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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance - 2015-O0032 - General Obligation Refunding Bonds - 03/26/2015Ordinance No. 2015 - 00032 ORDINANCE relating to CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS GENERAL OBLIGATION REFUNDING BONDS, SERIES 2015 and CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS GENERAL OBLIGATION REFUNDING BONDS, TAXABLE SERIES 2015 Adopted: March 26, 2015 HOU:3531478.1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Recitals............................................................................................................................................1 ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PRELIMINARY MATTERS Section1.01 Definitions............................................................................................................2 Section1.02 Findings................................................................................................................5 Section 1.03 Table of Contents, Titles and Headings................................................................5 Section1.04 Interpretation.........................................................................................................5 (i) HOU:3531478.1 ARTICLE II SECURITY FOR THE BONDS; INTEREST AND SINKING FUND Section2.01 Tax Levy...............................................................................................................6 Section 2.02 Interest and Sinking Fund.....................................................................................6 ARTICLE III AUTHORIZATION; GENERAL TERMS AND PROVISIONS REGARDING THE BONDS Section3.01 Authorization........................................................................................................7 Section 3.02 Date, Denomination, Maturities and Interest........................................................7 Section 3.03 Medium, Method and Place of Payment...............................................................8 Section 3.04 Execution and Registration of Bonds...................................................................9 Section3.05 Ownership...........................................................................................................10 Section 3.06 Registration, Transfer and Exchange..................................................................10 Section3.07 Cancellation........................................................................................................11 Section3.08 Temporary Bonds...............................................................................................11 Section 3.09 Replacement Bonds............................................................................................11 Section 3.10 Book -Entry Only System....................................................................................12 Section 3.11 Successor Securities Depository; Transfer Outside Book -Entry Only System.................................................................................................................13 Section 3.12 Payments to Cede & Co......................................................................................13 ARTICLE IV REDEMPTION OF BONDS BEFORE MATURITY Section 4.01 Limitation on Redemption..................................................................................14 Section 4.02 Optional Redemption..........................................................................................14 Section 4.03 Mandatory Sinking Fund Redemption................................................................14 Section 4.04 Partial Redemption.............................................................................................14 Section 4.05 Notice of Redemption to Owners.......................................................................15 Section 4.06 Payment Upon Redemption................................................................................15 Section 4.07 Effect of Redemption..........................................................................................16 Section4.08 Lapse of Payment...............................................................................................16 ARTICLE V PAYING AGENT/REGISTRAR Section 5.01 Appointment of Paying Agent/Registrar............................................................16 (i) HOU:3531478.1 Section5.02 Qualifications......................................................................................................16 Section 5.03 Maintaining Paying Agent/Registrar..................................................................16 Section5.04 Termination.........................................................................................................17 Section 5.05 Notice of Change to Owners...............................................................................17 Section 5.06 Agreement to Perform Duties and Functions.....................................................17 Section 5.07 Delivery of Records to Successor.......................................................................17 ARTICLE VI FORM OF THE BONDS Section6.01 Form Generally...................................................................................................17 Section 6.02 CUSIP Registration............................................................................................18 Section6.03 Legal Opinion.....................................................................................................18 Section 6.04 Statement of Insurance.......................................................................................18 ARTICLE VII SALE AND DELIVERY OF BONDS; DEPOSIT OF PROCEEDS Section 7.01 Sale of Bonds; Official Statement......................................................................18 Section 7.02 Control and Delivery of Bonds...........................................................................20 Section 7.03 Deposit of Proceeds............................................................................................20 ARTICLE VIII INVESTMENTS Section8.01 Investments.........................................................................................................21 Section 8.02 Investment Income..............................................................................................21 ARTICLE IX PARTICULAR REPRESENTATIONS AND COVENANTS Section 9.01 Payment of the Bonds.........................................................................................21 Section 9.02 Other Representations and Covenants................................................................21 Section 9.03 Federal Income Tax Exclusion...........................................................................22 ARTICLE X DEFAULT AND REMEDIES Section 10.01 Events of Default................................................................................................24 Section 10.02 Remedies for Default..........................................................................................24 Section 10.03 Remedies Not Exclusive.....................................................................................25 ARTICLE XI DISCHARGE Section11.01 Discharge............................................................................................................25 ARTICLE XII CONTINUING DISCLOSURE UNDERTAKING Section12.01 Annual Reports...................................................................................................25 Section12.02 Event Notices......................................................................................................26 Section 12.03 Identifying Information......................................................................................27 Section 12.04 Limitations, Disclaimers and Amendments ............................... HOU:3531478.1 ARTICLE XIII AMENDMENTS; ATTORNEY GENERAL MODIFICATION Section13.01 Amendments.......................................................................................................28 Section 13.02 Attorney General Modification...........................................................................29 ARTICLE XIV REDEMPTION OF REFUNDED OBLIGATIONS; APPROVAL OF ESCROW AGREEMENT; PURCHASE OF ESCROWED SECURITIES Section 14.01 Redemption of Refunded Obligations................................................................29 Section 14.02 Escrow Securities................................................................................................29 Section 14.03 Arrangements for Defeasance of Refunded Obligations....................................29 Section 14.04 Notice of Redemption.........................................................................................30 ARTICLE XV EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY Section 15.01 Effective Immediately........................................................................................30 Schedule I — Refunded Obligation Candidates............................................................. Schedule I-1 Exhibit A — Description of Annual Disclosure of Financial Information .................................. A-1 ExhibitB — Sale Parameters....................................................................................................... B-1 ExhibitC — Form of the Bonds................................................................................................... C-1 HOU:3531478.1 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, GENERAL OBLIGATION REFUNDING BONDS, SERIES 2015, AND CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, GENERAL OBLIGATION REFUNDING BONDS, TAXABLE SERIES 2015; LEVYING A TAX IN PAYMENT THEREOF; PROVIDING FOR THE AWARD OF THE SALE THEREOF IN ACCORDANCE WITH SPECIFIED PARAMETERS; APPROVING THE OFFICIAL STATEMENT; APPROVING EXECUTION OF A PURCHASE CONTRACT AND ESCROW AGREEMENTS; AND ENACTING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING THERETO WHEREAS, there are presently outstanding certain obligations of the City of Lubbock, Texas (the "City") described on Schedule I attached hereto (collectively, the "Refunded Obligation Candidates"); WHEREAS, the City now desires to refund all or a portion of such Refunded Obligation Candidates (such refunded obligations to be hereinafter referred to as the "Refunded Obligations"); WHEREAS, Chapter 1207, Texas Government Code, as amended ("Chapter 1207") authorizes the City to issue refunding bonds and to deposit the proceeds from the sale thereof, together with any other available funds or resources, directly with the paying agent for any of the Refunded Obligations or a trust company or commercial bank, and such deposit, if made before such payment dates, shall constitute the making of firm banking and financial arrangements for the discharge and final payment of the Refunded Obligations; WHEREAS, Chapter 1207 further authorizes the City to enter into one or more escrow agreements with respect to the safekeeping, investment, reinvestment, administration and disposition of any such deposit; WHEREAS, the City Council hereby finds and determines that the refunding contemplated by this Ordinance will benefit the City by providing present value debt service savings in an amount or amounts to be certified in the Pricing Certificate(s) (hereinafter defined), and that such benefit is sufficient consideration for the issuance of refunding bonds, as provided by this Ordinance, and the refunding of the Refunded Obligations; WHEREAS, the City Council hereby finds and determines that it is necessary and in the best interest of the City and its citizens that it authorize by this Ordinance the issuance of bonds, in one or more series, the proceeds of which will be sufficient to (i) refund the Refunded Obligations and (ii) pay costs of issuance of such bonds; WHEREAS, the City is an "Issuer" within the meaning of Chapter 1371, Texas Government Code ("Chapter 1371"), as amended, and the City Council desires to delegate, pursuant to Chapter 1207 and Chapter 1371 and the parameters of this Ordinance, to the Authorized Officer, the authority to approve the principal amount, the interest rate, the number of series, the price and the terms of the Bonds authorized hereby and to otherwise take such -1- HOU:3531478.1 actions as are necessary and appropriate to effect the sale of the Bonds and to select the specific maturities or series of Refunded Obligation Candidates to be refunded; WHEREAS, the meeting at which this Ordinance is considered is open to the public as required by law, and public notice of the time, place and purpose of said meeting was given as required by Chapter 551, Texas Government Code, as amended; therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK: ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PRELIMINARY MATTERS Section 1.01 Definitions. Unless otherwise expressly provided or unless the context clearly requires otherwise in this Ordinance, the following terms shall have the meanings specified below: "Authorized Officer" means each of the Mayor, the City Manager and the Executive Director of Finance, acting individually. "Bond" means any of the Bonds. "Bond Date" means the date designated as the initial date of the Bonds by Section 3.02(a) of this Ordinance. "Bonds" means the City's bonds authorized to be issued by Section 3.01 of this Ordinance. "City" means the City of Lubbock, Texas. "Closing Date" means the date of the initial delivery of and payment for Bonds. "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended by all legislation, if any, enacted on or before the Issue Date. "Computation Date" has the meaning stated in Section 1.148-1(b) of the Regulations. "Designated Payment/Transfer Office" means the Designated Payment/Transfer Office, as designated in the Paying Agent/Registrar Agreement, or such other location designated by the Paying Agent/Registrar. "DTC" means The Depository Trust Company of New York, New York, or any successor securities depository. "DTC Participant" means brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and certain other organizations on whose behalf DTC was created to hold securities to facilitate the clearance and settlement of securities transactions among DTC Participants. "EMMA" means the Electronic Municipal Market Access System. -2- HOU:3531478.1 "Escrow Agent" means the place of payment for the Refunded Obligations or the trust company or commercial bank identified in the Escrow Agreement, and its successors in such capacity. "Escrow Agreement" means an agreement between the City and the Escrow Agent pertaining to the defeasance of Refunded Obligations, as described in Section 14.03 of this Ordinance. "Escrow Fund" means the fund by that name established in the Escrow Agreement. "Escrow Securities" has the meaning assigned in the Escrow Agreement. "Event of Default" means any event of default as defined in Section 10.01 of this Ordinance. "Gross Proceeds" has the meaning stated in Section 1.148-1(b) of the Regulations. "Initial Bond" means the initial bond or bonds of each series authorized by Section 3.04 of this Ordinance. "Interest and Sinking Fund" means the interest and sinking fund or funds established by Section 2.02 of this Ordinance. "Interest Payment Date" means the date or dates on which interest on the Bonds is scheduled to be paid until their respective dates of maturity or prior redemption, as set forth in the Pricing Certificate. "Investment" has the meaning stated in Section 1.148-1(b) of the Regulations. "Issue Date" for each series of Bonds or other obligations of the City is the respective date on which such series of Bonds or other obligations of the City is delivered against payment therefor. "MSRB" means the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board. "Net Sale Proceeds" has the meaning stated in Section 1.148-1(b) of the Regulations. "Nonpurpose Investment" has the meaning stated in Section 1.148-1(b) of the Regulations. "Official Statement" means a document described in Section 7.01(c) prepared for dissemination to potential investors in connection with the public offering and sale of Bonds. "Owner" means the person who is the registered owner of a Bond or Bonds, as shown in the Register. -3- HOU:3531478.1 "Paying Agent/Registrar" means the bank or trust company identified in the Paying Agent/Registrar Agreement referred to in Section 5.01 of this Ordinance, or any successor thereto as provided in this Ordinance. "Preliminary Official Statement" means a document described in Section 7.01(c) prepared for dissemination to potential investors prior to the availability of the final Official Statement. "Pricing Certificate" means a certificate or certificates signed by an Authorized Officer establishing the terms and features of each series of Bonds in accordance with Section 7.01 hereof. "Proceeds" has the meaning stated in Section 1.148-1(b) of the Regulations. "Purchase Contract" means any purchase contract described in Section 7.01(b) of this Ordinance. "Rebate Amount" has the meaning stated in Section 1.148-3 of the Regulations. "Record Date" means the date specified in the Pricing Certificate. "Refunded Obligation Candidates" means the obligations of the City described in Schedule I attached hereto. "Refunded Obligations" means the Refunded Obligation Candidates designated as Refunded Obligations in a Pricing Certificate. "Register" means the Register specified in Section 3.06(a) of this Ordinance. "Regulations" means the final or temporary Income Tax Regulations applicable to the Bonds issued pursuant to Sections 141 through 150 of the Code. Any reference to a section of the Regulations shall also refer to any successor provision to such section hereafter promulgated by the Internal Revenue Service pursuant to Sections 141 through 150 of the Code and applicable to the Bonds. "Representation Letter" means the Blanket Letter of Representations between the City and DTC. "Representative" means the representative for the Underwriters named in the Purchase Contract. "Rule" means SEC Rule 15c2-12, as amended from time to time. "SEC" means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. "Series 2015 Certificates of Obligation" means any of the City's Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation authorized to be issued in one or more series - -1 - HOU:3531478.1 in accordance with the terms of an ordinance of the City adopted concurrently with this Ordinance. "Special Payment Date" means the Special Payment Date prescribed by Section 3.03(b). "Special Record Date" means the Special Record Date prescribed by Section 3.03(b). "Taxable Bonds" means any Bonds for which the City does not intend that the interest thereon shall be excludable from gross income of the owners thereof for federal income tax purposes pursuant to Sections 103 and 141 through 150 of the Code. "Tax -Exempt Bonds" means any Bonds for which the City intends that the interest thereon shall be excludable from gross income of the owners thereof for federal income tax purposes pursuant to Sections 103 and 141 through 150 of the Code. "Term Bonds" has the meaning set forth in Section 4.03 hereof. "Unclaimed Payments" means money deposited with the Paying Agent/Registrar for the payment of principal of or interest on the Bonds as the same come due and payable and remaining unclaimed by the Owners of such Bonds after the applicable payment or redemption date. "Underwriters" means the Underwriters named in the Purchase Contract. "Yield of (i) any Investment shall be computed in accordance with Section 1.148-5 of the Regulations, and (ii) the Bonds shall be computed in accordance with Section 1.148-4 of the Regulations. Section 1.02 Findings. The declarations, determinations and findings declared, made and found in the preamble to this Ordinance are hereby adopted, restated and made a part of the operative provisions hereof. Section 1.03 Table of Contents, Titles and Headings. The table of contents, titles and headings of the Articles and Sections of this Ordinance have been inserted for convenience of reference only and are not to be considered a part hereof and shall not in any way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof and shall never be considered or given any effect in construing this Ordinance or any provision hereof or in ascertaining intent, if any question of intent should arise. Section 1.04 Interpretation. (a) Unless the context requires otherwise, words of the masculine gender shall be construed to include correlative words of the feminine and neuter genders and vice versa, and -5- HOU:3531478.1 words of the singular number shall be construed to include correlative words of the plural number and vice versa. (b) This Ordinance and all the terms and provisions hereof shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes set forth herein. (c) Should Series 2015 Certificates of Obligation not be sold pursuant to the ordinance authorizing their issuance, references in this Ordinance thereto shall be deemed surplusage. ARTICLE II SECURITY FOR THE BONDS; INTEREST AND SINKING FUND Section 2.01 Tax Levy. (a) Pursuant to the authority granted by the Texas Constitution and the laws of the State of Texas, there shall be levied and there is hereby levied for the current year and for each succeeding year thereafter while any of the Bonds or any interest thereon is outstanding and unpaid, an ad valorem tax on each one hundred dollars valuation of taxable property within the City, at a rate sufficient, within the limit prescribed by law, to pay the debt service requirements of the Bonds of each series, being (i) the interest on the Bonds of such series, and (ii) a sinking fund for their redemption at maturity or a sinking fund of two percent (2%) per annum (whichever amount is greater), when due and payable, full allowance being made for delinquencies and costs of collection. (b) The ad valorem tax thus levied shall be assessed and collected each year against all property appearing on the tax rolls of the City most recently approved in accordance with law and the money thus collected shall be deposited as collected to the Interest and Sinking Fund for the related series of Bonds. (c) Said ad valorem tax, the collections therefrom, and all amounts on deposit in or required hereby to be deposited to the Interest and Sinking Fund are hereby pledged and committed irrevocably to the payment of the principal of and interest on the related series of Bonds when and as due and payable in accordance with their terms and this Ordinance. (d) If the lien and provisions of this Ordinance shall be released in a manner permitted by Article XI hereof, then the collection of such ad valorem tax may be suspended or appropriately reduced, as the facts may permit, and further deposits to the Interest and Sinking Fund may be suspended or appropriately reduced, as the facts may permit. In determining the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Bonds, there shall be subtracted the amount of any Bonds that have been duly called for redemption and for which money has been deposited with the Paying Agent/Registrar for such redemption. Section 2.02 Interest and Sinking Fund. (a) The City hereby establishes special funds to be designated as the "City of Lubbock, Texas, General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Series 2015, Interest and Sinking Fund" relating to the Tax -Exempt Bonds and "City of Lubbock, Texas, General Obligation Refunding -6- HOU:3531478.1 Bonds, Taxable Series 2015, Interest and Sinking Fund" relating to the Taxable Bonds, or such other designations as are set forth in the Pricing Certificate, said funds to be maintained at an official depository of the City separate and apart from all other funds and accounts of the City. (b) Money on deposit in or required by this Ordinance to be deposited to the Interest and Sinking Fund shall be used solely for the purpose of paying the interest on and principal of the related series of Bonds when and as due and payable in accordance with their terms and this Ordinance. ARTICLE III AUTHORIZATION; GENERAL TERMS AND PROVISIONS REGARDING THE BONDS Section 3.01 Authorization. The City's Tax -Exempt Bonds, to be designated "City of Lubbock, Texas, General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Series 2015," and the City's Taxable Bonds, to be designated "City of Lubbock, Texas, General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Taxable Series 2015," or such other designation or designations as set forth in the Pricing Certificate for such Bonds, are hereby authorized to be issued and delivered in accordance with the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas, including specifically Chapter 1207, Chapter 1371, and Article VIII of the Charter of the City. The Bonds may be issued in one or more series, from time to time, on the dates and in the principal amount designated in the Pricing Certificate therefor for the purposes of (i) refunding Refunded Obligations and (ii) paying the costs of issuing the Bonds and refunding the Refunded Obligations. The aggregate principal amount of all Bonds issued pursuant to this Ordinance shall not exceed $185,000,000. Bonds shall be issued as Taxable Bonds for the purpose of refunding Refunded Obligation Candidates that the Authorized Officer determines are ineligible for refunding through the issuance of Tax -Exempt Bonds. The allocation of principal amount between Tax - Exempt Bonds and Taxable Bonds shall be determined by the Authorized Officer based on market conditions and the Authorized Officer's determination of the amount required to fund the purposes described in this Section 3.01. Section 3.02 Date, Denomination, Maturities and Interest. (a) The Bonds shall be dated the date set forth in the Pricing Certificate. The Bonds shall be in fully registered form, without coupons, in the denomination of $5,000 or any integral multiple thereof, and shall be numbered separately from one upward for each series, except the Initial Bonds, which shall each be numbered T-1, or in such other manner provided in the Pricing Certificate. (b) The Bonds shall mature on the date or dates, in the years and in the principal amounts set forth in the Pricing Certificate provided that the maximum maturity for the Bonds shall not exceed the number of years set forth in Exhibit B. (c) Interest shall accrue and be paid on each Bond respectively until its maturity or prior redemption, from the later of the date set forth in the Pricing Certificate or the most recent -7- HOU:3531478.1 Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or provided for at the rates per annum for each respective maturity specified in the Pricing Certificate. Such interest shall be payable on each Interest Payment Date until maturity or prior redemption. Interest on the Bonds shall be calculated on the basis of a three hundred sixty (360) day year composed of twelve (12) months of thirty (30) days each, or on such other basis as set forth in the Pricing Certificate. Section 3.03 Medium, Method and Place of Payment. (a) The principal of and interest on the Bonds shall be paid in lawful money of the United States of America. (b) Interest on the Bonds shall be payable to the Owners as shown in the Register at the close of business on the