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Resolution 2022-193 RESOLUTION NO. 19 3 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE PROPOSAL OF JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. TO PURCHASE THE COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA TAXABLE WATER AND SEWER REFUNDING REVENUE BOND, SERIES 2023 AND TO ALLOW FOR THE FUTURE EXCHANGE OF SUCH SERIES 2023 BOND FOR THE COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA WATER AND SEWER REFUNDING REVENUE BOND, SERIES 2026; APPROVING THE FORM OF A RATE LOCK LETTER AGREEMENT AND AUTHORIZING THE CHAIRMAN TO ESTABLISH THE INTEREST RATES FOR THE SERIES 2023 BOND AND SERIES 2026 BOND AND TO EXECUTE AND DELIVER SUCH RATE LOCK LETTER AGREEMENT; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, ACTING AS THE EX-OFFICIO GOVERNING BOARD OF THE COLLIER COUNTY WATER-SEWER DISTRICT: SECTION 1. FINDINGS. It is hereby found and determined that: (A) PFM Financial Advisors LLC (the "Financial Advisor"), on behalf of the Collier County Water-Sewer District (the "Issuer") recently solicited bids from various financial institutions to purchase the Issuer's Collier County, Florida Taxable Water and Sewer Refunding Revenue Bond, Series 2023 (the "Series 2023 Bond") and allow for the exchange of the Series 2023 Bond for a tax-exempt Collier County, Florida Water and Sewer Refunding Revenue Bond, Series 2026 (the "Series 2026 Bond") in 2026, to provide for the refunding of the outstanding Water and Sewer Refunding Revenue Bonds, Series 2016 (the "Refunded Bonds"), in order to achieve debt service savings for the Issuer. (B) JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (the "Purchaser") submitted a conforming proposal (the "Proposal") to purchase the Series 2023 Bond and allow for the exchange of the Series 2023 Bond for the Series 2026 Bond in 2026, subject to certain conditions, which Proposal provides the Issuer with the most net present value debt service savings with respect to the refunding of the Refunded Bonds. (C) It is in the best interest of the Issuer to accept the Purchaser's proposal and to authorize the Chairman, upon the advice of the Financial Advisor, to establish interest rates for the Series 2023 Bond and Series 2026 Bond (collectively, the "Bonds") in accordance with the Proposal and to execute and deliver a Rate Lock Letter Agreement with respect thereto (the "Rate Lock Letter Agreement"). (D) The Bonds will be issued as additional bonds pursuant to Resolution No. CWS-85-5, as amended and restated by Resolution No. CWS-85-13 duly adopted on December 26, 1985, as amended and supplemented (collectively, the "Bond Resolution"). SECTION 2. AUTHORITY FOR THIS SUPPLEMENTAL RESOLUTION. This Resolution is adopted pursuant to the Constitution of the State of Florida and all applicable laws of the State of Florida, including but not limited to Chapter 125, Florida Statutes, and Chapter 2003-353, Laws of Florida, as amended and supplemented. SECTION 3. ACCEPTANCE OF THE PURCHASER'S PROPOSAL. The Purchaser's Proposal is attached hereto as Exhibit A. The Issuer hereby accepts such Proposal and awards the sale of the Bonds to the Purchaser pursuant to the terms and provision set forth in such Proposal and the Bond Resolution. SECTION 4. APPROVAL OF RATE LOCK LETTER AGREEMENT. The Issuer hereby authorizes and directs the Chairman to establish, upon the advice of the Financial Advisor, the interest rates for the Bonds in accordance with the terms of the Proposal, and to execute the Rate Lock Letter Agreement and deliver the Rate Lock Letter Agreement to the Purchaser. The Rate Lock Letter Agreement shall be in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit B with such changes, amendments, modifications, omissions and additions as may be approved by the Chairman, upon the advice of the Financial Advisor and the Issuer's bond counsel. Execution by the Chairman of the Rate Lock Letter Agreement shall be deemed to be conclusive evidence of the approval of such changes. If the Issuer is obligated to pay any breakage fee pursuant to the Rate Lock Letter Agreement, such obligation shall be payable from net revenues of the Issuer's water and sewer utility system. SECTION 5. SEVERABILITY. If any provision of this Resolution shall be held or deemed to be or shall, in fact, be illegal, inoperative or unenforceable in any context, the same shall not affect any other provision herein or render any other provision (or such provision in any other context) invalid, inoperative or unenforceable to any extent whatever. 2 CA° SECTION 6. EFFECTIVE DATE. This resolution shall become effective immediately upon its adoption. DULY ADOPTED, this 13th day of December 2022 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, AS THE EX-OFFICIO GOVERNING BOARD OF THE COLLIER COUNTY WATER-SEWER DISTRICT (SEAL) 6 1) Al; • AA _l,,; ..vim Willia /L. McDaniel, Jr., Chairman ATTESTED: C stal . Kinzel, Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller of Collier County, Florida and Ex-Officio Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners Attest as to Chairman's signature only. Approv:s a' ', F• m and Legality: ' ii 1l► i Jeffrey A!Kl.b'ko_w, County Attorney 3 .. CAC