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0186 AN ORDINANCE N0. 186 BY THE, CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS, AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE Ol, X300.1000 OF CITY OF SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS, GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, SERIES 1972, AND LEVYING THE NECESSARY TAX SUFFICIENT TO PAY THE INTEREST THEREON AS THE SAME BECOMES DUE AND TO CREATE THE NECESSARY AND SUFFICIENT SINKING FUND TO PAY THE PRINCIPAL THEREOF AS REQUIRED BY LAW; SAID BONDS TO BE ISSUED FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS AND EXTEN- SIONS TO THE WATERWORKS SYSTEM OF SAID CITY, AND HAVING BEEN AUTHORIZED AT AN ELECTION HELD IN SAID CITY ON THE 11TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1971; PRESCRIBING THE MATURITIES OF SAID BONDS AND THE INTEREST RATES; PRESCRIBING THE FORM OF BOND AND INTEREST COUPONS; CONFIRMING THE SALE OF SAID BONDS; AND ENACTING OTHER PROVISIONS INCIDENT AND RELATING TO THE SUBJECT AND PURPOSE OF THIS ORDINANCE. r , THE STATE OF TEAS COUNTY OF TARRANT CITY OF SOUTHLAK 3 The City Council of the City of Southlake, Texas, con- vened in regular session at 7:30 o'clock, P.M., on the 21st day of December, 1971, at the City Hall within said City, which meeting was at ail times open tc) the public, with the following members of said City Council being present, namely: Wade Booker Mayor MaxXxym JMW M%XDW_tK R. D. Drummond Councilman Thurman Hearn Councilman Ralph Polson, Jr, Councilman Billy Joe Knox Councilman and Aliceanne Wallace City Secre-vary and with the following members being absent: W. 0. NUNN , thus constituting a quorL:r.. Whereupo.::, among other business, the following was transactet at said meeting: A written ordinance authorizing the issuance of $300.9000 City of Southlake, Texas, General Obligation. Bonds, Series 1972, was duly introduced for the consideration of said Cour.aii and read in full. It was then duly moved and seconded, that said ordinance be adopted; and, after due discussion, said motio:., carrying with it the adoption of said ordinance, pre- vailed and carried by the following vote: AYES: All members of said City Council shown present above voted "Aye." NOES: None. WHEREAS, heretofore on the i7th day of August, 1971, the City Council of the City of Southlake, Texas, by an ordi- nance duly and legally passed, called an election in said City to be held on the 11th day of September, 1971, for the purpose of submitting to all resident, qualified electors of the City of Southlake, Texas, who owned taxable property in said City and who had duly rendered the same for taxation, and to all other resi- dent qualified electors of said City, voting separately, for their action thereupon, the following; proposition: PROPOSITION "SHALL THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS, BE AUTHORIZED TO ISSUE BONDS OF SAID CITY IN THE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOL- LARS ($300,000), FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONSTRUCTING PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS AND EXTENSIONS TO THE WATERWORKS SYSTEM OF SAID CITY; SAID BONDS TO MATURE SERIALLY, OR OTHERWISE AS MAY BE DETERMINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF SAID CITY; THE MAXIMUM MATURITY BEING NOT MORE THAN THIRTY (30) YEARS FROM THEIR DATE, AND ANY ISSUE OR SERIES OF SAID BONDS TO BEAR INTEREST PER ANNUM (PAY- ABLE ANNUALLY OR SEMI-ANNUALLY) AT ANY RATE OR RATES TO BE DETERMINED WITHIN THE DISCRETION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF SAID CITY, PROVIDED THAT SUCH RATE OR RATES SHALL NOT EXCEED THE MAXIMUM RATE PER ANNUM PERMITTED BY LAW AT THE TIME OF THE ISSUANCE OF ANY ISSUE OR SERIES OF SAID BONDS; AND SHALL THE CITY COUNCIL OF SAID CITY BE AUTHORIZED TO LEVY AN ANNUAL AD VALOREM TAX ON ALL TAXABLE PROPERTY IN SAID CITY SUFFICIENT TO PAY THE INTEREST ON SAID BONDS AND TO CREATE A SINKING FUND SUFFICIENT TO PAY THE PRINCIPAL THEREOF AS THE SAME MATURES, AS AUTHORIZED BY THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS?" WHEREAS, this City Council affirmatively finds that notice of said election was duly given by publication in the GRAPEVINE SUN, a newspaper published in Tarrant County, Texas, and of general circulation in the City of Southlake, Texas, which notice was published in said newspaper on the following dates, to-wit: August 26, 1971 and September 2, 1971, the date of the first publica- tion being not less than fourteen (14) days prior to the date of said election; and that in addition thereto, notice was posted at the City Hall and three (3) other public places within the city 1i.,lits of the City of Southlake, Texas, and that all of said notices were posted not less than fourteen (14) days prior to the date of said election; WHEREAS, this City Council