Record Date; provided, however, in the event of nonpayment of interest on a scheduled Interest Payment Date and for 30 days thereafter, a new record date for such interest payment (a "Special Record Date") shall be established by the Paying Agent/Registrar, if and when funds for the payment of such interest have been received from the City. Notice of the Special Record Date and of the scheduled payment date of the past due interest (the "Special Payment Date," which shall be fifteen (15) days after the Special Record Date) shall be sent at least five business days prior to the Special Record Date by first-class United States mail, postage prepaid, to the address of each Owner of a Bond appearing on the Register at the close of business on the last business day next preceding the date of mailing of such notice. (c) Interest shall be paid by check, dated as of the Interest Payment Date, and sent by United States mail, first class postage prepaid, by the Paying Agent/Registrar to each Owner, at the address thereof as it appears in the Register, or by such other customary banking arrangement acceptable to the Paying Agent/Registrar and the Owner; provided, however, that the Owner shall bear all risk and expense of such other banking arrangement. At the option of an Owner of at least $1,000,000 principal amount of the Bonds, interest may be paid by wire transfer to the bank account of such Owner on file with the Paying Agent/Registrar. (d) The principal of each Bond shall be paid to the Owner thereof on the due date (whether at the maturity date or the date of prior redemption thereof) upon presentation and surrender of such Bond at the Designated Payment/Transfer Office of the Paying Agent/Registrar. (e) If the date for the payment of the principal of or interest on the Bonds shall be a Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday, or day on which banking institutions in the city where the Designated Payment/Transfer Office of the Paying Agent/Registrar is located are required or authorized by law or executive order to close, then the date for such payment shall be the next succeeding day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday, or day on which banking institutions are required or authorized to close, and payment on such date shall have the same force and effect as if made on the original date payment was due and no additional interest shall be due by reason of nonpayment on the date on which such payment is otherwise stated to be due and payable. HOU:3531478.1 (f) Unclaimed Payments shall be segregated in a special escrow account and held in trust, uninvested by the Paying Agent/Registrar, for the accounts of the Owners of the Bonds to which the Unclaimed Payments pertain. Subject to Title 6 of the Texas Property Code, Unclaimed Payments remaining unclaimed by the Owners entitled thereto for three years after the applicable payment or redemption date shall be applied to the next payment or payments on the Bonds thereafter coming due and, to the extent any such money remains three years after the retirement of all outstanding Bonds, shall be paid to the City to be used for any lawful purpose. Thereafter, neither the City, the Paying Agent/Registrar nor any other person shall be liable or responsible to any Owners of such Bonds for any further payment of such unclaimed monies or on account of any such Bonds, subject to Title 6 of the Texas Property Code. Section 3.04 Execution and Registration of Bonds. (a) The Bonds shall be executed on behalf of the City by the Mayor and the City Secretary, by their manual or facsimile signatures, and the official seal of the City shall be impressed or placed in facsimile thereon. Such facsimile signatures on the Bonds shall have the same effect as if each of the Bonds had been signed manually and in person by each of said officers, and such facsimile seal on the Bonds shall have the same effect as if the official seal of the City had been manually impressed upon each of the Bonds. (b) In the event that any officer of the City whose manual or facsimile signature appears on the Bonds ceases to be such officer before the authentication of such Bonds or before the delivery thereof, such manual or facsimile signature nevertheless shall be valid and sufficient for all purposes as if such officer had remained in such office. (c) Except as provided below, no Bond shall be valid or obligatory for any purpose or be entitled to any security or benefit of this Ordinance unless and until there appears thereon the Certificate of Paying Agent/Registrar substantially in the form provided herein, duly authenticated by manual execution by an officer or duly authorized signatory of the Paying Agent/Registrar. It shall not be required that the same officer or authorized signatory of the Paying Agent/Registrar sign the Certificate of Paying Agent/Registrar on all of the Bonds. In lieu of the executed Certificate of Paying Agent/Registrar described above, the Initial Bond delivered at the Closing Date shall have attached thereto the Comptroller's Registration Certificate substantially in the form provided herein, manually executed by the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas, or by his duly authorized agent, which certificate shall be evidence that the Bond has been duly approved by the Attorney General of the State of Texas, that it is a valid and binding obligation of the City and that it has been registered by the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas. (d) On the Closing Date, one Initial Bond of each series representing the entire principal amount of all the Bonds of such series and the terms set forth in the Pricing Certificate, payable in stated installments to the Representative, or its designee, executed by the Mayor and City Secretary of the City by their manual or facsimile signatures, approved by the Attorney General, and registered and manually signed by the Comptroller of Public Accounts, will be delivered to the Representative or its designee. Upon payment for the Initial Bond, the Paying Agent/Registrar shall cancel the Initial Bond and deliver a single registered, definitive Bond for each maturity, in the aggregate principal amount thereof, to DTC on behalf of the Underwriters. -9- HOU:3531478.1 Section 3.05 Ownership. (a) The City, the Paying Agent/Registrar and any other person may treat the person in whose name any Bond is registered as the absolute owner of such Bond for the purpose of making and receiving payment as provided herein (except interest shall be paid to the person in whose name such Bond is registered on the Record Date or Special Record Date, as applicable), and for all other purposes, whether or not such Bond is overdue, and neither the City nor the Paying Agent/Registrar shall be bound by any notice or knowledge to the contrary. (b) All payments made to the Owner of a Bond shall be valid and effectual and shall discharge the liability of the City and the Paying Agent/Registrar upon such Bond to the extent of the sums paid. Section 3.06 Registration, Transfer and Exchange. (a) So long as any Bonds remain outstanding, the City shall cause the Paying Agent/Registrar to keep at the Designated Payment/Transfer Office a register (the "Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Paying Agent/Registrar shall provide for the registration and transfer of Bonds in accordance with this Ordinance. (b) The ownership of a Bond may be transferred only upon the presentation and surrender of the Bond at the Designated Payment/Transfer Office of the Paying Agent/Registrar with such endorsement or other evidence of transfer as is acceptable to the Paying Agent/Registrar. No transfer of any Bond shall be effective until entered in the Register. (c) The Bonds shall be exchangeable upon the presentation and surrender thereof at the Designated Payment/Transfer Office of the Paying Agent/Registrar for a Bond or Bonds of the same series, maturity and interest rate and in any denomination or denominations of any integral multiple of $5,000 and in an aggregate principal amount equal to the unpaid principal amount of the Bonds presented for exchange. The Paying Agent/Registrar is hereby authorized to authenticate and deliver Bonds exchanged for other Bonds in accordance with this Section. (d) Each exchange Bond delivered by the Paying Agent/ Registrar in accordance with this Section shall constitute an original contractual obligation of the City and shall be entitled to the benefits and security of this Ordinance to the same extent as the Bond or Bonds in lieu of which such exchange Bond is delivered. (e) No service charge shall be made to the Owner for the initial registration, subsequent transfer, or exchange for any different denomination of any of the Bonds. The Paying Agent/Registrar, however, may require the Owner to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that is authorized to be imposed in connection with the registration, transfer or exchange of a Bond. (f) Neither the City nor the Paying Agent/Registrar shall be required to issue, transfer, or exchange any Bond called for redemption, in whole or in part, where such redemption is scheduled to occur within forty five (45) calendar days after the transfer or exchange date; provided, however, such limitation shall not be applicable to an exchange by the Owner of the uncalled principal balance of a Bond. - 10- HOU:3531478.1 Section 3.07 Cancellation. All Bonds paid or redeemed before scheduled maturity in accordance with this Ordinance, and all Bonds in lieu of which exchange Bonds or replacement Bonds are authenticated and delivered in accordance with this Ordinance, shall be cancelled and proper records shall be made regarding such payment, redemption, exchange or replacement. The Paying Agent/Registrar shall then return such cancelled Bonds to the City or may in accordance with law destroy such cancelled Bonds and periodically furnish the City with certificates of destruction of such Bonds. Section 3.08 Temporary Bonds. (a) Following the delivery and registration of the Initial Bond and pending the preparation of definitive Bonds, the City may execute and, upon the City's request, the Paying Agent/Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, one or more temporary Bonds that are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Bonds in lieu of which they are delivered, without coupons, and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers of the City executing such temporary Bonds may determine, as evidenced by their signing of such temporary Bonds. (b) Until exchanged for Bonds in definitive form, such Bonds in temporary form shall be entitled to the benefit and security of this Ordinance. (c) The City, without unreasonable delay, shall prepare, execute and deliver to the Paying Agent/Registrar the Bonds in temporary form; thereupon, upon the presentation and surrender of the Bonds in temporary form to the Paying Agent/Registrar, the Paying Agent/Registrar shall cancel the Bonds in temporary form and shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor Bonds of the same maturity and series, in definitive form, in the authorized denomination, and in the same aggregate principal amount, as the Bonds in temporary form surrendered. Such exchange shall be made without the making of any charge therefor to any Owner. Section 3.09 Replacement Bonds. (a) Upon the presentation and surrender to the Paying Agent/Registrar of a mutilated Bond, the Paying Agent/Registrar shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a replacement Bond of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount, bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding. The City or the Paying Agent/Registrar may require the Owner of such Bond to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that is authorized to be imposed in connection therewith and any other expenses connected therewith. (b) In the event that any Bond is lost, apparently destroyed or wrongfully taken, the Paying Agent/Registrar, pursuant to the applicable laws of the State of Texas and in the absence of notice or knowledge that such Bond has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, shall authenticate and deliver a replacement Bond of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount, bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, provided that the Owner first: HOU:3531478.1 G) furnishes to the Paying Agent/Registrar satisfactory evidence of his or her ownership of and the circumstances of the loss, destruction or theft of such Bond; (ii) furnishes such security or indemnity as may be required by the Paying Agent/Registrar to save it and the City harmless; (iii) pays all expenses and charges in connection therewith, including, but not limited to, printing costs, legal fees, fees of the Paying Agent/Registrar and any tax or other governmental charge that is authorized to be imposed; and (iv) satisfies any other reasonable requirements imposed by the City and the Paying Agent/Registrar. (c) If, after the delivery of such replacement Bond, a bona fide purchaser of the original Bond in lieu of which such replacement Bond was issued presents for payment such original Bond, the City and the Paying Agent/Registrar shall be entitled to recover such replacement Bond from the person to whom it was delivered or any person taking therefrom, except a bona fide purchaser, and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the City or the Paying Agent/Registrar in connection therewith. (d) In the event that any such mutilated, lost, apparently destroyed or wrongfully taken Bond has become or is about to become due and payable, the Paying Agent/Registrar, in its discretion, instead of issuing a replacement Bond, may pay such Bond if it has become due and payable or may pay such Bond when it becomes due and payable. (e) Each replacement Bond delivered in accordance with this Section shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the City and shall be entitled to the benefits and security of this Ordinance to the same extent as the Bond or Bonds in lieu of which such replacement Bond is delivered. Section 3.10 Book -Entry Only System. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, upon initial issuance of the Bonds, the Bonds shall be registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of DTC. The definitive Bonds shall be initially issued in the form of a single separate fully registered certificate for each of the maturities thereof. With respect to Bonds registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of DTC, the City and the Paying Agent/Registrar shall have no responsibility or obligation to any DTC Participant or to any person on behalf of whom such a DTC Participant holds an interest in the Bonds. Without limiting the immediately preceding sentence, the City and the Paying Agent/Registrar shall have no responsibility or obligation with respect to (i) the accuracy of the records of DTC, Cede & Co. or any DTC Participant with respect to any ownership interest in the Bonds, (ii) the delivery to any DTC Participant or any other person, other than an Owner, as shown on the Register, of any notice with respect to the Bonds, including any notice of redemption, or (iii) the payment to any DTC Participant or any other person, other than a bondholder, as shown in the Register of any amount with respect to principal of or interest on the -12- HOU:3531478.1 Bonds. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Ordinance to the contrary, the City and the Paying Agent/Registrar shall be entitled to treat and consider the person in whose name each Bond is registered in the Register as the absolute owner of such Bond for the purpose of payment of principal of and interest on such Bonds, for the purpose of giving notices of redemption and other matters with respect to such Bond, for the purpose of registering transfer with respect to such Bond, and for all other purposes whatsoever. The Paying Agent/Registrar shall pay all principal of and interest on the Bonds only to or upon the order of the respective owners, as shown in the Register as provided in this Ordinance, or their respective attorneys duly authorized in writing, and all such payments shall be valid and effective to fully satisfy and discharge the City's obligations with respect to payment of principal of and interest on the Bonds to the extent of the sum or sums so paid. No person other than an Owner, as shown in the Register, shall receive a certificate evidencing the obligation of the City to make payments of amounts due pursuant to this Ordinance. Upon delivery by DTC to the Paying Agent/Registrar of written notice to the effect that DTC has determined to substitute a new nominee in place of Cede & Co., the word "Cede & Co." in this Ordinance shall refer to such new nominee of DTC. The Representation Letter previously executed and delivered by the City, and applicable to the City's obligations delivered in book -entry -only form to DTC as securities depository is hereby ratified and approved for the Bonds. Section 3.11 Successor Securities Depository; Transfer Outside Book -Entry Only System. In the event that the City determines that it is in the best interest of the City and the beneficial owners of the Bonds that they be able to obtain certificated Bonds, or in the event DTC discontinues the services described herein, the City shall (i) appoint a successor securities depository, qualified to act as such under Section 17(a) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, notify DTC and DTC Participants of the appointment of such successor securities depository and transfer one or more separate Bonds to such successor securities depository; or (ii) notify DTC and DTC Participants of the availability through DTC of certificated Bonds and cause the Paying Agent/Registrar to transfer one or more separate registered Bonds to DTC Participants having Bonds credited to their DTC accounts. In such event, the Bonds shall no longer be restricted to being registered in the Register in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of DTC, but may be registered in the name of the successor securities depository, or its nominee, or in whatever name or names Owners transferring or exchanging Bonds shall designate, in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance. Section 3.12 Payments to Cede & Co. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Ordinance to the contrary, so long as any Bonds are registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of DTC, all payments with respect to principal of and interest on such Bonds, and all notices with respect to such Bonds, shall be made and given, respectively, in the manner provided in the Representation Letter. -13- HOU:3531478.1 ARTICLE IV REDEMPTION OF BONDS BEFORE MATURITY Section 4.01 Limitation on Redemption. The Bonds shall be subject to redemption before scheduled maturity only as provided in this Article IV. Section 4.02 Optional Redemption. (a) The City reserves the option to redeem Bonds of each series in the manner provided in the Form of Bonds attached hereto as Exhibit C, with such changes as are required by the Pricing Certificate. (b) If less than all of the Bonds are to be redeemed pursuant to an optional redemption, the City shall determine the maturity or maturities and the amounts thereof to be redeemed and shall direct the Paying Agent/Registrar to call by lot, or by any other customary method that results in a random selection, the Bonds, or portions thereof, within such maturity or maturities and in such principal amounts for redemption. (c) The City, at least forty-five (45) days before the redemption date, unless a shorter period shall be satisfactory to the Paying Agent/Registrar, shall notify the Paying Agent/Registrar of such redemption date and of the principal amount of Bonds to be redeemed. Section 4.03 Mandatory Sinking Fund Redemption. Bonds of each series designated as "Term Bonds," if any, in the Pricing Certificate are subject to scheduled mandatory redemption and will be redeemed by the City, out of moneys available for such purpose in the Interest and Sinking Fund, in the manner provided in the Form of Bonds attached hereto as Exhibit C, with such changes as are required by the Pricing Certificate. Term Bonds shall be subject to mandatory redemption at the price, on the dates, and in the respective principal amounts set forth in the Pricing Certificate. Section 4.04 Partial Redemption. (a) A portion of a single Bond of a denomination greater than $5,000 may be redeemed, but only in a principal amount equal to $5,000 or any integral multiple thereof. If such a Bond is to be partially redeemed, the Paying Agent/Registrar shall treat each $5,000 portion of the Bond as though it were a single Bond for purposes of selection for redemption. (b) Upon surrender of any Bond for redemption in part, the Paying Agent/Registrar, in accordance with Section 3.06 of this Ordinance, shall authenticate and deliver an exchange Bond or Bonds in an aggregate principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Bond so surrendered, such exchange being without charge. (c) The Paying Agent/Registrar shall promptly notify the City in writing of the principal amount to be redeemed of any Bond as to which only a portion thereof is to be redeemed. - 14- HOU:3531478.1 Section 4.05 Notice of Redemption to Owners. (a) The Paying Agent/Registrar shall give notice of any redemption of Bonds by sending notice by United States mail, first class postage prepaid, not less than thirty (30) days before the date fixed for redemption, to the Owner of each Bond (or part thereof) to be redeemed, at the address shown on the Register at the close of business on the business day next preceding the date of mailing such notice. (b) The notice shall state the redemption date, the redemption price, the place at which the Bonds are to be surrendered for payment, and, if less than all the Bonds outstanding are to be redeemed, an identification of the Bonds or portions thereof to be redeemed. (c) The City reserves the right to give notice of its election or direction to redeem Bonds under Section 4.02 conditioned upon the occurrence of subsequent events. Such notice may state (i) that the redemption is conditioned upon the deposit of moneys and/or authorized securities, in an amount equal to the amount necessary to effect the redemption, with the Paying Agent/Registrar, or such other entity as may be authorized by law, no later than the redemption date or (ii) that the City retains the right to rescind such notice at any time prior to the scheduled redemption date if the City delivers a certificate of the City to the Paying Agent/Registrar instructing the Paying Agent/Registrar to rescind the redemption notice, and such notice and redemption shall be of no effect if such moneys and/or authorized securities are not so deposited or if the notice is rescinded. The Paying Agent/Registrar shall give prompt notice of any such rescission of a conditional notice of redemption to the affected Owners. Any Bonds subject to conditional redemption where redemption has been rescinded shall remain outstanding, and the rescission shall not constitute an event of default. Further, in the case of a conditional redemption, the failure of the City to make moneys and/or authorized securities available in part or in whole on or before the redemption date shall not constitute an event of default. (d) Any notice given as provided in this Section shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Owner receives such notice. Section 4.06 Payment Upon Redemption. (a) Before or on each redemption date, the City shall deposit with the Paying Agent/Registrar money sufficient to pay all amounts due on the redemption date and the Paying Agent/Registrar shall make provision for the payment of the Bonds to be redeemed on such date by setting aside and holding in trust such amounts as are received by the Paying Agent/Registrar from the City and shall use such funds solely for the purpose of paying the principal of and accrued interest on the Bonds being redeemed. (b) Upon presentation and surrender of any Bond called for redemption at the Designated Payment/Transfer Office on or after the date fixed for redemption, the Paying Agent/Registrar shall pay the principal of and accrued interest on such Bond to the date of redemption from the money set aside for such purpose. -15- HOU:3531478.1 Section 4.07 Effect of Redemption. (a) Notice of redemption having been given as provided in Section 4.05 of this Ordinance and subject to any conditions or rights reserved by the City under Section 4.05(c), the Bonds or portions thereof called for redemption shall become due and payable on the date fixed for redemption and, unless the City defaults in its obligation to make provision for the payment of the principal thereof, or accrued interest thereon, such Bonds or portions thereof shall cease to bear interest from and after the date fixed for redemption, whether or not such Bonds are presented and surrendered for payment on such date. (b) If the City shall fail to make redemption date, then any Bond or portion outstanding and continue to bear interest at the made for the payment of same by the City. Section 4.08 Lapse of Payment. provision for payment of all sums due on a thereof called for redemption shall remain rate stated on the Bond until due provision is Money set aside for the redemption of Bonds and remaining unclaimed by the Owners of such Bonds shall be subject to the provisions of Section 3.03(f) hereof. ARTICLE V PAYING AGENT/REGISTRAR Section 5.01 Appointment of Paying _Agent/Registrar. The form of Paying Agent/Registrar Agreement presented at the meeting at which this Ordinance was approved and the appointment of the Paying Agent/Registrar identified therein are hereby approved. The Mayor is hereby authorized and directed to execute the Paying Agent/Registrar Agreement with the Paying Agent/Registrar, specifying the duties and responsibilities of the City and the Paying Agent/Registrar, in substantially the form presented at the meeting at which this Ordinance was approved with such changes as may be approved by an Authorized Officer. The signature of the Mayor shall be attested by the City Secretary. Section 5.02 Qualifications. Each Paying Agent/Registrar shall be a commercial bank, a trust company organized under the laws of the State of Texas, or any other entity duly qualified and legally authorized to serve as and perform the duties and services of paying agent and registrar for the Bonds. Section 5.03 Maintaining Paving Agent/Re ig strar. (a) At all times while any Bonds are outstanding, the City will maintain a Paying Agent/Registrar that is qualified under Section 5.02 of this Ordinance. (b) If the Paying Agent/Registrar resigns or otherwise ceases to serve as such, the City will promptly appoint a replacement. -16- HOU:3531478.1 Section 5.04 Termination. The City, upon not less than sixty (60) days' notice, reserves the right to terminate the appointment of any Paying Agent/Registrar by delivering to the entity whose appointment is to be terminated written notice of such termination. Section 5.05 Notice of Change to Owners. Promptly upon each