TRUST AGREEMENT
among
RIVERSIDE PUBLIC FINANCING AUTHORITY,
U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
and
CITY OF RIVERSIDE
Dated as of July 1, 2023
RIVERSIDE PUBLIC FINANCING AUTHORITY
LOCAL MEASURE A SALES TAX REVENUE (INSTALLMENT SALE)
REFUNDING CERTIFICATES OF PARTICIPATION, SERIES 2023
(2013 RIVERSIDE PAVEMENT REHABILITATION PROJECT)
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS; EQUAL SECURITY
Section 1.01 Definitions 3
Section 1.02 Terms Defined in the Agreement 9
Section 1.03 Equal Security 9
ARTICLE II
EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF CERTIFICATES
Section 2.01 Preparation and Purpose of Certificates 9
Section 2.02 Terms of the Certificates 10
Section 2.03 Prepayment of Certificates 11
Section 2.04 Form of Certificates 13
Section 2.05 Execution of Certificates 13
Section 2.06 Transfer and Payment of Certificates 13
Section 2.07 Exchange of Certificates 14
Section 2.08 Certificate Registration Books 14
Section 2.09 Mutilated, Destroyed, Stolen or Lost Certificates 14 Section 2.10 Temporary Certificates 15
Section 2.11 Procedure for the Execution and Delivery of Certificates; Establishment of Funds and Accounts; Deposit of Proceeds 15 Section 2.12 Validity of Certificates 15
Section 2.13 Special Covenants as to Book-Entry Only System for Certificates 16
ARTICLE III
REVENUES
Section 3.01 Pledge of Revenues; Assignment 17
Section 3.02 Receipt and Deposit of Revenues in the Revenue Fund 18 Section 3.03 Establishment and Maintenance of Accounts for Use of Money in the Revenue Fund 18 Section 3.04 Deposit and Investments of Money in Accounts and Funds 19
ARTICLE IV
COVENANTS
Section 4.01 Compliance with Trust Agreement 19
Section 4.02 Amendment of Agreement 20
Section 4.03 Against Encumbrances 20
Section 4.04 Tax Covenants 20
Section 4.05 Accounting Records and Reports 21
Section 4.06 Observance of Laws and Regulations 21
Section 4.07 Further Assurances 21
Section 4.08 Recordation and Filing 21
Section 4.09 Rebate Fund 21
ARTICLE V
THE TRUSTEE
Section 5.01 The Trustee 24
Section 5.02 Liability of Trustee 25
ARTICLE VI
AMENDMENT OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT
Section 6.01 Amendment of the Trust Agreement 27
Section 6.02 Disqualified Certificates 27
Section 6.03 Endorsement or Replacement of Certificates After Amendment 27 Section 6.04 Amendment by Mutual Consent 28
Section 6.05 Information to Rating Agency 28
ARTICLE VII
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES OF OWNERS
Section 7.01 Events of Default 28
Section 7.02 Application of Funds Upon Acceleration of Agreement 28 Section 7.03 Other Remedies of the Trustee 29
Section 7.04 Non-Waiver 29
Section 7.05 Actions by Trustee as Attorney-in-Fact 29
Section 7.06 Remedies Not Exclusive 29
Section 7.07 Limitation on Owners’ Right to Sue 30
Section 7.08 Limited Liability of the City 30
Section 7.09 Limited Liability of the Authority 30
ARTICLE VIII
DEFEASANCE
Section 8.01 Discharge of Certificates 30
Section 8.02 Unclaimed Money 31
ARTICLE IX
RESERVED
ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 10.01 Liability of Authority Limited to Revenues 32 Section 10.02 Benefits of the Trust Agreement Limited to Parties 32 Section 10.03 Successor Is Deemed Included In All References To Predecessor 32 Section 10.04 Execution of Documents by Owners 32
Section 10.05 Waiver of Personal Liability; No Liability of Authority Members 33 Section 10.06 Acquisition of Certificates by Authority 33 Section 10.07 Destruction of Canceled Certificates 33
Section 10.08 Content of Certificates; Post-Issuance Legal Opinions 33 Section 10.09 Publication for Successive Weeks 33
Section 10.10 Accounts and Funds; Business Days 33
Section 10.11 Article and Section Headings and References 34 Section 10.12 Partial Invalidity 34
Section 10.13 Execution in Several Counterparts 34
Section 10.14 Notices 34
EXHIBIT A FORM OF CERTIFICATE A-1
TRUST AGREEMENT
THIS TRUST AGREEMENT, made and entered into and dated as of July 1, 2023 (the “Trust Agreement”) among U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION (the “Trustee”), a national banking association duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the United States of America, the RIVERSIDE PUBLIC FINANCING AUTHORITY, a joint exercise of powers authority duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of California (the “Authority”), and the CITY OF RIVERSIDE, a municipal corporation and charter city organized and existing under its charter and the Constitution of the State of California (the “City”), WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the Authority is a joint exercise of powers authority duly organized and operating pursuant to Article 1 of Chapter 5 of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code of the State of California; WHEREAS, Article 4 of Chapter 5 of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code of the State of California authorizes and empowers the Authority to cause certificates of participation to be executed and delivered to assist local agencies in financing projects and programs consisting of certain public improvements or working capital or liability and other insurance needs whenever a local agency determines that there are significant public benefits from so doing; WHEREAS, the City is a member of the Authority;
WHEREAS, the City has previously determined that the design, acquisition and construction of certain roadway improvements and street resurfacing, as hereinafter described (the “2013 Project”) was necessary and proper for City purposes and uses, and under the terms of applicable law, the payment for such 2013 Project is being made from Measure A Receipts (as such term is defined in the herein-defined 2013 ISA) and is for the common benefit of the City as a whole; WHEREAS, to assist the City with the acquisition and construction of the 2013 Project, the Authority previously executed and delivered its Local Measure A Sales Tax Revenue (Installment Sale) Certificates of Participation, Series 2013 (Riverside Pavement Rehabilitation Project) (the “2013 Certificates”), the proceeds of which were delivered to the City to finance the 2013 Project; WHEREAS, the 2013 Certificates are payable from installment payments made by the City to the Authority under the 2013 Installment Sale Agreement, dated as of July 1, 2013 (the “2013 ISA”), by and between the City and the Authority; WHEREAS, the installment payments under the 2013 ISA are secured by a pledge of sales tax revenues allocated to the City under Ordinance No. 02-001, the Transportation Expenditure Plan and Retail Transaction and Use Tax Ordinance, adopted by the Riverside County Transportation Commission on May 8, 2002, and approved by at least two-thirds of electors voting on such proposition in the November 5, 2002 election (the “Measure A Revenues”); WHEREAS, the 2013 Certificates are subject to prepayment after June 1, 2023; WHEREAS, the City and the Authority desire to refinance the 2013 Project by prepaying the 2013 Certificates for debt service savings; WHEREAS, in order to provide a source of funds to prepay the 2013 Certificates, the Authority desires to execute and deliver its Local Measure A Sales Tax Revenue (Installment Sale) Refunding Certificates of Participation, Series 2023 (2013 Riverside Pavement Rehabilitation Project) (the “Certificates”); WHEREAS, in order to secure the repayment of the Certificates, the City and the Authority desire to enter into a First Supplement to 2013 Installment Sale Agreement, amending and supplementing the 2013 Installment Sale Agreement, dated as of July 1, 2013 (collectively, the “Agreement”), the payments by the City to the Authority under which are to be secured by Measure A Revenues; and WHEREAS, the Authority desires to assign its right to receive payments made by the City under the Agreement to U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee for the Certificates, to be applied to repay the holders of the Certificates; WHEREAS, the City and the Authority have authorized and directed the Trustee to execute and deliver on their behalf, pursuant to the terms of this Trust Agreement, the Certificates in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the principal installments payable by the City pursuant to the Agreement; WHEREAS, in order to provide for the execution and delivery of the Certificates, to establish and declare the terms and conditions upon which the Certificates are to be executed, delivered and secured and to secure the payment of the principal thereof and interest thereon, the City and the Authority have authorized the execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement; WHEREAS, the Certificates and the form of assignment to be endorsed thereon are to be substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A, with necessary or appropriate variations, omissions and insertions, as permitted or required hereby; WHEREAS, the Trustee has accepted the trust created by this Trust Agreement and in evidence thereof has joined in the execution hereof; and WHEREAS, all acts, conditions and things required by law to exist, to have happened and to have been performed precedent to and in connection with the execution and entering into of the Trust Agreement and delivery of the Certificates do exist, have happened and have been performed in regular and due time, form and manner as required by law, and the parties hereto are now duly authorized to execute and enter into the Trust Agreement; NOW, THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERATION OF THE PREMISES AND OF THE MUTUAL AGREEMENTS AND COVENANTS CONTAINED HEREIN AND FOR OTHER VALUABLE CONSIDERATION, THE RECEIPT AND SUFFICIENCY OF WHICH ARE HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGED, THE PARTIES HERETO DO HEREBY AGREE AS FOLLOWS:
DEFINITIONS; EQUAL SECURITY
Definitions. Unless the context otherwise requires, the terms defined in this Section shall for all purposes hereof and of any Supplemental Trust Agreement and of any certificate, opinion, request or other document herein or therein mentioned have the meanings herein specified:
“Act” means the Joint Exercise of Powers Act (being Chapter 5 of Division 7 of Title 1 of the California Government Code, as amended) and all laws amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto. “Administration Fund” means the fund by that name established and maintained pursuant to Section 3.03. “Agreement” means, collectively, the 2013 Installment Sale Agreement, dated as of July 1, 2013, as amended and supplemented by the First Supplement to 2013 Installment Sale Agreement, dated as of the date of this Trust Agreement, each by and between the Authority and the City, as originally executed and as it may from time to time be amended or supplemented pursuant to the provisions hereof and thereof. “Authority” means the Riverside Public Financing Authority, a joint exercise of powers authority duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of California and that certain Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement, between the City and the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Riverside, dated December 15, 1987, as amended and restated by an Amended and Restated Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement, dated August 16, 2012, by and among the City of Riverside, the City of Riverside, as the Successor Agency for the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Riverside, and the Parking Authority of the City of Riverside. “Bond Year” has the meaning set forth in the Tax Certificate. “Cash Flow Report” means a report prepared by the Cash Flow Consultant identifying Certificates to be prepaid as a result of any prepayment pursuant to Section 2.03 hereof. In the case of a mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.03(a) hereof, such report shall identify maturities of principal evidenced by the Certificates to be prepaid in a manner consistent with Section 7.02 hereof and Section 6.02 of the Agreement relating to the application of Revenues upon Acceleration. “Cash Flow Consultant” means Piper Sandler & Co. or any successor thereto appointed by the Authority. “Certificates” means the Riverside Public Financing Authority Local Measure A Sales Tax Revenue (Installment Sale) Refunding Certificates of Participation, Series 2023 (2013 Riverside Pavement Rehabilitation Project). The term “Serial Certificates” means Certificates for which no sinking fund payments are provided. The term “Term Certificates” means Certificates which are payable on or before their specified payment dates from sinking fund payments established for that purpose and calculated to prepay such Certificates on or before their specified payment dates. “Certificate Payment Date” means a date on which principal evidenced and represented by the Certificates is due and payable, being June 1 of each year commencing June 1, [2024]. “City” means the City of Riverside, California, a municipal corporation and charter city organized and existing under its charter and the Constitution of the State of California. “Costs of Issuance” means all items of expense directly or indirectly payable by or reimbursable to the City or the Authority and related to the authorization, execution and delivery of the Certificates, including, but not limited to costs of preparation and reproduction and delivery of documents, filing and recording fees, fees and charges of the Trustee, the Escrow Agent and their counsel, legal fees and charges, fees and disbursements of consultants and professionals, fees of rating agencies, fees and charges for preparation, execution and safekeeping of the Certificates and any other costs, charges or fees in connection with the original execution, delivery, marketing and sale of the Certificates. “Cost of Issuance Fund” means the fund by that name established and maintained pursuant to Section 2.11. “Defeasance Obligations” means the following: (1) cash; (2) non-callable direct obligations of the United States of America (“Treasuries”); (3) evidences of ownership of proportionate interests in future interest and principal payments on Treasuries held by a bank or trust company as custodian, under which the owner of the investment is the real party in interest and has the right to proceed directly and individually against the obligor and the underlying Treasuries are not available to any person claiming through the custodian or to whom the custodian may be obligated; (4) pre-refunded municipal obligations rated AAA and Aaa by S&P and Moody’s, respectively; or (5) securities eligible for AAA defeasance under then existing criteria of S&P or any combination thereof, shall be used to effect defeasance of the Certificates. “DTC” means The Depository Trust Company, New York, New York. “Independent Certified Public Accountant” means any certified public accountant or firm of such accountants duly licensed and entitled to practice and practicing as such under the laws of the State or a comparable successor, appointed and paid by the City, and who, or each of whom: (1) is in fact independent according to the Statement of Auditing Standards No. 1 and not under the domination of the Authority; (2) does not have a substantial financial interest, direct or indirect, in the operations of the City; and (3) is not connected with the City as a member, officer or employee of the City, but who may be regularly retained to audit the accounting records of and make reports thereon to the City. “Installment Sale Payments” means the periodic payments scheduled to be paid by the City under and pursuant to the Agreement. “Interest Fund” means the fund by that name established pursuant to Section 3.03. “Interest Payment Date” means a date on which interest evidenced and represented by the Certificates is due and payable, being June 1 and December 1 of each year, commencing [December 1, 2023]. “Office of the Trustee” means the corporate trust office of the Trustee in Los Angeles, California. “Outstanding,” when used as of any particular time with reference to Certificates, means (subject to the provisions of Section 6.02) all Certificates except: (1) Certificates theretofore canceled by the Trustee or surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation; (2) Certificates paid or deemed to have been paid within the meaning of Section 8.01; and (3) Certificates in lieu of or in substitution for which other Certificates shall have been executed and delivered by the Trustee pursuant hereto. “Owner” means any person who shall be the registered owner of any Outstanding Certificate. “Permitted Investments” means any of the following to the extent permitted by the laws of the State and the City’s Investment Policy:
A. Direct obligations of the United States of America (including obligations issued or held in book-entry form on the books of the Department of the Treasury, and CATS and TIGRS) or obligations the principal of and interest on which are unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of America.