affirmatively finds that said election was duly and legally held on September 11, 1971, and the results of said election were duly certified and returned to the City Council of the City of Southlake by the Judges and Clerks thereof; and WHEREAS, on the 13th day of September, 1971, after the holding of said election, the City Council of said City considered the returns of said election and found that of the votes cast at said election the following votes were cast "FOR" and "AGAINST" said Proposition, to-wit: TOTAL VOTES CLASS OF VOTERS CAST FOR AGAINST Votes cast by resident quali- fied electors who owned taxa- ble property and who had ren- dered the same for taxation: 58 41 Votes cast by resident quali- fied electors who do not own taxable property which had been rendered for taxation: 0 Votes cast by both classes of voters: 107 66 41 And said City Council thereupon by ordinance duly passed and approved declared that the aforesaid Proposition submitted at said election was sustained and adopted by a majority of the resident qualified electors of the City of Southlake, Texas, who owned tax- able property in said City and who had duly rendered the same for taxation, voting in said election (being both said classes of voters), and that the City Council of said City was accordingly authorized to issue the bonds in accordance with the authority granted in said Proposition and with law; and WHEREAS, this City Council now deems it advisable and to the best interest of said City to authorize the issuance of $300,000 of said General Obligation Bonds of said City as authorized in the aforesaid Proposition; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS : I That bonds of said City to be known as "CITY OF SOUTH- LAKE, TEXAS, GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, SERIES 1972" shall be issued under and by virtue of the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas in the total principal amount of THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($300,000) for the purpose of the construction of permanent improvements and extensions to the waterworks system of said City. II That said bonds shall be numbered consecutively from one (1) to sixty (60), both inclusive, and shall be in the denomi- nation of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000) each, aggregating the principal sum of Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000). III That said bonds shall be dated January 1, 1972, and shall become due and payable serially as follows: BOND NOS. (Both Inc.) DATE OF MATURITY AMOUNT 1 - 2 Janua-^y 1, 1973 $10.9000 - 4 January 1, 1974 103 000 5 - b January 15 1975 10 000 ? - 6 January 1, 1976 10, 000 9 - 10 January 1, 1977 10 000 11 - 12 January 1, 1976 10, 000 13 - 14 January 1, 1979 10 000 15 - 17 January 1, 1980 15,000 16 - 20 January 1, 1961 15,000 21 - 23 January 1, 1962 15,000 24 - 26 January 1, 1963 15,000 27 - 29 January 19 1984 15,000 30 - 32 January 1, 1965 15,000 33 - 36 January 1, 1986 20J000 37 - 40 January 13 1967 203000 41 - 45 January 1, 1968 25,000 L-6 - 50 January 1, 1969 25,000 51 - 55 January 1, 1990 25,000 56 - 60 January 1, 1991 25,000 IV That with the exception of Bonds numbered one(1) to thirty-six (36), both inclusive, of this bond issue, which mature on and prior to January 1, 1986, the City of Southlake, Texas ex- pressly reserves the right to redeem before maturity all or any of the remaining bonds of this ussue, to-wit: Bonds numbered thirty-seven (37) to sixty (60), both inclusive, on any interest payment date on and after January 1, 19861 by paying the principal and accrued interest therefor; and in case any of said bonds num- bered thirty-seven (37) to sixty (60), both inclusive, shall be called for redemption before maturity, notice thereof, in writing, shall be given to the FIRST NATIONAL BANK, GRAPEVINE, TEXAS, at least thirty (30) days before the interest payment date fixed for redemption, and should such bond or bonds, when so called, not be presented for redemption, when so called, the same shall cease to bear interest from and after the interest payment date so fixed for redemption. V That interest on said bonds ahll be evidenced by two (2) sets of proper coupons attached to each of said bonds. One set of coupons shall evidence interest on the bonds from their date to maturity at the following rates per annum: BOND NO. DATE OF MATURITY INT. (both inc. ) (both inclusive) RATE 1 - 10 1973 through 1977 5-1/2J 11 - 36 1978 through 1986 6% 37 - 60 1987 through 1991 6-1/4% Said interest shall be payable on Janury 1, 1973, and semi-annually thereafter on July 1 and January 1 of each year while said bonds, or any of them, are outstanding. In addition, said bonds shall bear interest from their date until January 1, 1976, at twenty-five hundredths of one per cent (.025) per annum, which interest shall be evidenced