change in the entity serving as Paying Agent/Registrar, the City will cause notice of the change to be sent to each Owner by United States mail, first class postage prepaid, at the address in the Register thereof, stating the effective date of the change and the name and mailing address of the replacement Paying Agent/Registrar. Section 5.06 Agreement to Perform Duties and Functions. By accepting the appointment as Paying Agent/Registrar and executing the Paying Agent/Registrar Agreement, the Paying Agent/Registrar is deemed to have agreed to the provisions of this Ordinance and that it will perform the duties and functions of Paying Agent/Registrar prescribed thereby. Section 5.07 Delivery of Records to Successor. If a Paying Agent/Registrar is replaced, such Paying Agent/Registrar, promptly upon the appointment of the successor, will deliver the Register (or a copy thereof) and all other pertinent books and records relating to the Bonds to the successor Paying Agent/Registrar. ARTICLE VI FORM OF THE BONDS Section 6.01 Form Generally. (a) The Bonds, including the Registration Certificate of the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas, the Certificate of the Paying Agent/Registrar, and the Assignment form to appear on each of the Bonds, (i) shall be generally in the form set forth in Exhibit C hereto, with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions, and other variations as are permitted or required by this Ordinance and the Pricing Certificate, and (ii) may have such letters, numbers, or other marks of identification (including identifying numbers and letters of the Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures of the American Bankers Association) and such legends and endorsements (including any reproduction of an opinion of counsel) thereon as, consistently herewith, may be determined by the City or by the officers executing such Bonds, as evidenced by their execution thereof. (b) Any portion of the text of any Bonds may be set forth on the reverse side thereof, with an appropriate reference thereto on the face of the Bonds. (c) The definitive Bonds shall be typewritten, photocopied, printed, lithographed, or engraved, and may be produced by any combination of these methods or produced in any other - 17 - HOU:3531478.1 similar manner, all as determined by the officers executing such Bonds, as evidenced by their execution thereof. (d) The Initial Bond submitted to the Attorney General of the State of Texas may be typewritten and photocopied or otherwise reproduced. Section 6.02 CUSIP Registration. The City may secure identification numbers through CUSIP Global Services, managed on behalf of the American Bankers Association by Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC, and may authorize the printing of such numbers on the face of the Bonds. It is expressly provided, however, that the presence or absence of CUSIP numbers on the Bonds shall be of no significance or effect as regards the legality thereof and neither the City nor the attorneys approving said Bonds as to legality are to be held responsible for CUSIP numbers incorrectly printed on the Bonds. Section 6.03 Legal Opinion. The approving legal opinion of Andrews Kurth LLP, Bond Counsel, may be attached to or printed on the reverse side of each Bond over the certification of the City Secretary of the City, which may be executed in facsimile. Section 6.04 Statement of Insurance. A statement relating to a municipal bond insurance policy, if any, to be issued for any Bond or Bonds may be printed on or attached to each such Bond. ARTICLE VII SALE AND DELIVERY OF BONDS; DEPOSIT OF PROCEEDS Section 7.01 Sale of Bonds; Official Statement. (a) The Bonds shall be sold at negotiated sale to the Underwriters in accordance with the terms of this Ordinance, including this Section 7.01(a) and Exhibit B hereto, provided that all of the conditions set forth in Exhibit B can be satisfied. As authorized by Chapter 1207 and Chapter 1371, the Authorized Officer is authorized to act on behalf of the City upon determining that the conditions set forth in Exhibit B can be satisfied, in selling and delivering each series of Bonds, from time to time, and carrying out the other procedures specified in this Ordinance, including determining (i) the total aggregate principal amount and the number of series of the Bonds (including the aggregate principal amount of Tax -Exempt Bonds and Taxable Bonds and the principal amount of each series of Bonds issued to effect the purposes identified in Section 3.01 of this Ordinance), (ii) the date(s) on which the Bonds of each series will be sold and delivered, (iii) whether to acquire bond insurance for each series of Bonds, (iv) the price at which the Bonds of each series will be sold, (v) the Refunded Obligation Candidates to be refunded by Tax -Exempt Bonds, the Refunded Obligation Candidates to be refunded by Taxable Bonds, and their redemption dates, (vi) the number and any additional or different title or designation for each series of Bonds to be issued, (vii) the form in which the Bonds of each series shall be issued, (viii) the dates on which the Bonds of each series will mature, the principal amount to -18- HOU:3531478.1 mature in each year, the rate of interest to be borne by each such maturity, the interest payment dates, and the initial date from which interest will accrue, (ix) the dates, prices and other terms upon and at which the Bonds of each series shall be subject to redemption prior to maturity (including terms for optional and mandatory sinking fund redemption), and (x) all other matters relating to the issuance, sale and delivery of the Bonds and the refunding of the Refunded Obligations, all of which shall be specified in the Pricing Certificate for each series of Bonds. The authority granted to the Authorized Officer under this Section 7.01(a) shall expire at 11:59 p.m., on the 180th day following the date of this Ordinance (the "Expiration Date"), unless otherwise extended by the City Council by separate action. Bonds sold pursuant to a Purchase Contract executed on or before the Expiration Date may be delivered after such date. In satisfaction of Section 1201.022(a)(3), Texas Government Code, the City Council hereby determines that the delegation of the authority to the Authorized Officer to approve the final terms and conditions of each series of the Bonds as set forth in this Ordinance is, and the decisions made by the Authorized Officer pursuant to such delegated authority and incorporated in a Pricing Certificate will be, in the best interests of the City and shall have the same force and effect as if such determination were made by the City Council, and the Authorized Officer is hereby authorized to make and include in a Pricing Certificate an appropriate finding to that effect. Any finding or determination made by the Authorized Officer relating to the issuance and sale of the Bonds and the execution of the Purchase Contract in connection therewith shall have the same force and effect as a finding or determination made by the City Council. (b) The Authorized Officer is hereby authorized and directed to execute and deliver, and the City Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to attest, a purchase contract with respect to each series of Bonds (the "Purchase Contract") which shall be in the form approved by the Authorized Officer. Upon completion of the terms of the Purchase Contract in accordance with the terms of the Pricing Certificate and this Ordinance, the Authorized Officer is authorized and directed to execute such Purchase Contract on behalf of the City and the Authorized Officer and all other officers, agents and representatives of the City are hereby authorized to do any and all things necessary or desirable to satisfy the conditions set out therein and to provide for the issuance and delivery of the Bonds. The Bonds shall initially be registered in the name of the Representative. At the direction of the Authorized Officer, Bonds and Series 2015 Certificates of Obligation may be sold, but are not required to be sold, pursuant to the terms of a common Purchase Contract. (c) The form and substance of the Preliminary Official Statement, and any addenda, supplement or amendment thereto, are hereby in all respects approved and adopted for use in connection with the public offering and sale of each series of Bonds, with such appropriate variations as shall be approved by the Authorized Officer, and the Preliminary Official Statement is hereby deemed final as of its date within the meaning and for the purposes of paragraph (b)(1) of Rule 15c2-12 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The Authorized Officer and City Secretary are hereby authorized and directed to cause to be prepared a final Official Statement (the "Official Statement") incorporating applicable pricing information and other terms pertaining to each series of Bonds, and to execute the same by manual or facsimile signature and deliver appropriate numbers of executed copies thereof to the Underwriters. The Official Statement as thus approved, executed and delivered, with such appropriate variations as -19- HOU3531478.1 shall be approved by the Authorized Officer and the Underwriters, may be used by the Underwriters in the public offering and sale of the Bonds. The use and distribution of the Preliminary Official Statement, and the preliminary public offering of the Bonds by the Underwriters, is hereby approved and confirmed. The Authorized Officer may direct the preparation of a common Official Statement for any series of Bonds and Series 2015 Certificates of Obligation. (d) All officers of the City are authorized to execute such documents, certificates, receipts and other instruments as they may deem appropriate in order to consummate the delivery of each series of Bonds in accordance with the terms of sale therefor including, without limitation, the Purchase Contract. (e) The obligation of the Underwriters to accept delivery of each series of Bonds is subject to the closing conditions set forth in the Purchase Contract being satisfied, including specifically the Underwriters being furnished with the final, approving opinion of Andrews Kurth LLP, bond counsel for the City, which opinion shall be dated as of and delivered on the Closing Date. Section 7.02 Control and Delivery of Bonds. (a) The Authorized Officer of the City is hereby authorized to have control of the Initial Bonds and all necessary records and proceedings pertaining thereto pending investigation, examination, and approval of the Attorney General of the State of Texas, registration by the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas and registration with, and initial exchange or transfer by, the Paying Agent/Registrar. (b) After registration by the Comptroller of Public Accounts, delivery of the Bonds shall be made to the Underwriters for such Bonds under and subject to the general supervision and direction of the Authorized Officer, against receipt by the City of all amounts due to the City under the terms of sale. (c) In the event the Mayor or City Secretary is absent or otherwise unable to execute any document or take any action authorized herein, the Mayor Pro Tem and the Assistant City Secretary, respectively, shall be authorized to execute such documents and take such actions, and the performance of such duties by the Mayor Pro Tem and the Assistant City Secretary shall for the purposes of this Ordinance have the same force and effect as if such duties were performed by the Mayor and City Secretary, respectively. Section 7.03 Deposit of Proceeds. Proceeds from the sale of the Bonds of each series shall be applied in accordance with the provisions set forth in the Pricing Certificate for such Bonds, which may provide for the creation of any special accounts deemed necessary or appropriate by the Authorized Officer. -20- HOU:3531478.1 ARTICLE VIII INVESTMENTS Section 8.01 Investments. (a) Money in the Interest and Sinking Fund created by this Ordinance and any special accounts provided for in the Pricing Certificate pursuant to Section 7.03, at the City's option, may be invested in such securities or obligations as permitted under applicable law. The Authorized Officer, and any other officer of the City authorized to make investments on behalf of the City, are hereby authorized and directed to execute and deliver, on behalf of the City, any and all investment agreements, guaranteed investment contracts or repurchase agreements in connection with the investment of moneys on deposit in the Interest and Sinking Fund and any accounts provided for in the Pricing Certificate pursuant to Section 7.03, but only to the extent such investment agreements, guaranteed investment contracts or repurchase agreements are authorized investments under applicable law. (b) Any securities or obligations in which money in the Interest and Sinking Fund is so invested shall be kept and held in trust for the benefit of the Owners and shall be sold and the proceeds of sale shall be timely applied to the making of all payments required to be made from the fund from which the investment was made. Section 8.02 Investment Income. (a) Interest and income derived from investment of the Interest and Sinking Fund shall be credited to such fund. (b) The investment and application of money in the Escrow Fund shall be in accordance with the provisions of the Escrow Agreement. ARTICLE IX PARTICULAR REPRESENTATIONS AND COVENANTS Section 9.01 Payment of the Bonds. On or before each Interest Payment Date for the Bonds and while any of the Bonds are outstanding and unpaid, there shall be made available to the Paying Agent/Registrar, out of the Interest and Sinking Fund, money sufficient to pay such interest on and principal of the Bonds as will accrue or mature on the applicable Interest Payment Date, maturity date or date of prior redemption. Section 9.02 Other Representations and Covenants. (a) The City will faithfully perform at all times any and all covenants, undertakings, stipulations, and provisions contained in this Ordinance and in each Bond; the City will promptly pay or cause to be paid the principal of and interest on each Bond on the dates and at the places and manner prescribed in such Bond; and the City will, at the times and in the manner prescribed by this Ordinance, deposit or cause to be deposited the amounts of money specified by this Ordinance. -21- HOU:3531478.1 (b) The City is duly authorized under the laws of the State of Texas to issue the Bonds; all action on its part for the creation and issuance of the Bonds has been duly and effectively taken; and the Bonds in the hands of the Owners thereof are and will be valid and enforceable obligations of the City in accordance with their terms. Section 9.03 Federal Income Tax Exclusion of Interest on Tax -Exempt Bonds. (a) Not to Cause Interest on Tax -Exempt Bonds to Become Taxable. The City shall not use, permit the use of or omit to use Gross Proceeds or any other amounts (or any property the acquisition, construction or improvement of which is to be financed directly or indirectly with Gross Proceeds) in a manner which, if made or omitted, respectively, would cause the interest on any Tax -Exempt Bond to become includable in the gross income, as defined in Section 61 of the Code, of the owner thereof for federal income tax purposes. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the City shall have received a written opinion of counsel nationally recognized in the field of municipal bond law to the effect that failure to comply with such covenant will not adversely affect the exemption from federal income tax of the interest on any Tax -Exempt Bond, the City shall comply with each of the specific covenants in this Section. (b) No Private Use or Private Payments. Except as permitted by Section 141 of the Code and the Regulations and rulings thereunder, the City shall, at all times after the Issue Date of any Tax -Exempt Bond and prior to the last stated maturity of the Tax -Exempt Bonds (i) exclusively own, operate, and possess all property the acquisition, construction, or improvement of which is to be financed directly or indirectly with Gross Proceeds of such Tax -Exempt Bond (including property financed with Gross Proceeds of the Refunded Obligations or notes or bonds refunded by the Refunded Obligations) and not use or permit the use of such Gross Proceeds or any property acquired, constructed, or improved with such Gross Proceeds in any activity carried on by any person or entity other than a state or local government, unless such use is solely as a member of the general public, or (ii) not directly or indirectly impose or accept any charge or other payment for use of Gross Proceeds of such Tax -Exempt Bond or any property the acquisition, construction or improvement of which is to be financed directly or indirectly with such Gross Proceeds (including property financed with Gross Proceeds of the Refunded Obligations or notes or bonds refunded by the Refunded Obligations) other than taxes of general application and interest earned on investments acquired with such Gross Proceeds pending application for their intended purposes. (c) No Private Loan. Except to the extent permitted by Section 141 of the Code and the Regulations and rulings thereunder, the City shall not use Gross Proceeds of such Tax - Exempt Bond to make or finance loans to any person or entity other than a state or local government. For purposes of the foregoing covenant, Gross Proceeds are considered to be "loaned" to a person or entity if (1) property acquired, constructed or improved with Gross Proceeds (including property financed with Gross Proceeds of the Refunded Obligations or notes or bonds refunded by the Refunded Obligations) is sold or leased to such person or entity in a -22- HOU:3531478.1 transaction which creates a debt for federal income tax purposes, (2) capacity in or service from such property is committed to such person or entity under a take -or -pay, output, or similar contract or arrangement, or (3) indirect benefits, or burdens and benefits of ownership, of such Gross Proceeds or such property are otherwise transferred in a transaction which is the economic equivalent of a loan. (d) Not to Invest at Higher Yield. Except to the extent permitted by Section 148 of the Code and the Regulations and rulings thereunder, the City shall not, at any time prior to the earlier of the final stated maturity or final payment of such Tax -Exempt Bond, directly or indirectly invest Gross Proceeds of such Tax -Exempt Bond in any Investment (or use such Gross Proceeds to replace money so invested), if as a result of such investment the Yield of all Investments allocated to such Gross Proceeds whether then held or previously disposed of, exceeds the Yield on the Tax -Exempt Bonds. (e) Not Federally Guaranteed. Except to the extent permitted by Section 149(b) of the Code and the Regulations and rulings thereunder, the City shall not take or omit to take any action which would cause the Tax -Exempt Bonds to be federally guaranteed within the meaning of Section 149(b) of the Code and the Regulations and rulings thereunder. (f) Information Report. The City shall timely file with the Secretary of the Treasury the information required by Section 149(e) of the Code with respect to the Tax -Exempt Bonds on such forms and in such place as such Secretary may prescribe. (g) Payment of Rebate Amount. Except to the extent otherwise provided in Section 148(f) of the Code and the Regulations and rulings thereunder, the City shall: (i) account for all Gross Proceeds (including all receipts, expenditures and investments thereof) on its books of account separately and apart from all other funds (and receipts, expenditures and investments thereof) and shall retain all records of such accounting for at least six years after the final Computation Date. The City may, however, to the extent permitted by law, commingle Gross Proceeds of the Tax -Exempt Bonds with other money of the City, provided that the City separately accounts for each receipt and expenditure of such Gross Proceeds and the obligations acquired therewith, (ii) calculate the Rebate Amount with respect to the Tax -Exempt Bonds not less frequently than each Computation Date, in accordance with rules set forth in Section 148(f) of the Code, Section 1.148-3 of the Regulations, and the rulings thereunder. The City shall maintain a copy of such calculations for at least six years after the final Computation Date, (iii) as additional consideration for the purchase of the Tax -Exempt Bonds by the initial purchaser thereof and the loan of the money represented thereby, and in order to induce such purchase by measures designed to ensure the excludability of the interest thereon from the gross income of the owners thereof for federal income tax purposes, pay to the United States the amount described in paragraph (ii) above at the times, in the installments, to the place, in the manner and accompanied by such forms or other -23- HOU:3531478.1 information as is or may be required by Section 148(f) of the Code and the Regulations and rulings thereunder, and (iv) exercise reasonable diligence to assure that no errors are made in the calculations required by paragraph (ii) and, if such error is made, to discover and promptly to correct such error within a reasonable amount of time thereafter, including payment to the United States of any interest and any penalty required by the Regulations. (h) Not to Divert Arbitrage Profits. Except to the extent permitted by Section 148 of the Code and the Regulations and rulings thereunder, the City shall not enter into any transaction that reduces the amount required to be paid to the United States pursuant to Subsection (h) of this Section because such transaction results in a smaller profit or a larger loss than would have resulted if the transaction had been at arm's length and had the Yield of the Tax -Exempt Bonds, not been relevant to either party. (i) Not Hedge Bonds. The City did not invest more than 50 percent of the Proceeds of any series of the Refunded Obligations (or, if applicable, the obligations refunded by the Refunded Obligations (the "Original Bonds")) in Nonpurpose Investments having a guaranteed yield for four years or more. On the Issue Date of the Refunded Obligations, or, if applicable, the Original Bonds, the City reasonably expected that at least 85 percent of the Net Sale Proceeds of each series of the Refunded Obligations, or, if applicable, the Original Bonds, would be used to carry out the governmental purpose of such series within three years after the Issue Date of such series. ARTICLE X DEFAULT AND REMEDIES Section 10.01 Events of Default. Each of the following occurrences or events for the purpose of this Ordinance is hereby declared to be an Event of Default: (i) the failure to make payment of the principal of or interest on any of the Bonds when the same becomes due and payable; or (ii) default in the performance or observance of any other covenant, agreement or obligation of the City, which default materially and adversely affects the rights of the Owners, including but not limited to, their prospect or ability to be repaid in accordance with this Ordinance, and the continuation thereof for a period of sixty (60) days after notice of such default is given by any Owner to the City. Section 10.02 Remedies for Default. (a) Upon the happening of any Event of Default, then any Owner or an authorized representative thereof, including but not limited to, a trustee or trustees therefor, may proceed against the City for the purpose of protecting and enforcing the rights of the Owners under this Ordinance, by mandamus or other suit, action or special proceeding in equity or at law, in any court of competent jurisdiction, for any relief permitted by law, including the specific -24- HOU:3531478.1 performance of any covenant or agreement contained herein, or thereby to enjoin any act or thing that may be unlawful or in violation of any right of the Owners hereunder or any combination of such remedies. (b) It is provided that all such proceedings shall be instituted and maintained for the equal benefit of all Owners of Bonds then outstanding. Section 10.03 Remedies Not Exclusive. (a) No remedy herein conferred or reserved is intended to be exclusive of any other available remedy or remedies, but each and every such remedy shall be cumulative and shall be in addition to every other remedy given hereunder or under the Bonds or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity; provided, however, that notwithstanding any other provision of this Ordinance, the right to accelerate the debt evidenced by the Bonds shall not be available as a remedy under this Ordinance. (b) The exercise of any remedy herein conferred or reserved shall not be deemed a waiver of any other available remedy. ARTICLE XI DISCHARGE Section 11.01 Discharge. The Bonds may be defeased, discharged or refunded in any manner permitted by applicable law. ARTICLE XII CONTINUING DISCLOSURE UNDERTAKING Section 12.01 Annual Reports. (a) The City shall provide annually to the MSRB, (1) within six (6) months after the end of each fiscal year of the City, financial information and operating data with respect to the City of the general type included in the final Official Statement authorized by Section 7.01 of this Ordinance, being information of the type described in Exhibit A hereto, including financial statements of the City if audited financial statements of the City are then available, and (2) if not provided as part such financial information and operating data, audited financial statements of the City, when and if available. Any financial statements to be provided shall be (i) prepared in accordance with the accounting principles described in Exhibit A, or such other accounting principles as the City may be required to employ from time to time pursuant to state law or regulation, and (ii) audited, if the City commissions an audit of such financial statements and the audit is completed within the period during which they must be provided. If the audit of such financial statements is not complete within twelve (12) months after any such fiscal year end, then the City shall file unaudited financial statements within such 12 -month period and audited financial statements for the applicable fiscal year, when and if the audit report on such financial statements becomes available. -25- HOU:3531478.1 (b) If the City changes its fiscal year, it will notify the MSRB of the change (and of the date of the new fiscal year end) prior to the next date by which the City otherwise would be required to provide financial information and operating data pursuant to this Section. (c) The financial information and operating data to be provided pursuant to this Section may be set forth in full in one or more documents or may be included by specific referenced to any document (including an official statement or other offering document, if it is available from the MSRB) that theretofore has been provided to the MSRB or filed with the SEC. Section 12.02 Event Notices. (a) The City shall notify the MSRB, in a timely manner (not in excess of ten (10) business days