B. Bonds, debentures, notes or other evidence of indebtedness issued or guaranteed by any of the following federal agencies and provided such obligations are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America (stripped securities are only permitted if they have been stripped by the agency itself):
1. U.S. Export-Import Bank (Eximbank)
Direct obligations or fully guaranteed certificates of beneficial ownership
2. Farmers Home Administration (FmHA)
Certificates of beneficial ownership
3. Federal Financing Bank
4. Federal Housing Administration Debentures (FHA)
5. General Services Administration
Participation certificates
6. Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA or “Ginnie Mae”) GNMA - guaranteed mortgage-backed bonds
GNMA - guaranteed pass-through obligations
(not acceptable for certain cash-flow sensitive issues.)
7. U.S. Maritime Administration
Guaranteed Title XI financing
8. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Project Notes
Local Authority Bonds
New Communities Debentures - U.S. government guaranteed debentures U.S. Public Housing Notes and Bonds - U.S. government guaranteed public housing notes and bonds C. Bonds, debentures, notes or other evidence of indebtedness issued or guaranteed by any of the following non-full faith and credit U.S. government agencies (stripped securities are only permitted if they have been stripped by the agency itself):
1. Federal Home Loan Bank System
Senior debt obligations
2. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC or “Freddie Mac”) Participation Certificates
Senior debt obligations
3. Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA or “Fannie Mae”) Mortgage-backed securities and senior debt obligations
4. Resolution Funding Corp. (REFCORP) obligations
5. Farm Credit System
Consolidated systemwide bonds and notes
D. Money market funds registered under the Federal Investment Company Act of 1940, whose shares are registered under the Federal Securities Act of 1933, and having a rating by S&P of AAAm-G, AAA-m or AA-m; and if rated by Moody’s rated Aaa, Aal or Aa2 including funds for which the Trustee, its parent holding company, if any, or any affiliates or subsidiaries of the Trustee provide investment advisory or other management services.
E. Certificates of deposit (including those of the Trustee, its parent and its affiliates) secured at all times by collateral that may be used by a national bank for purposes of satisfying its obligations to collateralize pursuant to federal law which are issued by commercial banks, savings and loan associations or mutual savings bank whose short-term obligations are rated on the date of purchase A-1 or better by S&P, Moody’s and Fitch.
F. Certificates of deposit, savings accounts, deposit accounts or money market deposits which are fully insured by FDIC, including BIF and SAIF which may include the Trustee and its affiliates.
G. Investment Agreements, including GIC’s, Forward Purchase Agreements and Repurchase Agreements with a maturity over 30 days.
H. Commercial paper rated, at the time of purchase, Prime – 1 by Moody’s and A-1 or better by S&P.
I. Bonds or notes issued by any state or municipality which are rated by Moody’s and S&P in one of the two highest rating categories assigned by such agencies.
J. Unsecured certificates of deposit, time deposits and bankers’ acceptance (having maturities of not more than 365 days) of any bank the short-term obligations of which are rated on the date of purchase A-1+ or better by S&P and P-1 by Moody’s which may include the Trustee, its parent and its affiliates.
K. The Local Agency Investment Fund (LAIF) administered by the State of California.
L. Repurchase Agreements for 30 days or less must follow the following criteria:
Repurchase agreements provide for the transfer of securities from a dealer bank or securities firm (seller/borrower) to a municipal entity (buyer/lender), and the transfer of cash from a municipal entity to the dealer bank or securities firm with an agreement that the dealer bank or securities firm will repay the cash plus a yield to the municipal entity in exchange for the securities at a specified date.
1. Repos must be between the municipal entity and a dealer bank or securities firm a. Primary dealers on the Federal Reserve reporting dealer list which are rated A- or better by Standard & Poor’s Corporation and A3 or better by Moody’s Investor Services, or b. Banks rated A- or better by Standard & Poor’s Corporation and A3 or better by Moody’s Investor Services.
2. The written repo contract must include the following:
a. Securities which are acceptable for transfer are:
(1) Direct U.S. governments, or
(2) Federal agencies backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government (and FNMA & FHLMC) b. The term of the repo may be up to 30 days
c. The collateral must be delivered to the municipal entity, trustee (if trustee is not supplying the collateral) or third party acting as agent for the trustee (if the trustee is supplying the collateral) before/simultaneous with payment (perfection by possession of certificated securities). d. Valuation of Collateral
(1) The securities must be valued weekly, marked-to-market at current market price plus accrued interest. (2) The value of collateral must be equal to 104% of the amount of cash transferred by the municipal entity to the dealer bank or security firm under the repo plus accrued interest. If the value of securities held as collateral slips below 104% of the value of the cash transferred by municipality, then additional cash and/or acceptable securities must be transferred. If, however, the securities used as collateral are FNMA or FHLMC, then the value of collateral must equal 105%.
3. Legal opinion which must be delivered to the municipal entity:
a. Repo meets guidelines under state law for legal investment of public funds. “Prepayment Price” means, with respect to any Certificate (or portion thereof) the principal amount with respect to such Certificate (or portion), plus the applicable premium, if any, payable upon prepayment thereof pursuant to the provisions of such Certificate and the Trust Agreement. “Principal Fund” means the account by that name established and maintained pursuant to Section 3.03. “Purchase Agreement” means that certain Purchase Agreement by and between the City and the Purchaser relating to the Agreement and the Certificates. “Purchaser” means Piper Sandler & Co., as Purchaser of the Certificates. “Purchase Price” means with respect to any Certificate (or portion thereof) the principal amount with respect to such Certificate (or portion), plus the applicable premium, if any, payable upon purchase thereof pursuant to the provisions of such Certificate and the Trust Agreement. “Rating Agency” means S&P Global Ratings or, in the event that S&P Global Ratings no longer maintains a rating on the Certificates, any other nationally recognized bond rating agency then maintaining a rating on the Certificates, but, in each instance, only so long as S&P Global Ratings or such other nationally recognized rating agency then maintains a rating on the Certificates. “Rebate Fund” means the fund by that name established and maintained pursuant to Section 4.09. “Record Date” means the 15th day of the month next preceding each Interest Payment Date, whether or not such day is a business day. “Representation Letter” means the letter of representations to be delivered to DTC in connection with the delivery of the Certificates. “Request” means, with respect to the City, an instrument in writing signed on behalf of the City by an Authorized City Representative, and, with respect to the Authority, means an instrument in writing signed on behalf of the Authority by an Authorized Authority Representative or other person at the time designated to act on behalf of the Authority by written certificate furnished to the Trustee. “Revenues” means all Installment Sale Payments and other payments paid by the City and received by the Authority pursuant to the Agreement and all interest or other income from any investment of any money in any fund or account (other than the Rebate Fund) pursuant to Section 3.04. “Revenue Fund” means the fund by that name established and maintained pursuant to Section 3.02. “Securities Depositories” means DTC and/or such other securities depositories as the Authority may designate to the Trustee in writing. “Six Month Period” means the period of time beginning on the date of initial execution of the Certificates and ending six consecutive months thereafter, and each six month period thereafter until the latest maturity date of the Certificates (and any obligations that refund the Certificates). “State” means the State of California.
“Supplemental Trust Agreement” means any trust agreement then in full force and effect which has been duly executed and delivered by the Authority and the Trustee amendatory hereof or supplemental hereto; but only if and to the extent that such Supplemental Trust Agreement is specifically authorized hereunder. “Surplus Account” means the account by that name established and maintained pursuant to Section 3.03. “Tax Certificate” means the Tax Certificate dated the date of initial delivery of the Certificates and executed and delivered by the Authority and the City. “Trust Agreement” means this Trust Agreement, dated as of July 1, 2023, by and among the Authority, the City and the Trustee, as originally executed and as it may from time to time be amended or supplemented by all Supplemental Trust Agreements executed pursuant to the provisions hereof. “Trustee” means U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, with its corporate trust office in Los Angeles, California, acting in its capacity as trustee under and pursuant to the Trust Agreement, and its successors and assigns as provided in the Trust Agreement.
Terms Defined in the Agreement. Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings set forth in the Agreement.
Equal Security. In consideration of the acceptance of the Certificates by the Owners, the Trust Agreement shall be deemed to be and shall constitute a contract among the Trustee, the City, and the Owners to secure the full and final payment of the interest and principal evidenced and represented by the Certificates, subject to the agreements, conditions, covenants and terms contained herein; and all agreements, conditions, covenants and terms contained herein required to be observed or performed by or on behalf of the Trustee shall be for the equal and proportionate benefit, protection and security of all Owners without distinction, preference or priority as to benefit, protection or security of any Certificates over any other Certificates by reason of the number or date thereof or the time of execution or delivery thereof or otherwise for any cause whatsoever, except as expressly provided herein or therein.
EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF CERTIFICATES
Preparation and Purpose of Certificates. The Authority has reviewed all proceedings heretofore taken relative to the authorization of the Certificates and has found, as a result of such review, and hereby finds and determines, that all acts, conditions and things required by law to exist, to have happened and to have been performed precedent to and in the execution and delivery of the Certificates do exist, have happened and have been performed in due time, form and manner as required by law, and that the Authority is now duly authorized, pursuant to each and every requirement of the Act, to cause the Certificates to be executed and delivered in the form and manner provided herein for the purpose of providing funds to refinance the 2013 Project, and that the Certificates shall be entitled to the benefit, protection and security of the provisions hereof. The Trustee is hereby authorized and directed to prepare the Certificates in the initial aggregate principal amount of $_____, evidencing and representing the aggregate principal components of the Installment Sale Payments and each evidencing and representing a proportionate, undivided interest in the Installment Sale Payments. The City is authorized and hereby authorizes the Authority to execute a Representation Letter.
The City is required to make the Installment Sale Payments under the Agreement. The Certificates evidence and represent a proportionate and undivided interest in the Installment Sale Payments of the City. The City hereby authorizes and directs the Trustee on behalf of the City to prepare and execute the Certificates and to deliver the Certificates to the Purchaser upon payment of the purchase price thereof, pursuant to the terms of this Trust Agreement.
Terms of the Certificates. The Certificates shall be designated “Riverside Public Financing Authority Local Measure A Sales Tax Revenue (Installment Sale) Refunding Certificates of Participation, Series 2023 (2013 Riverside Pavement Rehabilitation Project).” The Certificates shall be dated as of July __, 2023, shall be executed and delivered only in fully registered form in denominations of $5,000 or any integral multiple of $5,000 (not exceeding the principal amount of Certificates payable at any one time), and shall be payable on the Certificate Payment Dates and in the principal amounts and evidence and represent interest at the rates (based on a 360-day year comprised of 12 30-day months) as set forth in the following schedule:
Certificate Payment Date (June 1)
Principal Amount
Interest Rate
2024
$[__]
%
2025
2026
2027
2028
2029
2030
2031
2032
2033
The principal evidenced and represented by the Certificates shall be payable in lawful money of the United States of America by check upon presentation thereof at maturity or on prepayment prior to maturity at the Office of the Trustee.
