds Nos. 56 to 70, inc. 15,000 on November 1, 1967 Bonds Nos. 71 to 85, inc. 15, 000 on November 1., 1968 Bonds Nos . 86 to 100, inc. 15,000 on November 1, 1969 Bonds Nos. 101 to 115, inc . 15,000 on November 11 1970 Bonds Nos. 116 to 130, inc. 15,000 on November 1, 1971 Bonds Nos. 131 to 145, inc. 15,000 on November 1, 1972 Bonds Nos. 146 to 160, inc . $15,000 on November 1, 1973 Bonds Nos. 161 to 175, inc. $15,000 on November 1, 1974 Bonds Nos. 176 to 190, inc. S15,000 on November 1, 1975 Bonds Nos. 191 to 205, inc . 15,000 on November 1, 1976 Bonds Nos . 206 to 220, inc. 15,000 on November 1, 1977 Bonds Nos. 221 to 235, inc. 15,000 on November 1, 1978 Section 2. That upon presentation at the office of the City Treasurer of said City of Ames, of any of said bonds, same may be registered as to ownership of principal in the name of the owner on the books of the Treasurer, such registration to be noted on the reverse side of the bonds by the Treasurer, and thereafter the principal of such registered bonds shall be payable only to the registered holder, his legal representatives or assigns. Such regis- tered bonds shall be transferable to another registered holder or back to bearer, only upon presentation to the City Treasurer with a legal assignment duly acknowledged or approved. Such registration of any of said bonds shall not affect the negotiability of the coupons attached to said bonds, but such coupons shall continue transferable by delivery merely. Section 3. The General Obligation Sewer Bonds hereby authorized shall be in form substantially as follows : HERRICK, LANGDON, SANDBLOM & BELIN. LAWYERS, DES MOINES, IOWA (Form of Bond) United States of America State of Iowa County of Story CITY OF APES GENERAL OBLIGATION SEWER BOND No. $1,000 The City of Ames, in the State of Iowa, for value received, promises to pay to Bearer, or if this bond be registered as to ownership, to the registered holder thereof, One Thousand Dollars in lawful money of the United States of America, on the First day of November, 19 , with interest on said sum from the date hereof until paid, at tze rate of Per Centum ( %) per annum, payable on the First day o ovem er, 1962, an semi-annually thereafter on the First day of May and November in each year, upon presentation and surrender of the interest coupons hereto attached as they severally become due; both principal and interest payable at the office of the City Treasurer, in the City of Ames, State of Iowa. This bond is issued by the City of Ames, pursuant to and in strict compliance with the provisions of Chapters 23, 76 and Section 396.22 of the Code of Iowa, 1958, and in conformity with an ordinance of the Council of said City, duly passed, approved and published, for the purpose of defraying the cost of constructing storm and sanitary sewers in said City. This bond shall pass by delivery unless it has been registered in the name of the owner on the books of the City Treasurer of said City, and evidence of such registration endorsed on the back hereof. Thereafter no transfer of this bond shall be valid unless made on said books and similarly noted hereon, unless the last registration shall have been to bearer, in which case transferability by delivery shall be restored. The registration of this bond shall not affect the negotiability of the coupons hereto attached, which shall continue negotiable by delivery merely, notwithstanding the registration hereof. And It Is Hereby Certified and Recited: That all acts, conditions and things required by the .laws and constitution of the State of Iowa, to exist, to be had, to be done and to be performed precedent to and in the issue of this bond, were and have been properly existent, had, done and performed in regular and due form and time as required by law; that provision hasbeen made for the levy of a sufficient continuing annual tax on all the taxable property within said City for the prompt payment of the principal and interest of this bond as the same will become due; that the faith, credit, revenues and resources and all the real and personal property of said City are irrevocably pledged for the prompt payment of the principal and interest hereof at maturity; and that the total indebtedness of said City, including this bond, does not exceed the Constitutional or ' Statutory limitations . IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, said City, by its Council, has caused this bond to be signed by its Mayor and attested by the City Clerk, with ' the seal of said City affixed as of the First day of April, 1962. Mayor of the City o es Attest : Glerk of the City of Ames HERRICK, LANGDON, SANDSLOM & SELIN, LAWYERS, DES MOINES, IOWA (Form of Coupon) AMES IOWA No. On 19 _, the Treasurer of the City of Ames, Iowa, wi pay to Barer Dollars, at the office of e 1 y reasurer, mes, Iowa, or semi-annual interest then due on its