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14-Deliberate and act on a Resolution approving a PEDC ResolutionCITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM BRIEFING SHEET Submittal Date: Originating Department: Presented By: Agenda Item No.: 03/11/10 Council Date: Finance Gene Anderson 14. 03/22/10 RECOMMENDED MOTION: Move to approve a resolution affirming the action of the Paris .Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors to refund the existing PEDC sales tax revenue bonds. POLICY ISSUE(S): Fiscal Management BACKGROUND: Paris Economic Development Corporation issued $4,200,000 in taxable sales tax revenue bonds in November 1998 and $2,560,000 of that issue is still outstanding. Due to changes in market rates, PEDC wishes to refund those bonds for savings without extending the debt period. The current bonds pay off on September 1, 2018. This action mimics the City Council's refunding of most of the City's outstanding debt in February 2010. The exact amount of the savings will be $272,306.98 ($237,738.65 present value) and the issue amount will be $2,685,000. BOARD/COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: PEDC Board of Directors unanimously approved the refunding issue at its February 9, 2010, meeting. EXHIBITS: Council resolution; PEDC resolution ACTION: BUDGET INFO: ❑ Financial Report ❑ Minute Order Expense $NA ❑ Department Report ~ Resolution Budgeted Amt. $NA ❑ Presentation ❑ Ordinance y'I'D Actual $NA ❑ Public Hearing ❑ Other Acct. Name NA Acct. Number NA FISCAL NOTES: None REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY: Z Administration Z City Clerk ❑ Community Development ❑ EMS/IT Z Finance ❑ Fire ❑ Municipal Court Z Legal ❑ Library ❑ Police ❑ Eng./Public Works ❑ Utilities City of Paris Revised 2/04/08 v-, 000106 DRAFT attorney\reswork\current\PEDC Refunding Bonds Res 2010 RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS, APPROVING A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF REFUNDING BONDS BY THE PARIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION; APPROVING A SALES TAX REMITTANCE AGREEMENT; AND ENACTING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT; MAKING OTHER FINDINGS AND PROVISION RELATED TO THE SUBJECT AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, the Paris Economic Development Corporation (the "Corporation") has been incorporated and exists and operates as a duly constituted authority and instrumentality of the City of Paris, Texas (the "City"), pursuant to Section 4A of the Development Corporation Act, formerly Article 5190.6, Texas Revised Civil Statutes, as amended, and now operates, exists and is governed by the recodified provisions of such Act, as codified in Chapters 501, 502 and 504, Texas Local Government Code, as amended (the "Act"), specifically with the Corporation being a Type A corporation possessing the powers granted by Chapter 504, Texas Local Government Code; and; WHEREAS, there has been presented to this City Council a resolution (the "Bond Resolution") to be adopted by the Board of Directors of the Corporation authorizing the issuance and sale of the Corporation's sales tax revenue refunding bonds for the purpose of refunding the Corporation's outstanding Taxable Sales Tax Revenue Bonds, Series 1998, in order to reduce debt service payments made by the Corporation; and, WHEREAS, there has been presented to this City Council a Sales Tax Remittance Agreement, between the Corporation and the City, pursuant to which sales taYes collected by the City for the benefit of the Corporation pursuant to the Act shall be transferred and deposited into a fund for the use by the Corporation in the furtherance of its authorized powers and purposes; and, WHEREAS, this City Council finds and determines that it is necessary and appropriate to approve the Bond Resolution and to approve the execution and delivery of said Sales Tax Remittance Agreement for the purposes hereinabove provided. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS THAT: Section 1. The recitals set forth in the preamble hereof are incorporated herein and shall have the same force and effect as if set forth in this Section. Section 2. The Bond Resolution, attached hereto as Exhibit A, is hereby approved and the issuance by the Corporation of sales tax revenue refunding bonds in the principal amount of r., 0 fl0 1 1; i $ (the "Bonds"), for the purpose of refunding the Corporation's outstanding Taxable Sales Tax Revenue Bonds, Series 1998, is hereby approved; and said Bond Resolution, Bonds and the expenditure of funds of the Corporation in connection therewith are hereby approved. Section 3. The Sales Tax Remittance Agreement, attached hereto as Exhibit B, is hereby approved and the Mayor and the City Clerk are hereby authorized to execute, attest, seal and deliver the Sales Tax Remittance Agreement between the City and the Corporation. Section 4. This Resolution shall be effective immediately upon adoption. Jesse James Freelen, Mayor ATTEST: Janice Ellis, City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: W. Kent McIlyar, City Attorney G00 1'k' 8 Exhibit A Bond Resolution (see attached) r,..' 0 10 1 J, RESOLUTION OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS of PARIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF PARIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION SALES TAX REVENUE REFUNDING BONDS SERIES 2010 Table of Contents Section 1. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Section 2. Recitals, Amount and Purpose of the Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Section 3. Designation, Date, Denomination, Number, and Maturity and Interest Rate of Bonds .................................................................4 Section 4. Characteristics of the Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Section 5. Book-Entry Only System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Section 6. Form of Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Section 7. Pledge .............................................................15 Section 8. Revenue Fund ......................................................16 Section 9. Debt Service Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Section 10. 2010 Reserve Fund and Reserves for Parity Obligations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Sectionll. Transfer ..........................................................18 Sectionl2. Investments .......................................................18 Section 13. FundsSecured .....................................................19 Section 14. Payment ..........................................................19 Section 15. Additional Obligations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Section 16. Refunding Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Section 17. Subordinate Debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Section 18. General Covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Section 19. Defeasance of Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Section 20. Damaged, Mutilated, Lost, Stolen, or Destroyed Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Section 21. Custody, Approval, and Registration of Bonds; Bond Counsel's Opinion; CUSIP Numbers and Contingent Insurance Provision, If Obtained; Engagement of Bond Counsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 I Section 22. Bonds Not Tax-Exempt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Section 23. Sale of Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Section 24. Approval of Official Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Section 25. Further Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Section 26. Compliance with Rule 15c2-12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Section 27. Method of Amendment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Section 28. Approval of Escrow Agreement and Transfer of Funds; Approval of Transfer Agreement ............................................................29 Section 29. Redemption of Refunded Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Section 30. Remedies for Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Section 31. Remedies Not Exclusive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Section 32. Severability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Section 33. Effective Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Schedule I Schedule of Refunded Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S-1 Exhibit A Notice of Redemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1 Exhibit B Form of Transfer Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-1 Exhibit C Continuing Disclosure Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G 1 n c,T H011G RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF PARIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION SALES TAX REVENUE REFUNDING BONDS, TAXABLE SERIES 2010; PROVIDING FOR THE SECURITY FOR AND PAYMENT OF SAID BONDS; APPROVING AN ESCROW AGREEMENT AND A SALES TAX REMITTANCE AGREEMENT; CALLING OUTSTANDING OBLIGATIONS FOR REDEMPTION; AND ENACTING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT THE STATE OF TEXAS § PARIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION § WHEREAS, Paris Economic Development Corporation (the "Issuer") is a non-profit industrial development corporation created pursuant to Section 4A of the Development Corporation Act, formerly Article 5190.6, Texas Revised Civil Statutes, as amended, and now operates and exists and is governed under the recodified provisions of such Act, as a Type A corporation, as such Act has been codified in Chapters 501, 502 and 504, Texas Local Government Code, as amended (the "Act" WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority granted in the Act, the City of Paris, Texas (the "City") has levied a one-quarter of one percent sales and use tax for the benefit of the Issuer (the "Sales Tax"), to be used exclusively for the purposes set forth in the Act; WHEREAS, the Issuer has previously issued, and there are presently outstanding, bonds of the Issuer payable from a pledge by the Issuer of the Sales Tax sufficient to pay principal of and interest on the obligations as they become due; WHEREAS, all such previously issued and outstanding bonds are intended to be and shall be refunded pursuant to this Resolution, the obligations to be refunded being described in Schedule I attached hereto and incorporated herein (collectively, the "Refunded Bonds"); WHEREAS, Section 501.213, Texas Local Government Code, authorizes the Issuer to issue refunding bonds for the purpose of refunding any outstanding bonds of the Corporation and Section 23 of the resolution that authorized the issuance of the Refunded Bonds provides that the Corporation may provide for the payment and defeasance of the Refunded Bonds by depositing with the Paying Agent/Registrar for the refunded bonds an amount of money sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the Refunded Bonds on the due date thereof, whether such due date be by reason of maturity or redemption; WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Issuer (the "Board") hereby finds and declares a public purpose and that it is in the best interests of the Issuer to refund the Refunded Bonds in order to achieve a debt service savings, and that such refunding will result in an actual debt service savings of approximately $272,306.98 and a present value debt service savings of approximately $237,738.65 to the Issuer; OtIO113 WHEREAS, the bonds hereafter authorized are being issued and delivered pursuant to the Act; and WHEREAS, it is officially found, determined, and declared that the meeting at which this Resolution has been adopted was open to the public and public notice of the time, place and subject matter of the public business to be considered and acted upon at said meeting, including this Resolution, was given, all as required by the applicable provisions of Tex. Gov't Code Ann. ch. 551; Now, Therefore BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF PARIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: Section 1. DEFINITIONS. "Act" shall mean former Article 5190.6, V.A.T.C.S., and now codified at Chapters 501, 502 and 504, Texas Local Government Code, as amended, and known as the Development Corporation Act. "Additional Obligations" shall mean bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness which the Issuer reserves the right to issue or enter into, as the case may be, in the future in accordance with the terms and conditions provided in Section 15 hereof and which, together with the Bonds, are equally and ratably secured by a parity pledge of and claim on the Pledged Revenues. "Attorney General" means the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Texas. "Average Annual Debt Service" means that amount which, at the time of computation, is derived by dividing the total amount of Debt Service to be paid over a period of years as the same is scheduled to become due and payable by the number of years taken into account in determining the total Debt Service. Capitalized interest payments provided from proceeds or borrowings of the Corporation shall be excluded in making the aforementioned computation. "Board" shall mean the Board of Directors of the Issuer. "Bond" or "Bonds" shall mean the Paris Economic Development Corporation Sales Tax Revenue Refunding Bonds, Taxable Series 2010, in the aggregate principal amount of $2,690,000, authorized to be issued by this Resolution. "City" shall mean the City of Paris, Texas. "Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. "Comptroller" shall mean the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas, and any successor official or officer thereto. "Debt Service" means, as of any particular date of computation, with respect to any obligations and with respect to any period, the aggregate of the amounts to be paid or set aside by the Issuer as of such date or in such period for the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest (to the extent not capitalized) on such obligations; assuming, in the case of obligations without a fixed numerical rate of interest, that such obligations bear, or would have borne, interest at the maximum per annum rate applicable to such obligations by law or contract, and further assuming in the case of obligations required to be redeemed or prepaid as to principal prior to maturity, the principal amounts thereof will be redeemed prior to maturity in accordance with the mandatory redemption