by an additional set of coupons designated "A" coupons. Said supplemental "A" coupons shall be payable on January 1, 1973, and semi-annually thereafter on July 1 and January 1 of each year until and includ- ing January 1, 1976, as aforesaid. All interest coupons representing interest on said re- spective bonds shall be presented separately on the several inter- est payment dates and shall be paid separately from each other. VI That the principal of and interst on said bonds shall be payable, without exchange or collection charges to the holder, at the FIRST NATIONAL BANK, GRAPEVINE, TEXAS, in lawful money of the United States of America, upon presentation and surrender of bonds or proper interest coupons. VII That in accordance with Article 717J-1, Vernon's Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, as amended, each of said bonds shall be exe- cuted by the imprinted facsimile signature of the Mayor, and counter- signed by the imprinted facsimile signature of the City Secretary, of the City of Southlake, Texas; and each of the interest coupons at- tached to said bonds shall be executed by the imprinted facsimile signatures of said Mayor and said City Secretary; and such imprinted facsimile signatures of said Mayor and said City Secretary shall have the same effect as if such bonds and interest coupons had been man- ually signed by each of said officials; that the City Secretary is hereby authorized to cause the Seal of said City to be imprinted in facsimile upon each of said bonds; and the imprinting of the Seal of said City in facsimile on each of said bonds shall have the same legal effect as the impression of the Seal of said City on each of said bonds. That the registration certificate of the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas (which certificate is to be printed on the fack of each of said bonds as provided for herein- after in Section XI of this ordinance) shall be manually signed by said Col-pt-roller (or by a Deputy designated in writing to ace for said Comptroller). VIII That the form of each of said bonds shall be substan- tially as follows, to-wit; NO. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA $5,000 STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF TARRANT CITY OF SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND, SERIES 1972 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That the City of Southlake, Texas, in Tarrant County, Texas, a municipal corporation duly incorporated and existing under the laws of the State of Texas, FOR VALUE RECEIVED, acknowledges itself indebted to and hereby promises to pay to bearer FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($5,000) in lawful money of the United States of America, on the lst day of January, 19_, with interest thereon from date hereof at the rates hereinafter provided, such interest being payable on January 1, 1973, and semi- annually thereafter on July 1 and January 1 of each year, upon presentation and surrender of bond or proper annexed interest coupon as they severally mature. Said interest is represented by two (2) sets of coupons attached hereto, one such set of coupons evidencing interst equal to per cent per annum from date hereof until final ma- turity of this bond, the other set of coupons attached hereto evidencing interest at the rate of twenty-five hun- dredths of one per cent (,025%) per annum from date hereof to and including January 1, 1976, both of which said sets of interest coupons are payable on the dates aforesaid. Each coupon appertaining hereto shall be presented sep- arately for payment on the interest payment date when due and each such coupon shall be paid separately and apart from the other. Both principal of and interest on this bond are hereby made payable, without exchange or collection charges to the holder, at the FIRST NATIONAL BANK, GRAPEVINE, TEXAS, and for the prompt pay- ment of the interest on this bond and the principal thereof at maturity, the full faith, credit and resources of the City of Southlake, Texas, are hereby irrevocably pledged, (NOTE TO PRINTER: At this point, the following redemption paragraph is to be inserted in Bonds 37 to 60, only) The City of Southlake, Texas, hereby reserves the right to redeem this bond before maturity on any interest payment date on and after January 1, 1986, by paying the principal and accrued interest therefor; and in case this bond shall be called for redemption before maturity, notice thereof in writing shall be given to FIRST NATIONAL BANK, GRAPEVINE, TEXAS, at least thirty (30) days before the in- terest payment date fixed for redemption, and should this bond not be presented for redemption, when so called, the same shall cease to bear interest from and after the inter- est payment date so fixed for redemption. This bond is one of a series of sixty (60) bonds, of like tenor