The Certificates shall evidence and represent interest at the rates set forth above, payable on Interest Payment Date. The Certificates shall evidence and represent interest from the Interest Payment Date next preceding the date of registration thereof, unless such date of registration is an Interest Payment Date, in which event they shall evidence and represent interest from such date, or unless such date of registration is prior to the first Interest Payment Date, in which event they shall evidence and represent interest from July __, 2023; provided, however, that if at the time of registration of any Certificate interest is then in default on the Outstanding Certificates, such Certificate shall evidence and represent interest from the Interest Payment Date to which interest has previously been paid or made available for payment on the Outstanding Certificates. Payment of interest evidenced and represented by the Certificates due on or before the maturity or prior prepayment thereof shall be made to the person whose name appears in the Certificates registration records maintained by the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.08 as the registered owner thereof as of the close of business on the Record Date preceding each Interest Payment Date, whether or not such day is a Business Day, such interest to be paid by check mailed on such Interest Payment Date (or the next Business Day if such Interest Payment Date is not a Business Day) to such registered owner at the address as it appears in such books or at such other address as may have been filed with the Trustee for that purpose.
Payment of the principal evidenced and represented by the Certificates shall be made by check upon the surrender thereof at maturity or on prepayment prior to maturity at the Office of the Trustee. The Owner of $1,000,000 or more in aggregate principal amount evidenced by the Certificates may request in writing that the Trustee pay the interest evidenced by such Certificates by wire transfer and the Trustee shall comply with such request for all Interest Payment Dates following the fifteenth (15th) day after receipt of such request until such request is rescinded.
Prepayment of Certificates.
Mandatory Prepayment. The Certificates shall be subject to mandatory prepayment prior to maturity, in whole or in part (by lot within any maturity), on any date, from amounts received upon the acceleration of Installment Sale Payments upon the occurrence of an event of default under the Agreement, at a prepayment price equal to the principal amount to be prepaid, plus accrued interest to the date fixed for prepayment, without premium. [Mandatory Sinking Fund Prepayment]. The Certificates maturing on June 1, 20__, are subject to mandatory prepayment on June 1 of each year commencing June 1, 20__, in part, from mandatory sinking fund payments, on each June 1 specified below, at a prepayment price equal to the principal evidenced thereby, plus accrued interest evidenced thereby to the date fixed for prepayment, without premium. The principal evidenced by such Certificates to be so prepaid and the dates therefor shall be as follows:
Mandatory Prepayment Date (June 1)
Principal Amount
20[__]
$
Selection of Certificates. Whenever provision is made in this Trust Agreement for the prepayment or purchase of less than all of the Certificates or any given portion thereof, the Trustee shall, subject to the following sentence, select the Certificates to be prepaid or purchased, from all Certificates subject to prepayment or purchase or such given portion thereof equal to a multiple of $5,000 or any integral multiple thereof not previously called for prepayment or purchase. Upon notice receipt of moneys resulting in a prepayment pursuant to Section 2.03(a) hereof, the Trustee shall request the Cash Flow Consultant to prepare a Cash Flow Report identifying the principal amount and maturities of the Certificates to be prepaid. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Authority in writing of any prepayment or purchase of Certificates and of the Certificates or portions thereof so selected for prepayment or purchase.
Purchase in Lieu of Prepayment. In lieu of prepayment of any Certificates, amounts on deposit in the Revenue Fund or in any sinking account therein may also be used and withdrawn by the Trustee at any time, upon the Request of the Authority, for the purchase of such Certificates at public or private sale as and when and at such prices (including brokerage and other charges, but excluding accrued interest, which is payable from the Interest Fund) as the Authority may in its discretion determine, but not in excess of the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest to the purchase date. The principal amount of any Certificates so purchased by the Trustee in any twelve-month period ending 60 days prior to any Certificate Payment Date in any year shall be credited towards and shall reduce the principal amount of such Term Certificates required to be prepaid on such Certificate Payment Date in such year.
Notice of Prepayment. Notice of prepayment shall be mailed by first-class mail by the Trustee, not less than thirty (30) nor more than sixty (60) days prior to the prepayment date, to: (i) the respective Owners of any Certificates designated for prepayment at their addresses appearing on the registration books of the Trustee; and (ii) if the Certificates are no longer held by DTC, to the Securities Depositories and the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board through its Electronic Municipal Marketplace Access (EMMA) System. Notice of prepayment shall be given by telecopy, certified, registered or overnight mail to the Securities Depositories and the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board through its Electronic Municipal Marketplace Access (EMMA) System. Each notice of prepayment shall state the date of such notice, the date of initial execution and delivery of the Certificates, the prepayment date, the Prepayment Price, the place or places of prepayment (including the name and appropriate address or addresses of the Trustee), the CUSIP number (if any) of the Certificates of each Certificate Payment Date or Dates, and, if less than all of the Certificates of any such Certificate Payment Date, the distinctive certificate numbers of the Certificates with such Certificate Payment Date, to be prepaid and, in the case of Certificates to be prepaid in part only, the respective portions of the principal amount thereof to be prepaid. Each such notice shall also state that on said date there will become due and payable on each of said Certificates the Prepayment Price represented thereby or of said specified portion of the principal amount thereof in the case of a Certificate to be prepaid in part only, together with interest accrued with respect thereto to the prepayment date, and that from and after such prepayment date, interest thereon shall cease to accrue, and shall require that such Certificates be then surrendered at the address or addresses of the Trustee specified in the prepayment notice.
If any of the Certificates are prepaid pursuant to an advance refunding, notice of such advance refunding and prepayment shall be given in the same manner as above provided, and also within the same time period with respect to the actual prepayment date.
Notice of prepayment of Certificates shall be given by the Trustee, at the expense of the Authority. Conditional notice of prepayment may be given at the direction of the Authority and shall be given if funds sufficient to prepay the Certificates are not then on deposit with the Trustee. If at the time of mailing of notice, funds are not then on deposit with the Trustee, such notice shall state that it is conditional upon the deposit of the funds not later than the opening of business on the date of prepayment of the Certificates, and such notice shall be of no effect unless such moneys are so deposited.
Failure by the Trustee to give notice pursuant to this Section to the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board through its Electronic Municipal Marketplace Access (EMMA) System or Securities Depositories shall not affect the sufficiency of the proceedings for prepayment. Failure by the Trustee to mail notice of prepayment pursuant to this Section to any one or more of the respective Owners of any Certificates designated for prepayment shall not affect the sufficiency of the proceedings for prepayment with respect to the Owner or Owners to whom such notice was mailed.
Partial Prepayment of Certificates. Upon surrender of any Certificate to be prepaid in part only, the Trustee shall execute and deliver to the registered owner thereof, at the expense of the Authority, a new Certificate or Certificates of authorized denominations, and having the same Certificate Payment Date, equal in aggregate principal amount to the unprepaid portion of the Certificate surrendered.
Effect of Prepayment. Notice of prepayment having been duly given as aforesaid, and moneys for payment of the Prepayment Price of, together with interest accrued to the prepayment date with respect to, the Certificates (or portions thereof) so called for prepayment being held by the Trustee, on the prepayment date designated in such notice, the Certificates (or portions thereof) so called for prepayment shall become due and payable at the Prepayment Price specified in such notice and interest accrued with respect thereto to the prepayment date, interest with respect to the Certificates so called for prepayment shall cease to accrue, said Certificates (or portions thereof) shall cease to be entitled to any benefit or security under this Trust Agreement, and the Owners of said Certificates shall have no rights in respect thereof except to receive payment of said Prepayment Price and accrued interest.
All Certificates prepaid pursuant to the provisions of this Section shall be cancelled upon surrender thereof by the Trustee. All Certificates purchased pursuant to the provisions of this Section shall be registered in the name of the Authority and delivered to, or as directed in writing by, the Authority.
Form of Certificates. The Certificates and the registration endorsement and assignment to appear thereon shall be substantially in the forms set forth in Exhibit A hereto attached and by this reference herein incorporated (provided that, if necessary, on the face of each Certificate, at the place where the portion of the form set forth below appears on the reverse side of such Certificate, there shall be inserted the following sentence: REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS CERTIFICATE SET FORTH ON THE REVERSE HEREOF, WHICH FURTHER PROVISIONS SHALL, FOR ALL PURPOSES, HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS IF SET FORTH AT THIS PLACE).
Execution of Certificates. The Certificates shall be executed by the Trustee by the manual signature of an authorized signatory of the Trustee. Only those Certificates executed manually and dated by the Trustee shall be entitled to any benefit, protection or security hereunder or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, and such execution by the Trustee shall be conclusive evidence that the Certificates so executed and registered have been duly authorized, executed and delivered hereunder and are entitled to the benefit, protection and security hereof.
Transfer and Payment of Certificates. Any Certificates may, in accordance with its terms, be transferred in the records maintained pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.08 by the person in whose name it is registered, in person or by his duly authorized attorney, upon surrender of such Certificates for cancellation accompanied by delivery of a duly executed written instrument of transfer in a form approved by the Trustee. Whenever any Certificates shall be surrendered for transfer, the Trustee shall execute and deliver to the transferee a new Certificate or Certificates of the same series and maturity for a like aggregate principal amount. The Trustee shall require the payment by the Owner requesting such transfer of any tax or other governmental charge required to be paid with respect to such transfer as a condition precedent to the exercise of such privilege.
The Authority and the Trustee may deem and treat the registered owner of any Certificates as the absolute owner of such Certificates for the purpose of receiving payment thereof and for all other purposes, whether such Certificates shall be overdue or not, and neither the Authority nor the Trustee shall be affected by any notice or knowledge to the contrary; and payment of the interest and principal and prepayment premium, if any, evidenced and represented by such Certificates shall be made only to such registered owner, which payments shall be valid and effectual to satisfy and discharge liability on such Certificates to the extent of the sum or sums so paid.
The Trustee shall not be required to execute, register the transfer of or exchange any Certificates during the fifteen (15) days preceding each Interest Payment Date or the date of selection by the Trustee of Certificates for prepayment, or to register the transfer of or exchange any Certificates which have been selected for prepayment in whole or in part.
Exchange of Certificates. Certificates may be exchanged at the Office of the Trustee for a like aggregate principal amount of Certificates of the same series and payment date of other authorized denominations. The Trustee shall require the payment by the Owner requesting such exchange of any tax or other governmental charge required to be paid with respect to such exchange as a condition precedent to the exercise of such privilege.
Certificate Registration Books. The Trustee will keep at its office sufficient books for the registration and transfer of the Certificates which shall at all times be open to inspection by the City or any Owner on reasonable notice during regular business hours on any Business Day, and upon presentation for such purpose the Trustee shall, under such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, register or transfer the Certificates in such books as hereinabove provided.
Mutilated, Destroyed, Stolen or Lost Certificates. If any Certificate shall become mutilated, the Trustee at the expense of the Owner shall thereupon execute and deliver a new Certificate of like tenor and number in exchange and substitution for the Certificate so mutilated, but only upon surrender to the Trustee of the Certificate so mutilated. Every mutilated Certificate so surrendered to the Trustee shall be canceled.
If any Certificate shall be lost, destroyed or stolen, evidence of such loss, destruction or theft may be submitted to the Trustee and, if such evidence be satisfactory to the Trustee and the Authority and indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee and the Authority shall be given, the Trustee, at the expense of the Owner, shall thereupon execute and deliver a new Certificate of like tenor and number in lieu of and in substitution for the Certificate so lost, destroyed or stolen.
The Trustee may require payment of a reasonable sum for each new Certificate executed and delivered under this Section and of the expenses which may be incurred by the Authority and the Trustee in the premises. Any Certificate executed and delivered under the provisions of this Section in lieu of any Certificate alleged to be lost, destroyed or stolen shall be equally and proportionately entitled to the benefits of this Trust Agreement with all other Certificates of the same series secured by this Trust Agreement. Neither the Authority nor the Trustee shall be required to treat both the original Certificate and any duplicate Certificate as being Outstanding for the purpose of determining the principal amount of Certificates which may be executed and delivered hereunder or for the purpose of determining any percentage of Certificates Outstanding hereunder, but both the original and duplicate Certificate shall be treated as one and the same.
Temporary Certificates. The Certificates executed and delivered under this Trust Agreement may be initially executed and delivered in temporary form exchangeable for definitive Certificates when ready for delivery. The temporary Certificates may be printed, lithographed or typewritten, shall be of such denominations as may be determined by the Trustee, shall be in fully registered form and may contain such reference to any of the provisions of this Trust Agreement as may be appropriate. Every temporary Certificate shall be executed and delivered by the Trustee upon the same conditions and terms and in substantially the same manner as definitive Certificates. If the Trustee executes and delivers temporary Certificates it will execute and furnish definitive Certificates without delay and thereupon the temporary Certificates may be surrendered, for cancellation, in exchange therefor at the Office of the Trustee, and the Trustee shall deliver in exchange for such temporary Certificates an equal aggregate principal amount of definitive Certificates of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged, the temporary Certificates shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Trust Agreement as definitive Certificates delivered hereunder.
