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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCE NO. 924 SUMMARY BOND ELECTION ORDINANCESUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 924 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF REXBURG, MADISON COUNTY, IDAHO, ORDERING A SPECIAL BOND ELECTION TO BE HELD ON THE QUESTION OF THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS OF THE CITY IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $4,000,000 TO PROVIDE FUNDS TO FINANCE THE CONSTRUCTION AND FURNISHING OF AN OUTDOOR SWIMMING FACILITY AND RELATED COSTS; ESTABLISHING THE DATE, TIME, AND PLACE OF THE SPECIAL BOND ELECTION; APPROVING A FORM OF BALLOT AND A FORM OF NOTICE OF ELECTION; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION OF NOTICE OF ELECTION; PROVIDING FOR REGISTRATION OF VOTERS; PROVIDING FOR RELATED MATTERS; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE A summary of the principal provisions of Ordinance No. 924, of the City of Rexburg, Madison County, Idaho, adopted on June 9, 2004, is as follows: Section 1: Defines the outdoor swimming facility Project, estimates the total cost at $4,000,000, and provides for the issuance of general obligation bonds, subject to approval of the qualified electors of the City, in the amount of not to exceed $4,000,000. Section 2: Provides for a special municipal bond election to be held within the City on Tuesday, August 3, 2004, for the purpose of enabling the qualified and registered electors of the City to vote upon the proposition of issuing general obligation bonds. Section 3: Provides that the polls for the special bond election shall open at 8:00 o'clock A.M. on August 3, 2004, and shall remain open until 8:00 o'clock P.M., and provides for the polling place for said special bond election. Section 4: Provides that the ballot proposition shall be substantially as follows: SHALL THE CITY OF REXBURG BE AUTHORIZED TO INCUR AN INDEBTEDNESS AND ISSUE AND SELL ITS GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS TO THE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOT TO EXCEED $4,000,000 TO PAY THE COST OF ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN OUTDOOR SWIMMING FACILITY, AND RELATED COSTS, THE BONDS TO MATURE AND TO BE PAYABLE FROM A LEVY OF TAXES OVER A TERM WHICH MAY BE LESS THAN BUT WHICH SHALL NOT EXCEED THIRTY (30) YEARS, ALL AS MORE FULLY PROVIDED IN ORDINANCE NO. 924, ADOPTED ON JUNE 9, 2004? Section 5: Provides for payment of election expenses. Section 6: Defines qualified electors as persons who are United States citizens, eighteen years of age or older, who have been bona fide residents of the City for at least 30 days immediately prior to the date of election, and who are registered as provided by law. Section 7: Provides for registration of voters. Section 8: Provides for preparation and publication of sample ballots. Page 1 - EXHIBIT "B" Section 9: Provides for publication of Notice of Special Bond Election. Section 10: Provides for canvass of votes. Section 11: Provides for Debt Disclosure Statement pursuant to Idaho Code Section 34-440. Section 12: Provides for the issuance of general obligation bonds maturing over a term of not to exceed thirty (30) years, and provides for other matters relating to the general obligation bonds. Section 13: Authorizes the officers of the City to take appropriate actions to effectuate the provisions of this Ordinance. Section 14: Ratifies previous actions. Section 15: Provides for publication of a summary of the ordinance. The full text of Ordinance No. 924 is available at City Hall and will be provided to any citizen upon personal request during normal office hours. DATED this 9th day of June, 2004. CITY OF REXBURG Madison County, Idaho S d Larsen, ayor ATTEST: �--> . Kai,, air D. Kay, City Nlerk Page 2 - EXHIBIT "B" CERTIFICATION OF ATTORNEY I, the undersigned, an attorney at law licensed in the State of Idaho and acting as city attorney to the City of Rexburg, Madison County, Idaho, hereby certify that I have read the attached summary of Ordinance No. 924 of the City of Rexburg and that the same is true and complete and provides adequate notice to the public of the contents of said Ordinance. Dated as of the 9th day of June, 2004. Stephel Zollinger,Cattorney at Law Page 3 - EXHIBIT "B" STANDARD JOURNAL Rexburg, Idaho St. Anthony, Idaho Ashton, Idaho AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF IDAHO Madison and