provisions applicable thereto. "Designated Financial Officer" means the Executive Director of the Issuer or the chief financial officer of the Issuer, if such an office has been created, or such other financial or accounting official of the Issuer so designated by the Board. "Event of Default" - Each of the following occurrences or events for the purpose of this Resolution is hereby declared to be an event of default: (i) the failure to make payment of the principal of or interest on any of the Bonds when the same becomes due and payable; or (ii) default in the performance or observance of any other covenant, agreement or obligation of the Issuer, the failure to perform which materially, adversely affects the rights of the Registered Owners, including, but not limited to, their prospect or ability to be repaid in accordance with this Resolution, and the continuation thereof for a period of 60 days after notice of such default is given by any Registered Owner to the Issuer. "Fiscal Year" shall mean the fiscal year ofthe Issuer, being the twelve month period ending September 30 of each year. "Holder," "Registered Owner" or words of similar import means each registered owner of the Bonds from time to time as shown in the books kept by the Paying Agent/Registrar as bond registrar and transfer agent. "Investment Act" shall mean the Public Funds Investment Act, Chapter 2256, Texas Government Code, as amended. "Issuer" shall mean Paris Economic Development Corporation, a Type A corporation under the Act. "Maximum Annual Debt Service" shall mean the highest amount of Debt Service due on the Parity Obligations in any Fiscal Year. "Outstanding" - When used in this Resolution with respect to Parity Obligations, including the Bonds, means, as of the date of determination, all Parity Obligations theretofore sold, issued and delivered by the Issuer, except: (1) those Parity Obligations canceled or delivered to the transfer agent or registrar for cancellation in connection with the exchange or transfer of such obligations; (2) those Parity Obligations paid or deemed to be paid in accordance with the provisions of Section 19 hereof or similar provisions of any resolution authorizing the issuance of Additional Obligations. (3) those Parity Obligations that have been mutilated, destroyed, lost, or stolen and replacement obligations have been registered and delivered in lieu thereof. "Parity Obligations" shall mean, collectively, the Bonds and Additional Obligations. "Paying Agent/Registrar" shall mean the financial institution so designated in accordance with the provisions of Section 4 of this Resolution. "Pledged Revenues" shall mean all of the Issuer's receipts of the Sales Tax, less any amounts due or owing to the Comptroller as charges for collection or retention by the Comptroller for refunds and to redeem dishonored checks and drafts, to the extent such charges and retentions are authorized or required by law. "Required Reserve Amount" has the meaning set forth in Section 9. "Sales Tax" shall mean the one-quarter of one percent sales and use tax levied by the City within the boundaries of the City as they now or hereafter exist, together with any increases in the aforesaid rate if provided and authorized by the laws of the State of Texas, including specifically the Act, and collected for the benefit of the Issuer, all in accordance with the Act, including particularly Chapter 504 thereof. "Transfer Agreement" shall mean the Sales Tax Remittance Agreement dated as of March 22, 2010, between the City and the Issuer. Section 2. RECITALS, AMOiJNT AND PURPOSE OF THE BONDS. The recitals set forth in the preamble hereof are incorporated herein and shall have the same force and effect as if set forth in this Section. The bonds of the Paris Economic Development Corporation (the "Issuer") are hereby authorized to be issued and delivered in the aggregate principal amount of $2,685,000 for the public purpose of refunding the Refunded Bonds, and to pay the costs incurred in connection with the issuance of the Bonds. Section 3. DESIGNATION, DATE, DENOMINATION, NUMBER, AND MATURITY AND INTEREST RATE OF BONDS. Each Bond issued pursuant to this Resolution shall be designated: "PARIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION SALES TAX REVENUE REFiJNDING BOND, TAXABLE SERIES 2010," and initially there shall be issued, sold, and delivered hereunder one fully registered Bond, without interest coupons, dated April 15, 2010, in the principal amount stated above and in the denominations hereinafter stated, numbered T-1, with Bonds issued in replacement thereof being in the denominations and principal amounts hereinafter cloo1iG stated and numbered consecutively from R-1 upward, payable to the respective Registered Owners thereof (with the initial Bond being made payable to the purchaser (the "Purchaser" or "Underwriter") as described in Section 22 hereo fl, or to the registered assignee or assignees of said Bonds or any portion or portions thereof (in each case, the "Registered Owner") and said Bonds shall mature and be payable on September 1 in each of the years and in the principal amounts, respectively, and shall bear interest in the manner provided, on the dates stated, and from the dates set forth, in the FORM OF BOND set forth in this Resolution to their respective dates of maturity at the rates per annum, as set forth in the following schedule: Year of Principal Interest Maturity Amount Rate 2010 $270,000 1.05% 2011 275,000 1.46 2012 280,000 1.76 2013 290,000 2.32 2014 290,000 2.85 2015 300,000 3.35 2016 315,000 3.80 2017 325,000 4.10 2018 340,000 4.39 Section 4. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE BONDS. (a) Registration, Transfer, Conversion and Exchange: Authentication. The Issuer shall keep or cause to be kept at the office of The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association, in Dallas, Texas (the "Paying Agent/Registrar"), books or records for the registration of the transfer, conversion and exchange of the Bonds (the "Registration Books"), and the Issuer hereby appoints the Paying Agent/Registrar as its registrar and transfer agent to keep such books or records and make such registrations of transfers, conversions and exchanges under such reasonable regulations as the Issuer and Paying Agent/Registrar may prescribe; and the Paying Agent/Registrar shall make such registrations, transfers, conversions and exchanges as herein provided within three days of presentation in due and proper form. The Paying Agent/Registrar shall obtain and record in the Registration Books the address of the registered owner of each Bond to which payments with respect to the Bonds shall be mailed, as herein provided; but it shall be the duty of each registered owner to notify the Paying Agent/Registrar in writing of the address to which payments shall be mailed, and such interest payments shall not be mailed unless such notice has been given. The Issuer shall have the right to inspect the Registration Books during regular business hours of the Paying Agent/Registrar, but otherwise the Paying Agent/Registrar shall keep the Registration Books confidential and, unless otherwise required by law, shall not permit their inspection by any other entity. The Issuer shall pay the Paying Agent/Registrar's standard or customary fees and charges for making such registration, transfer, conversion, exchange and delivery of a substitute Bond or Bonds. Registration of assignments, transfers, conversions and exchanges of Bonds shall be made in the manner provided and with the effect stated in the FORM OF BOND set forth in this Resolution. Each substitute Bond shall bear a letter and/or number to distinguish it from each other Bond. ;,y C 0 C, 117 Except as provided in Section 4(c) hereof, an authorized representative of the Paying Agent/Registrar shall, before the delivery of any such Bond, date and manually sign said Bond, and no such Bond shall be deemed to be issued or outstanding unless such Bond is so executed. The Paying Agent/Registrar promptly shall cancel all paid Bonds and Bonds surrendered for conversion and exchange. No additional ordinances, orders or resolutions need be passed or adopted by the governing body of the Issuer or any other body or person so as to accomplish the foregoing conversion and exchange of any Bond or portion thereof, and the Paying Agent/Registrar shall provide for the printing, execution and delivery of the substitute Bonds in the manner prescribed herein. Pursuant to Subchapter D, Chapter 1201, Texas Government Code, the duty of conversion and exchange of Bonds as aforesaid is hereby imposed upon the Paying Agent/Registrar, and, upon the execution of said Bond, the converted and exchanged Bond shall be valid, incontestable, and enforceable in the same manner and with the same effect as the Bonds which initially were issued and delivered pursuant to this Resolution, approved by the Attorney General, and registered by the Comptroller. (b) Pavment of Bonds and Interest. The Issuer hereby further appoints the Paying Agent/Registrar to act as the paying agent for paying the principal of and interest on the Bonds, all as provided in this Resolution. The Paying Agent/Registrar shall keep proper records of all payments made by the Issuer and the Paying Agent/Registrar with respect to the Bonds, and of all conversions and exchanges of Bonds, and all replacements of Bonds, as provided in this Resolution. However, in the event of a nonpayment of interest on a scheduled payment date, and for thirty (30) days thereafter, a new record date for such interest payment (a "Special Record Date") will be established by the Paying Agent/Registrar, if and when funds for the payment of such interest have been received from the Issuer. Notice of the Special Record Date and of the scheduled payment date of the past due interest (which shall be 15 days after the Special Record Date) shall be sent at least five (5) business days prior to the Special Record Date by United States mail, first-class postage prepaid, to the address of each registered owner appearing on the Registration Books at the close of business on the last business day next preceding the date of mailing of such notice. (c) In General. The Bonds (i) shall be issued in fully registered form, without interest coupons, with the principal of and interest on such Bonds to be payable only to the registered owners thereof, (ii) may be transferred and assigned, (iii) may be converted and exchanged for other Bonds, (iv) shall have the characteristics, (v) shall be signed, sealed, executed and authenticated, (vi) the principal of and interest on the Bonds shall be payable, and (vii) shall be administered and the Paying Agent/Registrar and the Issuer shall have certain duties and responsibilities with respect to the Bonds, all as provided, and in the manner and to the effect as required or indicated, in the FORM OF BOND set forth in this Resolution. The Bond initially issued and delivered pursuant to this Resolution is not required to be, and shall not be, authenticated by the Paying Agent/Registrar, but on each substitute Bond issued in conversion of and exchange for any Bond or Bonds issued under this Resolution the Paying Agent/Registrar shall execute the PAYING AGENT/REGISTRAR'S AUTHENTICATION CERTIFICATE, in the form set forth in the FORM OF BOND. (d) Substitute Paving Ae~nt/Re is~trar. The Issuer covenants with the registered owners of the Bonds that at all times while the Bonds are outstanding the Issuer will provide a competent and legally qualified bank, trust company, financial institution or other agency to act as and perform ';7^ c. 'i9 ~f V. 8 the services of Paying Agent/Registrar for the Bonds under this Resolution, and that the Paying Agent/Registrar will be one entity. The Issuer reserves the right to, and may, at its option, change the Paying Agent/Registrar upon not less than 40 days written notice to the Paying Agent/Registrar, to be effective not later than 30 days prior to the next principal or interest payment date after such notice. In the event that the entity at any time acting as Paying Agent/Registrar (or its successor by merger, acquisition, or other method) should resign or otherwise cease to act as such, the Issuer covenants that promptly it will appoint a competent and legally qualified bank, trust company, financial institution, or other entity to act as Paying Agent/Registrar under this Resolution. Upon any change in the Paying Agent/Registrar, the previous Paying Agent/Registrar promptly shall transfer and deliver the Registration Books (or a copy thereoo, along with all other pertinent books and records relating to the Bonds, to the new Paying Agent/Registrar designated and appointed by the Issuer. Upon any change in the Paying Agent/Registrar, the Issuer promptly will cause a written notice thereof to be sent by the new Paying Agent/Registrar to each registered owner of the Bonds, by United States mail, first-class postage prepaid, which notice also shall give the address ofthe new Paying Agent/Registrar. By accepting the position and performing as such, each Paying Agent/Registrar shall be deemed to have agreed to the provisions of this Resolution, and a certified copy of this Resolution shall be delivered to each Paying Agent/Registrar. (e) Cancellation of Initial Bond. On the closing date, one Initial Bond representing the entire principal amount of the Bonds, payable in stated installments to the Purchaser or its designee, executed by manual or facsimile signature of the Chairman and Secretary of the Board, approved by the Attorney General, and registered and manually signed by the Comptroller, will be delivered to the Purchaser or its designee. Upon payment for the initial Bond, the Paying Agent/Registrar shall cancel the initial Bond and deliver to DTC on behalf of such purchaser one registered definitive Bond for each year of maturity of the Bonds, in the aggregate principal amount of all of the Bonds for such maturity. Section 5. BOOK-ENTRY ONLY SYSTEM. (a) Book-Entry SXstem of The Depositorv Trust Company. The Bonds issued in exchange for the Bond initially issued to the initial registered owners specified herein shall be initially issued in the form of a separate single fully registered Bond for each of the maturities thereof. Upon initial issuance, the ownership of each such Bond shall be registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of The Depository Trust Company, New York, New York ("DTC"), and except as provided in subsection (b) hereof, all of the outstanding Bonds shall be registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of DTC. With respect to Bonds registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of DTC, the Issuer and the Paying Agent/Registrar shall have no responsibility or obligation to any securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and certain other organizations on whose behalf DTC was created ("DTC Participant") to hold securities to facilitate the clearance and settlement of securities transactions among DTC Participants or to any person on behalf of whom such a DTC Participant holds an interest in the Bonds. Without limiting the immediately preceding sentence, the Issuer and the Paying Agent/Registrar shall have no responsibility or obligation with respect to (i) the accuracy of the records of DTC, Cede & Co. or any DTC Participant with respect to any ownership interest in the Bonds, (ii) the delivery to any DTC Participant or any other person, other than a Registered Owner of Bonds, as shown on the Registration Books, of any notice with respect to the Bonds, or (iii) the payment to any DTC Participant or any other person, other than a Registered Owner of Bonds, as shown in the Registration Books of any amount with respect to principal of or interest on the Bonds. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Resolution to the contrary, the Issuer and the Paying AgentlRegistrar shall be entitled to treat and consider the person in whose name each Bond is registered in the Registration Books as the absolute owner of such Bond for the purpose of payment of principal and interest with respect to such Bond, for the purpose of registering transfers with respect to such Bond, and for all other purposes whatsoever. The Paying AgenURegistrar shall pay all principal of and interest on the Bonds only to or upon the order ofthe Registered Owners, as shown in the Registration Books as provided in this Resolution, or their respective attorneys duly authorized in writing, and all such payments shall be valid and effective to fully satisfy and discharge the Issuer's obligations with respect to payment of principal of and interest on the Bonds to the extent of the sum or sums so paid. No person other than a Registered Owner, as shown in the Registration Books, shall receive a Bond certificate evidencing the obligation of the lssuer to make payments of principal and interest pursuant to this Resolution. Upon delivery by DTC to the Paying Agent/Registrar of written notice to the effect that DTC has determined to substitute a new nominee in place of Cede & Co., and subject to the provisions in this Resolution with respect to interest checks being mailed to the Registered Owner at the close of business on the Record Date (hereinafter defined), the words "Cede & Co." in this Resolution shall refer to such new nominee of DTC. (b) Successor Securities Depositorv; Transfers Outside Book-Entrv-Only Svstem. In the event that the Issuer determines that DTC is incapable of discharging its responsibilities described herein and in the representations letter of the Issuer to DTC or that it is in the best interest of the beneficial owners of the Bonds that they be able to obtain certificated Bonds, the Issuer shall (i) appoint a successor securities depository, qualified to act as such under Section 17A ofthe Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, notify DTC and DTC Participants of the appointment of such successor securities depository and transfer one or more separate Bonds to such successor securities depository or (ii) notify DTC and DTC Participants of the availability through DTC of Bonds and transfer one or more separate certificated Bonds to DTC Participants having Bonds credited to their DTC accounts. In such event, the Bonds shall no longer be restricted to being registered in the Registration Books in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of DTC, but may be registered in the name of the successor securities depository, or its nominee, or in whatever name or names Registered Owners transferring or exchanging Bonds shall designate, in accordance with the provisions of this Resolution. (c) Pavments to Cede & Co. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Resolution to the contrary, so long as any Bond is registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of DTC, all payments with respect to principal of and interest on such Bond and all notices with respect to such Bond shall be made and given, respectively, in the manner provided in the representations letter of the Issuer to DTC. ~~P120 (d) Blanket Issuer Letter of Representations. The previous execution and delivery of the Blanket Issuer Letter of Representations with respect to obligations of the Issuer is hereby ratified and confirmed; and the provisions thereof shall be fully applicable to the Bonds. Section 6. FORM OF BONDS. The form of the Bonds, including the form of Paying Agent/Registrar's Authentication Certificate, the form of Assignment and the form of Registration Certificate of the Comptroller to be attached to the Bonds initially issued and delivered pursuant to this Resolution, shall be, respectively, substantially as follows, with such appropriate variations, omissions, or insertions as are permitted or required by this Resolution. (a) [Form of Bond] NO. R- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRINCIPAL STATE OF TEXAS AMOUNT PARIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION $ SALES TAX REVENUE REFUNDING BOND TAXABLE SERIES 2010 Interest Rate Dated Date Maturity Date CUSIP % AprillS, 2010 September 1, REGISTERED OWNER: PRINCIPAL AMOUNT: DOLLARS ON THE MATURITY DATE specified above, PARIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (the "Issuer"), being a nonstock, nonprofit industrial development corporation created pursuantto Section 4A ofthe Development Corporation Act, formerly Article 5190.6, Texas Revised Civil Statutes, as amended, and now operating, existing and governed by the recodified provisions of such Act as a Type A corporation, under such Act, as such Act has been codified in Chapters 501, 502 and 504, Texas Local Government Code, as amended (the "Act"), and acting on behalf of the City of Paris, Texas (the "City"), hereby promises to pay to the Registered Owner set forth above, or registered assigns (hereinafter called the "registered owner") the principal amount set forth above unless prepaid by the Issuer as permitted hereby, and to pay interest thereon, from the Dated Date above, calculated on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest is payable on September 1, 2010 and semiannually on each March 1 and September 1 thereafter to the Maturity Date specified above; except, if this Bond is required to be authenticated and the date of its authentication is later than the first Record Date (hereinafter defined), such principal amount shall bear interest from the interest payment date next preceding the date of authentication, unless such date of authentication is after any Record Date but on or before the next following interest payment date, in which case such principal amount shall bear interest from such next following interest payment date; provided, however, that if on the date of authentication hereof the interest on the Bond or Bonds, if any, for which this Bond is being exchanged is due but has not been paid, then this Bond shall bear interest from the date to which such interest has been paid in full. THE PRINCIPAL OF AND INTEREST ON this Bond are payable in lawful money of the United States of America, without exchange or collection charges. The principal of this Bond shall be paid to the registered owner hereof upon presentation and surrender of this Bond at maturity at the designated corporate trust office of The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association, in Dallas, Texas, which is the "Paying Agent/Registrar" for this Bond. The payment of interest on this Bond shall be made by the Paying Agent/Registrar to the registered owner hereof on each interest payment date by check or draft, dated as of such interest payment date, drawn by the Paying Agent/Registrar on, and payable solely from, funds of the Issuer required by the resolution of the Issuer authorizing the issuance of this Bond (the "Bond Resolution") to be on deposit with the Paying Agent/Registrar for such purpose as hereinafter provided; and such check or draft shall be sent by the Paying Agent/Registrar by United States mail, first-class postage prepaid, on each such interest payment date, to the registered owner hereof, at its address as it appeared on the fifteenth day of the month next preceding each such date (the "Record Date") on the Registration Books kept by the Paying Agent/Registrar, as hereinafter described. In addition, interest may be paid by such other method, acceptable to the Paying Agent/Registrar, requested by, and at the risk and expense of, the registered owner. In the event of a non-payment of interest on a scheduled payment date, and for 30 days thereafter, a new record date for such interest payment (a "Special Record Date") will be established by the Paying Agent/Registrar, if and when funds for the payment of such interest have been received from the Issuer. Notice of the Special Record Date and of the scheduled payment date of the past due interest (which shall be 15 days after the Special Record Date) shall be sent at least five business days prior to the Special Record Date by United States mail, first-class postage prepaid, to the address of each owner of a Bond appearing on the Registration Books at the close of business on the last business day next preceding the date of mailing of such notice. ANY ACCRUED INTEREST due at maturity of this Bond as provided herein shall be paid to the registered owner upon presentation and surrender of this Bond for payment at the designated corporate trust office ofthe Paying Agent/Registrar. The Issuer covenants with the registered owner of this Bond that on or before each principal payment date, interest payment date, and accrued interest payment date for this Bond it will make available to the Paying Agent/Registrar, from the "Debt Service Fund" created by the Bond Resolution, the amounts required to provide for the payment, in immediately available funds, of all principal of and interest on the Bonds, when due. IF THE DATE for the payment of the principal of or interest on this Bond shall be a Saturday, Sunday, a legal holiday, or a day on which banking institutions in the city where the designated corporate trust office of the Paying Agent/Registrar is located are authorized by law or executive order to close, then the date for such payment shall be the next succeeding day which is not such a Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday, or day on which banking institutions are authorized to close; and payment on such date shall have the same force and effect as if made on the original date payment was due. THIS BOND is dated April 15, 2010, authorized in accordance with the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas in the aggregate principal amount of $2,685,000 for the public purpose of refunding certain outstanding obligations of the Issuer, and to pay the costs incurred in connection with the issuance of the Bonds. lo THE BONDS OF THIS SERIES are not subject to redemption prior to maturity. ALL BONDS OF THIS SERIES are issuable solely as fully registered Bonds, without interest coupons, in the denomination of $5,000 or any integral multiple of $5,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Bond Resolution, this Bond may, at the request of the registered owner or the assignee or assignees hereof, be assigned, transferred, converted into and exchanged for a like aggregate principal amount of fully registered Bonds, without interest coupons, payable to the appropriate registered owner, assignee or assignees, as the case may be, having the same denomination or denominations in any integral multiple of $5,000 or any integral multiple of $5,000 in excess thereof as requested in writing by the appropriate registered owner, assignee or assignees, as the case may be, upon surrender of this Bond to the Paying Agent/Registrar for cancellation, all in accordance with the form and procedures set forth in the Bond Resolution. Among other requirements for such assignment and transfer, this Bond must be presented and surrendered to the Paying Agent/Registrar, together with proper instruments of assignment, in form and with guarantee of signatures satisfactory to the Paying Agent/Registrar, evidencing assignment of this Bond or any portion or portions hereof in denominations of $5,000 or any integral multiple of $5,000 in excess thereof to the assignee or assignees in whose name or names this Bond or any such portion or portions hereof is or are to be registered. The form of Assignment printed or endorsed on this Bond may be executed by the registered owner to evidence the assignment hereof, but such method is not exclusive, and other instruments of assignment satisfactory to the Paying Agent/Registrar may be used to evidence the assignment of this Bond or any portion or portions hereof from time to time by the registered owner. The Paying Agent/Registrar's reasonable standard or customary fees and charges for assigning, transferring, converting and exchanging any Bond or portion thereof will be paid by the Issuer. In any circumstance, any taxes or governmental charges required to be paid with respect thereto shall be paid by the one requesting such assignment, transfer, conversion or exchange, as a condition precedent to the exercise of such privilege. The Paying Agent/Registrar shall not be required to make any such transfer, conversion, or exchange during the period commencing with the close of business on any Record Date and ending with the opening of business on the next following principal or interest payment date. IN THE EVENT any Paying Agent/Registrar for the Bonds is changed by the Issuer, resigns, or otherwise ceases to act as such, the Issuer has covenanted in the Bond Resolution that it promptly will appoint a competent and legally qualified substitute therefor, and cause written notice thereof to be mailed to the registered owners of the Bonds. IT IS HEREBY certified, recited, and covenanted that this Bond has been duly and validly authorized, issued, sold, and delivered; that all acts, conditions, and things required or proper to be performed, exist, and be done precedent to or in the authorization, issuance, and delivery of this Bond have been performed, existed, and