General Obligation Sewer Bond, dated April 1, 1962, No. _____�• -Clerk of-the City o - es (On the back of each bond shall be endorsed the certificate of the City Treasurer, in the following form: STATE OF IOWA COUNTY OF STORY SS CITY TREASURER'S CERTIFICATE CITY OF AMES This bond duly and properly registered in my office as of the First day of April, 1962. reasurer of the City of-Ames Section 4. That on the back of each bond there shall be printed provisions for registration of ownership in substantially the follow- ing form: REGISTRATION OF OWNERSHIP DATE OF REGISTRATION REGISTERED OWNER SIGNATURE OF CITY TREASURER 0 HERRICK, LANGDON, SANDSLOM & BELIN, LAWYERS, DES MOINES, IOWA Section 5. The bonds hereby authorized shall each be signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk, with the seal of the City affixed, and the interest coupons thereto attached shall each be executed with the signature of the City Clerk or facsimile thereof, and said Clerk, by the execution of said bonds, shall adopt as and for his own proper signature his facsimile signature on said coupons, and when so executed, said bonds shall be delivered to the City Treasurer and shall be by him registered and delivered to Stern Brothers & Company of Kansas City, Missouri, the purchaser thereo , and t e sa e of said on s to sa pure aser is hereby ratified and confirmed. Section 6. That as required by Section 76.2 of the Code of Iowa, 1958, and in order to provide for the assessment and collection of an annual levy upon all the taxable property in said City, in addition to the levy authorized for other purposes, sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal as the same matures, there shall be and there is hereby authorized and levied upon all the taxable property within said City, a direct annual tax for each of the years while said bonds or any of them are outstanding in amounts sufficient for that purpose and in particular but not in limitation of the fore- going, the amounts levied during the respective years for such purpose shall be as follows : A direct annual tax upon all the taxable property within said City for each of the Sixteen (16) consecutive years, 1962 to 1977, both inclusive, (beginning with the levies of the year 1962 for collection during the year 1963, and ending with the levies of the year 1977 for collection during the year 1978) sufficient to produce the following net annual sums for the respective years for interest and principal as the same mature and to create sinking funds for that purpose, as follows : For the year 1962 for collection during the year 1963, sufficient to produce the net annual sum of $ 20 41-1 .00 ; For the year 1963 for collection during the year l9b4, sufficient to produce the net annual sum of $21 00.00 For the year 1964 for collection during the year l9b5, sufficient to produce the net annual sum of $20 888.00 ; For the year 1965 for collection during the year 1y6 , sufficient to produce the net annual sum of $20 4 00 ; For the year 1966 for collection during the year l�, r - sufficient to produce the net annual sum of $20 06 .00 For the year 1967 for collection during the year l9bb, sufficient to produce the net annual sum of $1 650.00 For the year 1968 for collection during the year 1969, sufficient to produce the net annual sum of $19 2 5 .00 For the year 1969 for collection during the year 1970, sufficient to produce the net annual sum of $18 90_0 For the year 1970 for collection during the year 19� sufficient to produce the net annual sum of $18,488.00 For the year 1971 for collection during the year 190 ; sufficient to produce the net annual sum of $ 8a75 ,00 For the year 1972 for collection during the year 1973 sufficient to produce the net annual sum of $17,663.00 ; For the year 1973 for collection during the year 1974, sufficient to produce the net annual sum of $17,250.00 ; For the year 1974 for collection during the year FT0 .00 sufficient to produce the net annual sum of HERRICK, LANGDON, SANDBLOM & BEL.IN, LAWYERS, DES MOINES, IOWA For the year 1975 for collection during the year 1976, sufficient to produce the net annual sum of $ 16, 350.00 ; For the year 1976 for collection during the year 1977— sufficient to produce the net annual sum of $ 15, 900.00 For the year 1977 for collection during the year 1g75, sufficient to produce the net annual sum of $ 15,E+50 .00 Section 7. The City Clerk shall annually in due time, manner and season, certify to the County Auditor the taxes herein provided for in addition to levies authorized for other purposes and without condition as to various amounts as herein provided being included in the annual certification of taxes, the County Auditor shall annually enter said respective amounts for collection and the moneys arising from such tax levies shall be used for the payment of said bonds and the interest thereon