Procedure for the Execution and Delivery of Certificates; Establishment of Funds and Accounts; Deposit of Proceeds. At any time after the sale of the Certificates, the Trustee shall execute the Certificates for delivery hereunder, and thereupon the Certificates shall be delivered by the Trustee to the purchaser thereof upon the Request of the Authority and upon receipt of payment therefor from the purchaser thereof. Upon receipt of payment for the Certificates from the purchaser thereof, the Trustee shall deposit and transfer the proceeds as follows:
The “Cost of Issuance Fund” is hereby established as a separate trust fund with the Trustee. The Trustee shall deposit the amount of $_____, which is equal to the amount set forth in such Request of the Authority, in the Cost of Issuance Fund. The moneys in the Cost of Issuance Fund shall be disbursed, upon the Request of the Authority, to pay Costs of Issuance. Upon the payment in full of the Costs of Issuance or the making of adequate provision for the payment thereof, evidenced by a certificate of the Authority to the Trustee, any balance remaining in the Costs of Issuance Fund shall be transferred to the Interest Fund, and pending such transfer and application, the moneys in the Costs of Issuance Fund may be invested as permitted by Section 3.04 hereof; provided, however, that investment income resulting from any such investment shall be retained in the Cost of Issuance Fund. Any residual earnings received after the transfer referenced above will, as and when convenient, be transferred to the Interest Fund.
The Trustee shall transfer $_____ to U.S. Bank National Association, as the trustee for the 2013 Certificates, to be deposited into an escrow fund established under an Escrow Agreement (2013 Certificates), dated as of the date hereof, by and among the Authority, the City and U.S. Bank National Association, as escrow agent.
Validity of Certificates. The validity of the Certificates shall not be dependent on or affected in any way by the proceedings taken by the Authority or the Trustee for the refinancing of the 2013 Project or by any contracts made by the Authority or its agents in connection therewith, and shall not be dependent upon the completion of any of the 2013 Project or upon the performance by any person, firm or corporation of his or its obligation with respect thereto. The recital contained in the Certificates that the same are executed and delivered pursuant hereto shall be conclusive evidence of their validity and of the regularity of their execution and delivery, and all Certificates shall be incontestable from and after their execution and delivery. The Certificates shall be deemed to be executed and delivered, within the meaning hereof, whenever the definitive Certificates (or any temporary Certificates exchangeable therefor) shall have been delivered to the purchaser thereof and the proceeds of sale thereof received.
Special Covenants as to Book-Entry Only System for Certificates.
Except as otherwise provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this Section, all of the Certificates initially executed and delivered shall be registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee for DTC or such other nominee as DTC shall request pursuant to the Representation Letter. Payment of the interest evidenced and represented by any Certificate registered in the name of Cede & Co. shall be made on each Interest Payment Date for such Certificates to the account, in the manner and at the address indicated in or pursuant to the Representation Letter.
The Certificates initially shall be executed and delivered in the form of a single fully registered certificate for each stated payment date of such Certificates, representing the aggregate principal amount evidenced and represented by the Certificates payable on such payment date. Upon initial execution and delivery, the ownership of all such Certificates shall be registered in the registration records maintained by the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.08 hereof in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of DTC, or such other nominee as DTC shall request pursuant to the Representation Letter. The Trustee, the City, the Authority and any paying agent may treat DTC (or its nominee) as the sole and exclusive owner of the Certificates registered in its name or the name of its nominee for the purposes of payment of the principal or prepayment price and interest evidenced and represented by such Certificates, selecting the Certificates or portions thereof to be prepaid, giving any notice permitted or required to be given to Owners hereunder, registering the transfer of Certificates, obtaining any consent or other action to be taken by Owners of the Certificates and for all other purposes whatsoever; and neither the Trustee or the Authority or any paying agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. Neither the Trustee, the City nor the Authority or any paying agent shall have any responsibility or obligation to any Participant (which shall mean, for purposes of this Section, securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and other entities, some of whom directly or indirectly own DTC), any person claiming a beneficial ownership interest in the Certificates under or through DTC or any Participant, or any other person which is not shown on the registration records as being a Owner, with respect to: (i) the accuracy of any records maintained by DTC or any Participant; (ii) the payment by DTC or any Participant of any amount in respect of the principal, prepayment price or interest evidenced and represented by the Certificates; (iii) any notice which is permitted or required to be given to Owners of Certificates hereunder; (iv) the selection by DTC or any Participant of any person to receive payment in the event of a partial prepayment of the Certificates; or (v) any consent given or other action taken by DTC as Owner of Certificates. The Trustee shall pay all principal, premium, if any, and interest evidenced and represented by the Certificates only at the times, to the accounts, at the addresses and otherwise in accordance with the Representation Letter, and all such payments shall be valid and effective to satisfy fully and discharge the obligations with respect to the principal, premium, if any, and interest evidenced and represented by the Certificates to the extent of the sum or sums so paid. Upon delivery by DTC to the Trustee of written notice to the effect that DTC has determined to substitute a new nominee in place of its then existing nominee, the Certificates will be transferable to such new nominee in accordance with subsection (f) of this Section.
In the event that the Authority determines that it is in the best interests of the City or the beneficial owners of the Certificates that they be able to obtain certificates, the Trustee shall, upon the written instruction of the Authority, so notify DTC, whereupon DTC shall notify the Participants of the availability through DTC of such certificates. In such event, the Certificates will be transferable in accordance with subsection (f) of this Section. DTC may determine to discontinue providing its services with respect to the Certificates at any time by giving written notice of such discontinuance to the Authority, the City and the Trustee and discharging its responsibilities with respect thereto under applicable law. In such event, the Certificates will be transferable in accordance with subsection (f) of this Section. Whenever DTC requests the Authority, the City and the Trustee to do so, the Trustee, the City and the Authority will cooperate with DTC in taking appropriate action after reasonable notice to arrange for another securities depository to maintain custody of all certificates evidencing the Certificates then Outstanding. In such event, the Certificates will be transferable to such securities depository in accordance with subsection (f) of this Section, and thereafter, all references in this Trust Agreement to DTC or its nominee shall be deemed to refer to such successor securities depository and its nominee, as appropriate.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Trust Agreement to the contrary, so long as all Certificates Outstanding are registered in the name of any nominee of DTC, all payments with respect to the principal, premium, if any, and interest evidenced and represented by such Certificate and all notices with respect to each such Certificate shall be made and given, respectively, to DTC as provided in the Representation Letter.
The Trustee is hereby authorized and requested to execute and deliver the Representation Letter and, in connection with any successor nominee for DTC or any successor depository, enter into comparable arrangements, and shall have the same rights and immunities with respect to its actions thereunder as it has with respect to its actions under this Trust Agreement.
In the event that any transfer or exchange of Certificates is authorized under subsection (b) or (c) of this Section, such transfer or exchange shall be accomplished upon receipt by the Trustee from the registered Owner thereof of the Certificates to be transferred or exchanged and appropriate instruments of transfer to the permitted transferee, all in accordance with the applicable provisions of Sections 2.06 and 2.07 hereof. In the event that Certificates are delivered to Owners other than Cede & Co., its successor as nominee for DTC as Owner of all the Certificates, another securities depository as Owner of all the Certificates, or the nominee of such successor securities depository, the provisions of Sections 2.06 and 2.07 hereof shall also apply to, among other things, the registration, exchange and transfer of the Certificates and the method of payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest evidenced and represented by the Certificates.
REVENUES
Pledge of Revenues; Assignment. All Revenues and any other amounts (including proceeds of the sale of the Certificates) held by the Trustee in any fund or account established hereunder (other than amounts on deposit in the Rebate Fund created pursuant to Section 4.09) are hereby irrevocably pledged to the payment of the principal, interest and premium, if any, evidenced and represented by the Certificates as provided herein, and the Revenues shall not be used for any other purpose while any of the Certificates remain Outstanding; provided, however, that out of the Revenues and other moneys there may be applied such sums for such purposes as are permitted hereunder. This pledge shall constitute a first pledge of and charge and lien upon the Revenues and all other moneys on deposit in the funds and accounts established hereunder (other than amounts on deposit in the Rebate Fund created pursuant to Section 4.09) for the payment of the interest and principal evidenced and represented by the Certificates in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.
The Authority hereby assigns to the Trustee all of the Authority’s rights and remedies under the Agreement, including, but not limited to, the Authority’s security interest in and lien upon the Revenues.
Receipt and Deposit of Revenues in the Revenue Fund. In order to carry out and effectuate the pledge, charge and lien contained herein, the Authority agrees and covenants that all Revenues when and as received shall be received by the Authority in trust hereunder for the benefit of the Owners and shall be deposited when and as received by the Authority in the Revenue Fund, which fund is hereby created and which fund the Authority hereby agrees and covenants to maintain with the Trustee so long as any Certificates shall be Outstanding under the Trust Agreement. All Revenues shall be accounted for separately and held in trust in the Revenue Fund. All Revenues, whether received by the Authority in trust or deposited with the Trustee as herein provided, shall nevertheless be allocated, applied and disbursed solely for the purposes and uses hereinafter in this Article set forth, and shall be accounted for separately and apart from all other accounts, funds, money or other resources of the Authority, and the Authority shall have no beneficial right or interest in any of the Revenues except only as herein provided.
Establishment and Maintenance of Accounts for Use of Money in the Revenue Fund. Subject to Sections 4.04 and 4.09, all money in the Revenue Fund shall be set aside by the Trustee in the following respective special funds and accounts within the Revenue Fund in the following order of priority:
(1) Interest Fund;
(2) Principal Fund;
(3) Administration Fund; and
(4) Surplus Account.
All money in each of such funds and accounts shall be held in trust by the Trustee and shall be applied, used and withdrawn only for the purposes hereinafter authorized in this Section.
Interest Fund. On or before the Business Day immediately preceding each Interest Payment Date, the Trustee shall set aside from amounts deposited by the City in the Revenue Fund and deposit in the Interest Fund that amount of money which is equal to the amount of interest becoming due and payable with respect to the Agreement on the next succeeding Interest Payment Date. No such deposit need be made if the amount contained in the Interest Fund is at least equal to the aggregate amount of interest becoming due and payable in connection with the Agreement on such Interest Payment Date. All money in the Interest Fund shall be used and withdrawn by the Trustee solely for the purpose of paying the interest evidenced and represented by the Certificates as it shall become due and payable (including accrued interest evidenced and represented by any Certificates purchased or prepaid prior to the payment dates thereof).
Principal Fund. On or before the Business Day immediately preceding each Certificate Payment Date, the Trustee shall set aside from amounts deposited by the City in the Revenue Fund and deposit in the Principal Fund an amount of money equal to the amount of principal becoming due and payable with respect to the Agreement on the next succeeding Certificate Payment Date. No such deposit need be made if the amount contained in the Principal Fund is at least equal to the aggregate amount of principal becoming due and payable in connection with the Agreement on such Certificate Payment Date. All money in the Principal Fund shall be used and withdrawn by the Trustee solely for the purpose of paying the principal evidenced and represented by the Certificates as it shall become due and payable, whether on their respective Certificate Payment Dates or prepayment, except that any money in any sinking fund account shall be used and withdrawn by the Trustee only to purchase or to prepay or to pay Term Certificates for which such sinking fund account was created.
Administration Fund. On or before the 15th day of the calendar month immediately preceding each Certificate Payment Date, the Trustee shall set aside from amounts deposited in the Revenue Fund and deposit in the Administration Fund an amount equal to the Administration Fee. All money in the Administration Fund shall be used and withdrawn by the Trustee solely for the purpose of paying the Administration Fee payable with respect to the Agreement, except that any cash amounts in the Administration Fund in excess of the amount required to be on deposit therein shall be withdrawn from the Administration Fund on each Interest Payment Date and deposited in the Interest Fund.
Surplus Account. On the Business Day immediately following each Interest Payment Date, the Trustee shall deposit in the Surplus Account all money remaining in the Revenue Fund after the deposits required by Sections 4.04 and 4.09 and by paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (4) of this Section have been made. On June 30 of each year, beginning on June 30, 2024, the Trustee shall disburse the money in the Surplus Account to the City to the extent the deposit of moneys, together with investment earnings thereon, if any, exceeded the deposits required by paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (4) of this Section.