after the occurrence of an event), of any of the following events with respect to the Bonds: (i) principal and interest payment delinquencies; (ii) nonpayment related defaults, if material; (iii) unscheduled draws on debt service reserves reflecting financial difficulties; (iv) unscheduled draws on credit enhancements reflecting financial difficulties; (v) substitution of credit or liquidity providers, or their failure to perform; (vi) adverse tax opinions, the issuance by the Internal Revenue Service of proposed or final determinations of taxability, Notices of Proposed Issue (IRS Form 5701-TEB) or other material notices or determinations with respect to the tax status of the Tax -Exempt Bonds, or other material events affecting the tax status of the Tax -Exempt Bonds; (vii) modifications to rights of Owners, if material; (viii) redemption calls, if material, and tender offers; (ix) defeasances; (x) release, substitution, or sale of property securing repayment of the Bonds, if material; (xi) rating changes; (xii) bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar event of the City; (xiii) the consummation of a merger, consolidation, or acquisition involving the City or the sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the City, other than in the -26- HOU:3531478.1 ordinary course of business, the entry into a definitive agreement to undertake such an action or the termination of a definitive agreement relating to any such actions, other than pursuant to its terms, if material; and (xiv) appointment of a successor Paying Agent/Registrar or change in the name of the Paying Agent/Registrar, if material. (b) As used in clause (xii) above, the phrase "bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar event" means the appointment of a receiver, fiscal agent or similar officer for the City in a proceeding under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code or in any other proceeding under state or federal law in which a court of governmental authority has assumed jurisdiction over substantially all of the assets or business of the City, or if jurisdiction has been assumed by leaving the City Council and official or officers of the City in possession but subject to the supervision and orders of a court or governmental authority, or the entry of an order confirming a plan of reorganization, arrangement or liquidation by a court or governmental authority having supervision or jurisdiction over substantially all of the assets or business of the City. (c) The City shall notify the MSRB, in a timely manner, of any failure by the City to provide financial information or operating data in accordance with Section 12.01 of this Ordinance by the time required by such Section. Section 12.03 Identifying Information. All documents provided to the MSRB pursuant to this Article shall be provided in an electronic format and be accompanied by identifying information as prescribed by the MSRB. Section 12.04 Limitations, Disclaimers and Amendments. (a) The City shall be obligated to observe and perform the covenants specified in this Article for so long as, but only for so long as, the City remains an "obligated person" with respect to the Bonds within the meaning of the Rule, except that the City in any event will give notice of any Bond calls and any defeasances that cause the City to be no longer an "obligated person." (b) The provisions of this Article are for the sole benefit of the Owners and beneficial owners of the Bonds, and nothing in this Article, express or implied, shall give any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy, or claim hereunder to any other person. The City undertakes to provide only the financial information, operating data, financial statements, and notices which it has expressly agreed to provide pursuant to this Article and does not hereby undertake to provide any other information that may be relevant or material to a complete presentation of the City's financial results, condition, or prospects or hereby undertake to update any information provided in accordance with this Article or otherwise, except as expressly provided herein. The City does not make any representation or warranty concerning such information or its usefulness to a decision to invest in or sell Bonds at any future date. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL THE CITY BE LIABLE TO THE OWNER OR BENEFICIAL OWNER OF ANY BOND OR ANY OTHER PERSON, IN CONTRACT OR TORT, FOR DAMAGES RESULTING IN WHOLE OR IN PART FROM ANY BREACH BY -27- HOU:3531478.1 THE CITY, WHETHER NEGLIGENT OR WITHOUT FAULT ON ITS PART, OF ANY COVENANT SPECIFIED IN THIS ARTICLE, BUT EVERY RIGHT AND REMEDY OF ANY SUCH PERSON, IN CONTRACT OR TORT, FOR OR ON ACCOUNT OF ANY SUCH BREACH SHALL BE LIMITED TO AN ACTION FOR MANDAMUS OR SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE. (c) No default by the City in observing or performing its obligations under this Article shall constitute a breach of or default under the Ordinance for purposes of any other provisions of this Ordinance. (d) Nothing in this Article is intended or shall act to disclaim, waive, or otherwise limit the duties of the City under federal and state securities laws. (e) The provisions of this Article may be amended by the City from time to time to adapt to changed circumstances that arise from a change in legal requirements, a change in law, or a change in the identity, nature, status, or type of operations of the City, but only if (i) the provisions of this Article, as so amended, would have permitted an underwriter to purchase or sell Bonds in the primary offering of the Bonds in compliance with the Rule, taking into account any amendments or interpretations of the Rule to the date of such amendment, as well as such changed circumstances, and (ii) either (A) the Owners of a majority in aggregate principal amount (or any greater amount required by any other provisions of this Ordinance that authorizes such an amendment) of the outstanding Bonds consent to such amendment or (B) an entity or individual person that is unaffiliated with the City (such as nationally recognized bond counsel) determines that such amendment will not materially impair the interests of the Owners and beneficial owners of the Bonds. If the City so amends the provisions of this Article, it shall include with any amended financial information or operating data next provided in accordance with Section 12.01 an explanation, in narrative form, of the reasons for the amendment and of the impact of any change in type of financial information or operating data so provided. ARTICLE XIII AMENDMENTS; ATTORNEY GENERAL MODIFICATION Section 13.01 Amendments. This Ordinance shall constitute a contract with the Owners, be binding on the City, and shall not be amended or repealed by the City so long as any Bond remains outstanding except as permitted in this Section. The City may, without consent of or notice to any Owners, from time to time and at any time, amend this Ordinance in any manner not detrimental to the interests of the Owners, including the curing of any ambiguity, inconsistency, or formal defect or omission herein. In addition, the City may, with the written consent of the Owners of the Bonds holding a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Bonds then outstanding, amend, add to, or rescind any of the provisions of this Ordinance; provided that, without the consent of all Owners of outstanding Bonds, no such amendment, addition, or rescission shall (i) extend the time or times of payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Bonds, reduce the principal amount thereof, the redemption price, or the rate of interest thereon, or in any other way modify the terms of payment of the principal of, or interest on the Bonds, (ii) give any preference to any -28- HOU:3531478.1 Bond over any other Bond, or (iii) reduce the aggregate principal amount of Bonds required to be held by Owners for consent to any such amendment, addition, or rescission. Section 13.02 Attorney General Modification. In order to obtain the approval of the Bonds by the Attorney General of the State of Texas, any provision of this Ordinance may be modified, altered or amended after the date of its adoption if required by the Attorney General in connection with the Attorney General's examination as to the legality of the Bonds and approval thereof in accordance with the applicable law. Such changes, if any, shall be provided to the City Secretary and the City Secretary shall insert such changes into this Ordinance as if approved on the date hereof. ARTICLE XIV REDEMPTION OF REFUNDED OBLIGATIONS; APPROVAL OF ESCROW AGREEMENT; PURCHASE OF ESCROWED SECURITIES Section 14.01 Redemption of Refunded Obligations. (a) The City hereby calls the Refunded Obligations for redemption prior to maturity on the dates and at the prices set forth in the Pricing Certificate. (b) The Authorized Officer is hereby authorized and directed to cause a copy of this Ordinance to be delivered to each paying agent/registrar for the Refunded Obligations, together with the Pricing Certificate therefor, the delivery of which shall constitute notice of redemption and notice of defeasance to such paying agent/registrar. Section 14.02 Escrow Securities. The Authorized Officer is hereby authorized to make necessary arrangements for the purchase of the Escrow Securities referenced in the Escrow Agreement, as may be necessary for the Escrow Fund and the application for the acquisition of the Escrow Securities is hereby approved and ratified. Following the deposits to the Escrow Fund as specified herein and in the Pricing Certificate, the Refunded Obligations shall be payable solely from and secured by such deposits. Section 14.03 Arrangements for Defeasance of Refunded Obligations. The Authorized Officer may execute and deliver escrow agreements, deposit agreements or similar agreements (each an "Escrow Agreement"), letters of instructions or any other instruments relating to the safekeeping, investment, administration and disposition of moneys deposited to effect the defeasance of the Refunded Obligations in such form and subject to such terms and conditions as the Authorized Officer determines may be necessary or convenient to carry out the intent and purpose of this Ordinance. -29- HOU:3531478.1 Section 14.04 Notice of Redemption. Each paying agent/registrar for the Refunded Obligations is hereby authorized and directed to give notice of redemption and deposit with respect to the Refunded Obligations as required under the ordinance pursuant to which the Refunded Obligations were issued. ARTICLE XV EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY Section 15.01 Effective Immediately. Notwithstanding the provisions of the City Charter, this Ordinance shall become effective immediately upon its adoption at this meeting pursuant to Section 1201.028, Texas Government Code. [Signature Page Follows.] -30- HOU3531478.1 SCHEDULEI REFUNDED OBLIGATION CANDIDATES All outstanding maturities of the following obligations of the City: • General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Series 2005 • Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series 2005 • General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Series 2006 • Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2007A • Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2007 • General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Series 2007 • Tax and Wastewater System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2008 • Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2008 • Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Taxable Series 2008 • General Obligation Bonds, Series 2008 Schedule I-1 HOU:3531478.1 PRESENTED, FINALLY PASSED AND APPROVED, AND EFFECTIVE on the 26th day of March, 2015, at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Lubbock, Texas. GLEN OBEI ON, Mayor ATTEST: CCA GARZA, City S [SEAL] APPROVED AS TO CONTENT: By: rACIV PAMELA MOON, Executive Director of Finance APPROVED AS TO FORM: By: JERRY V. YLE, JR., Bond Counsel Signature Page for Ordinance I IOU 3531478 1 EXHIBIT A DESCRIPTION OF ANNUAL DISCLOSURE OF FINANCIAL INFORMATION The following information is referred to in Article XII of this Ordinance. Annual Financial Statements and Operating Data The financial information and operating data with respect to the City to be provided annually in accordance with such Section are as specified (and included in the Appendix or other headings of the Official Statement referred to) below: 1. The portions of the financial statements of the City appended to the Official Statement as APPENDIX B, but for the most recently concluded fiscal year. 2. Statistical and financial data set forth in the Official Statement in "APPENDIX A - FINANCIAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE CITY" (Tables 1-5 and 7- 17). Accounting Principles The accounting principles referred to in such Section are the accounting principles described in the notes to the financial statements referred to in Paragraph 1 above. Exhibit A-1 HOU3531478.1 EXHIBIT B SALE PARAMETERS In accordance with Section 7.01(a) of the Ordinance, the following conditions with respect to the Bonds must be satisfied in order for the Authorized Officer to act on behalf of the City in selling and delivering any series of Bonds to the Underwriters: (a) the price to be paid for the Bonds of each series shall not be less than 90% of the aggregate principal amount of such Bonds; (b) the Bonds shall not bear interest at a rate greater than the maximum rate allowed by Chapter 1204, Texas Government Code, as amended; (c) the aggregate principal amount of the Bonds of each series shall produce proceeds in an amount sufficient to fund the purposes of such series described in Section 3.01 and such aggregate principal amount (when combined with the aggregate principal amount of other series issued pursuant to the Ordinance) shall not exceed the maximum amount authorized in Section 3.01; (d) the refunding of the Refunded Obligations by a series of bonds shall result in positive gross debt service savings and net present value savings of at least five percent (5%); (e) the maximum maturity for the Bonds shall not exceed twenty-one (2 1) years from the date of their delivery; and (f) the Bonds to be issued, prior to delivery, must have been rated by a nationally recognized rating agency for municipal securities in one of the four highest rating categories for long term obligations. Exhibit B-1 HOU:3531478.1 EXHIBIT C FORM OF THE BONDS The form of the Bond, including the form of the Registration Certificate of the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas, the form of Certificate of the Paying Agent/Registrar and the form of Assignment appearing on the Bonds, shall be generally as follows, provided, however, that the substantially final form of the Bonds shall be set forth in or attached to the Pricing Certificate and shall incorporate and reflect the final terms of the Bonds set forth in the Pricing Certificate: (a) REGISTERED No. INTEREST RATE: Form of Bonds. REGISTERED United States of America State of Texas County of Lubbock CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS GENERAL OBLIGATION REFUNDING BOND [TAXABLE] SERIES 2015 MATURITY DATE: BOND DATE: CUSIP NUMBER: I The City of Lubbock (the "City"), in the County of Lubbock, State of Texas, for value received, hereby promises to pay to or registered assigns, on the Maturity Date specified above, the sum of DOLLARS unless this Bond shall have been sooner called for redemption and the payment of the principal hereof shall have been paid or provided for, and to pay interest on such principal amount from the later of the Bond Date specified above or the most recent interest payment date to which interest has been paid or provided for until payment of such principal amount has been paid or provided for, at the per annum rate of interest specified above, computed on the basis of a three hundred sixty (360) day year of twelve (12) thirty (30) day months, such interest to be paid semiannually on February 15 and August 15 of each year, commencing '. All capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meaning assigned to them in the Ordinance (defined below). 1 Information to be inserted from Pricing Certificate. Information to be inserted from Pricing Certificate. Exhibit C-2 HOU:3531478.1 The principal of this Bond shall be payable without exchange or collection charges in lawful money of the United States of America upon presentation and surrender of this Bond at the corporate trust office in Dallas, Texas (the "Designated Payment/Transfer Office") of , as Paying Agent/Registrar or, with respect to a successor Paying Agent/Registrar, at the Designated Payment/Transfer Office thereof. Interest on this Bond is payable by check dated as of the interest payment date, and will be mailed by the Paying Agent/Registrar to the registered owner at the address shown on the registration books kept by the Paying Agent/Registrar or by such other customary banking arrangement acceptable to the Paying Agent/Registrar and the registered owner; provided, however, such registered owner shall bear all risk and expense of such other banking arrangement. At the option of an Owner of at least $1,000,000 principal amount of the Bonds, interest may be paid by wire transfer to the bank account of such Owner on file with the Paying Agent/Registrar. For the purpose of the payment of interest on this Bond, the registered owner shall be the person in whose name this Bond is registered at the close of business on the "Record Date," which shall be the last business day of the month next preceding such interest payment date; provided, however, that in the event of nonpayment of interest on a scheduled payment date and for 30 days thereafter, a new record date for such interest payment (a "Special Record Date") will be established by the Paying Agent/Registrar, if and when funds for the payment of such interest have been received from the City. Notice of the Special Record Date and of the scheduled payment date of the past due interest (the "Special Payment Date," which shall be 15 days after the Special Record Date) shall be sent at least five business days prior to the Special Record Date by first-class United States mail, postage prepaid, to the address of each owner of a Bond appearing in the registration books of the Paying Agent/Registrar at the close of business on the last business day next preceding the date of mailing of such notice. If the date for the payment of the principal of or interest on this Bond shall be a Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday, or day on which banking institutions in the city where the Designated Payment/Transfer Office of the Paying Agent/Registrar is located are required or authorized by law or executive order to close, the date for such payment shall be the next succeeding day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday, or day on which banking institutions are required or authorized to close, and payment on such date shall have the same force and effect as if made on the original date payment was due and no additional interest shall be due by reason of nonpayment on the date on which such payment is otherwise stated to be due and payable. This Bond is one of a series of fully registered bonds specified in the title hereof issued in the aggregate principal amount of $ 3 (herein referred to as the "Bonds"), issued pursuant to a certain ordinance of the City (the "Ordinance") for the purposes of providing funds with which to refund certain outstanding obligations of the City, and to pay the costs of issuing the Bonds. [The City has reserved the option to redeem the Bonds maturing on or after February 15, 20 before their respective scheduled maturities in whole or in part in integral multiples of $5,000 on , 20_, or on any date thereafter, at a redemption price of par, plus accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption. If less than all of the Bonds are to be redeemed, the City shall determine the maturity or maturities and the amounts thereof to be 3 Information to be inserted from Pricing Certificate. Exhibit C-3 HOU:3531478.1 redeemed and shall direct the Paying Agent/Registrar to call by lot or other customary method that results in a random selection of the Bonds, or portions thereof, within such maturity or maturities and in such principal amounts, for redemption .]4 [Bonds maturing on February 15 in each of the years through _, inclusive (the "Term Bonds"), are subject to mandatory sinking fund redemption prior to their scheduled maturity, and will be redeemed by the City, in part at a redemption price equal to the principal amount thereof, without premium, plus interest accrued to the redemption date, on the dates and in the principal amounts shown in the following schedule: Term Bonds Maturing February 15, 20 Redemption Date Principal Amount The Paying Agent/Registrar will select by lot or by any other customary method that results in a random selection the specific Term Bonds (or with respect to Term Bonds having a denomination in excess of $5,000, each $5,000 portion thereof) to be redeemed by mandatory redemption. The principal amount of Term Bonds required to be redeemed on any redemption date pursuant to the foregoing mandatory sinking fund redemption provisions hereof shall be reduced, at the option of the City, by the principal amount of any Bonds which, at least 45 days prior to the mandatory sinking fund redemption date (i) shall have been acquired by the City at a price not exceeding the principal amount of such Bonds plus accrued interest to the date of purchase thereof, and delivered to the Paying Agent/Registrar for cancellation, or (ii) shall have been redeemed pursuant to the optional redemption provisions hereof and not previously credited to a mandatory sinking fund redemption.5 Notice of such redemption or redemptions shall be given by first class mail, postage prepaid, not less than thirty (30) days before the date fixed for redemption, to the registered owner of each of the Bonds to be redeemed in whole or in part. In the Ordinance, the City reserves the right in the case of an optional redemption to give notice of its election or direction to redeem Bonds conditioned upon the occurrence of subsequent events. Such notice may state (i) that the redemption is conditioned upon the deposit of moneys and/or authorized securities, in an amount equal to the amount necessary to effect the redemption, with the Paying Agent/Registrar, or such other entity as may be authorized by law, no later than the redemption date or (ii) that the City retains the right to rescind such notice at any time prior to the scheduled redemption date if the City delivers a certificate of the City to the Paying Agent/Registrar instructing the Paying Agent/Registrar to rescind the redemption notice, and such notice and redemption shall be of no effect if such moneys and/or authorized securities are not so deposited or if the notice is rescinded. The Paying Agent/Registrar shall give prompt notice of any such rescission of a conditional notice of redemption to the affected owners. Any Bonds subject to conditional redemption where redemption has been rescinded shall remain outstanding, and the 4 Insert optional redemption provisions, if any, and revise as necessary to conform to the Pricing Certificate. 5 Insert mandatory sinking fund redemption provisions, if any, and revise as necessary to conform to the Pricing Certificate. Exhibit C-4 HOU:3531478.1 rescission shall not constitute an event of default. Further, in the case of a conditional redemption, the failure of the City to make moneys and/or authorized securities available in part or in whole on or before the redemption date shall not constitute an event of default.]6 As provided in the Ordinance, and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, this Bond is transferable upon surrender of this Bond for transfer at the Designated Payment/Transfer Office of the Paying Agent/Registrar with such endorsement or other evidence of transfer as is acceptable to the Paying Agent/Registrar; thereupon, one or more new fully registered Bonds of the same stated maturity, of authorized denominations, bearing the same rate of interest, and for the same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. Neither the City nor the Paying Agent/Registrar shall be required to issue, transfer or exchange any Bond called for redemption where such redemption is scheduled to occur within forty five (45) calendar days of the transfer or exchange date; provided, however, such limitation shall not be applicable to an exchange by the registered owner of the uncalled principal balance of a Bond. The City, the Paying Agent/Registrar, and any other person may treat the person in whose name this Bond is registered as the owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payment as herein provided (except interest shall be paid to the person in whose name this Bond is registered on the Record Date or Special Record Date, as applicable) and for all other purposes, whether or not this Bond be overdue, and neither the City nor the Paying Agent/Registrar shall be affected by notice to the contrary. IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED AND RECITED that the issuance of this Bond and the series of which it is a part is duly authorized by law; that all acts, conditions and things required to be done precedent to and in the issuance of the Bonds have been properly done and performed and have happened in regular and due time, form and manner, as required by law; and that ad valorem taxes upon all taxable property in the City have been levied for and pledged to the payment of the debt service requirements of the Bonds, within the limit prescribed by law; and that the total indebtedness of the City, including the Bonds, does not exceed any constitutional or statutory limitation. 