Fremont Counties I, Jeff Rydalch, being first duly sworn, depose and say, that I am the business manager of the STANDARD JOURNAL, a 5 times a week newspaper published 5 times a week in Madison and Fremont Counties, Idaho; and I do solemnly swear that the City of Rexburg General Bond Election August 3, 2004, a copy of which notice appears attached hereto, was published in the regular and entire issue of said newspaper, and not in any supplement issue, once each week thereof for two successive issues, the first publication having been made on July 24, 2004 and the last publication having been made on July 31, 2004. Further, that said newspaper is one of general circulation in said county; that it is a legal newspaper, conforming to legal specifications under the Idaho Statutes; that it has at least two hundred bona fide subscribers living within the county of publication; and that it has been continuously and uninterruptedly published in said county during a period of seventy-eight consecutive weeks prior to the first publication of the said no 'cc. STATE OF IDAHO COUNTY OF MADISON On this 2nd day of August in the year of 2004 before me, a Notary Public, personally appeared Jeff Rydalch, known or identified to me to be the person whose name subscribed to the within instrument, and being by me first duly sworn, declared that the statement therein are true, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Notary PublifotXdaho Residing at Rexburg, Idaho My commission expires: April 29, 2005 tr'"f NOTICE FOR CITY OF REA Notice General Bond Election August 3, 2004. The City of Rexburg has established 11 precincts with 3 voting locations for the electors to vote in the 2004 General Bond Election for an Aquatic Park. The following list of voting locations is provided for the elector's information: (1) Fifth Precinct and Seventh Precinct: i Veteran's Hall — 480 West 2nd North. (2) Eighth Precinct, Ninth Precinct, Tenth at Ci Precinct, Eleventh Precinct, Twelfth Precinct and Thirteenth Precinct: Cotton Th Tree Inn Convention Center at the Chamber resit of Commerce (Conference Room) — 420 West this 4th South. Con (3) Fourteenth Precinct, Fifteenth Gen Precinct, Sixteenth Precinct and Twentieth Precinct for Absentee Ballots: Rexburg City Hall — 12 North Center. (NOTE: Absentee Ballots can be obtained SAWLE. • Special Genera( Obligation Bond Election INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS, In it order to vote IN FAVOR of the proposed bond issue, please fill in the oval to the left of the words'IN FAVOR issuing bonds to the of not OF amount to exceed $4,000,000forthe purposes stated in Ordinance No. 924." In order to vote AGAINST the proposed bond issue, please fill in the oval to the left of the words "AGAINST issuing bonds to the amount of not to exceed n $4,000,000 for the purposes stated in Ordinance No. 924' If by mistake you, I or accident, mark, deface, mutilate. or 21 ■'otherwise spoil this ballot. please return i1 to an election officla! and obtain another ballot. SHALL THE CITY OF REXBURG BE AUTHORIZED TO INCUR AN ® INDEBTEDNESS AND ISSUE AND SELL ITS GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS TO THE ® PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOT TO EXCEED $4,000,000 TO PAY THE COST OF ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN OUTDOOR SWIMMING FACILITY, AND RELATED COSTS, THE BONDS TO MATURE AND TO BE PAYABLE r FROM A LEVY OF TAXES OVER I . A TERM WHICH MAY BE LESS THAN BUT WHICH SHALL NOT EXCEED HIRTY O) YEA ® 40 ALL AS MOREFULLY PROVIDED IN ORDINANCE NO. 924, ADOPTED ON JUNE 9, 2004? . 42 . ..�. C� IN FAVOR OF issuing bonds to the amour! - of not to exceed S4,DOO,000 for the purposes stated in Ordinance No. 924 AGAINST swing oonds to the amount . of not to exceed $4,000.000 •. tIn; ;.,^ •ees stated in Ordinance hb. 924. I The following Information is required by Section 34-440, Idaho . st , Code: - I The City has outstanding revenue bond indebtedness in the amount of . $2,190,657 The City has no The interest general obligation debt. rate antcipated on the proposec ® bonds Is 5% per annum. The range of anticipated rates is from four percent (4.0%) to eight percent (8.0%) per annum. The Iota. i amount to be repaid over the life o the proposed bonds, principal anc interest, based on the anticipatec Interest rate. is estimated to be $7,806,172. 9LL�l — 16 I a - I TYp:01 seq:0001 sp1:01 l c I { m coaonor,2 Pub]. July 24 and 31, 2004. Community KFXBURG