been done in accordance with law; that this Bond is a special obligation of the Issuer; that neither the State of Texas, the City, nor any political corporation, subdivision, or agency of the State of Texas, nor any member of the Board of Directors of the Issuer, either individually or collectively, shall be obligated to pay the principal of or the interest on this Bond and neither the faith and credit nor the taxing power (except as described below) of the State of Texas, the City, or any other political corporation, subdivision, or agency 11 ~0 0 i thereof is pledged to the payment of the principal of or the interest on this Bond; that the principal of and interest on this Bond are secured by and payable from a first lien on and pledge of certain funds created under the Bond Resolution and the revenues defined in the Bond Resolution as the "Pledged Revenues", which include the proceeds of a one-quarter of one percent sales and use tax levied for the benefit of the Issuer by the City (the "Sales Tax") pursuant to the Act; and that the registered owner hereof shall not have the right to demand payment of the principal of or interest on this Bond from any tax proceeds other than the Sales Tax proceeds levied for the benefit of the Issuer by the City pursuant to the Act, or from any other source. THE iSSUER HAS RESERVED the right in the Bond Resolution, subject to certain conditions set forth therein, to issue obligations or incur indebtedness from time to time in the future on a parity with the Bonds with respect to the pledge of and lien on the Pledged Revenues which secures the Bonds. The Issuer may also issue obligations or incur indebtedness which is secured on a junior and subordinate lien with respect to the Pledged Revenues. The Bond Resolution further provides that the Issuer may create a debt service reserve fund and fund it or provide for it to be funded in connection with the issuance of any obligations or the incurrence of any indebtedness which possesses a lien on and pledge of the Pledged Revenues on a parity with the Bonds, and that such reserve shall secure only the obligations or indebtedness for which it was funded or is to be funded. The Issuer has created a debt service reserve fund for the benefit of the Bonds. THE ISSUER HAS RESERVED THE RIGHT to amend the Bond Resolution as provided therein, and under some (but not all) circumstances amendments thereto must be approved by the registered owners of the Bonds. BY BECOMING the registered owner of this Bond, the registered owner thereby acknowledges all of the terms and provisions of the Bond Resolution, agrees to be bound by such terms and provisions, acknowledges that the Bond Resolution is duly recorded and available for inspection in the official minutes and records of the governing body of the Issuer, and agrees that the terms and provisions of this Bond and the Bond Resolution constitute a contract between each registered owner hereof and the Issuer. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this Bond to be signed with the manual or facsimile signature of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Issuer and countersigned with the manual or facsimile signature of the Secretary of the Board of Directors of said Issuer, and has caused the official seal of the Issuer to be duly impressed, or placed in facsimile, on this Bond. (si ng ature) Secretary, Board of Directors (si ng ature) Chairman, Board of Directors (SEAL) (b) FORM OF PAYING AGENT/REGISTRAR'S AUTHENTICATION CERTIFICATE PAYING AGENT/REGISTRAR'S AUTHENTICATION CERTIFICATE 12 (To be executed if this Bond is not accompanied by an executed Registration Certificate of the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas) It is hereby certified that this Bond has been issued under the provisions of the Bond Resolution described in the text of this Bond; and that this Bond has been issued in conversion or replacement of, or in exchange for, a Bond, Bonds, or a portion of a Bond or Bonds of a Series which originally was approved by the Attorney General of the State of Texas and registered by the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas. Dated The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association, Dallas, Texas Paying Agent/Registrar By Authorized Representative (c) FORM OF ASSIGNMENT ASSIGNMENT For value received, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto Please insert Social Security or Taxpayer Identification Number of Transferee (Please print or typewrite name and address, including zip code, of Transferee) the within Bond and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints , attorney, to register the transfer ofthe within Bond on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises. Dated: Dated: Signature Guaranteed: 13 NOTICE: Signature(s) must be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution participating in a securities transfer association recognized signature guarantee program. NOTICE: The signature above must correspond with the name of the registered owner as it appears upon the front of this Bond in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. (d) FORM OF REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE OF THE COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS: COMPTROLLER'S REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE: REGISTER NO. I hereby certify that this Bond has been examined, certified as to validity, and approved by the Attorney General of the State of Texas, and that this Bond has been registered by the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas. Witness my signature and seal this Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas (COMPTROLLER'S SEAL) Initial Bond Insertions (i) The Initial Bond shall be in the form set forth is paragraph (a) of this Section, except that: A. immediately under the name of the Bond, the headings "INTEREST RATE" and "MATURITY DATE" shall both be completed with the words "As shown below" and "CUSIP" shall be deleted. B. the first paragraph shall be deleted and the following will be inserted: "PARIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (the "Issuer"), being a nonstock, nonprofit industrial development corporation created pursuant to Section 4A of the Development Corporation Act, formerly Article 5190.6, Texas Revised Civil Statutes, as amended, and now operating, existing and governed by the recodified provisions of such Act as a Type A corporation under such Act, as such Act has been codified in Chapters 501, 502 and 504, Texas Local Government Code, as amended (the "Act"), and acting on behalf of the City of Paris, Texas (the "City"), hereby promises to pay to the Registered Owner specified above, or registered assigns (hereinafter called the "registered owner"), on each September 1 in the years, in the principal installments and bearing interest at the per annum rates set forth in the following schedule: Years Principal Installments Interest Rates 14 . ~s (Information from Section 3 to be inserted) The Issuer promises to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount hereof from the Dated Date above, calculated on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest is payable on September 1, 2010 and semiannually on each March 1 and September l thereafter to the date of payment of the principal installment specified above; except, that if this Bond is required to be authenticated and the date of its authentication is later than the first Record Date (hereinafter defined), such principal amount shall bear interest from the interest payment date next preceding the date of authentication, unless such date of authentication is after any Record Date but on or before the next following interest payment date, in which case such principal amount shall bear interest from such next following interest payment date; provided, however, that if on the date of authentication hereof the interest on the Bond or Bonds, if any, for which this Bond is being exchanged is due but has not been paid, then this Bond shall bear interest from the date to which such interest has been paid in full." C. The Initial Bond shall be numbered "T-1." Section 7. PLEDGE. (a) The Bonds and any interest payable thereon, and any Additional Obligations which may be issued in accordance herewith and be Outstanding from time to time, and any interest payable thereon, are and shall be secured by and payable from a first lien on and pledge of the Pledged Revenues, subject to the priorities set forth in Section 8 hereof, and from amounts on deposit in the Debt Service Fund created in accordance with Section 8 hereof. In addition, the Bonds (but not any other series of Additional Obligations) are secured by amounts on deposit in the 2010 Reserve Fund created in accordance with Section 10 hereo£ The Bonds are and will be secured by and payable only from the Pledged Revenues and such funds, as aforesaid, and not from amounts on deposit in any other funds or accounts of the Issuer, and are not secured by or payable from a mortgage or deed of trust on any real, personal or mixed properties of the Issuer. Neither the State of Texas, the City, nor any political corporation, subdivision, or agency of the State of Texas, nor any member of the Board, either individually or collectively, shall be obligated to pay the principal of or the interest on the Bonds and neither the faith and credit nor the taxing power (except as described below) of the State of Texas, the City, or any other political corporation, subdivision, or agency thereof is pledged to the payment of the principal of or the interest on the Bonds. The Registered Owners of the Bonds shall not have the right to demand payment of the principal of or interest on the Bonds from any tax proceeds other than the Sales Tax proceeds levied for the benefit of the Issuer by the City pursuant to the Act, or from any other source. (b) Article 1208, Government Code, applies to the issuance of the Bonds and the pledge of the Pledged Revenues granted by the Issuer under this Section, and is therefore valid, effective, and perfected. Should Texas law be amended at any time while the Bonds are outstanding and unpaid, the result of such amendment being that the pledge of the taxes granted by the Issuer under this Section is to be subject to the filing requirements of Chapter 9, Business & Commerce Code, in order to preserve to the Registered Owners of the Bonds a security interest in said pledge, the Issuer agrees to take such measures as it determines are reasonable and necessary under Texas law IS I W. QOCi1124 to comply with the applicable provisions of Chapter 9, Business & Commerce Code and enable a filing of a security interest in said pledge to occur. Section 8. REVENUE Fi1ND. There shall be created and established on the books of the Issuer, and accounted for separate and apart from all other funds of the Issuer, a special trust fund entitled the "Paris Economic Development Corporation Sales Tax Revenue Fund" (hereinafter called the "Revenue Fund"). All Pledged Revenues shall be credited to the Revenue Fund immediately upon receipt. All Pledged Revenues deposited into the Revenue Fund shall be transferred monthly to the following funds in the following order of priority: FIRST: To the payment of the amounts required to be deposited in the Debt Service Fund for the payment of Debt Service on the Parity Obligations as the same becomes due and payable; SECOND: On a pro rata basis, to each debt service reserve fund created by any resolution authorizing the issuance of Parity Obligations, which contains less than the amount to be accumulated and/or maintained therein, as provided in such resolutions; THIRD: To the payment of amounts required to be deposited in any other fund or account required by any resolution authorizing the issuance of Parity Obligations; and FOURTH: To any fund or account held at any place or places, or to any payee, required by any other resolution of the Board which authorized the issuance of obligations or the creation of debt of the Issuer having a lien on the Pledged Revenues subordinate to the lien created herein on behalf of the Parity Obligations. Any Pledged Revenues remaining in the Revenue Fund each month after satisfying the foregoing payments, or making adequate and sufficient provision for the payment thereof, may be appropriated and used for any other lawful purpose now or hereafter permitted by law. Section 9. DEBT SERVICE FiJND. For the sole purpose of paying the principal of and interest on the Parity Obligations Outstanding at any time, as the same come due (including principal coming due as a result of any mandatory redemption of the Parity Obligations), there shall be created and established on the books of the Issuer a separate trust fund entitled the "Paris Economic Development Corporation Economic Development Sales Tax Revenue Refunding Bonds Debt Service Fund" (hereinafter called the "Debt Service Fund"). The Issuer covenants that there shall be deposited into the Debt Service Fund prior to each principal and interest payment date from the Pledged Revenues an amount equal to one hundred per cent (100%) of the interest on and the principal of the Bonds then falling due and payable, and such deposits to pay principal and accrued interest on the Bonds shall be made in substantially equal monthly installments on or before the 25th day of each month, beginning on or before the 25th day of the month next following the delivery of the Bonds to the initial purchasers thereof; provided, however, that in any Fiscal Year the Issuer may elect to fund the Debt Service Fund on an accelerated basis and at any time when amounts on deposit in the Debt Service Fund are sufficient to make payment of all principal and interest coming due on the Outstanding Parity Obligations within the next twelve months, such deposits of Pledged 16 Revenues to the Debt Service Fund may be discontinued, until there is once again an amount less than the principal and interest coming due on the Outstanding Parity Obligations within the next twelve months, at which time such deposits shall be resumed. The required deposits to the Debt Service Fund for the payment of principal of and interest on the Bonds shall continue to be made as hereinabove provided until (i) the total amount on deposit in the Debt Service Fund is equal to the amount required to fully pay and discharge the Bonds (principal and interest) then Outstanding or (ii) the Bonds are no longer Outstanding. Section 10. 