Deposit and Investments of Money in Accounts and Funds. Subject to Sections 4.04 and 4.09, all money held by the Trustee in any of the accounts or funds established pursuant hereto shall be invested and reinvested in Permitted Investments at the Request of the City received not less than two (2) Business Days prior to the date of making such investment. The Trustee shall notify the City no less than two (2) Business Days prior to the date moneys held hereunder will be available for investment, requesting that the City deliver to the Trustee a Request of the City specifying the Permitted Investments to be acquired by the Trustee with such moneys. All such Permitted Investments shall be valued by the Trustee not less frequently than semi-annually on each Interest Payment Date at the lower of the cost or market value thereof. The Trustee may act as a principal or agent in making or disposing of any investment. The Trustee shall not be liable for any loss from investments made by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions of this Trust Agreement.
The City acknowledges that to the extent regulations of the Comptroller of the Currency or other applicable regulatory entity grant the City the right to receive brokerage confirmations of security transactions as they occur, the City specifically waives receipt of such confirmations to the extent permitted by law. The Trustee will furnish the City periodic cash transaction statements which shall include detail for all investment transactions made by the Trustee hereunder.
COVENANTS
Compliance with Trust Agreement. The Trustee will not execute or deliver any Certificates in any manner other than in accordance with the provisions hereof; and the City will not suffer or permit any default to occur hereunder, but will faithfully observe and perform all the agreements, conditions, covenants and terms contained herein required to be observed and performed by them.
Amendment of Agreement. The City and the Authority will not amend or permit the amendment of the Agreement without: (a) (1) a determination that such amendment does not materially adversely affect the interest of the Owners; or (2) the written consents of the Owners of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Certificates then Outstanding; and (b) an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such amendment will not cause interest payable with respect to the Agreement to be included in gross income for federal income tax purposes; provided that no such supplement, amendment, modification or termination shall reduce the amount of Installment Sale Payments to be made to the Authority or the Trustee by the City pursuant to the Agreement, or extend the time for making such payments, or permit the creation of any lien prior to or on a parity with the lien created by the Agreement on Revenues (except as expressly provided in the Agreement), in each case without the written consent of all of the Owners of the Certificates then Outstanding.
Against Encumbrances. The Authority will not make any pledge of or place any charge or lien upon the Revenues except as provided herein, and will not issue any bonds, notes or obligations payable from the Revenues or secured by a pledge of or charge or lien upon the Revenues except the Certificates.
Tax Covenants. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Trust Agreement, absent an Opinion of Counsel that the exclusion from gross income of the interest evidenced by the Certificates will not be adversely affected for federal income tax purposes, the Authority covenants to comply with all applicable requirements of the Code necessary to preserve such exclusion from gross income and specifically covenants, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, as follows:
Private Activity. The Authority will take no action and will refrain from taking any action or making any use of the proceeds of the Certificates or of any other moneys or property which would cause the Certificates to be “private activity bonds” within the meaning of Section 141 of the Code; Arbitrage. The Authority will make no use of the proceeds of the Certificates or of any other amounts or property, regardless of the source, and will not take any action or refrain from taking any action which will cause the Certificates to be “arbitrage bonds” within the meaning of Section 148 of the Code; Federal Guaranty. The Authority will make no use of the proceeds of the Certificates and will not take or omit to take any action that would cause the Certificates to be “federally guaranteed” within the meaning of Section 149(b) of the Code; Information Reporting. The Authority will take or cause to be taken all necessary action to comply with the informational reporting requirement of Section 149(e) of the Code; Hedge Bonds. The Authority will make no use of the proceeds of the Certificates or any other amounts or property, regardless of the source, and will not take any action or refrain from taking any action that would cause the Certificates to be considered “hedge bonds” within the meaning of Section 149(g) of the Code unless the Authority takes all necessary action to assure compliance with the requirements of Section 149(g) of the Code to maintain the exclusion from gross income for federal income tax purposes of the Certificates; and Miscellaneous. The Authority will take no action and will refrain from taking any action inconsistent with its expectations stated in the Tax Certificate and will comply with the covenants and requirements stated therein and incorporated by reference herein.
Accounting Records and Reports. The Trustee shall keep proper books of record and account in accordance with industry standards in which complete and correct entries shall be made of all transactions made by the Trustee relating to the receipt, investment, disbursement, allocation and application of all funds received by the Trustee hereunder. Such records shall specify the account or fund to which each investment (or portion thereof) held by the Trustee is to be allocated and shall set forth, in the case of each investment: (a) its purchase price; (b) identifying information, including par amount, coupon rate and payment dates; (c) the amount received at maturity or its sale price, as the case may be; (d) the amounts and dates of any payments made with respect thereto; and (e) such documentation as is required to be obtained as evidence to establish that all investments have been purchased in arms’ length transactions with no amounts paid to reduce the yield on the investments.
Such records shall be open to inspection by the Authority and the City at any reasonable time during regular business hours on reasonable notice.
Observance of Laws and Regulations. The City will faithfully observe and perform all lawful and valid obligations or regulations now or hereafter imposed on it by contract, or prescribed by any state or national law, or by any officer, board or commission having jurisdiction or control, as a condition of the continued enjoyment of each and every franchise, right or privilege now owned or hereafter acquired by them, including their right to exist and carry on their respective businesses, to the end that such observance or performance is material to the transactions contemplated hereby.
Further Assurances. Whenever and so often as reasonably requested to do so by the Trustee or any Owner, the City will promptly execute and deliver or cause to be executed and delivered all such other and further assurances, documents or instruments, and promptly do or cause to be done all such other and further things as may be necessary or reasonably required in order to further and more fully vest in the Trustee and the Owners all rights, interests, powers, benefits, privileges and advantages conferred or intended to be conferred upon them hereby.
Recordation and Filing. The City will file, record, register, renew, refile and rerecord all such documents, including financing statements (or continuation statements in connection therewith), as may be required by law in order to maintain at all times a security interest in the Agreement under and pursuant to the Trust Agreement, all in such manner, at such times and in such places as may be required in order to fully perfect, preserve and protect the benefit, protection and security of the Owners, and the rights of the Trustee hereunder, and the City will do whatever else may be necessary or be reasonably required in order to perfect and continue the pledge of and lien on the Agreement as provided herein.
Rebate Fund.
The Trustee shall establish and maintain a fund separate from any other fund established and maintained hereunder designated as the “Rebate Fund” and shall establish a separate Rebate Account and Alternative Penalty Account therein. All money at any time deposited in the Rebate Account or the Alternative Penalty Account of the Rebate Fund shall be held by the Trustee in trust, for payment to the United States Treasury. All amounts on deposit in the Rebate Fund with respect to the Certificates shall be governed by this Section and the Tax Certificate for such issue, unless the City obtains an Opinion of Counsel that the exclusion from gross income for federal income tax purposes of interest evidenced by the Certificates will not be adversely affected if such requirements are not satisfied.
Rebate Account. The following requirements shall be satisfied with respect to the Rebate Account:
Annual Computation. Within 55 days of the end of each fifth Bond Year, the City shall calculate or cause to be calculated the amount of rebatable arbitrage for the Certificates in accordance with Section 148(f)(2) of the Code and Section 1.1483 of the Rebate Regulations (taking into account any applicable exceptions with respect to the computation of the rebatable arbitrage described in the Tax Certificate for each issue (e.g., the temporary investments exceptions of Section 148(f)(4)(B) and (C) of the Code), and taking into account whether the election pursuant to Section 148(f)(4)(C)(vii) of the Code (the “1½% Penalty”) has been made), for this purpose treating the last day of the applicable Bond Year as a computation date, within the meaning of Section 1.1481(b) of the Rebate Regulations (the “Rebatable Arbitrage”). The City shall obtain expert advice as to the amount of the Rebatable Arbitrage to comply with this Section.
Annual Transfer. Within 55 days of the end of each Bond Year for which Rebatable Arbitrage must be calculated as required by the Tax Certificate, upon the written direction of an Authorized City Representative, an amount shall be deposited to the Rebate Account by the Trustee from any funds so designated by the City if and to the extent required, so that the balance in the Rebate Account shall equal the amount of Rebatable Arbitrage so calculated by or on behalf of the City in accordance with subsection (a)(1)(i) with respect to the Certificates. In the event that immediately following any transfer required by the previous sentence, or the date on which the City determines that no transfer is required for such Bond Year, the amount then on deposit to the credit of the Rebate Account exceeds the amount required to be on deposit therein, upon written instructions from an Authorized City Representative, the Trustee shall withdraw the excess from the Rebate Account and then credit the excess to the Revenue Fund.
Payment to the Treasury. The Trustee shall pay, as directed in writing by an Authorized City Representative, to the United States Treasury, out of amounts in the Rebate Account: (X) not later than 60 days after the end of: (A) the fifth Bond Year for the Certificates; and (B) each applicable fifth Bond Year thereafter, an amount equal to at least 90% of the Rebatable Arbitrage calculated as of the end of such Bond Year for the Certificates; and (Y) not later than 60 days after the payment or redemption of all of the Certificates, an amount equal to 100% of the Rebatable Arbitrage calculated as of the end of such applicable Bond Year, and any income attributable to the Rebatable Arbitrage, computed in accordance with Section 148(f) of the Code.
In the event that, prior to the time that any payment is required to be made from the Rebate Account, the amount in the Rebate Account is not sufficient to make such payment when such payment is due, the City shall calculate or cause to be calculated the amount of such deficiency and deposit an amount received from any legally available source equal to such deficiency prior to the time such payment is due. Each payment required to be made pursuant to this subsection (a)(1) shall be made to the Internal Revenue Service Center, Ogden, Utah 84201 on or before the date on which such payment is due, and shall be accompanied by Internal Revenue Service Form 8038T prepared and signed by the City, or shall be made in such other manner as provided under the Code. The Trustee may rely conclusively upon the City’s determinations, calculations and certifications required by this Section. The Trustee shall have no responsibility to independently make any calculation or determination or to review the City’s calculations hereunder.
Alternative Penalty Account.
SixMonth Computation. If the 1½% Penalty has been elected for the Certificates, within 85 days of each particular SixMonth Period, the City shall determine or cause to be determined whether the 1½% Penalty is payable (and the amount of such penalty) as of the close of the applicable SixMonth Period. The City shall obtain expert advice in making such determinations.
SixMonth Transfer. Within 85 days of the close of each SixMonth Period, the Trustee, at the written direction of an Authorized City Representative, shall deposit an amount in the Alternative Penalty Account from any source of funds held by the Trustee pursuant to this Trust Agreement and designated by the City in such written directions or provided to it by the City, if and to the extent required, so that the balance in Alternative Penalty Account equals the amount of 1½% Penalty due and payable to the United States Treasury determined as provided in subsection (a)(2)(i). In the event that immediately following any transfer provided for in the previous sentence, or the date on which the City determines that no transfer is required for such Bond Year, the amount then on deposit in a subaccount of the Alternative Penalty Account exceeds the amount required to be on deposit therein to make the payments required by subsection (a)(2)(iii), the Trustee, at the written direction of an Authorized City Representative, may withdraw the excess from the Alternative Penalty Account and credit the excess to the Revenue Fund.
Payment to the Treasury. The Trustee shall pay, as directed in writing by an Authorized City Representative, to the United States Treasury, out of amounts in the Alternative Penalty Account, not later than 90 days after the close of each SixMonth Period, the 1½% Penalty, if applicable and payable, computed with respect to the Certificates in accordance with Section 148(f)(4) of the Code. In the event that, prior to the time that any payment is required to be made from the Alternative Penalty Account, the amount in such subaccount is not sufficient to make such payment when such payment is due, the City shall calculate the amount of such deficiency and direct the Trustee, in writing, to deposit an amount equal to such deficiency into such subaccount of the Alternative Penalty Account from any funds held by the Trustee pursuant to this Trust Agreement and designated by the City in such written directions prior to the time such payment is due. Each payment required to be made pursuant to this subsection (a)(2) shall be made to the Internal Revenue Service, Ogden, Utah 84201 on or before the date on which such payment is due, and shall be accompanied by Internal Revenue Service Form 8038T, prepared and signed by the City, or shall be made in such other manner as provided under the Code.
Disposition of Unexpended Funds. Any funds remaining in the accounts of the Rebate Fund after redemption and payment of the Certificates and after making the payments described in subsections (a)(1)(iii) or (a)(2)(iii) (whichever is applicable), may be withdrawn by the Trustee at the written direction of the City and utilized in any manner by the City.
Survival of Defeasance and Final Payment. Notwithstanding anything in this Section or this Trust Agreement to the contrary, the obligation to comply with the requirements of this Section shall survive the defeasance and final payment of the Certificates.