and for no other purpose whatever. Section 8. The interest falling due during the year 1962 and the interest or principal and both of them falling due in subsequent year or years, shall, if necessary, be paid promptly from current funds on hand in advance of taxes levied, and when such taxes shall have been collected, reimbursement shall be made to such current funds in the sum thus advanced. Section 9. This ordinance shall be irrepealable until all the aforesaid bonds, both principal and interest, are fully paid and discharged. Section 10. All ordinances or parts thereof in conflict herewith, be and the same are hereby repealed. Section 11. A certified copy of this ordinance shall be filed with the County Auditor of said County of Story, and said Auditor shall be and he is hereby instructed in and for each of the years 1962 to 1977, inclusive, to enter for collection and assess a tax hereby authorized. When annually entering said taxes for collection the County Auditor shall include the same as a part of the tax levy for debt service fund purposes of said City, and when collected, the proceeds of the said taxes shall be converted into the debt service fund of said City and set aside therein as a special account and sinking fund to be used solely and only for the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds hereby authorized and for no other purpose whatsoever. Section 12. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication, as by statute provided. Passed this 10� th day of April , 1962• -Ivlayor M Attest : (SEAL) This ordinance hereby approved this 10th day of April_ 1962. ayor r Attest : _ (SEAL) R L�N�ON, SANDIBLOM & BELIN, LAWYERS, DES MOINES, IOWA Recorded in the records of said City this loth day of April 1962, , 1962, and officially published on the 140 aay of _ April 1962. 1 y r (SEAL) Moved by Eschbach and seconded by Ratterriag: that Ordinance No. 1023 be adopted. Voting Aye : Armstrong, Bledsoe, Brouhard, Eschbach, Judge, Ratterree Voting Nay: None . Absent : None Mayor De Hart declared Ordinance No, 1023 adopted. HERRICK, LANGDON, SANDBLOM & BELIN, LAWYERS, DES MOINES, IOWA STATE OF IOWA ) COUNTY OF STORY ) SS CITY OF AMES } I, M. W. Jordan City Clerk of the City of Ames, in the County of Story, State of Iowa, do hereby certify that a correct and complete copy of the Ordinance of said City, adopted by the Council thereof on the loth day of Aril_, 1962, approved by the Mayor on the 10th day of April , 1962, entitled: "Ordinance No. lo23 An Ordinance providing for the issuance of General Obligation Sewer Bonds in the sum of $235,000 for the purpose of paying the cost to that amount, of the con- struction of sewers in the City of Ames, Iowa, and for providing for an annual levy upon all the taxable property in said City sufficient to pay the interest on and principal of said bonds ' was officially published on the 14th day of April 1962, in the Ames Daily Tribune, a legal newspaper, printed wholly in the English language, published in said City of Ames Iowa, and of general circulation therein. WITNESS my hand and the seal of said City hereto aT!xed at Ames, Iowa, this 17th day of April 1962 . it r (,SEAL) (attach here publisher' s original affidavit of publication with clipping of ordinance as published. ) HERRICK, LANGDON, SANDSLOM & SELIN, LAWYERS, DES MOINES, IOWA STATE OF IOWA ) SS COUNTY OF STORY ) I, Dorothy J. Elliott County Auditor of said County do hereby certify that on the 17th day of April J, 1962, the City Clerk of the City of Ames, in said County and State certified and delivered to me a complete copy of an ordinance of said City adopted by the Council thereof on the loth day of Apr i1 1962, approved by the Mayor thereof on the loth day of April 1962, and officially published on the 14th day of April 1962, entitled: "Ordinance No. 1023 An ordinance providing for the issuance of General Obligation Sewer Bonds in the sum of $235,000 for the purpose of paying the cost to that amount, of the construction of sewers in the City of Ames, Iowa, and for providing for an annual levy upon all the tax- able property in said City sufficient to pay the interest on and principal of said bonds", and that I have duly placed said copy of said ordinance on file in my records . I further certify that the taxes provided for in said ordinance will in due time, manner and season be entered on the state and county tax lists of said county for the year 1962, and sub- sequent years as provided in said ordinance . WITNESS my hard and the County seal hereto affixed, at Nevada Iowa, this 17th' day of April 1962. oun y u o (SEAL) HERRICK, LANGDON, SANDSLOM & BELIN. LAWYERS, DES MOINES, IOWA Financial Condition of the City of Ames, County of Story State of Iowa Actual value of taxable property within said City, equalized for the year 1961 . . . . . . . . . . $ nn 128. 