2010 RESERVE FLTND AND RESERVES FOR PARITY OBLIGATIONS. (a) There is hereby created and ordered held at a depository of the Issuer, for the benefit of the Bonds, the 2010 Reserve Fund. Upon the delivery of the Bonds, the Issuer shall deposit and credit to the 2010 Reserve Fund an amount not less than $346,192, being the Required Reserve Amount (as defined below) for the Bonds. Such deposit shall be made from amounts currently on deposit in the debt service reserve fund for the Refunded Bonds. The Issuer shall maintain a balance in the 2010 Reserve Fund in an amount equal to the Average Annual Debt Service requirements (which shall be recalculated on or about each March 1 and September 1 of each year) on the Bonds (the "Required Reserve Amount"). The Required Reserve Amount shall be maintained in the 2010 Reserve Fund at all times after the delivery of the Bonds. All funds and investments on deposit and credited to the 2010 Reserve Fund shall be used solely for (i) the payment of the principal of and interest on the Bonds, when and to the extent other funds available for such purposes are insufficient, (ii) to retire the last stated maturity or stated maturities of or interest on the Bonds, or (iii) as provided in clause (c) below, any excess amount in the 2010 Reserve Fund may be transferred to the Revenue Fund and allocated in accordance with Section 7 hereof. (b) When and for so long as the cash and investments in the 2010 Reserve Fund equal the Required Reserve Amount, no deposits need be made to the credit of the 2010 Reserve Fund; but, if and when the 2010 Reserve Fund at any time contains less than the Required Reserve Amount, the Issuer covenants and agrees that the Issuer shall cure the deficiency in the 2010 Reserve Fund by making deposits to the 2010 Reserve Fund from the Pledged Revenues in accordance with Section 7 by monthly deposits in amounts equal to not less than 1/60th of the Required Reserve Amount with any such deficiency payments being made on or before the last day of each month until the Required Reserve Amount has been fully restored. The Issuer further covenants and agrees that, subject only to the prior deposits to be made to the Debt Service Fund, the Pledged Revenues shall be applied and appropriated and used to establish and maintain the Required Reserve Amount, and any reserve fund that may be established for the benefit of any issue or series of Additional Obligations and to cure any deficiency in such amounts as required by the terms of this Resolution and any other resolution pertaining to the issuance of Additional Obligations. (c) Earnings and income derived from the investment of amounts held for the credit of the 2010 Reserve Fund shall be retained in the 2010 Reserve Fund until the 2010 Reserve Fund contains the Required Reserve Amount. During such time as the 2010 Reserve Fund contains the Required Reserve Amount, the Issuer may, at its option, withdraw all surplus funds in the 2010 Reserve Fund and deposit such surplus in the Revenue Fund. 17 . ~ ~ (d) The Issuer may create and establish a debt service reserve fund pursuant to the provisions of any resolution or other instrument authorizing the issuance of Parity Obligations for the purpose of securing that particular issue or series of Parity Obligations or any specific group of issues or series of Parity Obligations, and the amounts once deposited or credited to said debt service reserve funds shall no longer constitute Pledged Revenues and shall be held solely for the benefit of the owners of the particular Parity Obligations for which such debt service reserve fund was established. Each debt service reserve fund shall receive a pro rata amount of the Pledged Revenues after the requirements of the Debt Service Fund, which secures all Parity Obligations, have first been met. Each such debt service reserve fund shall be designated in such manner as is necessary to identify the Parity Obligations it secures and to distinguish such debt service reserve fund from the debt service reserve funds created for the benefit of other Parity Obligations. Each resolution authorizing the issuance of Parity Obligations that are to be secured by a debt service reserve fund shall specify the amount or a manner of calculating the amount to be held and maintained on deposit therein. Section 11. TRANSFER. (a) Pursuant to the provisions of the Transfer Agreement, the City has agreed to do any and all things necessary to accomplish the transfer of the Sales Tax collected for the benefit of the Issuer to the Revenue Fund on a monthly basis. The Transfer Agreement shall govern matters with respect to the collection of sales and use taxes from the Comptroller, credits and refunds due and owing to the Comptroller, and other matters with respect to the collection and transfer of the Sales Tax. (b) The Chairman and the Treasurer of the Board are hereby ordered to do any and all things necessary to accomplish the transfer of money to the funds established hereby in ample time to pay the principal of and interest on the Bonds. Section 12. INVESTMENTS. Money in any fund established by this Resolution may, at the option of the Board, be invested in eligible investment securities as described in the Investment Act; provided that all such investments shall be made in such manner that the money required to be expended from any fund will be available at the proper time or times. Investment earnings realized on investments attributable to the Debt Service Fund shall be retained therein and shall constitute a credit against the amount of money that is required to be on deposit therein for each payment of principal or interest. Such investments shall be valued in terms of current market value as of the last day of each Fiscal Year. Such investments shall be sold promptly when necessary to prevent any default in connection with the Bonds. Section 13. FLJNDS SECURED. Money in all funds created by this Resolution, to the extent not invested, shall be secured in the manner prescribed by law for securing funds of the City. Section 14. PAYMENT. On or before September 1, 2010, and semiannually on or before each March 1 and September 1 thereafter while any of the Bonds are Outstanding and unpaid, the Issuer shall cause to be transferred to the Paying Agent/Registrar amounts sufficient to make payment of the principal of and interest on the Bonds to the Holder thereof with funds on deposit in the Debt Service Fund. 18 ~r) ~s~~o Section 15. ADDITIONAL OBLIGATIONS. In addition to the right to issue obligations of inferior lien, the Issuer reserves the right to issue Additional Obligations which, when duly authorized and issued in compliance with law and the terms and conditions hereinafter appearing, shall be on a parity with the Bonds herein authorized, payable from and equally and ratably secured by a lien on and pledge of the Pledged Revenues. The Additional Obligations may be issued in one or more installments, provided, however, that none shall be issued unless and until the following conditions have been met: (a) The Chairman of the Board shall have executed a certificate stating (A) that, to the best of such person's knowledge and belief, the Issuer is not then in default as to any covenant or requirement contained in any resolution authorizing the issuance of outstanding Parity Obligations, and (B) either (1) payments into all special funds or accounts created and established for the payment and security of all outstanding Parity Obligations have been made and that the amounts on deposit in such special funds or accounts are the amounts then required to be on deposit therein or (2) the application of the proceeds of sale of such obligations then being issued will cure any such deficiency. (b) The Designated Financial Officer signs and delivers to the Board a written certificate reflecting that for (i) the Fiscal Year next preceding the adoption of the resolution authorizing the proposed Additional Obligations or (ii) a consecutive twelve (12) month period out of the eighteen (18) month period next preceding the month in which the resolution authorizing the proposed Additional Obligations is adopted, the Pledged Revenues and interest earnings thereon were equal at least to 1.50 times the Average Annual Debt Service requirements on all Parity Obligations to be outstanding after the issuance of the proposed Additional Obligations; provided, however, that in the event an increase in the rate of the Sales Tax becomes effective prior to the date of a resolution authorizing the issuance of Additional Obligations, such certificate or report shall calculate the Pledged Revenues for the calculation period as if such increased rate were in effect during the calculation period. (c) The resolution authorizing the Additional Obligations provides that the Debt Service Fund be augmented by amounts adequate to accumulate the sum required to pay the principal and interest on such obligations as the same shall become due. SECTION 16. REFLJNDING BONDS. The Issuer reserves the right to issue refunding bonds to refund all or any part of the Parity Obligations (pursuant to any law then available) upon such terms and conditions as the Board may deem to be in the best interest of the Issuer, and if less than all such Parity Obligations then Outstanding are refunded, the conditions precedent (for the issuance of Additional Obligations) set forth in Section 14 hereof shall be satisfied, and shall give effect to the refunding. SECTION 17. SUBORDINATE DEBT. Except as may be limited by a resolution adopted in connection with a subsequent issuance of Parity Obligations, the Issuer shall have the right to issue or create any debt payable from or secured by a lien on all or any part of the Pledged Revenues for any lawful purpose without complying with the provisions of Section 14 or 15 hereof, provided the pledge and the lien securing such debt is subordinate to the pledge and lien established, made 19 0 0 0 13.1 and created in Section 6 of this Resolution with respect to the Pledged Revenues to the payment and security of the Parity Obligations. Section 18. GENERAL COVENANTS. The Issuer further covenants and agrees that in accordance with and to the extent required or permitted by law: (a) Performance. It will faithfully perform at all times any and all covenants, undertakings, stipulations, and provisions contained in this Resolution and in every Bond; it will promptly pay or cause to be paid the principal of and interest on every Bond on the dates and in the places and manner prescribed in this Resolution and the Bonds; and it will, at the times and in the manner prescribed, deposit or cause to be deposited the amounts required to be deposited into the funds created hereby; and any registered owner of the Bonds may require the Issuer, its officials and employees to carry out, respect or enforce the covenants and obligations of this Resolution, by all legal and equitable means, including specifically, but without limitation, the use and filing of mandamus proceedings, in any court of competent jurisdiction, against the Issuer, its officials and employees, or by the appointment of a receiver in equity. (b) Legal Authoritv. It is a duly created and existing industrial development corporation, and is duly authorized under the laws of the State of Texas, including the Act, to create and issue the Bonds; that all action on its part for the creation and issuance of the Bonds has been duly and effectively taken, and that the Bonds in the hands of the registered owners thereof are and will be valid and enforceable special obligations of the Issuer in accordance with their terms. (c) Further Encumbrance. It, while the Bonds or any Additional Obligations are outstanding and unpaid, will not additionally encumber the Pledged Revenues in any manner, except as permitted in this Resolution in connection with Additional Obligations, unless said encumbrance is made junior and subordinate in all respects to the liens, pledges, covenants and agreements of this Resolution; but the right of the Issuer to issue revenue bonds payable from a subordinate lien on the Pledged Revenues, in accordance with the provisions of the Act as more particularly provided in Section 16 hereof, is specifically recognized and retained. (d) Collection of Sales Tax. (i) The Issuer hereby confirms the earlier levy by the City of the Sales Tax at the rate voted at the election held by and within the City on May l, 1993, and the Issuer hereby warrants and represents that the City has duly and lawfully ordered the imposition and collection of the Sales Tax upon all sales, uses and transactions as are permitted by and described in the Act throughout the boundaries of the City as such boundaries existed on the date of said election and as they may have been expanded thereafter. (ii) For so long as any Bonds or Additional Obligations are outstanding, the Issuer covenants, agrees and warrants to take and pursue all action permissible under applicable law to cause the Sales Tax, at said rate or at a higher rate if permitted by applicable law, to be levied and collected continuously, in the manner and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, and necessary or desirable, and to cause no reduction, abatement or 20 000132 exemption in the Sales Tax or rate of tax below the rate stated, confirmed and ordered in subsection (d)(i) of this Section to be ordered or permitted so long as any Bonds or Additional Obligations shall remain outstanding. (iii) If the City shall be authorized hereafter by applicable law to apply, impose and levy the Sales Tax on any taxable items or transactions that are not subject to the Sales Tax on the date of the adoption hereof, the Issuer, to the extent it legally may do so, hereby covenants and agrees to use its best efforts to cause the City to take such action as may be required by applicable law to subject such taxable items or transactions to the Sales Tax. (iv) The Issuer agrees to take and pursue all action permissible under applicable law to cause the Sales Tax to be collected and remitted and deposited as herein required and as required by the Act, at the earliest and most frequent times permitted by applicable law. (v) The Issuer agrees and covenants at all times to use its best efforts to cause the City to comply with the Transfer Agreement. (e) Records. It will keep proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct entries will be made of all dealings, activities and transactions relating to the Pledged Revenues and the funds created pursuant to this Resolution, and all books, documents and vouchers relating thereto shall at all reasonable times be made available for inspection upon request of any bondholders. (f) Corporate Existence. It will maintain its corporate existence during the time that any Bonds are outstanding hereunder. SECTION 19. DEFEASANCE OF BONDS. (a) Any Bond and the interest thereon shall be deemed to be paid, retired and no longer outstanding (a "Defeased Bond") within the meaning of this Resolution, except to the extent provided in subsection (d) ofthis Section, when payment ofthe principal of such Bond, plus interest thereon to the due date (whether such due date be by reason of maturity or otherwise) either (i) shall have been made or caused to be made in accordance with the terms thereof, or (ii) shall have been provided for on or before such due date by irrevocably depositing with or making available to the Paying Agent/Registrar in accordance with an escrow agreement or other instrument (the "Future Escrow Agreement") for such payment (1) lawful money of the United States of America sufficient to make such payment or (2) Defeasance Securities that mature as to principal and interest in such amounts and at such times as will insure the availability, without reinvestment, of sufficient money to provide for such payment, and when proper arrangements have been made by the Issuer with the Paying Agent/Registrar for the payment of its services until the Defeased Bond shall have become due and payable. At such time as a Bond shall be deemed to be a Defeased Bond hereunder, as aforesaid, such Bond and the interest thereon shall no longer be secured by, payable from, or entitled to the benefits of, the Pledged Revenues as provided in this Resolution, and such principal and interest shall be payable solely from such money or Defeasance Securities. 