THE TRUSTEE
The Trustee. U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association shall serve as the Trustee for the Certificates for the purpose of receiving all money which the Authority and the City are required to deposit with the Trustee hereunder, for the purpose of allocating, applying and using such money as provided herein and for the purpose of paying the interest, principal and prepayment premiums, if any, evidenced and represented by the Certificates presented for payment in Los Angeles, California, with the rights and obligations provided herein. The Authority agrees that it will at all times maintain a Trustee having a corporate trust office in San Francisco or Los Angeles, California.
The Authority may at any time, unless there exists any event of default as defined in Section 7.01, remove the Trustee initially appointed and any successor thereto and may appoint a successor or successors thereto by an instrument in writing; provided that any such successor shall: (i) be a bank or trust company doing business and having a principal office in San Francisco or Los Angeles, California; (ii) have (or in the case of a bank or trust company which is part of a bank holding company system, the related bank holding company shall have) a combined capital (exclusive of borrowed capital) and surplus of at least seventy-five million dollars ($75,000,000); and (iii) be subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority. If such bank or trust company publishes a report of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of any supervising or examining authority above referred to, then for the purpose of this Section the combined capital and surplus of such bank or trust company shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. The Trustee may at any time resign by giving written notice of such resignation to the Authority and by mailing to the Owners notice of such resignation. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Authority shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee by an instrument in writing. Any removal or resignation of a Trustee and appointment of a successor Trustee shall become effective only upon the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee. If, within thirty (30) days after notice of the removal or resignation of the Trustee no successor Trustee shall have been appointed and shall have accepted such appointment, the removed or resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee, which court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe and as may be required by law, appoint a successor Trustee having the qualifications required hereby.
The Trustee is hereby authorized to prepay the Certificates when duly presented for payment on their respective Certificate Payment Dates or on prior prepayment. The Trustee shall cancel all Certificates upon payment thereof or upon the surrender thereof by the Authority and shall destroy such Certificates it has received in accordance with its retention policy then in effect. The Trustee shall keep accurate records of all Certificates paid and discharged and canceled by it.
The Authority, solely from amounts held in the Costs of Issuance Fund or paid by the City specifically for such purpose, shall from time to time, subject to any agreement between the Authority and the Trustee then in force, pay to the Trustee compensation for its services, reimburse the Trustee for all its advances and expenditures including but not limited to advances to and fees and expenses of independent accountants and in-house and other counsel or other experts employed by it and reasonably required in the exercise and performance of its rights and obligations hereunder, and, to the extent permitted by law, indemnify and hold the Trustee and its officers, directors, employees and agents harmless from and against any claim, loss, liability, damages, expenses (including legal fees and expenses) or advances not arising from the Trustee’s own active or passive negligence, willful misconduct or breach of fiduciary duty, which the Trustee may incur in the exercise and performance of its rights and obligations hereunder. The obligations of the Authority under this paragraph to compensate, indemnify, reimburse and hold the Trustee harmless shall constitute additional indebtedness hereunder, and such indebtedness shall have priority over the Certificates in respect of all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust by the Trustee for the benefit of the Owners of particular Certificates, including, without limitation, funds held by the Trustee in trust to prepay all or a portion of Outstanding Certificates prior to their respective Certificate Payment Dates for which a notice of prepayment has been sent as provided herein.
Liability of Trustee. The recitals of facts, agreements and covenants herein and in the Certificates shall be taken as recitals of facts, agreements and covenants of the Authority, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the use of any proceeds of the Certificates, the correctness of the same or the collection of the Revenues and makes no any representation as to the sufficiency or validity hereof, of the Certificates or any security therefor or any offering material distributed in connection with the Certificates and shall not incur any responsibility in respect thereof other than in connection with the rights or obligations assigned to or imposed upon it herein, in the Certificates or in law or equity. The Trustee shall not be liable in connection with the performance of its duties hereunder except for its own negligence or willful misconduct.
The Trustee shall not be bound to recognize any person as the Owner of a Certificate unless and until such Certificate is submitted for inspection, if required, and such Certificate is registered in such person’s name.
Whenever the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a factual or legal matter be established or proved prior to taking or suffering any action hereunder, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Trustee, be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by a certificate conforming to the requirements herein or an opinion of counsel, which certificate or opinion shall be full warrant to the Trustee for any action taken or suffered under the provisions hereof upon the faith thereof, but in its discretion the Trustee may in lieu thereof accept other evidence of such matter or may require such additional evidence as it may deem reasonable.
In accepting the trust hereby created, the Trustee acts solely as Trustee for the Owners and not in its individual capacity and all persons, including without limitation the Owners, the Authority and the City, having any claim against the Trustee arising from this Trust Agreement not attributable to the Trustee’s negligence or willful misconduct shall look only to the funds and accounts held by the Trustee hereunder for payment except as otherwise provided herein. The duties and obligations of the Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Trust Agreement, the Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Trust Agreement, and no implied covenants or obligations (fiduciary or otherwise) shall be read into this Trust Agreement against the Trustee. The Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or not taken hereunder in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Owners of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Certificates at the time Outstanding. The Trustee shall, during the existence of any event of default (which has not been cured), exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Trust Agreement, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise of use under the circumstances in the conduct of its own affairs. The permissive right of the Trustee to do things enumerated in this Trust Agreement shall not be construed as a duty and it shall not be answerable for other than its negligence or willful misconduct. The immunities and exceptions from liability of the Trustee shall extend to its officers, directors, employees and agents and such immunities and exceptions and its right to payment of its fees and expenses shall survive its resignation or removal and the final payment and defeasance of the Certificates. Under no circumstances shall the Trustee be liable in its individual capacity for the obligations evidenced by the Certificates. The Trustee, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the Owner of any Certificates or other obligations of any party hereto with the same rights which it would have if not the Trustee. At any and all reasonable times, the Trustee, and its agents shall have the right to fully inspect the 2013 Project, including all books, papers and records of the City pertaining to the 2013 Project and the Certificates, and to take such memoranda therefrom and with regard thereto and make photocopies thereof as may be desired. The Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the execution of said trusts and powers or otherwise in respect of the premises. Before taking or refraining from any action hereunder at the request or direction of the Owners, the Trustee may require that an indemnity bond satisfactory to the Trustee be furnished to it and be in full force and effect.
None of the provisions contained herein or in the Agreement shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or continue to do so or otherwise incur individual financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers if it shall reasonably believe that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not assured to it. The Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or failing to act upon any paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties. The Trustee shall not be required to take notice or be deemed to have notice of any Event of Default hereunder except failure by the City to make any payment of principal or interest under the Agreement when due, unless the Trustee shall be specifically notified in writing at its corporate trust office of such default by the Owners of not less than 25% of the aggregate principal amount of Certificates then Outstanding. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, the Trustee shall have the right, but shall not be required, to demand any showings, certificates, opinions, appraisals or other information, or official action or evidence thereof, required as a condition of such action deemed by the Trustee to be desirable for the purpose of establishing the rights of the Trustee with respect to the authentication of any Certificates, the withdrawal of any cash, the release of any property or the taking of any other action by the Trustee.
The Trustee shall have no responsibility with respect to any information, statement or recital in any official statement, offering memorandum or any other disclosure material prepared or distributed with respect to the Certificates.
The Trustee will not be considered in breach of or in default in its obligations hereunder or progress in respect thereto in the event of enforced delay in the performance of such obligations due to unforeseeable causes beyond its control and without its fault or negligence, including, but not limited to, Acts of God or of the public enemy or terrorists, acts of a government, acts of the other party, fires, floods, epidemics, quarantine restrictions, strikes, freight embargoes, earthquakes, explosion, mob violence, riot, inability to procure or general sabotage or rationing of labor, equipment, facilities, sources of energy, material or supplies in the open market, litigation or arbitration involving a party or others relating to zoning or other governmental action or inaction pertaining to any project refinanced with the proceeds of the Certificates, malicious mischief, condemnation, and unusually severe weather and/or occurrences beyond the control of the Trustee.
AMENDMENT OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT
Amendment of the Trust Agreement.
The Trust Agreement and the rights and obligations of the Authority, the City, the Trustee and the Owners may be amended at any time by a Supplemental Trust Agreement which shall become binding when the written consents of the Owners of a majority in aggregate principal amount evidenced and represented by the Certificates then Outstanding, exclusive of Certificates disqualified as provided in Section 6.02, are filed with the Trustee. No such amendment shall: (1) extend the Certificate Payment Date of or reduce the interest rate on or amount of interest or principal or prepayment premium, if any, evidenced and represented by any Certificate without the express written consent of the Owner of such Certificate; (2) permit the creation by the Authority of any pledge of or charge or lien upon the Revenues as provided herein superior to or on a parity with the pledge, charge and lien created hereby for the benefit of the Certificates; (3) reduce the percentage of Certificates required for the written consent to any such amendment or any amendment of an Agreement pursuant to Section 4.02 hereof; or (4) modify any rights or obligations of the Trustee, the Authority or the City without their prior written assent thereto, respectively.
The Trust Agreement and the rights and obligations of the Authority, the City and the Owners may also be amended at any time by a Supplemental Trust Agreement which shall become binding upon adoption without the consent of any Owners, but only to the extent permitted by law and after receipt of an approving Opinion of Counsel, for any purpose that will not materially adversely affect the interests of the Owners, including (without limitation) for any one or more of the following purposes: (1) to add to the agreements and covenants required herein to be performed by the Authority other agreements and covenants thereafter to be performed by the Authority or the City, or to surrender any right or power reserved herein to or conferred herein on the Authority or the City; (2) to make such provisions for the purpose of curing any ambiguity or of correcting, curing or supplementing any defective provision contained herein or in regard to questions arising hereunder which the Authority or the City may deem desirable or necessary and not inconsistent herewith; (3) to add to the agreements and covenants required herein, such agreements and covenants as may be necessary to qualify the Trust Agreement under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939; or (4) for any other purpose that does not materially adversely affect the interests of the Owners.
Disqualified Certificates. Certificates owned or held by or for the account of the Authority or the City shall not be deemed Outstanding for the purpose of any consent or other action or any calculation of Outstanding Certificates provided in this Article, and shall not be entitled to consent to or take any other action provided in this Article.
Endorsement or Replacement of Certificates After Amendment. After the effective date of any action taken as hereinabove provided, the Authority may determine that the Certificates may bear a notation by endorsement in form approved by the Authority as to such action, and in that case upon demand of the Owner of any Outstanding Certificates and presentation of his Certificate for such purpose at the office of the Trustee a suitable notation as to such action shall be made on such Certificate. If the Authority shall so determine, new Certificates so modified as, in the opinion of the Authority, shall be necessary to conform to such action shall be prepared and executed, and in that case upon demand of the Owner of any Outstanding Certificate a new Certificate or Certificates shall be exchanged at the office of the Trustee without cost to each Owner for its Certificate or Certificates then Outstanding upon surrender of such Outstanding Certificates.
Amendment by Mutual Consent. The provisions of this Article shall not prevent any Owner from accepting any amendment as to the particular Certificates held by such Owner, provided that due notation thereof is made on such Certificates.
Information to Rating Agency. The Authority shall provide any Rating Agency rating the Certificates a copy of each amendment to the Trust Agreement or to the Agreement promptly following the execution or adoption of such amendment.
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES OF OWNERS
Events of Default. If any default in the payment of Installment Sale Payments or any other “Event of Default” defined in the Agreement shall occur and be continuing, or if any default shall be made by the City in the performance or observance of any other of the covenants, agreements or conditions on its part herein contained and such default shall have continued for a period of thirty (30) days after written notice thereof shall have been given to the City by the Trustee or the Owners of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount evidenced and represented by the Certificates at the time Outstanding, then such default shall constitute an “Event of Default” hereunder, and in each and every such case during the continuance of such Event of Default the Trustee or the Owners of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount evidenced and represented by the Certificates at the time Outstanding shall be entitled, upon notice in writing to the City, but subject to the provisions of Section 7.06, to exercise the remedies provided under the Agreement which are necessary or desirable to collect the City’s Installment Sale Payments. No grace period shall be permitted for payment defaults.
The Owners of Certificates, for purposes of the Trust Agreement and the Agreement, to the extent of their interest, shall be entitled to all rights and security of the Authority pursuant to the Agreement and the Trust Agreement. The City recognizes the rights of the Owners of the Certificates, acting directly or through the Trustee, to enforce the obligations and covenants contained in the Agreement and the Trust Agreement.