6 Insert mandatory sinking fund redemption provisions, if any, and conform as necessary to the Pricing Certificate. Exhibit C-5 HOU:3531478.1 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the City has caused this Bond to be executed by the manual or facsimile signature of the Mayor of the City and countersigned by the manual or facsimile signature of the City Secretary, and the official seal of the City has been duly impressed or placed in facsimile on this Bond. Mayor, City of Lubbock, Texas City Secretary, City of Lubbock, Texas [SEAL] (b) Form of Comptroller's Registration Certificate. The following Comptroller's Registration Certificate may be deleted from the definitive Bonds if such certificate on the Initial Bond is fully executed. OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER § OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS § REGISTER NO. OF THE STATE OF TEXAS § I hereby certify that there is on file and of record in my office a certificate of the Attorney General of the State of Texas to the effect that this Bond has been examined by him as required by law, that he finds that it has been issued in conformity with the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas, and that it is a valid and binding obligation of the City of Lubbock, Texas, and that this Bond has this day been registered by me. Witness my hand and seal of office at Austin, Texas, [SEAL] Exhibit C-6 HOU:3531478.1 Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas (c) Form of Certificate of Paving Agent/Registrar. The following Certificate of Paying Agent/Registrar may be deleted from the Initial Bond if the Comptroller's Registration Certificate appears thereon. CERTIFICATE OF PAYING AGENT/REGISTRAR The records of the Paying Agent/Registrar show that the Initial Bond of this series of Bonds was approved by the Attorney General of the State of Texas and registered by the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas, and that this is one of the Bonds referred to in the within mentioned Ordinance. Dated: (d) Form of Assi nment. as Paying Agent/Registrar LIM Authorized Signatory ASSIGNMENT FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns, and transfers unto (print or typewrite name, address and Zip Code of transferee): (Social Security or other identifying number: ) the within Bond and all rights hereunder and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints attorney to transfer the within Bond on the books kept for registration hereof, with full power of substitution in the premises. Dated: Signature Guaranteed By: Authorized Signatory NOTICE: The signature on this Assignment must correspond with the name of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Bond in every particular and must be guaranteed in a manner acceptable to the Paying Agent/Registrar. (e) The Initial Bond shall be in the form set forth in paragraphs (a), (b) and (d) of this Section, except for the following alterations: (i) immediately under the name of the Bond, the headings "INTEREST RATE" and "MATURITY DATE" shall both be completed with the words "As shown below"; and Exhibit C-7 HOU:3531478.1 (ii) in the first paragraph of the Bond, the words "on the Maturity Date specified above" shall be deleted and the following will be inserted: "on February 15 in each of the years, in the principal installments and bearing interest at the per annum rates in accordance with the following schedule: Years Principal Installments Interest Rate (Information to be inserted from the Pricing Certificate pursuant to Section 3.02 of this Ordinance) Exhibit C-8 HOU:3531478.1 ESCROW AGREEMENT Between CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. Pertaining to CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS GENERAL OBLIGATION REFUNDING BONDS SERIES 2015 DATED AS OF March 26, 2015 HOU:3537350.1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS Section1.01 Definitions...................................................................................................2 Section 1.02 Other Definitions.........................................................................................3 Section1.03 Interpretations..............................................................................................3 ARTICLE II DEPOSIT OF FUNDS AND ESCROW SECURITIES Section 2.01 Deposits in the Escrow Fund.......................................................................3 ARTICLE III CREATION AND OPERATION OF ESCROW FUND Section3.01 Escrow Fund................................................................................................3 Section 3.02 Payment of Principal and Interest................................................................4 Section 3.03 Sufficiency of Escrow Fund........................................................................4 Section3.04 Trust Funds..................................................................................................4 Section 3.05 Security for Cash Balances..........................................................................5 ARTICLE IV SUBSTITUTION OF ESCROW SECURITIES Section4.01 In General....................................................................................................5 Section 4.02 Substitution of Escrow Securities at Bond Closing.....................................5 Section 4.03 Substitution of Escrow Securities following Bond Closing ........................5 Section 4.04 Allocation of Certain Escrow Securities......................................................6 Section4.05 Arbitrage......................................................................................................6 ARTICLE V APPLICATION OF CASH BALANCES Section5.01 In General....................................................................................................6 Section 5.02 Reinvestment in SLGS................................................................................6 Section 5.03 Reinvestment of Cash Balances...................................................................6 ARTICLE VI RECORDS, REPORTS AND NOTICES Section 6.01 Records .................................. Section 6.02 Reports ................................... i HOU:3537350.1 ................................................................. 7 ................................................................. 7 ARTICLE VII CONCERNING THE PAYING AGENTS AND ESCROW AGENT Section 7.01 Representations............................................................................................7 Section 7.02 Limitation on Liability.................................................................................7 Section7.03 Compensation..............................................................................................8 Section 7.04 Successor Escrow Agents............................................................................9 ARTICLE VIII MISCELLANEOUS Section8.01 Notice.........................................................................................................10 Section 8.02 Termination of Responsibilities................................................................. l l Section 8.03 Binding Agreement....................................................................................11 Section 8.04 Severability................................................................................................11 Section 8.05 Texas Law Governs...................................................................................11 Section 8.06 Time of the Essence................................................................................... l l Section 8.07 Effective Date of Agreement.....................................................................11 Section 8.08 Modification of Agreement.......................................................................11 ARTICLE IX ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RECEIPT OF NOTICE Section 9.01 Acknowledgment of Receipt of Notice of Defeasance and Redemption................................................................................................12 ii HOU:3537350.1 ESCROW AGREEMENT THIS ESCROW AGREEMENT, dated as of March 26, 2015 (herein, together with any amendments or supplements hereto, called the "Agreement"), entered into by and between CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS (the "Issuer"), and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., a national banking association, as escrow agent (herein, together with any successor in such capacity, called the "Escrow Agent"). WITNESSETH: WHEREAS, the Issuer has heretofore issued and there presently remain outstanding the obligations (the "Refunded Obligations") of the Issuer listed and described on Exhibit A, attached hereto; WHEREAS, the Refunded Obligations are scheduled to mature or have been called for early redemption in such years, bear interest at such rates, and are payable at such times and in such amounts as are set forth in Exhibit B attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein for all purposes; WHEREAS, when firm banking arrangements have been made for the payment of principal and interest to the maturity dates or redemption dates of the Refunded Obligations, then the Refunded Obligations shall no longer be regarded as outstanding except for the purpose of receiving payment from the funds provided for such purpose; WHEREAS, Chapter 1207, Texas Government Code, as amended ("Chapter 1207'), authorizes the Issuer to issue refunding bonds and to deposit the proceeds from the sale thereof, and any other available funds or resources, directly with the paying agent for any of the Refunded Obligations, and such deposit, if made before the payment dates of the Refunded Obligations and in sufficient amounts, shall constitute the making of firm banking and financial arrangements for the discharge and final payment of the Refunded Obligations; WHEREAS, Chapter 1207 further authorizes the Issuer to enter into an escrow agreement with the paying agent for any of the Refunded Obligations with respect to the safekeeping, investment, administration and disposition of any such deposit, upon such terms and conditions as the Issuer and such paying agent may agree, provided that such deposits may be invested only in direct noncallable obligations of the United States of America, including obligations the principal of and interest on which are unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of America, and which may be in book entry form, and which shall mature and bear interest payable at times and in amounts sufficient to provide for the scheduled payment or redemption of principal and interest on the Refunded Obligations when due; WHEREAS, the Escrow Agent, is the paying agent for all of the Refunded Obligations and this Agreement constitutes an escrow agreement of the kind authorized and required by Chapter 1207; WHEREAS, Chapter 1207 makes it the duty of the Escrow Agent to comply with the terms of this Agreement and timely make available to the other places of payment, if any, for the Refunded Obligations the amounts required to provide for the payment or redemption of the HOU:3537350.1 principal of and interest on such obligations when due, and in accordance with their terms, but solely from the funds, in the manner, and to the extent provided in this Agreement; WHEREAS, the issuance, sale, and delivery of the City of Lubbock, Texas, General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Series 2015 (the "Refunding Bonds"), have been duly authorized for the purpose, among others, of obtaining the funds required to provide for the payment of the principal of the Refunded Obligations at their respective maturity or redemption dates and the interest thereon to such maturity or redemption dates; WHEREAS, the Issuer desires that, concurrently with the delivery of the Refunding Bonds to the purchasers thereof, a portion of the proceeds of the Refunding Bonds shall be applied to purchase certain "Escrow Securities" (as herein defined) for deposit to the credit of the Escrow Fund created pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and to establish a beginning cash balance (if needed) in such Escrow Fund; WHEREAS, the Escrow Securities shall mature and the interest thereon shall be payable at times and in amounts sufficient to provide moneys which, together with cash balances from time to time on deposit in the Escrow Fund, will be sufficient to pay the interest on the Refunded Obligations as it accrues and becomes payable and to pay the principal of the Refunded Obligations on their maturity dates or redemption dates; WHEREAS, to facilitate the receipt and transfer of proceeds of the Escrow Securities the Issuer desires to establish the Escrow Fund at the designated office of the Escrow Agent; and WHEREAS, the Escrow Agent is a party to this Agreement and hereby acknowledges its acceptance of the terms and provisions hereof; NOW. THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual undertakings, promises and agreements herein contained, the sufficiency of which hereby is acknowledged, and to secure the hill and timely payment of principal of and the interest on the Refunded Obligations, the Issuer and the Escrow Agent mutually undertake, promise, and agree for themselves and their respective representatives and successors, as follows: ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS Section 1.01 Definitions. Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following terms shall have the meanings assigned to them below when they are used in this Agreement: "Beginning Cash Balance" means the funds described in Exhibit C attached to this Agreement. "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, including applicable regulations, published rulings and court decisions thereunder. "Escrow Fund" means the escrow created in Section 3.01 of this Agreement to be administered by the Escrow Agent pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement. 2 HOU:3537350.1 "Escrow Securities" means direct, noncallable obligations of the United States of America, including noncallable obligations of which the full and timely payment of the principal and interest are unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of America, that mature and bear interest payable at times and in amounts sufficient without reinvestment to provide for the scheduled payment of the principal of and interest on the Refunded Obligations. "Verification Report" means the report of Grant Thornton LLP, Certified Public Accountants verifying the sufficiency of the deposits made with the Escrow Agent for defeasance of the Refunded Obligations. Section 1.02 Other Definitions. The terms "Agreement," "Issuer," "Escrow Agent," "Refunded Obligations" and "Refunding Bonds," when they are used in this Agreement, shall have the meanings assigned to them in the preamble to this Agreement. Section 1.03 Interpretations. The titles and headings of the articles and sections of this Agreement have been inserted for convenience and reference only and are not to be considered a part hereof and shall not in any way modify or restrict the terms hereof. This Agreement and all of the terms and provisions hereof shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes set forth herein and to achieve the intended purpose of providing for the refunding of the Refunded Obligations in accordance with applicable law. ARTICLE II DEPOSIT OF FUNDS AND ESCROW SECURITIES Section 2.01 Deposits in the Escrow Fund. Concurrently with the sale and delivery of the Refunding Bonds, the Issuer shall deposit, or cause to be deposited, with the Escrow Agent, for deposit in the Escrow Fund, the Beginning Cash Balance and the Escrow Securities described in Exhibit C attached hereto and incorporated by reference as a part of this Agreement for all purposes. The Escrow Agent shall, upon the receipt thereof, acknowledge such receipt to the Issuer in writing. ARTICLE III CREATION AND OPERATION OF ESCROW FUND Section 3.01 Escrow Fund. The Escrow Agent hereby creates on its books a special trust and irrevocable escrow fund to be known as City of Lubbock, Texas, General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Series 2015 Escrow Fund (the "Escrow Fund") for the purpose of paying the principal of and interest on the Refunded Obligations, as described in Exhibit A, in order to make firm banking arrangements therefor. The Escrow Agent hereby agrees that upon receipt thereof it will deposit to the credit of the Escrow Fund the Beginning Cash Balance and the Escrow Securities described in Exhibit C. Such deposit, all proceeds therefrom, and all cash balances from time to time on deposit therein (a) shall be the property of the Escrow Fund, (b) shall be applied only in strict conformity with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and (c) to the extent needed to pay the principal and interest requirements on the Refunded Obligations, are hereby irrevocably pledged to the payment of the principal of and interest on the Refunded 3 HOU:3537350.1 Obligations, which payment shall be made by timely transfers of such amounts at such times as are provided for in Section 3.02 hereof. When the final transfers have been made for the payment of such principal of and interest on the Refunded Obligations, any balance remaining in the Escrow Fund shall be transferred to the interest and sinking fund for the Refunding Bonds. Section 3.02 Payment of Principal and Interest. The Escrow Agent is hereby irrevocably instructed to transfer, from the cash balances from time to time on deposit in the Escrow Fund, the amounts required to pay the principal of the Refunded Obligations at their respective maturity date or dates as of which such Refunded Obligations have been called for earlier redemption, and interest thereon when due, in the amounts and at the times shown in FYhihit R Section 3.03 Sufficiency of Escrow Fund. The Issuer represents, based on the Verification Report, that the successive receipts of the principal of and interest on the Escrow Securities will assure that the cash balance on deposit from time to time in the Escrow Fund will be at all times sufficient to provide moneys for transfer to each place of payment for the Refunded Obligations, at the times and in the amounts required to pay the interest on the Refunded Obligations as such interest comes due and the principal of the Refunded Obligations as such principal comes due, all as more fully set forth in Exhibit D attached hereto. If, for any reason, at any time, the cash balances on deposit or scheduled to be on deposit in the Escrow Fund shall be insufficient to transfer the amounts required by each place of payment for the Refunded Obligations to make the payments set forth in Section 3.02 hereof, the Issuer shall timely deposit in the Escrow Fund, from any funds that are lawfully available therefor, additional moneys in the amounts required to make such payments. Notice of any such insufficiency shall he given promptly as hereinafter provided, but the Escrow Agent shall not in any manner be responsible for any insufficiency of fiends in the Escrow Fund, unless such insufficiency shall be caused by the Escrow Agent's negligence or misconduct, or the Issuer's failure to make additional deposits thereto. Section 3.04 Trust Funds. The Escrow Agent shall hold at all times the Escrow Fund, the Escrow Securities and all other assets of the Escrow Fund wholly segregated from all other funds and securities on deposit with the Escrow Agent; it shall never allow the Escrow Securities or any other assets of the Escrow Fund to be commingled with any other funds or securities of the Escrow Agent; and it shall hold and dispose of the assets of the Escrow Fund only as set forth herein. The Escrow Securities and other assets of the Escrow Fund shall always be maintained by the Escrow Agent as trust funds for the benefit of the owners of the Refunded Obligations, and a special account thereof shall at all times be maintained on the books of the Escrow Agent. The owners of the Refunded Obligations shall be entitled to a preferred claim and first lien upon the Escrow Securities, the proceeds thereof, and all other assets of the Escrow Fund. The amounts received by the Escrow Agent under this Agreement shall not be considered as a banking deposit by the Issuer, and the Escrow Agent shall have no right or title with respect thereto except as a trustee and Escrow Agent under the terms of this Agreement. The amounts received by the Escrow Agent under this Agreement shall not be subject to warrants, drafts or checks drawn by the Issuer or, except to the extent expressly herein provided, by a place of payment for the Refunded Obligations. 4 HOU:3537350.1 Section 3.05 Security for Cash Balances. Cash balances from time to time on deposit in the Escrow Fund shall, to the extent not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or its successor, be continuously secured by a pledge of direct noncallable obligations of, or noncallable obligations unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States of America, having a market value at least equal to such cash balances. ARTICLE IV SUBSTITUTION OF ESCROW SECURITIES Section 4.01 In General. Except as provided in Section 4.02 and 4.03 hereof, the Escrow Agent shall not have any power or duty to make substitutions for the Escrow Securities described in Exhibit C, or to sell, transfer, or otherwise dispose of such Escrow Securities. Section 4.02 Substitution of Escrow Securities at Bond Closing. Concurrently with the sale and delivery of the Refunding Bonds, the Issuer, at its option, may substitute cash or Escrow Securities for the Escrow Securities listed in part III of Exhibit C, but only if such cash and/or Escrow Securities: (a) are in an amount, and/or mature in an amount, which, together with any cash substituted for such obligations, is equal to or greater than the amount payable on the maturity date of the obligation listed in part III of Exhibit C for which such obligation is substituted, and (b) mature on or before the maturity date of the obligation listed in part III of Exhibit C for which such obligation is substituted. The Issuer may at any time substitute the Escrow Securities listed in part III of Exhibit C which, as permitted by the preceding sentence, were not deposited to the credit of the Escrow Fund, for the cash and/or obligations that were substituted concurrently with the sale and delivery of the Refunding Bonds for such Escrow Securities, provided, that upon any such substitution the Escrow Agent receives (i) a verification report from a firm of independent certified public accountants as to the sufficiency of the Escrow Securities to provide for the payment of the Refunded Obligations (assuming such substitution has been made and assuming a zero percent reinvestment rate), (ii) an opinion of bond counsel or tax counsel to the effect that such substitution shall not affect the tax-exempt status of interest on the Refunded Obligations or the Refunding Bonds and (iii) that such transaction complies with the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas. Section 4.03 Substitution of Escrow Securities following Bond Closing. At the written request of the Issuer, and upon compliance with the conditions hereinafter stated, the Escrow Agent shall sell, transfer, otherwise dispose of or request the redemption of all or any portion of the Escrow Securities and apply the proceeds therefrom to purchase Refunded Obligations or other Escrow Securities. Any such transaction may be effected by the Escrow Agent only if (i) the Escrow Agent shall have received a written opinion from a firm of independent certified public accountants that such transaction will not cause the amount of money and securities in the Escrow Fund to be reduced below an amount which will be sufficient, when added to the interest 5 HOU:3537350.1 to accrue thereon and assuming a zero percent reinvestment rate, to provide for the payment of principal of and interest on the remaining Refunded Obligations as they become due, and (ii) the Escrow Agent shall have received the unqualified written legal opinion of nationally recognized bond counsel or tax counsel acceptable to the Issuer and the Escrow Agent to the effect that (A) such transaction will not cause any of the Refunding Bonds to be an "arbitrage bond" within the meaning of the Code or otherwise adversely affect the tax-exempt status of the Refunded Obligations or the Refunding Bonds, and (B) that such transaction complies with the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas. The foregoing provisions of substitution notwithstanding, the Escrow Agent shall be under no obligation to effect the substitution of the Escrow Securities in the manner contemplated by Subsection 4.03(a) if the Issuer fails to deliver or cause to be delivered to the Escrow Agent no later than three Business Days prior to the proposed date such substitution is to be effected a written certificate setting forth in reasonable detail the maturity dates and maturity amounts of the Escrow Securities to be substituted and the proposed date such substitution is to occur. Section 4.04 Allocation of Certain Escrow Securities. The maturing principal of and interest on the Escrow Securities may be applied to the payment of any Refunded Obligations and no allocation or segregation of the receipts of principal or interest from such Escrow Securities is required. Section 4.05 Arbitral;e. The Issuer hereby covenants and agrees that it shall never request the Escrow Agent to exercise any power hereunder or permit any part of the money in the Escrow Fund or proceeds from the sale of Escrow Securities to be used directly or indirectly to acquire any securities or obligations if the exercise of such power or the acquisition of such securities or obligations would cause any Refunding Bonds or Refunded Obligations to be an "arbitrage bond" within the meaning of Section 148 of the Code. ARTICLE V APPLICATION OF CASH BALANCES Section 5.01 In General. Except as provided in Sections 5.02 and 5.03 hereof, neither the Issuer nor the Escrow Agent shall reinvest any moneys deposited to or held as part of the Escrow Fund. Section 5.02 Reinvestment in SLGS. Cash balances in the Escrow Fund shall be reinvested as set forth on Exhibit E attached hereto. Section 5.03 Reinvestment of Cash Balances. At the written request of the Issuer, and upon compliance with the conditions hereinafter stated, the Escrow Agent shall permit or cause the reinvestment of cash balances in the Escrow Fund, pending the use thereof to pay when due the principal of and interest on the Refunded Obligations, in Escrow Securities which obligations must mature on or before the respective dates needed for payment of the Refunded Obligations. Any such modification must include (a) an opinion of nationally recognized bond counsel or tax counsel that such transaction (i) does not adversely affect the tax-exempt nature of the Refunding Bonds or the Refunded Obligations and (ii) complies with the Constitution and laws of the State b HOU:3537350.1 of Texas and (b) a verification report by a firm of independent certified public accountants verifying the sufficiency of the Escrow Fund and the yield on the investment thereof. ARTICLE VI RECORDS, REPORTS AND NOTICES Section 6.01 Records. The Escrow Agent will keep books of record and account in which complete and correct entries shall be made of all transactions relating to the receipts, disbursements, allocations and application of the money and Escrow Securities deposited to the Escrow Fund and all proceeds thereof, and such books shall be available for inspection at reasonable hours and under reasonable conditions by the Issuer and the owners of the Refunded Obligations. Section 6.02 Reports. While this Agreement remains in effect, the Escrow Agent at least annually shall prepare and send to the Issuer a written report summarizing all transactions relating to the Escrow Fund during the preceding year, including, without limitation, credits to the Escrow Fund as a result of interest payments on or maturities of the Escrow Securities and transfers from the Escrow Fund for payments on the Refunded Obligations or otherwise, together with a detailed statement of all Escrow Securities and the cash balance on deposit in the Escrow Fund as of the end of such period. ARTICLE VII CONCERNING THE PAYING AGENTS AND ESCROW AGENT Section 7.01 Representations. The Escrow Agent hereby represents that it has all necessary power and authority to enter into this Agreement and undertake the obligations and responsibilities imposed upon it herein, and that it will carry out all of its obligations hereunder. Section 7.02 Limitation on Liability. The liability of the Escrow Agent to transfer funds for the payment of the principal of and interest on the Refunded Obligations shall be limited to the proceeds of the Escrow Securities and the cash balances from time to time on deposit in the Escrow Fund. Notwithstanding any provision contained herein to the contrary, neither the Escrow Agent nor any place of payment for the Refunded Obligations shall have any liability whatsoever for the insufficiency of funds from time to time in the Escrow Fund or any failure of the obligors of the Escrow Securities to make timely payment thereon, except for the obligation to notify the Issuer promptly of any such occurrence. The recitals herein and in the proceedings authorizing the Refunding Bonds shall be taken as the statements of the Issuer and shall not be considered as made by, or imposing any obligation or liability upon, the Escrow Agent. The Escrow Agent is not a party to the proceedings authorizing the Refunding Bonds or the Refunded Obligations and is not responsible for nor bound by any of the provisions thereof (except as a place of payment or a paying agent/registrar therefor). In its capacity as Escrow Agent, it is agreed that the Escrow Agent need look only to the terms and provisions of this Agreement. 