21 - Q00013;i (b) Any moneys so deposited with the Paying Agent/Registrar may at the written direction of the Issuer be invested in Defeasance Securities, maturing in the amounts and times as hereinbefore set forth, and all income from such Defeasance Securities received by the Paying Agent/Registrar that is not required for the payment of the Bonds and interest thereon, with respect to which such money has been so deposited, shall be turned over to the Issuer, or deposited as directed in writing by the Issuer. Any Future Escrow Agreement pursuant to which the money and/or Defeasance Securities are held for the payment of a Defeased Bond may contain provisions permitting the investment or reinvestment of such moneys in Defeasance Securities or the substitution of other Defeasance Securities upon the satisfaction of the requirements specified in subsection (a)(i) or (ii) of this Section. All income from such Defeasance Securities received by the Paying Agent/Registrar which is not required for the payment of the Defeased Bond, with respect to which such money has been so deposited, shall be remitted to the Issuer or deposited as directed in writing by the Issuer. (c) The term "Defeasance Securities" means direct, noncallable obligations ofthe United States of America, including obligations that are unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of America, which may be United States Treasury obligations such as its State and Local Government Series, and which may be in book-entry form. (d) Until the Defeased Bonds shall have become due and payable, the Paying Agent/Registrar shall perform the services of Paying Agent/Registrar for such Defeased Bonds the same as if they had not been defeased, and the I ssuer shall make proper arrangements to provide and pay for such services as required by this Resolution. Section 20. DAMAGED, MUTILATED, LOST, STOLEN, OR DESTROYED BONDS. (a) Replacement Bonds. In the event any outstanding Bond is damaged, mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Paying Agent/Registrar shall cause to be printed, executed and delivered, a new Bond of the same principal amount, maturity and interest rate, as the damaged, mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed Bond, in replacement for such Bond in the manner hereinafter provided. (b) Annlication for Replacement Bond. Application for replacement of a damaged, mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed Bond shall be made by the Registered Owner thereof to the Paying Agent/Registrar. In every case of loss, theft or destruction of a Bond, the Registered Owner applying for a replacement Bond shall furnish to the Issuer and to the Paying Agent/Registrar such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless from any loss or damage with respect thereto. Also, in every case of loss, theft or destruction of a Bond, the Registered Owner shall furnish to the Issuer and to the Paying AgendRegistrar evidence to their satisfaction of the loss, theft or destruction of such Bond, as the case may be. In every case of damage or mutilation of a Bond, the Registered Owner shall surrender to the Paying Agent/Registrar for cancellation the Bond so damaged or mutilated. (c) No Default Occurred. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section, in the event any such Bond shall have matured, and no default has occurred that is then continuing in the payment of the principal of or interest on the Bond, the Issuer may authorize the payment of the 22 - 000134 same (without surrender thereof except in the case of a damaged or mutilated Bond) instead of issuing a replacement Bond, provided security or indemnity is furnished as above provided in this Section. (d) Charge for Issuing Replacement Bond. Prior to the issuance of any replacement Bond, the Paying Agent/Registrar shall charge the Registered Owner of such Bond with all legal, printing, and other expenses in connection therewith. Every replacement Bond issued pursuant to the provisions of this Section by virtue of the fact that any Bond is lost, stolen or destroyed shall constitute a contractual obligation of the Issuer whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Bond shall be found at any time, or be enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Resolution. (e) Authority for Issuing Renlacement Bonds. In accordance with Sec. 1206.022, Government Code, this Section 7 of this Resolution shall constitute authority for the issuance of any such replacement Bonds without necessity of further action by the governing body of the Issuer or any other body or person, and the duty of the replacement of such Bonds is hereby authorized and imposed upon the Paying Agent/Registrar, and the Paying Agent/Registrar shall authenticate and deliver such Bonds in the form and manner and with the effect, as provided in Section 3(a) of this Resolution for a Bond issued in exchange for another Bond. Section 21. CUSTODY, APPROVAL, AND REGISTRATION OF BONDS; BOND COUNSEL'S OPINION; CUSIP NUMBERS AND INSURANCE PROVISION; ENGAGEMENT OF BOND COUNSEL. (a) The Chairman of the Board is hereby authorized to have control of the Bond initially issued and delivered hereunder and all necessary records and proceedings pertaining to the Bond pending its delivery and their investigation, examination, and approval by the Attorney General, and their registration by the Comptroller. Upon registration of the Bond said Comptroller (or a deputy designated in writing to act for said Comptroller) shall manually sign the Comptroller's Registration Certificate attached to such Bond, and the seal of said Comptroller shall be impressed, or placed in facsimile, on such Bond. The approving legal opinion of the Issuer's Bond Counsel and the assigned CUSIP numbers (if obtained) may, at the option of the Issuer, be printed on the Bonds issued and delivered under this Resolution, but neither shall have any legal effect, and shall be solely for the convenience and information of the Registered Owners of the Bonds. The Issuer approves the insurance of the Bonds by Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. (the "Insurer"), and the payment of the premium for such insurance, and the Bonds may bear an appropriate legend as provided by the Insurer. (b) The obligation of the initial purchaser to accept delivery of the Bonds is subject to the initial purchaser being furnished with the final, approving opinion of McCall, Parkhurst & Horton L.L.P., bond counsel to the Issuer, which opinion shall be dated as of and delivered on the date of initial delivery of the Bonds to the initial purchaser. The engagement of such firm as bond counsel to the Issuer in connection with issuance, sale and delivery of the Bonds is hereby approved and confirmed. The execution and delivery of an engagement letter between the Issuer and such firm, with respect to such services as bond counsel, is hereby authorized in such form as may be 23 onp~ approved by the Chairman of the Board, and the Chairman of the Board is hereby authorized to execute such engagement letter. Section 22. BONDS NOT TAX-EXEMPT. The Issuer does not intend to issue the Bonds in a manner such that the Bonds would constitute obligations described in section 103(a) of the Code. Section 23. SALE OF BONDS. The Bonds are hereby sold and shall be delivered to First Southwest Company (the "Underwriter"), at a price of $2,663,497.75 (which represents the par amount of the Bonds, less an underwriting discount of $21,502.25) plus accrued interest on the Bonds, pursuant to the terms and provisions of a Bond Purchase Contract between the Issuer and the Underwriter, which the Chairman of the Board is hereby authorized to execute and deliver. It is hereby officially found, determined, and declared that the terms of this sale are the most advantageous reasonably obtainable. The Bonds shall initially be registered in the name of First Southwest Company. Section 24. APPROVAL OF OFFICIAL STATEMENT. The Issuer hereby approves the form and content of the Official Statement relating to the Bonds and any addenda, supplement or amendment thereto, and approves the distribution of such Official Statement in the reoffering of the Bonds by the Underwriter in final form, with such changes therein or additions thereto as the officer executing the same may deem advisable, such determination to be conclusively evidenced by his execution thereof. The distribution and use of the Preliminary Official Statement dated March 11, 2010, prior to the date hereof is hereby ratified and confirmed. Section 25. FURTHER PROCEDURES. The Chairman or Vice Chairman and Secretary of the Board and all other officers, employees and agents of the Issuer, and each of them, shall be and are hereby expressly authorized, empowered and directed from time to time and at any time to do and perform all such acts and things and to execute, acknowledge and deliver in the name and under the corporate seal and on behalf of the Blanket Issuer the Letter of Representations with DTC regarding the Book-Entry-Only System attached hereto, the Paying Agent/Registrar Agreement with the Paying Agent/Registrar, and all other instruments, whether herein mentioned, as may be necessary or desirable in order to carry out the terms and provisions of this Resolution, the Letter of Representation, the Bonds, the sale of the Bonds and the Official Statement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, while the Bonds are subject to DTC's Book-Entry-Only System and to the extent permitted by law, the Blanket Issuer Letter of Representations is hereby incorporated herein and its provisions shall prevail over any other provisions of this Resolution in the event of conflict. In case any officer whose signature shall appear on any Bond shall cease to be such officer before the delivery of such Bond, such signature shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes the same as if such officer had remained in office until such delivery. Section 26. COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 15c2-12. (a) Annual Reports. (i) The Issuer shall provide annually to the MSRB, within six months after the end of each fiscal year ending in or after 2010, financial information and operating data with respect to the Issuer of the general type included in the final Official Statement authorized by 24 - 0 i.lf` 0 ll 6 Section 24 of this Resolution, being the information described in Exhibit C hereto. Any financial statements so to be provided shall be (1) prepared in accordance with the accounting principles described in Exhibit C hereto, or such other accounting principles as the Issuer may be required to employ from time to time pursuant to state law or regulation, and (2) audited, if the Issuer commissions an audit of such statements and the audit is completed within the period during which they must be provided. If the audit of such financial statements is not complete within such period, then the Issuer shall provide unaudited financial statements by the required time and will provide audited financial statements for the applicable fiscal year to the MSRB, when and if the audit report on such statements become available. Such information shall be transmitted electronically to the MSRB, in such format and accompanied by such identifying information as prescribed by the MSRB. (ii) If the Issuer changes its fiscal year, it will notify the MSRB of the change (and of the date of the new fiscal year end) prior to the next date by which the Issuer otherwise would be required to provide financial information and operating data pursuant to this Section. The financial information and operating data to be provided pursuant to this Section may be set forth in full in one or more documents or may be included by specific reference to any document (including an official statement or other offering document, if it is available from the MSRB) that theretofore has been provided to the MSRB or filed with the SEC. (b) Material Event Notices. The Issuer shall notify the MSRB, in a timely manner, of any of the following events with respect to the Bonds, if such event is material within the meaning of the federal securities laws: 1. Principal and interest payment delinquencies; 2. Non-payment related defaults; 3. Unscheduled draws on debt service reserves reflecting financial difficulties; 4. Unscheduled draws on credit enhancements reflecting financial difficulties; 5. Substitution of credit or liquidity providers, or their failure to perform; 6. Adverse tax opinions or events affecting the tax-exempt status of the Bonds; 7. Modifications to rights of holders of the Bonds; 8. Bond calls; 9. Defeasances; 10. Release, substitution, or sale of property securing repayment of the Bonds; and 11. Rating changes. The Issuer shall notify the MSRB, in a timely manner, of any failure by the Issuer to provide financial information or operating data in accordance with subsection (a) of this Section by the time required by such subsection. (c) Limitations. Disclaimers, and Amendments. (i) The Issuer shall be obligated to observe and perform the covenants specified in this Section for so long as, but only for so long as, the Issuer remains an "obligated person" with respect to the Bonds within the meaning of the Rule, except that the Issuer in any event will give the notice required by Subsection (b) hereof of any Bond calls and defeasance that cause the Issuer to no longer be such an "obligated person". 