Application of Funds Upon Acceleration of Agreement. All moneys received by the Trustee pursuant to any right given or action taken under the provisions of this Article shall be deposited into a segregated payment account of the Revenue Fund and be applied by the Trustee in the following order; provided that the Trustee shall obtain and follow the instructions contained in an Opinion of Counsel and rebate or set aside for rebate from the specified funds held hereunder, any amount pursuant to such instructions required to be paid to the United States of America under the Code:
First, to the payment of the costs and expenses of the Trustee, if any, in carrying out the provisions of this Article, including reasonable compensation to its agents, accountants and counsel and including any indemnification expenses; and Second, to the payment of the principal and interest payable with respect to the Certificates, in connection with a mandatory prepayment of Certificates pursuant to Section 2.03(a) hereof and the delivery of a Cash Flow Report.
Other Remedies of the Trustee. The Trustee shall have the right:
by mandamus or other action or proceeding or suit at law or in equity to enforce its rights hereunder against the City or any council member, board member, trustee, member, officer or employee thereof, and to compel the City or any such council member, board member, trustee, member, officer or employee thereof to observe or perform its or his or her duties under applicable law and the agreements, conditions, covenants and terms contained herein, or in the Agreement, required to be observed or performed by it or him or her; by suit in equity to enjoin any acts or things which are unlawful or violate the rights of the Trustee or the Owners; or by suit in equity upon the happening of any default hereunder to require the City and any council member, board member, trustee, member, officer and employee to account as the trustee of any express trust.
Non-Waiver. A waiver by the Trustee of any default hereunder or breach of any obligation hereunder shall not affect any subsequent default hereunder or any subsequent breach of an obligation hereunder or impair any rights or remedies on any such subsequent default hereunder or on any such subsequent breach of an obligation hereunder. No delay or omission by the Trustee to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any default hereunder shall impair any such right or remedy or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such default hereunder or an acquiescence therein, and every right or remedy conferred upon the Trustee by applicable law or by this Article may be enforced and exercised from time to time and as often as shall be deemed expedient by the Trustee.
If any action, proceeding or suit to enforce any right or to exercise any remedy is abandoned or determined adversely to the Trustee or the City, the Trustee and the City shall be restored to their former positions, rights and remedies as if such action, proceeding or suit had not been brought or taken.
Actions by Trustee as Attorney-in-Fact. Any action, proceeding or suit which any Owner shall have the right to bring to enforce any right or remedy hereunder may be brought by the Trustee for the equal benefit and protection of all Owners, whether or not the Trustee is a Owner, and the Trustee is hereby appointed (and the successive Owners, by taking and holding the Certificates executed and delivered hereunder, shall be conclusively deemed to have so appointed it) the true and lawful attorney-in-fact of the Owners for the purpose of bringing any such action, proceeding or suit and for the purpose of doing and performing any and all acts and things for and on behalf of the Owners as a class or classes as may be advisable or necessary in the opinion of the Trustee as such attorney-in-fact.
Remedies Not Exclusive. No remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Owners is intended to be exclusive of any other remedy, and each such remedy shall be cumulative and shall be in addition to every other remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or by statute or otherwise and may be exercised without exhausting and without regard to any other remedy conferred by the Act or any other law. If any remedial action hereunder is discontinued or abandoned, the Trustee and the Owners shall be restored to their former positions.
Limitation on Owners’ Right to Sue. No Owner of any Certificate executed and delivered hereunder shall have the right to institute any suit, action or proceeding at law or equity, for any remedy under or upon this Trust Agreement, unless: (a) such Owner shall have previously given to the Trustee written notice of the occurrence of an event of default as defined in Section 7.01 hereunder; (b) the Owners of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of all the Certificates then Outstanding shall have made written request upon the Trustee to exercise the powers hereinbefore granted or to institute such suit, action or proceeding in its own name; (c) said Owners shall have tendered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request; and (d) the Trustee shall have refused or omitted to comply with such request for a period of sixty (60) days after such request and consent shall have been received by, and said tender of indemnity shall have been made to, the Trustee.
Such notification, request, consent, tender of indemnity and refusal or omission are hereby declared, in every case, to be conditions precedent to the exercise by any owner of Certificates of any remedy hereunder; it being understood and intended that no one or more owners of Certificates shall have any right in any manner whatever by his or their action to enforce any right under this Trust Agreement, except in the manner herein provided, and that all proceedings at law or in equity to enforce any provision of the Trust Agreement shall be instituted, had and maintained in the manner herein provided and for the equal benefit of all Owners of the Outstanding Certificates.
Limited Liability of the City. Except as expressly provided in the Agreement, the City shall not have any obligation or liability to the Authority, the Trustee or the Owners, with respect to the Trust Agreement or the preparation, execution, delivery, transfer, exchange or cancellation of the Certificates or the receipt, deposit or disbursement of the principal and interest payable with respect to the Agreement by the Trustee, or with respect to the performance by the Trustee of any obligation contained herein required to be performed by it.
Limited Liability of the Authority. Except as expressly provided herein, the Authority shall not have any obligation or liability to the Trustee or the Owners, with respect to the payment when due of the Installment Sale Payments by the City, or with respect to the observance or performance by the City of the other agreements, conditions, covenants and terms contained in the Agreement, or with respect to the performance by the Trustee of any obligation contained herein required to be performed by it. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Certificates, the Trust Agreement or any other document related thereto, the Authority shall not have any liability hereunder or by reason hereof or in connection with any of the transactions contemplated hereby except to the extent payable from moneys received from or with respect to the Agreement and available thereof in accordance with the Trust Agreement.
DEFEASANCE
Discharge of Certificates.
If the City shall pay or cause to be paid or there shall otherwise be paid to the Owners of all Outstanding Certificates the interest, principal and prepayment premiums, if any, evidenced and represented thereby at the times and in the manner stipulated herein and therein, then the Owners of such Certificates shall cease to be entitled to the pledge of and charge and lien upon the Revenues as provided herein, and all agreements, covenants and other obligations of the Authority and the City to the Owners of such Certificates hereunder shall thereupon cease, terminate and become void and be discharged and satisfied. In such event, the Trustee shall execute and deliver to the Authority all such instruments as may be necessary or desirable to evidence such discharge and satisfaction and the Trustee shall pay over or deliver to the Authority all money or securities held by it pursuant hereto which are not required for the payment of the interest and principal and prepayment premiums, if any, evidenced and represented by such Certificates.
Any Outstanding Certificates shall prior to the maturity date or prepayment date thereof be deemed to have been paid within the meaning of and with the effect expressed in subsection (a) of this Section if: (1) in case any of such Certificates are to be prepaid on any date prior to their respective Certificate Payment Dates, the Authority shall have given to the Trustee in form satisfactory to it irrevocable instructions to provide notice in accordance with Section 2.03; (2) there shall have been deposited with the Trustee either: (A) money in an amount which shall be sufficient; or (B) Defeasance Obligations, in each case the interest on and principal of which when paid will provide money which, together with the money, if any, deposited with the Trustee at the same time, shall be sufficient, in the opinion of an Independent Certified Public Accountant, to pay when due the interest to become due with respect to such Certificates on and prior to the Certificate Payment Date or prepayment date thereof, as the case may be, and the principal and prepayment premiums, if any, evidenced and represented by such Certificates; and (3) in the event that such Certificates are not by their terms subject to prepayment within the next succeeding sixty (60) days, the Authority shall have given the Trustee in form satisfactory to it irrevocable instructions to mail as soon as practicable a notice to the Owners of such Certificates that the deposit required by clause (2) above has been made with the Trustee and that such Certificates are deemed to have been paid in accordance with this Section and stating the Certificate Payment Date or prepayment date upon which money is to be available for the payment of the principal and prepayment premiums, if any, with respect to such Certificates. In addition, the Authority shall cause to be delivered: (i) a report of an Independent Certified Public Accountant verifying the sufficiency of the escrow established to pay the Certificates in full on the maturity or prepayment date (“Verification”); (ii) an Escrow Deposit Agreement; (iii) an opinion of nationally recognized bond counsel to the effect that the Certificates are no longer “Outstanding” under the Trust Agreement; and (iv) a certificate of discharge of the Trustee with respect to the Certificates; each Verification and defeasance opinion shall be acceptable in form and substance, and addressed, to the Authority and the Trustee.
Certificates shall be deemed “Outstanding” under the Trust Agreement unless and until they are in fact paid and retired or the above criteria are met.
Unclaimed Money. Anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, any money held by the Trustee in trust for the payment and discharge of any of the Certificates which remains unclaimed for two (2) years after the date when such Certificates have become due and payable, either at their stated Certificate Payment Dates or by call for prepayment prior to such dates, if such money was held by the Trustee at such date, or for two (2) years after the date of deposit of such money if deposited with the Trustee after the date when such Certificates have become due and payable, shall be repaid by the Trustee to the Authority as its absolute property free from trust, and the Trustee shall thereupon be released and discharged with respect thereto and the Owners shall not look to the Trustee for the payment of such Certificates. Any moneys held by the Trustee in trust for the payment and discharge of any Certificates shall not bear interest or be otherwise invested from and after such Certificate Payment Date or prepayment date.
RESERVED
MISCELLANEOUS
Liability of Authority Limited to Revenues. The Certificates are limited obligations of the Authority and are payable, as to interest, principal and any premiums upon the prepayment of any thereof, solely from the Revenues as provided herein, and the Authority is not obligated to pay them except from the Revenues. All the Certificates are equally secured by a pledge of and charge and lien upon the Revenues, and the Revenues constitute a trust fund for the security and payment of the interest, principal and prepayment premiums, if any, with respect to the Certificates as provided herein. The Certificates are not a debt of the Authority, the City, the State of California or any of its political subdivisions, and neither the Authority, the City, said State nor any of its political subdivisions is liable thereon, nor in any event shall the Certificates be payable out of any funds or properties other than those of the Authority as provided herein. The Certificates do not constitute an indebtedness within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation or restriction.
Benefits of the Trust Agreement Limited to Parties. Nothing contained herein, expressed or implied, is intended to give to any person other than the City, the Authority, the Trustee and the Owners any right, remedy or claim under or by reason hereof. Any agreement or covenant required herein to be performed by or on behalf of the City or the Authority shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the Trustee, the Authority and the Owners.
Successor Is Deemed Included In All References To Predecessor. Whenever either the City, the Authority, the Trustee or any officer thereof is named or referred to herein, such reference shall be deemed to include the successor to the powers, duties and functions that are presently vested in the City, the Authority, the Trustee or such officer, and all agreements, conditions, covenants and terms contained herein required to be observed or performed by or on behalf of the City, the Authority, the Trustee or any officer thereof shall bind and inure to the benefit of the respective successors thereof whether so expressed or not.
Execution of Documents by Owners. Any declaration, request or other instrument which is permitted or required herein to be executed by Owners may be in one or more instruments of similar tenor and may be executed by Owners in person or by their attorneys appointed in writing. The fact and date of the execution by any Owner or his attorney of any declaration, request or other instrument or of any writing appointing such attorney may be proved by the certificate of any notary public or other officer authorized to make acknowledgments of deeds to be recorded in the state or territory in which he purports to act that the person signing such declaration, request or other instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof, or by an affidavit of a witness of such execution duly sworn to before such notary public or other officer. The ownership of any Certificates and the amount, maturity, number and date of holding the same may be proved by the registration books relating to the Certificates at the office of the Trustee.
Any declaration, request or other instrument or writing of the Owner of any Certificate shall bind all future Owners of such Certificate with respect to anything done or suffered to be done by the City, the Authority or the Trustee in good faith and in accordance therewith.
Waiver of Personal Liability; No Liability of Authority Members. No member, officer or employee of the Authority or the City shall be individually or personally liable for the payment of the interest, principal or prepayment premiums, if any, with respect to the Certificates by reason of their execution and delivery, but nothing herein contained shall relieve any such member, officer or employee from the performance of any official duty provided by any applicable provisions of law, the Agreement or hereby.
Acquisition of Certificates by Authority. All Certificates acquired by the Authority, whether by purchase or gift or otherwise, shall be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation.
Destruction of Canceled Certificates. Whenever provision is made herein for the cancellation of any Certificates, the Trustee shall destroy such Certificates in accordance with its retention policy then in effect.
Content of Certificates; Post-Issuance Legal Opinions. Every Certificate of the Authority or the City with respect to compliance with any agreement, condition, covenant or term contained herein shall include: (a) a statement that the person or persons executing such certificate have read such agreement, condition, covenant or term and the definitions herein relating thereto; (b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements contained in such certificate are based; (c) a statement that, in the opinion of the signers, they have made or caused to be made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable them to express an informed opinion as to whether or not the City or the Authority has complied with such agreement, condition, covenant or term; and (d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of the signers, the City or the Authority has complied with such agreement, condition, covenant or term.
