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RESOLUTION NUMBER 7435 RESOLUTION RELATING TO SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 545; CREATING THE DISTRICT FOR THE PURPOSE OF UNDERTAKING TRAFFIC CALMING IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PHILLIPS STREET NEIGHBORHOOD AND FINANCING THE COSTS THEREOF AND INCIDENTAL THERETO THROUGH THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT BONDS SECURED BY THE CITY'S SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT REVOLVING FUND AND ESTABLISHING COMPLIANCE WITH REIMBURSEMENT BOND REGULATIONS UNDER THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Missoula (the "City"), Montana as follows: Section 1. Passage of Resolution of Intention. This Council, on June 1, 2009, adopted Resolution Number 7423 (the “Resolution of Intention”), pursuant to which this Council declared its intention to create a special improvement district, designated as Special Improvement District Number 545 of the City, under Montana Code Annotated, Title 7, Chapter 12, Parts 41 and 42, as amended, (the "District") for the purpose of paying for the costs of certain local improvements generally described therein (the “Improvements”) and paying costs incidental thereto, including costs associated with the sale and the security of special improvement district bonds drawn on the District (the "Bonds"), the creation and administration of the District, and the funding of a deposit to the City's Special Improvement District Revolving Fund (the "Revolving Fund"). Section 2. Notice of Public Hearing. Notice of the passage of the Resolution of Intention was duly published and mailed in all respects in accordance with law, and on June 22, 2009 this Council conducted a public hearing on the creation of the District and the making of the Improvements. The meeting of this Council at which this resolution was adopted is the first regular meeting of the Council following the expiration of the period ended 15 days after the first date of publication of the notice of passage of the Resolution of Intention (the “Protest Period”). Section 3. Protests. Within the Protest Period, ONE protest was filed with the City Clerk and not withdrawn by owners of property in the District subject to assessment for 1.2% of the total assessed cost of the Improvements. Section 4. Creation of the District; Insufficiency of Protests. The District is hereby created on the terms and conditions set forth in, and otherwise in accordance with, the Resolution of Intention. The protests against the creation of the District or the making of the Improvements filed during the Protest Period, if any, are hereby found to be insufficient. The finding and determinations made in the Resolution of Intention are hereby ratified and confirmed. Section 5. Reimbursement Expenditures. 5.1 Regulations. The United States Department of Treasury has promulgated final regulations governing the use of proceeds of tax-exempt bonds, all or a portion of which are to be used to reimburse the City for project expenditures paid by the City prior to the date of issuance of such bonds. Those regulations (Treasury Regulations, Section 1.150-2) (the “Regulations”) require that the City adopt a statement of official intent to reimburse an original expenditure not later than 60 days after payment of the original expenditure. The Regulations also generally require that the bonds be issued and the reimbursement allocation made from the proceeds of the bonds within 18 months (or three years, if the reimbursement bond issue qualifies for the “small issuer” exception from the arbitrage rebate requirement) after the later of the date the expenditure is paid or (ii) the date the project is placed in service or abandoned, but (unless the issue qualifies for the “small issuer” exception from the arbitrage rebate requirement) in no event more than three years after the date the expenditure is paid. The Regulations generally permit ---PAGE BREAK--- reimbursement of capital expenditures and costs of issuance of the bonds. 5.2 Prior Expenditures. Other than expenditures to be paid or reimbursed from sources other than the Bonds, (ii) expenditures permitted to be reimbursed under the transitional provision contained in Section 1.150-2(j)(2) of the Regulations, (iii) expenditures constituting preliminary expenditures within the meaning of Section 1.150-2(f)(2) of the Regulations, or (iv) expenditures in a “de minimus” amount (as defined in Section 1.150-2(f)(1) of the Regulations), no expenditures for the Improvements have been paid by the City before the date 60 days before the date of adoption of this resolution. 5.3 Declaration of Intent. The City reasonably expects to reimburse the expenditures made for costs of the Improvements out of the proceeds of Bonds in an estimated maximum aggregate principal amount of $27,200 after the date of payment of all or a portion of the costs of the Improvements. All reimbursed expenditures shall be capital expenditures, a cost of issuance of the Bonds or other expenditures eligible for reimbursement under Section 1.150-2(d)(3) of the Regulations. 5.4 Budgetary Matters. As of the date hereof, there are no City funds reserved, allocated on a long-term basis or otherwise set aside (or reasonably expected to be reserved, allocated on a long-term basis or otherwise set aside) to provide permanent financing for the expenditures related to the Improvements, other than pursuant to the issuance of the Bonds. The statement of intent contained in this resolution, therefore, is determined to be consistent with the City’s budgetary and financial circumstances as they exist or are reasonably foreseeable on the date hereof. 5.5 Reimbursement Allocations. The City’s financial officer shall be responsible for making the “reimbursement allocations” described in the Regulations, being generally the transfer of the appropriate amount of proceeds of the Bonds to reimburse the source of temporary financing used by the City to make prior payment of the costs of the Improvements. Each allocation shall be evidenced by an entry on the official books and records of the City maintained for the Bonds or the Improvements and shall specifically identify the actual original expenditure being reimbursed. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Missoula, Montana, the 22nd day of June, 2009. John Engen John Engen Mayor Attest: Martha L. Rehbein Martha L. Rehbein City Clerk