25 (ii) The provisions of this Section are for the sole benefit of the registered owners and beneficial owners of the Bonds, and nothing in this Section, express or implied, shall give any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy, or claim hereunder to any other person. The Issuer undertakes to provide only the financial information, operating data, financial statements, and notices which it has expressly agreed to provide pursuant to this Section and does not hereby undertake to provide any other information that may be relevant or material to a complete presentation of the Issuer's financial results, condition, or prospects or hereby undertake to update any information provided in accordance with this Section or otherwise, except as expressly provided herein. The Issuer does not make any representation or warranty concerning such information or its usefulness to a decision to invest in or sell Bonds at any future date. (iii) UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL THE ISSUER BE LIABLE TO THE REGISTERED OWNER OR BENEFICIAL OWNER OF ANY BOND OR ANY OTHER PERSON, IN CONTRACT OR TORT, FOR DAMAGES RESULTING IN WHOLE OR IN PART FROM ANY BREACH BY THE ISSUER, WHETHERNEGLIGENT OR WITHOUT FAULT ON ITS PART, OF ANY COVENANT SPECIFIED IN THIS SECTION, BUT EVERY RIGHT AND REMEDY OF ANY SUCH PERSON, IN CONTRACT OR TORT, FOR OR ON ACCOUNT OF ANY SUCH BREACH SHALL BE LIMITED TO AN ACTION FOR MANDAMUS OR SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE. (iv) No default by the Issuer in observing or performing its obligations under this Section shall comprise a breach of or default under this Resolution for purposes of any other provision of this Resolution. Nothing in this Section is intended or shall act to disclaim, waive, or otherwise limit the duties of the Issuer under federal and state securities laws. (v) The provisions of this Section may be amended by the Issuer from time to time to adapt to changed circumstances that arise from a change in legal requirements, a change in law, or a change in the identity, nature, status, or type of operations of the Issuer, but only if (1) the provisions of this Section, as so amended, would have permitted an underwriter to purchase or sell Bonds in the primary offering of the Bonds in compliance with the Rule, taking into account any amendments or interpretations of the Rule since such offering as well as such changed circumstances and (2) either (a) the registered owners of a majority in aggregate principal amount (or any greater amount required by any other provision of this Resolution that authorizes such an amendment) of the outstanding Bonds consent to such amendment or (b) a person that is unaffiliated with the Issuer (such as nationally recognized bond counsel) determined that such amendment will not materially impair the interest of the registered owners and beneficial owners of the Bonds. If the Issuer so amends the provisions of this Section, it shall include with any amended financial information or operating data next provided in accordance with subsection (a) of this Section an explanation, in narrative form, of the reason for the amendment and of the impact of any change in the type of financial information or operating data so provided. The Issuer may also amend or repeal the provisions of this continuing disclosure agreement if the SEC amends or repeals the applicable provision of the Rule or a court of final jurisdiction enters judgment that such provisions of the Rule are invalid, but only if and to the extent that the provisions of this sentence would not prevent an underwriter from lawfully purchasing or selling Bonds in the primary offering of the Bonds. 26 (d) Definitions. As used in this Section, the following terms have the meanings ascribed to such terms below: "MSRB" means the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board or any successor to its functions under the Rule. "Rule" means SEC Rule 15c2-12, as amended from time to time. "SEC" means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Section 27. METHOD OF AMENDMENT. The Issuer hereby reserves the right to amend this Resolution subject to the following terms and conditions, to-wit: (a) The Issuer may from time to time, without the consent of the Registered Owners, except as otherwise required by paragraph (b) below, amend or supplement this Resolution in order to (i) cure any ambiguity, defect or omission in this Resolution that does not materially adversely affect the interests of the holders, (ii) grant additional rights or security for the benefit of the holders, (iii) add events of default as shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Resolution and that shall not materially adversely affect the interests of the holders, (iv) qualify this Resolution under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, or corresponding provisions of federal laws from time to time in effect, or (v) make such other provisions in regard to matters or questions arising under this Resolution as shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Resolution and that shall not in the opinion of the Issuer's Bond Counsel materially adversely affect the interests of the holders. (b) Except as provided in paragraph (a) above, the Registered Owners shall have the right from time to time to approve any amendment hereto that may be deemed necessary or desirable by the Issuer; provided, however, that without the consent of all the Registered Owners, nothing herein contained shall permit or be construed to permit amendment of the terms and conditions of this Resolution or in the Bonds so as to: (1) Make any change in the maturity of the Bonds; (2) Reduce the rate of interest borne by the Bonds; (3) Reduce the amount of the principal of payable on the Bonds; (4) Modify the terms ofpayment ofprincipal or of interest on the Bonds or impose any condition with respect to such payment; or (5) Change the requirement with respect to Registered Owners' consent to such amendment. (c) If at any time the Issuer shall desire to amend this Resolution under this Section, the Issuer shall send by U.S. mail to the Registered Owners of the Bonds a copy of the proposed amendment. 27 OVI G_~.7 (d) Whenever at any time within one year from the date of mailing of such notice the Issuer shall receive an instrument or instruments executed by the Registered Owners of the Bonds, which instrument or instruments shall refer to the proposed amendment and that shall specifically consent to and approve such amendment, the Issuer may adopt the amendment in substantially the same form. (e) Upon the adoption of any amendatory Resolution pursuant to the provisions of this Section, this Resolution shall be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance with such amendatory Resolution, and the respective rights, duties, and obligations of the Issuer and the Registered Owners of the Bonds shall thereafter be determined, exercised, and enforced, subject in all respects to such amendment. (o Any consent given by a Registered Owner of a Bond pursuant to the provisions of this Section shall be irrevocable for a period of six months from the date of the mailing of the notice provided for in this Section, and shall be conclusive and binding upon all future holders of the same Bond during such period. Such consent may be revoked at any time after six months from the date of the mailing of said notice by the Registered Owner, or by a successor in title, by filing notice with the Issuer. For the purposes of establishing ownership of the Bonds, the Issuer shall rely solely upon the registration of the ownership of the Bonds on the Registration Books kept by the Paying Agent/Regi strar. Section 28. APPROVAL OF ESCROW AGREEMENT AND TRANSFER OF FLTNDS; APPROVAL OF TRANSFER AGREEMENT. (a) The Chairman of the Board is hereby authorized and directed to execute and deliver and the Secretary of the Board of the Issuer is hereby authorized and directed to attest an escrow agreement (the "Escrow Agreement") in substantially the form presented at the meeting at which this Resolution was adopted. In addition, the Chairman of the Board, the Secretary of the Board or other officer of the Issuer is authorized to transfer or cause to be transferred such amounts from the interest and sinking fund and/or reserve fund for the Refunded Bonds or other lawfully available funds to the paying agent for the Refunded Bonds as may be necessary to provide the amount of money, together with proceeds of the Bonds, as will be sufficient to pay the redemption price of the Refunded Bonds. (b) The Chairman of the Board is hereby authorized and directed to execute and deliver and the Secretary of the Board of the Issuer is hereby authorized and directed to attest the Transfer Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B. Section 29. REDEMPTION OF REFUNDED BONDS. (a) The Issuer hereby directs that the Refunded Bonds be called for redemption on the date set forth on Schedule I. Each of such Refunded Bonds shall be redeemed at the redemption price of par plus accrued interest. The Chairman of the Board is hereby authorized and directed to issue 28 ':ar ~001"t0 or cause to be issued the Notice of Redemption of the Refunded Bonds in the form set forth in Exhibit A attached hereto to the paying agent/registrar for the Refunded Bonds. (b) In addition, the paying agendregistrar for the Refunded Bonds is hereby directed to provide the appropriate notice of redemption as specified by the resolution authorizing the issuance of the Refunded Bonds and is hereby directed to make appropriate arrangements so that the Refunded Bonds may be redeemed on their redemption date. The Refunded Bonds shall be presented for redemption at the paying agent/registrar therefor, and shall not bear interest after the date fixed for redemption. (c) The source of funds for payment of the principal of and interest on the Refunded Bonds on their respective maturity or redemption dates shall be from the funds placed in escrow with the escrow agent, pursuant to the Escrow Agreement approved in Section 27 of this Resolution. Section 30. REMEDIES FOR DEFAULT. (a) Upon the happening of any Event of Default, then and in every case, any Registered Owner or an authorized representative thereof, including, but not limited to, a trustee or trustees therefor, may proceed against the may proceed against the Issuer or the Board of the Issuer, as appropriate for the purpose of protecting and enforcing the rights of the Registered Owners under this Resolution, by mandamus or other suit, action or special proceeding in equity or at law, in any court of competent jurisdiction, for any relief permitted by law, including the specific performance of any covenant or agreement contained herein, or thereby to enjoin any act or thing that may be unlawful or in violation of any right of the Registered Owners hereunder or any combination of such remedies. (b) It is provided that all such proceedings shall be instituted and maintained for the equal benefit of all Registered Owners of Bonds then outstanding. Section 31. REMEDIES NOT EXCLUSIVE. (a) No remedy herein conferred or reserved is intended to be exclusive of any other available remedy or remedies, but each and every such remedy shall be cumulative and shall be in addition to every other remedy given hereunder or under the Bonds or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity; provided, however, that notwithstanding any other provision of this Resolution, the right to accelerate the debt evidenced by the Bonds shall not be available as a remedy under this Resolution. (b) The exercise of any remedy herein conferred or reserved shall not be deemed a waiver of any other available remedy. (c) By accepting the delivery of a Bond authorized under this Resolution, such Registered Owner agrees that the certifications required to effectuate any covenants or representations contained in this Resolution do not and shall never constitute or give rise to a personal or pecuniary liability or charge against the officers, employees or trustees of the Issuer or the Board of the Issuer. Section 32. SEVERABILITY. If any section, article, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or word in this Resolution, or application thereof to any persons or circumstances is held invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the validity of the 29 - 00~i141 remaining portion ofthis Resolution, despite such invalidity, which remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect. Section 33. EFFECTIVE DATE. In accordance with the provisions of V.T.C.A., Government Code Section 1201.028, this Resolution shall be effective immediately upon its adoption by the Board. 30 ~2 SCHEDULEI Schedule of Refunded Bonds Description Sales Tax Revenue Bonds, Taxable Series 1998* Total Maturitv Date Principal Amount 9/ 1 /2010 $215,000 9/1 /2011 230,000 9/1/2012 245,000 9/1 /2013 265,000 9/ 1 /2014 280,000 9/ 1 /2015 300,000 9/1/2016 320,000 9/ 1 /2017 340,000 9/1 /2018 365,000 $2,560,000 * Called for redemption on April 27, 2010, at the price of par plus accrued interest to the date of redemption. S-1 0.0 p 1 ~ ~ EXHIBIT A NOTICE OF REDEMPTION PARIS (TEXAS) ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TAXABLE SALES TAX REVENUE BONDS, SERIES 1998 CUSIP NUMBER PREFIX 699894 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Paris Economic Development Corporation (the "Corporation") has called for redemption the outstanding Bonds (collectively, the "Redeemed Bonds") of the Corporation described as follows: PARIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TAXABLE SALES TAX REVENUE BOND SERIES 1998, dated December 1, 1998, maturities September 1, 2010 through September 1, 2018, in the aggregate principal amount of $2,560,000, at a redemption price of the principal amount thereof and accrued interest to the redemption date of the Redeemed Bonds so called for redemption at The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company in Dallas, Texas. Redemption date: April 27, 2010, on which date interest on the Redeemed Bonds so called for redemption shall cease to accrue and be payable. THE REDEEMED BONDS have been called for redemption in accordance with the terms of the ordinance authorizing their issuance, and such Bonds shall be redeemed at the Paying Agent/Registrar for the Redeemed Bonds: The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. 