Any Certificate of the Authority or the City may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon an Opinion of Counsel unless the person or persons executing such certificate know that the Opinion of Counsel with respect to the matters upon which his or their certificate may be based, as aforesaid, is erroneous, or in the exercise of reasonable care should have known that the same was erroneous. Any Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters and information with respect to which is in the possession of the City or the Authority, upon a representation by an officer or officers of the City or the Authority unless the counsel executing such Opinion of Counsel knows that the representation with respect to the matters upon which his opinion may be based, as aforesaid, is erroneous, or in the exercise of reasonable care should have known that the same was erroneous.
Publication for Successive Weeks. Any publication required to be made hereunder for successive weeks in a financial newspaper may be made in each instance upon any Business Day of the first week and need not be made on the same Business Day of any succeeding week or in the same financial newspaper for any subsequent publication, but may be made on different Business Days or in different financial newspapers, as the case may be.
Accounts and Funds; Business Days. Any account or fund required herein to be established and maintained by the Trustee may be established and maintained in the accounting records of the Trustee either as an account or a fund, and may, for the purposes of such accounting records, any audits thereof and any reports or statements with respect thereto, be treated either as an account or a fund; but all such records with respect to all such accounts and funds shall at all times be maintained in accordance with the Tax Certificate and sound accounting practice and with due regard for the protection of the security of the Certificates and the rights of the Owners. Any action required to occur hereunder on a day which is not a Business Day shall be required to occur on the next succeeding Business Day.
Article and Section Headings and References. The headings or titles of the several articles and sections hereof and the table of contents appended hereto shall be solely for convenience of reference and shall not affect the meaning, construction or effect hereof. All references herein to “Articles,” “Sections” and other subdivisions or clauses are to the corresponding articles, sections, subdivisions or clauses hereof; and the words “hereby,” “herein,” “hereof,” “hereto,” “herewith,” “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to the Trust Agreement as a whole and not to any particular article, section, subdivision or clause hereof.
Partial Invalidity. If any one or more of the agreements or covenants or portions thereof required hereby to be performed by or on the part of the City, the Authority or the Trustee shall be contrary to law, then such agreement or agreements, such covenant or covenants or such portions thereof shall be null and void and shall be deemed separable from the remaining agreements and covenants or portions thereof and shall in no way affect the validity hereof or of the Certificates, and the Owners shall retain all the benefit, protection and security afforded to them under the Act or any other applicable provisions of law. The City, the Authority and the Trustee hereby declare that they would have executed and delivered the Trust Agreement and each and every other article, section, paragraph, subdivision, sentence, clause and phrase hereof and would have authorized the execution and delivery of the Certificates pursuant hereto irrespective of the fact that any one or more articles, sections, paragraphs, subdivisions, sentences, clauses or phrases hereof or the application thereof to any person or circumstance may be held to be unconstitutional, unenforceable or invalid.
Execution in Several Counterparts. This Trust Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and each of such counterparts shall for all purposes be deemed to be an original; and all such counterparts, or as many of them as the City, the Authority and the Trustee shall preserve undestroyed, shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
Notices. Except as otherwise provided herein, for the purposes hereof, any notice, consent, request, requisition, direction, certificate or demand or other communication may be served or presented, and such notice or demand may be made and shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or served for all purposes by being deposited, first-class postage prepaid, in a post office letter box, addressed, as the case may be, to the parties as follows:
If to the Authority: Riverside Public Financing Authority 3900 Main Street
Riverside, California 92522
Attention: Treasurer
If to the Trustee: U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association 633 W. Fifth Street, 24th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Attention: Global Corporate Trust Services
If to the City: City of Riverside
3900 Main Street
Riverside, California 92522
Attention: Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer
If to the Purchaser: Piper Sandler & Co.
2321 Rosecrans Avenue, Suite 3200
El Segundo, California 90245
Attention: Public Finance
Any such communication may also be sent by telecopy at the telecopy numbers given above. Any party may change its address by notice to each other party.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Authority and the City have caused this Trust Agreement to be signed in their respective names by such person as has been designated by their respective governing boards, and the Trustee, to evidence its acceptance of the trust hereby created, has caused the Trust Agreement to be signed in the name of the Trustee by an authorized officer of the Trustee, all as of the day and year first above written.
RIVERSIDE PUBLIC FINANCING AUTHORITY
By:
Treasurer
U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee By:
Authorized Signatory
CITY OF RIVERSIDE
By:
City Manager
Approved as to form by Bond Counsel:
Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth
EXHIBIT A
FORM OF CERTIFICATE
No. _________ $__________
RIVERSIDE PUBLIC FINANCING AUTHORITY
LOCAL MEASURE A SALES TAX REVENUE (INSTALLMENT SALE)
REFUNDING CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATION, SERIES 2023
(2013 RIVERSIDE PAVEMENT REHABILITATION PROJECT)
Interest Rate
Certificate
Payment Date
Dated as of
CUSIP No.
___%
June 1, 20__
July __, 2023
76904C ___
REGISTERED OWNER: CEDE & CO.
PRINCIPAL SUM: _____________ DOLLARS
THIS IS TO CERTIFY that the registered owner named above, as the registered owner of this Riverside Public Financing Authority Local Measure A Sales Tax Revenue (Installment Sale) Refunding Certificate of Participation, Series 2023 (2013 Riverside Pavement Rehabilitation Project) (the “Certificate”), is the owner of a proportionate undivided interest in the rights to receive certain Installment Sale Payments (as that term is defined in the Trust Agreement hereinafter mentioned) under and pursuant to that certain 2013 Installment Sale Agreement, dated as of July 1, 2013, as amended and supplemented by that certain First Supplement to 2013 Installment Sale Agreement, dated as of July 1, 2023 (collectively, the “Agreement”), each by and between the City of Riverside (the “City”), a municipal corporation and charter city organized and existing under its charter and the Constitution of the State of California, and the Riverside Public Financing Authority (the “Authority”), a joint powers authority duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of California, all of which rights to receive such Installment Sale Payments having been assigned without recourse by the Authority to U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), a trust company duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the United States and having a corporate trust office in Los Angeles, California.
The registered owner of this Certificate is entitled to receive, subject to the terms of the Agreement on the certificate payment date set forth above (the “Certificate Payment Date”), upon surrender of this Certificate on the Certificate Payment Date at the corporate trust office of the Trustee, the principal sum specified above representing the registered owner’s fractional undivided share of the Installment Sale Payments designated as principal components coming due on the Certificate Payment Date, and on each June 1 and December 1, commencing December 1, [2023] (each an “Interest Payment Date”). The Certificates shall evidence and represent interest from the Interest Payment Date next preceding the date of registration thereof, unless such date of registration is an Interest Payment Date, in which event they shall evidence and represent interest from such date, or unless such date of registration is prior to the first Interest Payment Date, in which event they shall evidence and represent interest from July __, 2023; provided, however, that if at the time of registration of any Certificate interest is then in default on the Outstanding Certificates, such Certificate shall evidence and represent interest from the Interest Payment Date to which interest has previously been paid or made available for payment on the Outstanding Certificates. Payment of interest evidenced and represented by the Certificates due on or before the maturity or prior prepayment thereof shall be made to the person whose name appears in the Certificate registration records maintained by the Trustee pursuant to the Trust Agreement (as such term is defined below) as the registered owner thereof as of the close of business on the Record Date preceding each Interest Payment Date, whether or not such day is a Business Day, such interest to be paid by check mailed on such Interest Payment Date (or the next Business Day if such Interest Payment Date is not a Business Day) to such registered owner at the address as it appears in such books or at such other address as may have been filed with the Trustee for that purpose. The Owner of $1,000,000 or more in aggregate principal amount evidenced by the Certificates may request in writing that the Trustee pay the interest evidenced by such Certificates by wire transfer and the Trustee shall comply with such request for all Interest Payment Dates following the fifteenth (15th) day after receipt of such request until such request is rescinded. All such amounts are payable in lawful money of the United States of America.
This Certificate is one of the duly authorized Certificates of the series set forth above, which have been executed by the Trustee pursuant to the terms of a Trust Agreement (together with any supplements or amendments thereto, the “Trust Agreement”), by and between the Trustee, the City and the Authority, dated as of July 1, 2023. Copies of the Trust Agreement are on file at the corporate trust office of the Trustee, and reference is hereby made to the Trust Agreement and to any and all amendments thereof and supplements thereto for a description of the agreements, conditions, covenants and terms securing the Certificates, for the nature, extent and manner of enforcement of such agreements, conditions, covenants and terms, for the rights and remedies of the registered owners of the Certificates with respect thereto and for the other agreements, conditions, covenants and terms upon which the Certificates are executed and delivered thereunder, to which agreements, conditions, covenants and terms the owner hereof, by acceptance hereof, hereby consents.
To the extent and in the manner permitted by the terms of the Trust Agreement and the Agreement, the provisions of the Trust Agreement may be amended or supplemented by the parties thereto.
This Certificate is transferable by the registered owner hereof, in person or by his attorney duly authorized in writing, at the corporate trust office of the Trustee but only in the manner, subject to the limitations and upon payment of the charges provided in the Trust Agreement, and upon surrender of this Certificate for cancellation accompanied by delivery of a duly executed written instrument of transfer in the form appearing hereon. Upon such transfer, a new Certificate or Certificates of the same series and Certificate Payment Date representing the same principal amount will be executed and delivered to the transferee in exchange herefor. The Certificates are exchangeable at the corporate trust office of the Trustee for a like aggregate principal amount of Certificates of authorized denominations of the same series and Certificate Payment Date, in the manner, subject to the limitations and upon payment of the charges provided in the Trust Agreement.
The Trustee may treat the registered owner hereof as the absolute owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Certificate shall be overdue, and the Trustee shall not be affected by any knowledge or notice to the contrary; and payment of the interest and principal represented by this Certificate shall be made only to such registered owner, which payments shall be valid and effectual to satisfy and discharge liability represented by this Certificate to the extent of the sum or sums so paid.
The Certificates are authorized to be executed and delivered in the form of fully registered Certificates in denominations of five thousand dollars ($5,000) each or any integral multiple thereof so long as no Certificate shall represent principal becoming payable on more than one Certificate Payment Date.
The Certificates are subject to mandatory prepayment prior to their respective Certificate Payment Dates, as provided in the Trust Agreement.
The Certificates each evidence and represent a fractional undivided interest in the Installment Sale Payments in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Certificates originally executed and delivered by the Trustee pursuant to the Trust Agreement and enjoy the benefits of a security interest in the moneys held in the funds established pursuant to the Trust Agreement, subject to the provisions of the Trust Agreement permitting the disbursement thereof for or to the purposes and on the conditions and terms set forth therein. The obligations of the City to make the Installment Sale Payments are special obligations of the City payable from Revenues, and do not constitute debts of the City or of the State of California or of any political subdivision thereof within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory debt limitation or restriction.
The Trustee has no obligation or liability to the Certificate owners for the payment of the interest or principal represented by the Certificates, but rather the Trustee’s sole obligations are to administer, for the benefit of the City and the Authority and the Certificate owners, the various funds established under the Trust Agreement and the Agreement. The Authority has no obligation or liability whatsoever to the Certificate owners.
The Owner hereby has a proportionate undivided ownership interest in the Installment Sale Payments payable pursuant to the Agreement.
Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation (“DTC”), to Trustee or its agent for the registration of transfer, exchange, or payment, and any certificate executed and delivered is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein The Authority has certified to the Trustee that all acts, conditions and things required by the statutes of the State of California and the Trust Agreement to exist, to have happened and to have been performed precedent to and in connection with the execution and delivery of this Certificate do exist, have happened and have been performed in regular and due time, form and manner as required by law, and that the Trustee is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Certificate. This is to further certify that the amount of this Certificate, together with all other Certificates executed and delivered under the Trust Agreement, is not in excess of the amount of Certificates authorized to be executed and delivered thereunder.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Certificate has been dated as of the date set forth above and has been executed by the manual signature of an authorized signatory of the Trustee.
Date of Execution: July __, 2023
U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
By:
Authorized Signatory
[FORM OF ASSIGNMENT]
For value received, the undersigned do(es) hereby sell, assign and transfer unto __________, whose address is _____________________________ and whose social security or Taxpayer Identification No. is __________, the within Certificate and do(es) hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint _____________________________________ attorney to transfer such Certificate on the Certificate register of the Trustee, with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated: __________
Note: The signature(s) to this Assignment must correspond with the name(s) as written on the face of the within Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.
Signature must be guaranteed by an eligible
guarantor institution.
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