and effect (except as to number, maturity, interest rate, and right of prior redemption), numbered consecutively from one (1) to sixty (60), both inclusive, of the denomination of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000) each, aggregating the principal sum of THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($300,000), for the purpose of the construction of permanent improvements and extensions to the water- works system of said City, under and in strict conformity with the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas, and in pursuance of an ordinance passed by the City Council of the City of Southlake, Texas, which ordinance is of record in the Minutes of said City Council. The date of this bond, in conformity with the ordinance above referred to, is January 1, 1972, IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED AND RECITED that the issuance of this bond; and the series of which it is a part, is duly authorized by law and by a majority vote of both the resident qualified electors of the City of Southlake, Texas, who own taxable property in said City and who had duly rendered the same for taxation, and a majority vote of all resident qualified electors of the City of South lake, Texas, voting in an election duly held in said City September 11, 1971; that all acts, conditions and things required to be done precedent to and in the issuance of this series of bonds, and of this bond, have been properly done and performed and have happened in due time, form and menner, as required by law; that sufficient and proper provision for the levy and collection of taxes has been made, which taxes, when collected, shall be appropriated exclusively to the payment of this bond and the series of which it is a part, and to the payment of the interest coupons thereto annexed as the same shall be- come due; and that the total indebtedness of said City, in- cluding this bond and the entire series of which it is a part, does not exceed any Constitutional or statutory limitation. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the City of Southlake, Texas, by its City Council, has caused the corporate seal of said City to be imprinted hereon in facsimile, and this bond to be execu- ted by imprinting hereon the facsimile signature of the Mayor of the City of Southlake, and countersigned by imprinting hereon the facsimile signature of the City Secretary of the City of Southlake, and the interest coupons hereto attached to be executed by the imprinted facsimile signatures of said Mayor and City Secretary (in accordance with the provisions of Article 717j-1, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, as amended) as of the date of this bond, the 1st day of January, 1972. Mayor, City of Southlake, Texas COUNTERSIGNED: City Secretary, City of South- lake, Texas IX That the form of the interest coupons shall be substan- tially as follows, to-wit: N0 , $ ON THE 1ST DAY OF 19 (unless the bond to which this coupon a-ppe rtains has been properly called for prior redemption and provi- sion for payment and redemption duly made in accord- . ~ ance with its terms), the City of Southlake, Texas, promises to pay to bearer, without exchange or collec- tion charges, at the FIRST NATIONAL BANK, GRAPEVINE, TEXAS, the sum of Dollars in lawful money of the United States of America, being the interest due that day on CITY OF SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS, GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, SERIES 1972, Bond No. City Secretary, City of South- Mayor, City of Southla ke, lake, Texas Texas X That the form of the supplemental interest coupons shall be substantially as follows, to-wit: NO. -A $ ON THE 1ST DAY OF 19 the City of Southla ke, Texas, promises to pay to bearer, without exchange or collection charges, at the FIRST NATIONAL BANK, GRAPEVINE, TEXAS, the sum of Dollars ) in lawful money of the United States of America, being the interest due that day on CITY OF SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS, GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, SERIES 19722 Bond No, City Secretary, City of Southlake, Mayor, City of Southlake, Texas Texas *,NOTE TO PRINTER: The expression included within the parentheses above set forth shall be included in coupons affixed to bonds 37-60, which said coupons ma- ture on July 1, 1986 and subsequently through 1991. XI That the bonds herein authorized being a public se= curity which, under the laws of the Stateof Texas, is required to be registered by the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas; accordingly, there shall be printed on the back of each of said bonds substantially the following certificate, which as to the registration of each of said bonds by said Comp- troller, shall be manually signed by said Comptroller or by a Deputy designated in writing