2001 Bryan Street, l lth Floor Dallas, Texas 75201 Attention: Corporate Trust Department UPON PRESENTATION of the Redeemed Bonds at the Paying Agent/Registrar on the aforementioned redemption date, the holder thereof shall be entitled to receive the redemption price equal to par and accrued interest to the redemption date. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that due and proper arrangements have been made for providing the place of payment of the Redeemed Bonds called for redemption with funds sufficient to pay the principal amount of the Redeemed Bonds and the interest thereon to the redemption date. In the event the Redeemed Bonds are not presented for redemption by the respective date fixed for their redemption, they shall not thereafter bear interest. THIS NOTICE is issued and given pursuant to the redemption provisions in the proceedings authorizing the issuance of the Redeemed Bonds and in accordance with the recitals and provisions of each of the Redeemed Bonds, respectively. PARIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION A-1 - f~~P 144 EXHIBIT B FORM OF TRANSFER AGREEMENT B-1 EXHIBIT C CONTINUING DISCLOSURE INFORMATION The following information is referred to in Section 26(a) of this Resolution: Annual Financial Statements and Operating Data The financial information and operating data with respect to the Issuer to be provided annually in accordance with such Section are as specified (and included in the Appendices of the Official Statement referred to) below: The quantitative financial information and operating data pertaining to the Issuer of the nature included in Appendices A and E of the Official Statement to the extent that such information is customarily prepared by the Issuer and publicly available. Financial information and operating data that is customarily prepared by the Issuer and publicly available is subject to change, however, such information currently consists of an Annual Audited Financial Report and a Budget. The financial statements of the Issuer that will be provided will be unaudited, unless an audit is performed, in which event the audited financial statements will be made available. Accounting Principles The accounting principles referred to in such Section are the accounting principles described in the notes to the financial statements that are attached to the Official Statement as Appendix E, or such other accounting principles as the Issuer may be required to employ from time to time pursuant to state law or regulation. c-i _ ~0 P 14, 6 Exhibit B Sales Tax Remittance Agreement (see attached) SALES TAX REMITTANCE AGREEMENT THIS SALES TAX REMITTANCE AGREEMENT, dated as of March 22, 2010, executed by and between the City of Paris, Texas (the "City") and the Paris Economic Development Corporation (the "Corporation") WITNESSETH: WHEREAS, the Corporation was created by the City pursuant to Section 4A of the Development Corporation Act, formerly Article 5190.6, Texas Revised Civil Statutes, as amended, and now operates, exists and is governed by the recodified provisions of such Act as a Type A corporation, as such Act has been codified in Chapters 501, 502 and 504, Texas Local Government Code, as amended (the "Act"), specifically with the Corporation to possess the powers granted by Chapter 504, Texas Local Government Code; and WHEREAS, on May 1, 1993, the citizens of the City voting at an election on said date approved the levy of a one quarter of one percent sales and use tax upon the receipts at retail of taxable items, pursuant to Section 4A ofthe Development Corporation Act, formerly Article 5190.6, Texas Revised Civil Statutes, as amended, now as codified in Chapter 504, Texas Local Government Code, as amended (the "Economic Development Sales Tax"); and WHEREAS, underthe Act and the provisions ofthe Texas Tax Code, disbursements of sales and use taxes are made to cities, such as the City, by the Comptroller of Public Accounts of Texas (the "Comptroller"); and WHEREAS, under authority of the Act, the Corporation was created to fund and finance eligible projects under the Act, particularly Chapter 504, Texas Local Government Code, as amended, and to secure said obligations with the Economic Development Sales Tax collected by the City under authority of Chapter 504, Texas Local Government Code, as amended; and WHEREAS, the parties hereto find it necessary and advisable to enter into this Agreement to evidence the duties and responsibilities of the respective parties with respect to the collection, remittance and transfer of such sales and use tax revenues. NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the covenants and agreements herein made, and subject to the conditions herein set forth, the City and the Corporation contract and agree as follows: ARTICLE I SALES TAX FUND Section I.I. Creation of Fund. The City agrees to establish and maintain at an official depository bank of the City (the "Depository"), a fund to be entitled "Paris Economic Development Corporation Sales and Use Tax Fund" (the "Sales Tax Fund"). The Sales Tax Fund shall be - 000148 maintained as a separate fund at the Depository, and no other moneys of the City shall be commingled with the Sales Tax Fund. The City shall also maintain separate investment accounts into which all deposits shall be transferred when funds are received. Section 1.2. Deposits to Fund. The revenues received by the City from the Comptroller from the charge and levy of the Economic Development Sales Tax shall be deposited as received, or transmitted by the Comptroller directly, to the credit of the Sales Tax Fund, for the benefit of the Corporation, and shall be made available to the Corporation from time to time as hereinafter provided in this Agreement. Section 1.3. Securitv for Fund. The City hereby agrees that moneys on deposit in the Sales Tax Fund shall at all times be collateralized in the manner and with the collateral required by the City for its own funds. Section 1.4. Chan ein DepositorX. The City reserves the right from time to time to change its official depository bank, and hereby agrees to give the Corporation thirty (30) days prior written notice of any such change in its official depository bank. ARTICLE II TRANSFER OF FUNDS Section 2.1. Collection of Economic Development Sales Tax. (a) Until the Comptroller is able to determine and report the amount of the Economic Development Sales Tax levied for the benefit of the Corporation and any rebate, charge-back or adjustment thereof on a point of collection basis, the City will allocate a portion of the undivided sales and use tax receipts to the Corporation on the basis of the total sales and use taxes collected, multiplied by the pro rata portion of the Economic Development Sales Tax and divided by all other sales and use taxes received from the Comptroller by the City. In addition, the City will allocate the costs of any rebate or charge-back applicable to the undivided sales and use tax receipts between the City and the Corporation on a pro rata basis. (b) The President of the Board of Directors of the Corporation and the chief financial officer of the City shall take such actions as are required to cause the Economic Development Sales Tax to be delivered and transferred by the Texas State Treasurer and the Comptroller to the City for use by the Corporation by the fastest and most economically feasible means available. Section 2.2. Sales Tax Fund. By resolution adopted by the Corporation approving this Agreement on March 22, 2010 (the "Resolution"), the Corporation confirmed the City's depository bank as the depository bank for the Sales Tax Fund all as provided herein. Section 2.3. Transfers to Sales Tax Fund. On or before the 25th day of each month, the City shall direct the Depository to transfer funds on deposit in the Sales Tax Fund to the credit of the Revenue Fund of the Corporation. The City shall cause the Depository to make such transfers 2 within twenty-four (24) hours of receipt of such direction to the extent that there are moneys on deposit in the Sales Tax Fund to effect such transfer. Section 2.4. Use of Moneys bv Corporation. The Corporation agrees to use the moneys on deposit in the Corporation's Revenue Fund in a manner consistent with the terms and conditions of the Act and the election of May 1, 1993. Section 2.5. Covenant of the Citv. Recognizing that the Economic Development Sales Tax shall provide the security for the Corporation's bonds and other obligations, so long as such bonds and other obligations are outstanding, the City covenants and agrees that it will take and pursue all possible action permitted by the Act and other applicable State law to cause the Economic Development Sales Tax to be levied and collected continuously at the rate of one quarter of one percent or, to the extent permitted by law and necessary or desirable, at a higher rate, and the City will not cause a reduction, abatement or exemption in the Economic Development Sales Tax or in the rate at which it is authorized to be collected. ARTICLE llI MISCELLANEOUS Section 3.1. Depository Responsibilities. The President of the Board of Directors of the Corporation and the chief financial officer of the City shall develop procedures to ensure that the official depository bank of the City, as it may exist from time to time, shall be obligated to perform the duties detailed in this Agreement, and to that end the City agrees to incorporate into its agreement with its official depository bank a covenant by the official depository bank that it will perform all duties and obligations as a depository as set forth in this Agreement. Section 3.2. Fees of DepositorX. In connection with the establishment and maintenance of the Sales Tax Fund, the Corporation agrees to pay the reasonable costs and expenses of the Depository associated with the administration of the Sales Tax Fund and such costs and expenses, if any, shall never constitute a cost, liability, or obligation of the City. Section 3.3. Severabilitv. If any clause, provision, or section of this Agreement should be held illegal or invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such clause, provision, or section shall not affect any of the remaining clauses, provisions, or sections hereof and this Agreement shall be construed and enforced as if such illegal or invalid clause, provision, or section had not been contained herein. In case any agreement or obligation contained in this Agreement should be held to be in violation of law, then such agreement or obligation shall be deemed to be the agreement or obligation of the City and the Corporation, as the case may be, to the full extent permitted by law. t.~ OPP 15 0 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be signed in multiple counterparts, each of which shall be considered an original for all purposes, as of the day and year first set out above. CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS By: Mayor ATTEST: City Secretary PARIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION By: President, Board of Directors ATTEST: Secretary, Board of Directors ~~'~'15-4 CERTIFICATE FOR RESOLUTION THE STATE OF TEXAS § COUNTY OF LAMAR § CITY OF PARIS § We, the undersigned officers of the City of Paris (the "City"), hereby certify as follows: 1. The City Council of the City (the "City Council") convened in REGULAR MEETING ON THE 22ND DAY OF MARCH, 2010, at the designated meeting place, and the roll was called of the duly constituted officers and members of the City Council, to wit: Jesse James Freelen, Mayor Joe McCarthy, Mayor Pro-tem Kevin Kear Steve Brown Will Baird Edwin Pickle Rhonda Rogers Janice Ellis, City Clerk and all of said persons were present, except the following absentees: , thus constituting a quorum. Whereupon, among other business, the following was transacted at said Meeting: a written RESOLUTION APPROVING A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF REFUNDING BONDS BY THE PARIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION; APPROVING A SALES TAX REMITTANCE AGREEMENT; AND ENACTING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT was duly introduced for the consideration of the City CounciL It was then duly moved and seconded that the Resolution be adopted and, after due discussion, said motion, carrying with it the adoption of the Resolution, prevailed and carried by the following vote: AYES: All members of the City Council shown present above voted "Aye," except as shown below: NOES: ABSTAIN: no r1~~ , 2. That a true, full and correct copy of the aforesaid Resolution adopted at the Meeting described in the above and foregoing paragraph is attached to and follows this Certificate; that the Resolution has been duly recorded in the City Council's minutes of the Meeting; that the above and foregoing paragraph is a true, full and correct excerpt from the City Council's minutes of the Meeting pertaining to the adoption of the Resolution; that the persons named in the above and foregoing paragraph are the duly chosen, qualified and acting officers and members of the City Council as indicated therein; that each of the officers and members of the City Council was duly and sufficiently notified officially and personally, in advance, of the time, place and purpose of the aforesaid Meeting, and that the Resolution would be introduced and considered for adoption at the Meeting, and each of the officers and members consented, in advance, to the holding of the Meeting for such purpose, and that the Meeting was open to the public and public notice of the time, place and purpose of the meeting was given, all as required by Chapter 551, Texas Government Code. 3. That the Mayor of the City (or the Mayor Pro-tem in the absence of the Mayor) has approved and hereby approves the aforesaid Resolution; and that the Mayor (or the Mayor Pro-tem in the absence of the Mayor) and the City Clerk of the City hereby declare that their signing of this Certificate shall constitute the signing of the attached and following copy of the Resolution for all purposes. SIGNED AND SEALED the 22nd day of March, 2010. City Clerk Mayor (SEAL)