7 HOU:3537350.1 The Escrow Agent makes no representations as to the value, conditions or sufficiency of the Escrow Fund, or any part thereof, or as to the title of the Issuer thereto, or as to the security afforded thereby or hereby, and the Escrow Agent shall not incur any liability or responsibility in respect to any of such matters. It is the intention of the parties hereto that the Escrow Agent shall never be required to use or advance its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or the exercise of any of its rights and powers hereunder. The Escrow Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or neglected to be taken by it in good faith in any exercise of reasonable care and believed by it to be within the discretion or power conferred upon it by this Agreement, nor shall the Escrow Agent be responsible for the consequences of any error of judgment; and the Escrow Agent shall not be answerable for any loss unless the same shall have been through its negligence or want of good faith. The Escrow Agent may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, written investment direction, statement, instrument, opinion, notice or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party. The Escrow Agent need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document. The Escrow Agent may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through its agents or attorneys and may in all cases pay reasonable compensation to any agent or attorney retained or employed by it in connection therewith. Unless it is specifically otherwise provided herein, the Escrow Agent has no duty to determine or inquire into the happening or occurrence of any event or contingency or the performance or failure of performance of the Issuer with respect to arrangements or contracts with others, with the Escrow Agent's sole duty hereunder being to safeguard the Escrow Fund, to dispose of and deliver the same in accordance with this Agreement. If, however, the Escrow Agent is called upon by the terms of this Agreement to determine the occurrence of any event or contingency, the Escrow Agent shall be obligated, in making such determination, only to exercise reasonable care and diligence, and in event of error in making such determination the Escrow Agent shall be liable only for its own misconduct or its negligence. In determining the occurrence of any such event or contingency the Escrow Agent may request from the Issuer or any other person such reasonable additional evidence as the Escrow Agent in its discretion may deem necessary to determine any fact relating to the occurrence of such event or contingency, and in this connection may make inquiries of, and consult with counsel, among others, the Issuer at any time. Section 7.03 Compensation. (a) Concurrently with the sale and delivery of the Refunding Bonds, the Issuer shall pay to the Escrow Agent the sum of $750, the sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged by the Escrow Agent to pay its fee for performing the services of Escrow Agent hereunder and for all expenses incurred or to be incurred by it as Escrow Agent in the administration of this Agreement. In the event that the Escrow Agent is requested to perform any extraordinary services hereunder, the Issuer hereby agrees to pay reasonable fees to the 8 HOU3537350.1 Escrow Agent for such extraordinary services and to reimburse the Escrow Agent for all expenses incurred by the Escrow Agent in performing such extraordinary services, and the Escrow Agent hereby agrees to look only to the Issuer for the payment of such fees and reimbursement of such expenses. The Escrow Agent hereby agrees that in no event shall it ever assert any claim or lien against the Escrow Fund for any fees for its services, whether regular or extraordinary, as Escrow Agent, or in any other capacity, or for reimbursement for any of its expenses. (b) Concurrently with the sale and delivery of the Refunding Bonds, the Issuer shall pay to the Escrow Agent the sum of $300 per call notice, the sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged by the Escrow Agent, for all future reasonable fees and expenses for paying agency services relating to the Refunded Obligations for which it serves as the paying agent. The Escrow Agent shall be obligated to make available for the Refunded Obligations amounts from the Escrow Fund sufficient to pay when due the principal of and interest on any Refunded Obligations presented for payment. The Escrow Agent hereby agrees that in no event shall it ever assert any claim or lien against the Escrow Fund for any fees for its services, whether regular or extraordinary, as paying agent for any of the Refunded Obligations or for reimbursement for any of its expenses. (c) Upon receipt of the aforesaid specific sums stated in subsections (a) and (b) of this Section, the Escrow Agent shall acknowledge such receipt to the Issuer in writing. Section 7.04 Successor Escrow Agents. (a) If at any time the Escrow Agent or its legal successor or successors should become unable, through operation of law or otherwise, to act as Escrow Agent hereunder, or if its property and affairs shall be taken under the control of any state or federal court or administrative body because of insolvency or bankruptcy or for any other reason, a vacancy shall forthwith exist in the office of Escrow Agent hereunder. In such event the Issuer, by appropriate action, promptly shall appoint an Escrow Agent to fill such vacancy. If no successor Escrow Agent shall have been appointed by the Issuer within 60 days, a successor may be appointed by the owners of a majority in principal amount of the Refunded Obligations then outstanding by an instrument or instruments in writing filed with the Issuer, signed by such owners or by their duly authorized attorneys -in -fact. If, in a proper case, no appointment of a successor Escrow Agent shall be made pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this section within three months after a vacancy shall have occurred, the owner of any Refunded Bond may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction to appoint a successor Escrow Agent. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper, prescribe and appoint a successor Escrow Agent. (b) The Escrow Agent may at any time resign and be discharged from the trust hereby created by giving not less than 60 days' written notice to the Issuer; provided, that, no such resignation shall take effect unless: (i) a successor Escrow Agent shall have been appointed by the Issuer as herein provided; (ii) such successor Escrow Agent shall have accepted such appointment; (iii) the successor Escrow Agent shall have agreed to accept the fees currently in effect for the Escrow; and (iv) the Escrow Agent shall have paid over to the successor Escrow Agent a proportional part of the Escrow Agent's fee hereunder. Such resignation shall take effect immediately upon compliance with the foregoing requirements. 9 HOU:3537350.1 (c) Any successor Escrow Agent shall be: (i) a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States or the State of Texas; (ii) authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers; (iii) have a combined capital and surplus of at least $5,000,000; (iv) subject to the supervision or examination by Federal or State authority and (v) qualified to serve as Escrow Agent under the provisions of Chapter 1207, Texas Government Code, as amended. (d) Any successor Escrow Agent shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Issuer and the Escrow Agent an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and the Escrow Agent shall execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Escrow Agent, subject to the terms of this Agreement, all the rights, powers and trusts of the Escrow Agent hereunder. Upon the request of any such successor Escrow Agent, the Issuer shall execute any and all instruments in writing for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Escrow Agent all such rights, powers and duties. The Escrow Agent shall pay over to its successor Escrow Agent a proportional part of the Escrow Agent's fee hereunder. ARTICLE VIII MISCELLANEOUS Section 8.01 Notice. Except as provided in Sections 3.01 and 8.08 hereof, which require actual receipt of notice or consent, as the case may be, any notice, authorization, request, or demand required or permitted to be given hereunder, shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given when mailed by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, addressed as follows: To the Escrow Agent: The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. 2001 Bryan Street, 11`h Floor Dallas, Texas 75201 To the Issuer: City of Lubbock, Texas 1625 13th Street Lubbock, Texas 79457 Attention: Executive Director of Finance To the Rating Agencies: Moody's Investors Service, Inc. 2200 Ross Avenue Suite 4650 West Dallas, Texas 75201 Attention: Public Finance Department Standard & Poor's Rating Group 25 Broadway New York, New York 10004 10 HOU:3537350.1 Fitch Investors Service, L.P. 4514 Cole Avenue, Suite 600 Dallas, Texas 75205 The United States Post Office registered or certified mail receipt showing delivery of the aforesaid shall be conclusive evidence of the date and fact of delivery. Either party hereto may provide an electronic address to which notices are to be delivered in lieu of the physical address provided above or change the physical address to which notices are to be delivered by giving to the other party not less than ten (10) days prior notice thereof. Section 8.02 Termination of Responsibilities. Upon the taking of all the actions as described herein by the Escrow Agent, the Escrow Agent shall have no further obligations or responsibilities hereunder to the Issuer, the owners of the Refunded Obligations or to any other person or persons in connection with this Agreement. Section 8.03 Binding Agreement. This Agreement shall be binding upon the Issuer and the Escrow Agent and their respective successors and legal representatives, and shall inure solely to the benefit of the owners of the Refunded Obligations, the Issuer, the Escrow Agent and their respective successors and legal representatives. Section 8.04 Severability. In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Agreement shall for any reason be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provisions of this Agreement, but this Agreement shall be construed as if such invalid or illegal or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein. In the event any one or more provisions hereof are held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable the Issuer shall promptly notify each of the rating agencies then maintaining a rating on the Refunded Obligations. Section 8.05 Texas Law Governs. This Agreement shall be governed exclusively by the provisions hereof and by the applicable laws of the State of Texas. Section 8.06 Time of the Essence. Time shall be of the essence in the performance of obligations from time to time imposed upon the Escrow Agent by this Agreement. Section 8.07 Effective Date of Agreement. This Agreement shall be effective upon receipt by the Escrow Agent of the funds described in Exhibit C and the Escrow Securities, together with the specific sums stated in subsections (a) and (b) of Section 7.03 for Escrow Agent and paying agency fees, expenses, and services. Section 8.08 Modification of Agreement. This Agreement shall be binding upon the Issuer and the Escrow Agent and their respective successors and legal representatives and shall inure solely to the benefit of the owners of the Refunded Obligations, the Issuer, the Escrow Agent and their respective successors and legal representatives. Furthermore, no alteration, amendment or modification of any provision of this Agreement (a) shall alter the firm financial arrangements made for the payment of the Refunded Obligations or (b) shall be effective unless (i) prior written consent of such alteration, amendment or modification shall have been obtained from the owners of all Refunded Obligations outstanding at the time of such alteration, 11 HOU:3537350.1 amendment or modification and (ii) such alteration, amendment or modification is in writing and signed by the parties hereto; provided, however, the Issuer and the Escrow Agent may, without the consent of owners of the Refunded Obligations, amend or modify the terms and provisions of this Agreement to cure in a manner not adverse to the owners of the Refunded Obligations any ambiguity, formal defect or omission in this Agreement. Prior notice of any such modification shall be given to each rating agency then maintaining a rating on the Refunded Obligations. ARTICLE IX ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RECEIPT OF NOTICE Section 9.01 Acknowledgment of Receipt of Notice of Defeasance and Redemption. The Escrow Agent, by its execution hereof, as paying agent/registrar for the Refunded Obligations set forth on Exhibit A, acknowledges receipt of the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the Refunding Bonds constituting written notice of defeasance and redemption of the Refunded Obligations, and agrees to provide or cause to be provided to the owners thereof notice of defeasance and redemption of such Refunded Obligations as required by the respective ordinances that authorized the issuance of such Refunded Obligations. [Execution Page Follows] 12 HOU:3537350.1 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Escrow Agreement has been executed in multiple counterparts, each one of which shall constitute one and the same original Agreement, as of the date and year appearing on the first page of this Agreement. CITY OF—LUBBOCK, TEXAS W. ATTEST: City t retary Signature Page for Escrow Agreement HOU 3537350 1 THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. By:_ Title: Signature Page for Escrow Agreement HOU:3537350.1 INDEX TO EXHIBITS Exhibit A Description of the Refunded Obligations Exhibit B Schedule of Debt Service on Refunded Obligations Exhibit C Description of Beginning Cash Balance and Escrow Securities Exhibit D Escrow Fund Cash Flow Exhibit E Reinvestments in Zero Interest Rate SLGS HOU:3537350.1 EXHIBIT A DESCRIPTION OF THE REFUNDED OBLIGATIONS A-1 HOU:3537350.1 EXHIBIT B SCHEDULE OF DEBT SERVICE ON REFUNDED OBLIGATIONS B-1 HOU:3537350.1 EXHIBIT C DESCRIPTION OF BEGINNING CASH BALANCES AND ESCROW SECURITIES I. Cash II. State and Local Government Series Obligations III. Open Market Securities C-1 HOU:3537350.1 EXHIBIT D ESCROW FUND CASH FLOW See Attached Schedule D-1 HOU:3537350.1 EXHIBIT E REINVESTMENTS IN ZERO INTEREST RATE SLGS none E-1 HOU:3537350.1 MINUTES AND CERTIFICATION PERTAINING TO PASSAGE OF AN ORDINANCE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF LUBBOCK CITY OF LUBBOCK On the 26th day of March, 2015, the City Council of the City of Lubbock, Texas, convened in a regular meeting at the regular meeting place thereof, the meeting being open to the public and notice of said meeting, giving the date, place and subject thereof, having been posted as prescribed by Chapter 551, Texas Government Code, as amended; and the roll was called of the duly constituted officers and members of the City Council, which officers and members are as follows: Glen C. Robertson, Mayor Victor Hernandez ) Karen Gibson, Mayor Pro Tem Floyd Price ) Members of Jeff Griffith 1 the Council Jim Gerlt Latrelle Joy James Loomis, City Manager Pamela Moon, Executive Director of Finance Rebecca Garza, City Secretary and all of said persons were present, except NSA , thus constituting a quorum. Whereupon, among other business, a written Ordinance bearing the following caption was introduced: AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, GENERAL OBLIGATION REFUNDING BONDS, SERIES 2015, AND CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, GENERAL OBLIGATION REFUNDING BONDS, TAXABLE SERIES 2015; LEVYING A TAX IN PAYMENT THEREOF; PROVIDING FOR THE AWARD OF THE SALE THEREOF IN ACCORDANCE WITH SPECIFIED PARAMETERS; APPROVING THE OFFICIAL STATEMENT; APPROVING EXECUTION OF A PURCHASE CONTRACT AND ESCROW AGREEMENTS; AND ENACTING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING THERETO The Ordinance, a full, true and correct copy of which is attached hereto, was read and reviewed by the City Council. Thereupon, it was duly moved and seconded that the Ordinance be passed and adopted. 1-IOU:3537313.1 The Presiding Officer put the motion to a vote of the members of the City Council, and the Ordinance was passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: 7 NOES: 0 ABSTENTIONS: 0 MINUTES APPROVED AND CERTIFIED TO BE TRUE AND CORRECT, and to correctly reflect the duly constituted officers and members of the City Council of said City, and the attached and following copy of said Ordinance is hereby certified to be a true and correct copy of an official copy thereof on file among the official records of the City, all on this the 26th day of March, 2015. —G) eLja---� :::, City S cretary City of Lubbock, Texas [SEAL] HOU.3537313.1 GENERAL CERTIFICATE We, the undersigned, Mayor, City Manager and City Secretary, respectively, of the City of Lubbock, Texas (the "City"), do hereby certify the following information: 1. This certificate relates to the City of Lubbock, Texas, Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2015 (the "Certificates") and City of Lubbock, Texas, General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Series 2015 (the "Bonds," together with the Certificates, the "Obligations"). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meaning assigned thereto in the respective ordinances (each an "Ordinance," collectively, the "Ordinances") of the City Council authorizing the issuance of the Obligations. 2. The total tax supported debt of the City, after giving effect to the issuance of the proposed Obligations, is $ 3. The assessed value of property for the purpose of taxation in the City of Lubbock, Texas, as shown by its official tax rolls for the year 2014, being its latest approved official assessment rolls is $14,183,510,930, which amount is net of the amount of any exemptions to which property otherwise subject to taxation was entitled pursuant to applicable provisions of the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas. 4. A true and correct copy of the debt service schedule for the Obligations and all other outstanding indebtedness of the City payable from ad valorem taxes is set forth in the table entitled "Table 9 -General Obligation Debt Service Requirements" included in "APPENDIX A - Financial Information Regarding the City" to the City's Official Statement pertaining to the Obligations (the "Official Statement"), such debt service schedule being incorporated herein by reference for all purposes. 5. The City of Lubbock, Texas, is a duly incorporated Home Rule City, with a population greater than 50,000, and is operating and existing under the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas and the duly adopted Home Rule Charter of the City. The Home Rule Charter was last amended at an election held in the City on November 2, 2004. 6. The following are duly qualified and acting, elected or appointed officials of the City of Lubbock, Texas: Glen C. Robertson, Mayor Victor Hernandez ) Karen Gibson, Mayor Pro Tem Floyd Price ) Members of Jeff Griffith ) the Council Jim Gerlt ) Latrelle Joy ) James Loomis, City Manager Pamela Moon, Executive Director of Finance Rebecca Garza, City Secretary 7. No litigation of any nature has been filed or is now pending to restrain or enjoin the issuance or delivery of the Obligations or which would affect the provisions made for their HOU:3537354.1 payment or security, or in any manner questioning the proceedings or authority concerning the issuance of the Obligations, and so far as we know and believe, no such litigation is threatened. 8. The City's Executive Director of Finance has assumed the duties of Chief Financial Officer. 9. Neither the corporate existence nor the boundaries of the City, nor the title of its present officers to their respective offices is being contested, and so far as we know and believe, no litigation is threatened regarding such matters, and no authority or proceedings for the issuance of the Obligations have been repealed, revoked or rescinded. 10. There has not been filed or presented to the City Secretary or the City Council any petition protesting, challenging or otherwise questioning the issuance of the Obligations. 11. The Ordinances were duly adopted by the City Council on March 26, 2015. 12. None of the Refunded Obligations were ever purchased by or held in the interest and sinking fund created for their payment and redemption; none of the Refunded Obligations are now held in or owned by the sinking fund created for the purpose of paying off or redeeming any of the Refunded Obligations; none of the Refunded Obligations will be taken up and paid for with money in said sinking fund; and, there is no money in the sinking fund with which to pay principal of any of the Refunded Obligations. 13. The principal and interest payments due on the Bonds on August 15, 2015, will be paid from funds of the City that have been appropriated for such purpose and are lawfully available to pay such principal and interest payments. 14. A true and correct statement of the revenues and expenses of the Waterworks System for fiscal years 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014, together with a true and correct copy of an excerpt of current rates and charges for the services of the System, is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 15. Except for the pledge of income and revenues of the System to the payment of: (i) water supply contracts with the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority, (ii) the Certificates, and (ii) the obligations set forth in Exhibit B hereto, none of the City's debts or obligations will be secured by a lien on and pledge of the revenues or income of the System. 16. To the extent that the City uses any proceeds of the Certificates to purchase real property, the City will comply with Section 252.051, Texas Local Government Code. 17. The City is not in default in the payment of principal and interest on its debt obligations. 18. The descriptions and statements of or pertaining to the City contained in its Official Statement, and any addenda, supplement or amendment with respect to such descriptions or statements thereto, on the date of such Official Statement, on the date of sale of the Obligations and on the date of the delivery, were and are true and correct in all material respects. -2- HOU:3537354.1 19. Insofar as the City and its affairs, including its financial affairs, are concerned, such Official Statement did not and does not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. 20. Insofar as the descriptions and statements, including financial data of or pertaining to entities other than the City and their activities contained in such Official Statement are concerned, such statements and data have been obtained from sources which the City believes to be reliable and the City has no reason to believe that they are untrue in any material respect. 21. There has been no material adverse change in the financial condition and affairs of the City since the date of the Official Statement. 22. The undersigned Mayor and City Secretary officially executed and signed the Obligations, including the Initial Obligations delivered to the initial purchasers of the Obligations, by manually executing the Obligations or by causing facsimiles of our manual signatures to be imprinted or copied on each of the Obligations, and we hereby adopt said manual or facsimile signatures as our own, respectively, and declare that said facsimile signatures constitute our signatures the same as if we had manually signed each of the Obligations. 23. The Obligations, including the Initial Obligations delivered to the initial purchasers of the Obligations, are substantially in the form, and have been duly executed and signed in the manner, prescribed in the Ordinances. 24. At the time the undersigned Mayor and City Secretary so executed and signed the Obligations we were, and at the time of executing this certificate we are, the duly chosen, qualified, and acting officers indicated therein, and authorized to execute the same. 25. We have caused the official seal of the City to be impressed, or printed, or copied on each of the Obligations; and said seal on the Obligations has been duly adopted as, and is hereby declared to be, the official seal of the City. [EXECUTION PAGES FOLLOW] -3- HOU:3537354.1 EXECUTED AND DELIVERED this 351F.111010131 WICOWN-1-11 Mw OFFICIAL TITLE Mayor, City of Lubbock, Texas r STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF LUBBOCK Before me, the undersigned authority. on this day personally appeared Glen C. Robertson, Mayor, of the City of Lubbock, Texas, known to me to be such person who signed the above and foregoing certificate in my presence and acknowledged to me that such person executed the above and foregoing certificate for the purposes therein stated. 4L GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE THIS X613. CELIA WEBB Notary Pubic, Slate of Texas _ My Commission Exftes ONI-2018 Notary Public, In and for the State of Texas [SEAL] Signature Page for General Certificate I IOU 3537354.1 EXECUTED AND DELIVERED this MANUAL SIGNATURE STATE OF TEXAS § COUNTY OF LUBBOCK § OFFICIAL TITLE City Manager, City of Lubbock, Texas Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared James Loomis, City Manager, of the City of Lubbock, Texas, known to me to be such person who signed the above and foregoing certificate in my presence and acknowledged to me that such person executed the above and foregoing certificate for the purposes therein stated. f4, GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE THISW66V 17 R"dl o2D . [SEAL] HOU.3537354 1 Lewl.GELIA WEBB?