11_5 Assessed and taxable value of all taxable property within said City, equalized for the $ 24, 076, 869 year 1961 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assessed value of moneys and credits within said City, equalized for the year 1961, not included $ 11 812, 882 in any of the foregoing figures . . . . . . . . . . Amount of proposed issue of General Obligation Street Improvement Bonds, to be dated April 1, 1962, not included in the following debt state- . $ 235,000. 00 ment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Total bonded indebtedness, itemized as follows : $ 1,433, 000 Date of Amount Kind of Maturities Bonds Outstanding Bonds Interest Ending 1942 $ 6,000 Airport 1.75 1962 1959 20,000 Airport 2. 50 1963 1959 490,000 Hospital 2. 5, 2. 75, 2. 3 1972 1961 160, 000 Hospital 3.4, 4.0 1978 1951 58,000 Parking Lot 1. 75 1970 1959 200, 000 Sanitary Sewer 2. 75, 2.8 1970 1949 135,000 Sewer Plant 1.75 1968 1950 90,000 Sewer Plant 1. 5, 1. 7 1969 1952 57,000 Storm Sewer 2.0 1970 1952 112 , 000 Street 2.0 1970 1959 105, 000 Street 2. 75, 2. 5 1968 All other indebtedness of any kind . . . . $ 2, 744, 500 Population, Census 1960 - 27,003 Total land area, approximately 3, 891 acres CERTIFIED to by me with the City seal affixed at Ames, Iowa, this 17th day of April , 1962. it y er (SEAL) HERRICK, LANGDON, SANDBLOM & BELIN, LAWYERS, DES MOINES, IOWA STATE OF IOWA SS COUNTY OF STORY ) I, M. W. Jordan City Clerk of the City of Ames, in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that the said City is organized and operating under the provisions of Title XV of the Code of Iowa, as amended, and not under any special charter, and that said City has not adopted the Commission form of government or the Council-Manager form of government but is operating under the Mayor-Council form of government, and that there is not pending or threatened any question or litigation whatsoever touching the incorporation of said City, the inclusion of any territory within its limits, or the incumbency in office of any of the officials hereinafter named. And I do further certify that the following named parties are officials of said City as indicated: Pearle P. DeHart , Mayor M. W. Jordan City Cierk G. Roder Alley City Treasurer J. D. Armstrong , Councilman Donald T Bledsoe Councilman A. L. Brouhard Councilman Arthur H. Eschbach Councilman Edward Judge Councilman Wilbur B. Ratterree Councilman WITNESS my hand and the seal of said City of Ames, Iowa, this 13th day of April , 1962• A. _)'// City er (SEAL) HERRICK, LANGDON, SANDBLOM & SELIN, LAWYERS, DES MOINES, IOWA STATE OF IOWA SS COUNTY OF STORY ) I, Dorothy J. Elliott County Auditor of the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that the value of taxable property of every kind and character in the City of Ames, in said County, as entered on the last completed state and county tax lists, same being for the year 1961, is as follows : Actual value of all taxable property except moneys and credits . . . . . . . . . . $ 39, 937 , 648 Assessed and taxable value of all taxable property except moneys and credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 23, 962, 589 Assessed and taxable value of moneys and credits not included in the foregoing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 11 ,812 , 882 WITNESS my hand and the seal of said County at Nevada , Iowa, this 17t1, day of ; 1 , 1962. ounty Auditor li (SEAL) HERRICK. LANGDON, SANDBLOM & BELIN, LAWYERS, DES MOINES, IOWA I, M. W. Jordan being first duly sworn, do hereby depose and certify that I am the duly appointed, qualified and acting Clerk of the City of Ames, in the State of Iowa, and that as such Clerk I have in my possession or have access to the complete corporate records of said municipality and of its Council and officers, and that I have carefully compared the transcript hereto attached with the aforesaid corporate records; and that said transcript hereto attached is a true, correct and complete copy of all the corporate records in relation to the authorization, issuance and disposition of $235, 000 (2.75%, 2. 50%, 2. 75%, 3,0%) General Obligation Sewr Bonds of said municipality, to be dated April 1, 1962, and that said transcript hereto attached contains a true, correct and complete statement of all the measures adopted, and proceedings, acts and things had, done and performed up to the present time in relation to the authorization, issuance and disposition of said bonds; and that the said Council consists of six ( 6 ) members. WITNESS my hand and the City seal, hereto affixed at said City, this __17t11 day of Apr; i 1962. ity er (SEAS,) STATE OF IOWA ) SS COUNTY OF STORY) Subscribed and sworn to before me by said %'? this r' 7 day of C ,.,-sue f 1962. 6 otary u is in or sai . County My commission expires : (SEAL) HERRICK, LANGDON, SANDBLOM & BELIN, LAWYERS, DES MOINES, IOWA