to act for said Comptroller: OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER § STATE OF TEXAS § REGISTER NO. I HEREBY CERTIFY that there is on file and of record in my office a certificate of the Attorney General of the State of Texas, to the effect that this bond has been ex- amined by him, as required by law, and that he finds that it has been issued' in conformity with the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas, and that it is a valid and bind- ing obligation upon said City of Southlake, Texas, and said bond has this day been registered by me, WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE at Austin, Texas, Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas XII That a special fund, to be designated "CITY OF SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS, GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, SERIES 1972, DATED JANUARY 1, 1972, INTEREST AND SINKING FUND," shall be, and the same is hereby created and set aside, which fund, when collected, shall be used to pay the interest on said bonds and the principal thereof at maturity, and for no other purpose; and that while said bonds, or any of them, are outstanding and unpaid, there shall be annually levied, as- §essed and collected in due time, form and manner,.a tax upon all of the taxable property in said City, sufficient to pay the current interest thereon and to create a sinking fund sufficient to pay each installment of principal as the same becomes due, or a sinking fund of 4,. whichever is greater, as required by Article 113 Section 7, of the Constitution of the State of Texas, said tax to be based on the latest approved tax rolls of said City, with full allowance being made for tax delinquencies and the cost of tax collection; and an ad valorem tax at said rate and amount is hereby levied, and is hereby ordered to be levied, against all taxable property in said City for each year while any of said bonds or interest coupons appertaining thereto are outstanding and unpaid; and said tax shall each year be assessed and collected and applied to the payment of the principal of and interest on said bonds. That the City Council hereby declares its purpose and intent to hereby provide and levy a tax which is legal and which is fully sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds as it falls due and to pay the principal of said bonds at maturity, and which tax will also fully comply each year with Article 11, Sec- tion 7, of the Constitution of the State of Texas; and it has determined that there exists available taxing power and authority in the City for such purpose which is adequate to permit the levy of a legally sufficient tax therefor, taking into consideration all other outstanding obligations of said City, XIII That the Mayor of the City of Southlake, Texas, is hereby authorized to take and have charge of all necessary rec- ords pending investigation by the Attorney General of the State of Texas, and shall take and have charge and control of the bonds herein authorized pending approval by the said Attorney General, and registration by the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the' State of Texas. That when said bonds have been registered, the said Comptroller is hereby authorized and instructed to deliver the bonds to the FROST NATIONAL SANK, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, where they will be taken up and paid for by the purchaser. XIV That the bid of TEXAS SECURITIES CORPORATION, San Antonio, Texas, for the bonds herein authorized, at the price of par and accrued interest to the date of delivery having been heretofore accepted, sale of said bonds is hereby confirmed to said purchaser, and the Mayor and the City Secretary of the City are hereby authorized, directed and instructed to do all things necessary to deliver said bonds to said purchaser at the FROST NATIONAL BANK, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, at the aforesaid price. XV That the purchaser above named, having purchased the bonds herein authorized subject to the final opinion of Messrs. Dobbins, Howard & Harris, Attorneys at law., San Antonio, Texas, approving the validity of such bonds, which approving opinion is to be dated as of the date of delivery of and payment for the bonds herein authorized, the printing of a true and correct copy of said approving opinion on the reverse side of each of said bonds with an appropriate certificate pertaining thereto, exe- cuted by the facsimile signature of the City Secretary of the City of Southlake, Texas, is hereby approved and authorized, XVI That this ordinance shall take effect immediately and be in full force and effect from and after its passage, AND IT IS SO ORDAINED, PASSED, ADOPTED AND APPROVED thisC214,4_ day of December, -~;yor, City of Southlake, Texas ACT' ;T nT~ T /1i- ~ 13 AL O,lCITY