�_ Notary Pubko, State of Texas My Commission Expires 03.01.2016 Notary Public, In and for the State of Texas Signature Page far General Certificate EXECUTED AND DELIVERED this MANUAL SIGNATURE STATE OF TEXAS § COUNTY OF LUBBOCK § OFFICIAL TITLE City Secretary, City of Lubbock, Texas Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared Rebecca Garza, City Secretary, of the City of Lubbock, Texas, known to me to be such person who signed the above and foregoing certificate in my presence and acknowledged to me that such person executed the above and foregoing certificate for the purposes therein stated. 2 GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE THIS 31 Of IAAjA-,,, bWak Notary Public, In and for the State of Texas 06-2a Z „1111111 Signature Page for General Certificate HOU.3537354, Exhibit A A-1 HOU:3537354.1 Exhibit B Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2014, dated May 1, 2014, issued in the original principal amount of $62,900,000 Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2013, dated May 21, 2013, issued in the original principal amount of $49,440,000 Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2012, dated April 1, 2012, issued in the original principal amount of $66,075,000 Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2011, dated March 15, 2011, issued in the original principal amount of $112,230,000 Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2010C, dated October 1 ,2010, issued in the original principal amount of $41,000,000 Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2010A, dated February 4, 2010, issued in the original principal amount of $48,955,000 Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2010B (Build America Bonds - Direct Payment), dated February 4, 2010, issued in the original principal amount of $96,540,000 Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2010, dated January 1, 2010, issued in the original principal amount of $19,945,000 Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2009, dated March 1, 2009, issued in the original principal amount of $58,705,000 Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2008A, dated June 15, 2008, issued in the original principal amount of $22,615,000 Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2008, dated April 15, 2008, issued in the original principal amount of $80,485,000 Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Taxable Series 2008, dated December 15, 2007, issued in the original principal amount of $11,805,000 Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2007A, dated August 15, 2007, issued in the original principal amount of $60,820,000 Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2007, dated January 1, 2007, issued in the original principal amount of $25,255,000 Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2006, dated April 15, 2006, issued in the original principal amount of $76,950,000 B-1 HOU:3537354.1 Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2005, dated August 15, 2005, issued in the principal amount of $46,525,000 Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series 2005, dated July 1, 2005, issued in the original principal amount of $43,080,000 Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2004, dated September 15, 2004, issued in the original principal amount of $3,100,000 B-1 HOU:3537354.1 CERTIFICATE PURSUANT TO PURCHASE CONTRACT I, the undersigned official of the City of Lubbock, Texas (the "City"), acting in my official capacity, in connection with the issuance and delivery by the City of Lubbock, Texas, of its Tax and Waterworks System Surplus Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2015 (the "Certificates") and the City of Lubbock, Texas, General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Series 2015 (the "Bonds," together with the Certificates, the "Obligations"), hereby certify that: 1. This certificate is delivered pursuant to the Purchase Contract relating to the Obligations, dated , 2015 (the "Purchase Contract"), between the City and Wells Fargo Securities, Barclays Capital, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Raymond James and Associates, Inc., and Hutchinson Shockey & Erley & Co., Inc. (collectively, the "Underwriters"). Capitalized words used herein as defined terms and not otherwise defined herein have the respective meanings assigned to them in the Purchase Contract. 2. The representations and warranties of the City contained in the Purchase Contract are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date hereof as though made on and as of the date hereof. 3. Except to the extent disclosed in the Official Statement, no litigation is pending or, to my knowledge, threatened in any court to restrain or enjoin the issuance or delivery of the Obligations, or collection or application of the ad valorem taxes or, in the case of the Certificates, the Pledged Revenues pledged or to be pledged, to pay the principal of and interest on the Obligations, or the pledge thereof, or in any way contesting or affecting the validity of the Obligations or the City Documents, or contesting the powers of the City or the authorization of the Obligations or the City Documents, or contesting in any way the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the Official Statement. 4. To the best of my knowledge, no event affecting the City has occurred since the date of the Official Statement that should be disclosed in the Official Statement for the purpose for which it is to be used or that it is necessary to disclose therein in order to make the statements and information therein not misleading in any material respect. 5. There has not been any material and adverse change in the affairs or financial condition of the City since September 30, 2014, the latest date as to which audited financial information is available. [Execution Page Follows.] HOU:3537356.1 DATED: ty oo,ubbock, Texas Signature Page for Certificate Pursuant to Purchase Contract M0 3537356.1 The Attorney General of Texas Public Finance Section William P. Clements Building, 7t1i Floor 300 West 15th Street Austin, Texas 78701 March 26. 2015 The Comptroller of Public Accounts Public Finance Division 111 East 17th Street Austin, Texas 78701 Re: City of Lubbock, Texas - General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Taxable Series 2015 (the "Bonds") Ladies and Gentlemen: The captioned Bonds are being sent to the Office of the Attorney General, and it is requested that such office examine and approve the Bonds in accordance with law. After such approval, it is requested that the Attorney General deliver the Bonds to the Comptroller of Public Accounts for registration. Enclosed with the Bonds is a signed but undated copy of the GENERAL CERTIFICATE (the "Certificate") relating to the Bonds. The Attorney General is hereby authorized and directed to date the Certificate concurrently with the date of approval of the Bonds. If any litigation or contest should develop pertaining to the Bonds or any other matters covered by said Certificate, the undersigned will notify the Attorney General thereof immediately by telephone. With this assurance the Attorney General can rely on the absence of any such litigation or contest, and on the veracity and currency of said Certificate, at the time the Attorney General approves the Bonds unless the Attorney General is notified otherwise as aforesaid. The Comptroller is hereby requested to register the Bonds as required by law and the proceedings authorizing the Bonds. After such registration, the Comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to deliver the Bonds, together with three copies of the Attorney General's Approving Opinion and Comptroller's Certificate for the Bonds, to Jerry V. Kyle, Jr., Andrews Kurth LLP, 111 Congress Avenue, Austin, TX 78701. CITY OF LUBBOCK By: -'4w Mayor HOU:3537427.1 PAYING AGENT/REGISTRAR AGREEMENT between CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. Pertaining to City of Lubbock, Texas General Obligation Refunding Bonds Taxable Series 2015 Dated as of March 26, 2015 -IOU:3537445.1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ARTICLE I APPOINTMENT OF BANK AS PAYING AGENT AND REGISTRAR ................. I Section1.01. Appointment...................................................................................................... l Section1.02. Compensation....................................................................................................1 ARTICLE II DEFINITIONS...........................................................................................................2 Section2.01. Definitions.........................................................................................................2 ARTICLE III PAYING AGENT.....................................................................................................3 Section 3.01. Duties of Paying Agent......................................................................................3 Section3.02. Payment Dates...................................................................................................4 Section 3.03. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation, or Succession..........................................4 ARTICLEIV REGISTRAR............................................................................................................4 Section 4.01. Transfer and Exchange......................................................................................4 Section4.02. The Bonds..........................................................................................................4 Section 4.03. Form of Register................................................................................................5 Section 4.04. List of Owners...................................................................................................5 Section 4.05. Cancellation of Bonds.......................................................................................5 Section 4.06. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost, or Stolen Bonds....................................................5 Section 4.07. Transaction Information to Issuer......................................................................6 ARTICLEV THE BANK............................................................................................................... 6 Section 5.01. Duties of Bank...................................................................................................6 Section 5.02. Reliance on Documents, Etc..............................................................................7 Section 5.03. Recitals of Issuer............................................................................................... 7 Section 5.04. May Hold Bonds................................................................................................8 Section 5.05. Money Held by Bank.........................................................................................8 Section 5.06. Indemnification..................................................................................................8 Section5.07. Interpleader........................................................................................................8 ARTICLE VI MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS........................................................................9 Section6.01. Amendment.......................................................................................................9 Section6.02. Assignment........................................................................................................ 9 Section6.03. Notices............................................................................................................... 9 Section 6.04. Effect of Headings............................................................................................. 9 Section 6.05. Successors and Assigns.....................................................................................9 Section6.06. Separability........................................................................................................9 Section 6.07. Benefits of Agreement.......................................................................................9 Section 6.08. Entire Agreement...............................................................................................9 Section 6.09. Counterparts.....................................................................................................10 Section6.10. Termination.....................................................................................................10 Section 6.11. Governing Law................................................................................................10 (i) FIOU:3537445.1 PAYING AGENT/REGISTRAR AGREEMENT THIS PAYING AGENT/REGISTRAR AGREEMENT (the or this "Agreement"), dated as of March 26, 2015, is by and between CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS (the "Issuer"), and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (the "Bank"), a national banking association. WHEREAS, the Issuer has duly authorized and provided for the issuance of its General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Taxable Series 2015 (the "Bonds"), dated May 1, 2015, to be issued as registered securities without coupons; and WHEREAS, all things necessary to make the Bonds the valid obligations of the Issuer, in accordance with their terms, will be taken upon the issuance and delivery thereof, and WHEREAS, the Issuer is desirous that the Bank act as the Paying Agent of the Issuer in paying the principal, redemption premium, if any, and interest on the Bonds, in accordance with the terms thereof, and that the Bank act as Registrar for the Bonds; and WHEREAS, the Issuer has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Agreement, and all things necessary to make this Agreement the valid agreement of the Issuer, in accordance with its terms, have been done; NOW, THEREFORE, it is mutually agreed as follows: ARTICLE I APPOINTMENT OF BANK AS PAYING AGENT AND REGISTRAR Section 1.01. Appointment. (a) The Issuer hereby appoints the Bank to act as Paying Agent with respect to the Bonds in paying to the Owners of the Bonds the principal, redemption premium, if any, and interest on all or any of the Bonds. (b) The Issuer hereby appoints the Bank as Registrar with respect to the Bonds. (c) The Bank hereby accepts its appointment, and agrees to act as, the Paying Agent and Registrar. Section 1.02. Compensation. (a) As compensation for the Bank's services as Paying Agent/Registrar, the Issuer hereby agrees to pay the Bank the fees and amounts set forth in Annex A attached hereto for the first year of this Agreement, or such part thereof as this Agreement shall be in effect, and thereafter while this Agreement is in effect, the fees and amounts set forth in the Bank's current fee schedule then in effect for services as Paying Agent/Registrar for municipalities, which shall be supplied to the Issuer on or before 90 days prior to the close of the Fiscal Year of the Issuer, and shall be effective upon the first day of the following Fiscal Year. FIOU:3537445.1 (b) In addition, the Issuer agrees to reimburse the Bank upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Bank in accordance with any of the provisions hereof, including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel. ARTICLE II DEFINITIONS Section 2.01. Definitions. For all purposes of this Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms have the following meanings when used in this Agreement: "Bank" means The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. "Bank Office" means the Bank's office in Dallas, Texas. The Bank will notify the Issuer in writing of any change in location of the Bank Office. "Bond" or "Bonds" means, collectively, any or all of the Issuer's General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Taxable Series 2015, dated May 1, 2015. "Bond Ordinance" means the ordinance of the City Council of the Issuer authorizing the issuance and delivery of the Bonds. "Business Day" means any day which is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday or day on which banking institutions in New York, New York are required or authorized by law or executive order to close. "Financial Advisor" means RBC Capital Markets, LLC. "Fiscal Year" means the 12 month period ending September 30th of each year. "Issuer" means the City of Lubbock, Texas. "Issuer Request" and "Issuer Order" means a written request or order signed in the name of the Issuer by the Mayor of the Issuer, or any other authorized representative of the Issuer and delivered to the Bank. "Legal Holiday" means a day on which the Bank is required or authorized by applicable law to be closed. "Owner" means the Person in whose name a Bond is registered in the Register. "Paying Agent" means the Bank when it is performing the functions associated with the terms in this Agreement. -2- 1IOU:3537445.1 "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, or government or any agency or political subdivision of a government. "Predecessor Bonds" of any particular Bond means every previous Bond evidencing all or a portion of the same obligation as that evidenced by such particular Bond (and, for the purposes of this definition, any Bond registered and delivered under Section 4.06 in lieu of a mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Bond shall be deemed to evidence the same obligation as the mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Bond). "Record Date" means the last Business Day of the month next preceding an interest payment date established by the Bond Ordinance. "Register" means a register in which the Issuer shall provide for the registration and transfer of Bonds. "Responsible Officer" when used with respect to the Bank means the Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, the President, any Vice President, the Secretary, any Assistant Secretary, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Cashier, any Assistant Cashier, any Trust Officer or Assistant Trust Officer, or any other officer of the Bank customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject. "Stated Maturity" means the date or dates specified in the Bond Ordinance as the fixed date on which the principal of the Bonds is due and payable or the date fixed in accordance with the terms of the Bond Ordinance for redemption of the Bonds, or any portion thereof, prior to the fixed maturity date. ARTICLE III PAYING AGENT Section 3.01. Duties of Paying Agent. (a) The Bank, as Paying Agent and on behalf of the Issuer, shall pay to the Owner, at the Stated Maturity and upon the surrender of the Bond or Bonds so maturing at the Bank Office, the principal amount of the Bond or Bonds then maturing, and redemption premium, if any, provided that the Bank shall have been provided by or on behalf of the Issuer adequate funds to make such payment. (b) The Bank, as Paying Agent and on behalf of the Issuer, shall pay interest when due on the Bonds to each Owner of the Bonds (or their Predecessor Bonds) as shown in the Register at the close of business on the Record Date, provided that the Bank shall have been provided by or on behalf of the Issuer adequate funds to make such payments; such payments shall be made by computing the amount of interest to be paid each Owner, preparing the checks, 1-IOU:3537445.1 and mailing the checks on each interest payment date addressed to each Owner's address as it appears in the Register on the Record Date. Section 3.02. Payment Dates. The Issuer hereby instructs the Bank to pay the principal of, redemption premium, if any, and interest on the Bonds at the dates specified in the Bond Ordinance. Section 3.03. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation, or Succession. Any corporation into which the Paying Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion, or consolidation to which the Paying Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Paying Agent shall be the successor of the Paying Agent hereunder without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of either of the parties hereto. ARTICLE IV REGISTRAR Section 4.01. Transfer and Exchange. (a) The Issuer shall keep the Register at the Bank Office, and subject to such reasonable written regulations as the Issuer may prescribe, which regulations shall be furnished to the Bank herewith or subsequent hereto by Issuer Order, the Issuer shall provide for the registration and transfer of the Bonds. The Bank is hereby appointed "Registrar" for the purpose of registering and transferring the Bonds as herein provided. The Bank agrees to maintain the Register while it is Registrar. The Bank agrees to at all times maintain a copy of the Register at its office located in the State of Texas. (b) The Bank as Registrar hereby agrees that at any time while any Bond is outstanding, the Owner may deliver such Bond to the Registrar for transfer or exchange, accompanied by instructions from the Owner, or the duly authorized designee of the Owner, designating the persons, the maturities, and the principal amounts to and in which such Bond is to be transferred and the addresses of such persons; the Registrar shall thereupon, within not more than three (3) business days, register and deliver such Bond or Bonds as provided in such instructions. The provisions of the Bond Ordinance shall control the procedures for transfer or exchange set forth herein to the extent such procedures are in conflict with the provisions of the Bond Ordinance. (c) Every Bond surrendered for transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer, the signature on which has been guaranteed in a manner satisfactory to the Bank, duly executed by the Owner thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing. (d) The Bank may request any supporting documentation it feels necessary to effect a re -registration. Section 4.02. The Bonds. The Issuer shall provide an adequate inventory of unregistered Bonds to facilitate transfers. The Bank covenants that it will maintain the -4- HOU:3537445.1 unregistered Bonds in safekeeping and will use reasonable care in maintaining such unregistered Bonds in safekeeping, which shall be not less than the care it maintains for debt securities of other governments or corporations for which it serves as registrar, or which it maintains for its own securities. Section 4.03. Form of Register. (a) The Bank as Registrar will maintain the records of the Register in accordance with the Bank's general practices and procedures in effect from time to time. The Bank shall not be obligated to maintain such Register in any form other than a form which the Bank has currently available and currently utilizes at the time. (b) The Register may be maintained in written form or in any other form capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable time. Section 4.04. List of Owners. (a) The Bank will provide the Issuer at any time requested by the Issuer, upon payment of the cost, if any, of reproduction, a copy of the information contained in the Register. The Issuer may also inspect the information in the Register at any time the Bank is customarily open for business, provided that reasonable time is allowed the Bank to provide an up-to-date listing or to convert the information into written form. (b) The Bank will not release or disclose the content of the Register to any person other than to, or at the written request of, an authorized officer or employee of the Issuer, except upon receipt of a subpoena or court order or as otherwise required by law. Upon receipt of a subpoena or court order the Bank will notify the Issuer so that the Issuer may contest the subpoena or court order. Section 4.05. Cancellation of Bonds. All Bonds surrendered for payment, redemption, transfer, exchange, or replacement, if surrendered to the Bank, shall be promptly cancelled by it and, if surrendered to the Issuer, shall be delivered to the Bank and, if not already cancelled, shall be promptly cancelled by the Bank. The Issuer may at any time deliver to the Bank for cancellation any Bonds previously certified or registered and delivered which the Issuer may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Bonds so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Bank. All cancelled Bonds held by the Bank shall be disposed of pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Section 4.06. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost, or Stolen Bonds. (a) Subject to the provisions of this Section 4.06, the Issuer hereby instructs the Bank to deliver fully registered Bonds in exchange for or in lieu of ]mutilated, destroyed, lost, or stolen Bonds as long as the same does not result in an over -issuance. (b) If (i) any mutilated Bond is surrendered to the Bank, or the Issuer and the Bank receives evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss, or theft of any Bond, and (ii) there is delivered to the Issuer and the Bank such security or indemnity as may be required by the Bank to save and hold each of them harmless, then in the absence of notice to the Issuer or the -5- HOU:3537445 1 Bank that such Bond has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Issuer shall execute, and upon its request the Bank shall register and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost, or stolen Bond, a new Bond of the same stated maturity and of like tenor and principal amount bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding. (c) Every new Bond issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any mutilated, destroyed, lost, or stolen Bond shall constitute a replacement of the prior obligation of the Issuer, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost, or stolen Bond shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of the Bond Ordinance equally and ratably with all other outstanding Bonds. (d) Upon the satisfaction of the Bank and the Issuer that a Bond has been mutilated, destroyed, lost, or stolen, and upon receipt by the Bank and the Issuer of such indemnity or security as they may require, the Bank shall cancel the Bond number on the Bond registered with a notation in the Register that said Bond has been mutilated, destroyed, lost, or stolen; and a new Bond shall be issued of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount bearing a number, according to the Register, not contemporaneously outstanding. (e) The Bank may charge the Owner the Bank's fees and expenses in connection with issuing a new Bond in lieu of or exchange for a mutilated, destroyed, lost, or stolen Bond. (f) The Issuer hereby accepts the Bank's current blanket bond for lost, stolen, or destroyed Bonds and any future substitute blanket bond for lost, stolen, or destroyed Bonds that the Bank may arrange, and agrees that the coverage under any such blanket bond is acceptable to it and meets the Issuer's requirements as to security or indemnity. The Bank need not notify the Issuer of any changes in the security or other company giving such bond or the terms of any such bond, provided that the amount of such bond is not reduced below the amount of the bond on the date of execution of this Agreement. The blanket bond then utilized by the Bank for lost, stolen, or destroyed Bonds by the Bank is available for inspection by the Issuer on request. Section 4.07. Transaction Information to Issuer. The Bank will, within a reasonable time after receipt of written request from the Issuer, furnish the Issuer information as to the Bonds it has paid pursuant to Section 3.01; Bonds it has delivered upon the transfer or exchange of any Bonds pursuant to Section 4.01; and Bonds it has delivered in exchange for or in lieu of mutilated, destroyed, lost, or stolen Bonds pursuant to Section 4.06 of this Agreement. ARTICLE V THE BANK Section 5.01. Duties of Bank. The Bank undertakes to perform the duties set forth herein and in accordance with the Bond Ordinance and agrees to use reasonable care in the performance thereof. The Bank hereby agrees to use the funds deposited with it for payment of the principal of, redemption premium, if any, and interest on the Bonds to pay the Bonds as the same shall become due and further agrees to establish and maintain all accounts and funds as may be required for the Bank to function as Paying Agent. -6- 1-IOU:3537445.1 Section 5.02. Reliance on Documents, Etc. (a) The Bank may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and correctness of the opinions expressed therein, on certificates or opinions furnished to the Bank. (b) The Bank shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved that the Bank was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts. (c) No provisions of this Agreement shall require the Bank to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability for performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity satisfactory to it against such risks or liability is not assured to it. (d) The Bank may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any ordinance, resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, certificate, note, security, or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing statement, the Bank need not examine the ownership of any Bonds, but is protected in acting upon receipt of Bonds containing an endorsement or instruction of transfer or power of transfer which appears on its face to be signed by the Owner or an attorney-in-fact of the Owner. The Bank shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in an ordinance, resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, certificate, note, security, or other paper or document supplied by Issuer. (e) The Bank is also authorized to transfer funds relating to the closing and initial delivery of the Bonds in the manner disclosed in the closing memorandum as prepared by the Issuer's Financial Advisor or other agent. The Bank may act on a facsimile or e-mail transmission of the closing memorandum acknowledged by the Financial Advisor or the Issuer as the final closing memorandum. The Bank shall not be liable for any losses, costs or expenses arising directly or indirectly from the Bank's reliance upon. and compliance with such instructions. (f) The Bank may consult with counsel, and the written advice of such counsel or any opinion of counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection with respect to any action taken, suffered, or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon. (g) The Bank may exercise any of the powers hereunder and perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys of the Bank. Section 5.03. Recitals of Issuer. (a) The recitals contained herein and in the Bonds shall be taken as the statements of the Issuer, and the Bank assumes no responsibility for their correctness. -7- 1-IOU:3537445.1 (b) The Bank shall in no event be liable to the Issuer, any Owner or Owners, or any other Person for any amount due on any Bond except as otherwise expressly provided herein with respect to the liability of the Bank for its duties under this Agreement. Section 5.04. May Hold Bonds. The Bank, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the Owner or pledgee of Bonds and may otherwise deal with the Issuer with the same rights it would have if it were not the Paying Agent/Registrar, or any other agent. Section 5.05. Money Held by Bank. (a) Money held by the Bank hereunder need not be segregated from any other funds provided appropriate accounts are maintained. (b) The Bank shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder. (c) Subject to the provisions of Title 6, Texas Property Code, as amended, any money deposited with the Bank for the payment of the principal, redemption premium, if any, or interest on any Bond and remaining unclaimed for three years after final maturity of the Bond has become due and payable will be paid by the Bank to the Issuer, and the Owner of such Bond shall thereafter look only to the Issuer for payment thereof, and all liability of the Bank with respect to such monies shall thereupon cease. (d) The Bank will comply with the reporting requirements of Chapter 74 of the Texas Property Code, as amended. (e) The Bank shall deposit any moneys received from the Issuer into a trust account to be held in a paying agent capacity for the payment of the Bonds, with such moneys in the account that exceed the deposit insurance, available to the Issuer, provided by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to be fully collateralized with securities or obligations that are eligible under the laws of the State of Texas and to the extent practicable under the laws of the United States of America to secure and be pledged as collateral for trust accounts until the principal and interest on the Bonds have been presented for payment and paid to the owner thereof. Payments made from such trust account shall be made by check drawn on such trust account unless the owner of such Bonds shall, at its own expense and risk, request such other medium of payment. Section 5.06. Indemnification. To the extent permitted by law, the Issuer agrees to indemnify the Bank, its officers, directors, employees, and agents for, and hold them harmless against, any loss, liability, or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with its acceptance or administration of the Bank's duties hereunder, and under Article V of the Bond Ordinance, including the cost and expense (including its counsel fees) of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties under this Agreement. Section 5.07. Interpleader. The Issuer and the Bank agree that the Bank may seek adjudication of any adverse claim, demands or controversy over its persons as well as funds on deposit in a court of competent jurisdiction within the State of Texas; waive personal service of -8- I-IOU:3537445.1 any process; and agree that service of process by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, to the address set forth in this Agreement shall constitute adequate service. The Issuer and the Bank further agree that the Bank has the right to file a Bill of Interpleader in any court of competent jurisdiction within the State of Texas to determine the rights of any person claiming any interest herein. ARTICLE VI MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS Section 6.01. Amendment. This Agreement may be amended only by an agreement in writing signed by both of the parties hereof. Section 6.02. Assignment. This Agreement may not be assigned by either party without the prior written consent of the other. Section 6.03. Notices. Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other document provided or permitted hereby to be given or furnished to the Issuer or the Bank shall be mailed or delivered to the Issuer or the Bank, respectively, at the addresses shown below: (a) if to the Issuer: City of Lubbock, Texas 1625 13th Street Lubbock, Texas 79457 Attention: Executive Director of Finance if to the Bank: The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. 2001 Bryan Street, 11 th Floor Dallas, Texas 75201 Section 6.04. Effect of Headings. The Article and Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof. Section 6.05. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements herein by the Issuer shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not. Section 6.06. Separability. If any provision herein shall be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the validity, legality, and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby. Section 6.07. Benefits of Agreement. Nothing herein, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy, or claim hereunder. Section 6.08. Entire Agreement. This Agreement and the Bond Ordinance constitute the entire agreement between the parties hereto relative to the Bank acting as Paying Agent/Registrar, and if any conflict exists between this Agreement and the Bond Ordinance, the Bond Ordinance shall govern. -9- I-IOU:3537445.1 Section 6.09. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original and all of which shall constitute one and the same Agreement. Section 6.10. Termination. (a) This Agreement will terminate on the date of final payment by the Bank issuing its checks for the final payment of principal, redemption premium, if any, and interest of the Bonds. (b) This Agreement may be earlier terminated upon sixty (60) days written notice by either party; provided, that, no termination shall be effective until a successor has been appointed by the Issuer and has accepted the duties imposed by this Agreement. A resigning Paying Agent/Registrar may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Paying Agent/Registrar if an instrument of acceptance by a successor Paying Agent/Registrar has not been delivered to the resigning Paying Agent/Registrar within sixty (60) days after the giving of notice of resignation. (c) The provisions of Section 1.02 and of Article Five shall survive and remain in full force and effect following the termination of this Agreement. Section 6.11. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of Texas. [Signature Page to Follow] -10- HOU 3537445.1 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the day and year first written above. CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS By: 61AII, . Robertson, Mayor ATTEST: P, oze�� -5k Rebe ca Garza, City Secretary [Signature page for Paying Agent Registrar Agreement for General Obligation Bonds] I IOU:3537445 I THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. By: Title: [Signature page for Paying Agent/Registrar Agreement for General Obligation Bonds] 1-IOU:3537445.1 ANNEX "A" SCHEDULE OF FEES FOR SERVICE AS PAYING AGENT/REGISTRAR 1-IOU:3537445.1 ESCROW AGREEMENT Between CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. Pertaining to CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS GENERAL OBLIGATION REFUNDING BONDS TAXABLE SERIES 2015 DATED AS OF March 26, 2015 I IOU:3537449.1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS Section1.01 Definitions....................................................................................................2 Section 1.02 Other Definitions.........................................................................................3 Section1.03 Interpretations..............................................................................................3 ARTICLE II DEPOSIT OF FUNDS AND ESCROW SECURITIES Section 2.01 Deposits in the Escrow Fund.......................................................................3 ARTICLE III CREATION AND OPERATION OF ESCROW FUND Section3.01 Escrow Fund................................................................................................3 Section 3.02 Payment of Principal and Interest ................................................................4 Section 3.03 Sufficiency of Escrow Fund.........................................................................4 Section3.04 Trust Funds..................................................................................................4 Section 3.05 Security for Cash Balances..........................................................................5 ARTICLE IV SUBSTITUTION OF ESCROW SECURITIES Section4.01 In General.....................................................................................................5 Section 4.02 Substitution of Escrow Securities at Bond Closing.....................................5 Section 4.03 Substitution of Escrow Securities following Bond Closing ........................5 Section 4.04 Allocation of Certain Escrow Securities......................................................6 Section4.05 Arbitrage......................................................................................................6 ARTICLE V APPLICATION OF CASH BALANCES Section5.01 In General.....................................................................................................6 Section 5.02 Reinvestment in SLGS.................................................................................6 Section 5.03 Reinvestment of Cash Balances...................................................................6 ARTICLE VI RECORDS, REPORTS AND NOTICES Section6.01 Records........................................................................................................7 Section6.02 Reports.........................................................................................................7 I HOU:3537350.1 ARTICLE VII CONCERNING THE PAYING AGENTS AND ESCROW AGENT Section 7.01 Representations............................................................................................7 Section 7.02 Limitation on Liability.................................................................................7 Section 7.03 Compensation..............................................................................................8 Section 7.04 Successor Escrow Agents............................................................................9 ARTICLE VIII MISCELLANEOUS Section8.01 Notice.........................................................................................................10 Section 8.02 Termination of Responsibilities.................................................................1 l Section 8.03 Binding Agreement....................................................................................1 l Section8.04 Severability................................................................................................11 Section 8.05 Texas Law Governs...................................................................................11 Section 8.06 Time of the Essence...................................................................................11 Section 8.07 Effective Date of Agreement.....................................................................11 Section 8.08 Modification of Agreement........................................................................1 l ARTICLE IX ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RECEIPT OF NOTICE Section 9.01 Acknowledgment of Receipt of Notice of Defeasance and Redemption................................................................................................ 12 ii HOU:3537350.1 ESCROW AGREEMENT THIS ESCROW AGREEMENT, dated as of March 26, 2015 (herein, together with any amendments or supplements hereto, called the "Agreement"), entered into by and between CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS (the "Issuer"), and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., a national banking association, as escrow agent (herein, together with any successor in such capacity, called the "Escrow Agent"). WITNESSETH: WHEREAS, the Issuer has heretofore issued and there presently remain outstanding the obligations (the "Refunded Obligations") of the Issuer listed and described on Exhibit A, attached hereto; WHEREAS, the Refunded Obligations are scheduled to mature or have been called for early redemption in such years, bear interest at such rates, and are payable at such times and in such amounts as are set forth in Exhibit B attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein for all purposes; WHEREAS, when firm banking arrangements have been made for the payment of principal and interest to the maturity dates or redemption dates of the Refunded Obligations, then the Refunded Obligations shall no longer be regarded as outstanding except for the purpose of receiving payment from the funds provided for such purpose; WHEREAS, Chapter 1207, Texas Government Code, as amended ("Chapter 1207'), authorizes the Issuer to issue refunding bonds and to deposit the proceeds from the sale thereof, and any other available funds or resources, directly with the paying agent for any of the Refunded Obligations, and such deposit, if made before the payment dates of the Refunded Obligations and in sufficient amounts, shall constitute the making of firm banking and financial arrangements for the discharge and final payment of the Refunded Obligations; WHEREAS, Chapter 1207 further authorizes the Issuer to enter into an escrow agreement with the paying agent for any of the Refunded Obligations with respect to the safekeeping, investment, administration and disposition of any such deposit, upon such terms and conditions as the Issuer and such paying agent may agree, provided that such deposits may be invested only in direct noncallable obligations of the United States of America, including obligations the principal of and interest on which are unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of America, and which may be in book entry form, and which shall mature and bear interest payable at times and in amounts sufficient to provide for the scheduled payment or redemption of principal and interest on the Refunded Obligations when due; WHEREAS, the Escrow Agent, is the paying agent for all of the Refunded Obligations and this Agreement constitutes an escrow agreement of the kind authorized and required by Chapter 1207; WHEREAS, Chapter 1207 makes it the duty of the Escrow Agent to comply with the terms of this Agreement and timely make available to the other places of payment, if any, for the Refunded Obligations the amounts required to provide for the payment or redemption of the HOU:3537350.1 principal of and interest on such obligations when due, and in accordance with their terms, but solely from the funds, in the manner, and to the extent provided in this Agreement; WHEREAS, the issuance, sale, and delivery of the City of Lubbock, Texas, General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Taxable Series 2015 (the "Refunding Bonds"), have been duly authorized for the purpose, among others, of obtaining the funds required to provide for the payment of the principal of the Refunded Obligations at their respective maturity or redemption dates and the interest thereon to such maturity or redemption dates; WHEREAS, the Issuer desires that, concurrently with the delivery of the Refunding Bonds to the purchasers thereof, a portion of the proceeds of the Refunding Bonds shall be applied to purchase certain "Escrow Securities" (as herein defined) for deposit to the credit of the Escrow Fund created pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and to establish a beginning cash balance (if needed) in such Escrow Fund; WHEREAS, the Escrow Securities shall mature and the interest thereon shall be payable at times and in amounts sufficient to provide moneys which, together with cash balances from time to time on deposit in the Escrow Fund, will be sufficient to pay the interest on the Refunded Obligations as it accrues and becomes payable and to pay the principal of the Refunded Obligations on their maturity dates or redemption dates; WHEREAS, to facilitate the receipt and transfer of proceeds of the Escrow Securities the Issuer desires to establish the Escrow Fund at the designated office of the Escrow Agent; and WHEREAS, the Escrow Agent is a party to this Agreement and hereby acknowledges its acceptance of the terms and provisions hereof, NOW. THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual undertakings, promises and agreements herein contained, the sufficiency of which hereby is acknowledged, and to secure the hill and timely payment of principal of and the interest on the Refunded Obligations, the Issuer and the Escrow Agent mutually undertake, promise, and agree for themselves and their respective representatives and successors, as follows: ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS Section 1.01 Definitions. Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following terms shall have the meanings assigned to them below when they are used in this Agreement: "Beginning Cash Balance" means the funds described in Exhibit C attached to this Agreement. "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, including applicable regulations, published rulings and court decisions thereunder. "Escrow Fund" means the escrow created in Section 3.01 of this Agreement to be administered by the Escrow Agent pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement. 2 1-IOU:3537449. I "Escrow Securities" means direct, noncallable obligations of the United States of America, including noncallable obligations of which the full and timely payment of the principal and interest are unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of America, that mature and bear interest payable at times and in amounts sufficient without reinvestment to provide for the scheduled payment of the principal of and interest on the Refunded Obligations. "Verification Report" means the report of Grant Thornton LLP, Certified Public Accountants verifying the sufficiency of the deposits made with the Escrow Agent for defeasance of the Refunded Obligations. Section 1.02 Other Definitions. The terms "Agreement," "Issuer," "Escrow Agent," "Refunded Obligations" and "Refunding Bonds," when they are used in this Agreement, shall have the meanings assigned to them in the preamble to this Agreement. Section 1.03 Interpretations. The titles and headings of the articles and sections of this Agreement have been inserted for convenience and reference only and are not to be considered a part hereof and shall not in any way modify or restrict the terms hereof. This Agreement and all of the terms and provisions hereof shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes set forth herein and to achieve the intended purpose of providing for the refunding of the Refunded Obligations in accordance with applicable law. ARTICLE II DEPOSIT OF FUNDS AND ESCROW SECURITIES Section 2.01 Deposits in the Escrow Fund. Concurrently with the sale and delivery of the Refunding Bonds, the Issuer shall deposit, or cause to be deposited, with the Escrow Agent, for deposit in the Escrow Fund, the Beginning Cash Balance and the Escrow Securities described in Exhibit C attached hereto and incorporated by reference as a part of this Agreement for all purposes. The Escrow Agent shall, upon the receipt thereof, acknowledge such receipt to the Issuer in writing. ARTICLE III CREATION AND OPERATION OF ESCROW FUND Section 3.01 Escrow Fund. The Escrow Agent hereby creates on its books a special trust and irrevocable escrow fund to be known as City of Lubbock, Texas, General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Taxable Series 2014 Escrow Fund (the "Escrow Fund") for the purpose of paying the principal of and interest on the Refunded Obligations, as described in Exhibit A, in order to make firm banking arrangements therefor. The Escrow Agent hereby agrees that upon receipt thereof it will deposit to the credit of the Escrow Fund the Beginning Cash Balance and the Escrow Securities described in Exhibit C. Such deposit, all proceeds therefrom, and all cash balances from time to time on deposit therein (a) shall be the property of the Escrow Fund, (b) shall be applied only in strict conformity with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and (c) to the extent needed to pay the principal and interest requirements on the Refunded Obligations, are hereby irrevocably pledged to the payment of the principal of and interest on the 3 HOU:3537449.1 Obligations, which payment shall be made by timely transfers of such amounts at such times as are provided for in Section 3.02 hereof. When the final transfers have been made for the payment of such principal of and interest on the Refunded Obligations, any balance remaining in the Escrow Fund shall be transferred to the interest and sinking fund for the Refunding Bonds. Section 3.02 Payment of Principal and Interest. The Escrow Agent is hereby irrevocably instructed to transfer, from the cash balances from time to time on deposit in the Escrow Fund, the amounts required to pay the principal of the Refunded Obligations at their respective maturity date or dates as of which such Refunded Obligations have been called for earlier redemption, and interest thereon when due, in the amounts and at the times shown in Exhibit B. Section 3.03 Sufficiency of Escrow Fund. The Issuer represents, based on the Verification Report, that the successive receipts of the principal of and interest on the Escrow Securities will assure that the cash balance on deposit from time to time in the Escrow Fund will be at all times sufficient to provide moneys for transfer to each place of payment for the Refunded Obligations, at the times and in the amounts required to pay the interest on the Refunded Obligations as such interest comes due and the principal of the Refunded Obligations as such principal comes due, all as more fully set forth in Exhibit D attached hereto. If, for any reason, at any time, the cash balances on deposit or scheduled to be on deposit in the Escrow Fund shall be insufficient to transfer the amounts required by each place of payment for the Refunded Obligations to make the payments set forth in Section 3.02 hereof, the Issuer shall timely deposit in the Escrow Fund, from any funds that are lawfully available therefor, additional moneys in the amounts required to make such payments. Notice of any such insufficiency shall he given promptly as hereinafter provided, but the Escrow Agent shall not in any manner be responsible for any insufficiency of fiends in the Escrow Fund, unless such insufficiency shall be caused by the Escrow Agent's negligence or misconduct, or the Issuer's failure to make additional deposits thereto. Section 3.04 Trust Funds. The Escrow Agent shall hold at all times the Escrow Fund, the Escrow Securities and all other assets of the Escrow Fund wholly segregated from all other funds and securities on deposit with the Escrow Agent; it shall never allow the Escrow Securities or any other assets of the Escrow Fund to be commingled with any other funds or securities of the Escrow Agent; and it shall hold and dispose of the assets of the Escrow Fund only as set forth herein. The Escrow Securities and other assets of the Escrow Fund shall always be maintained by the Escrow Agent as trust funds for the benefit of the owners of the Refunded Obligations, and a special account thereof shall at all times be maintained on the books of the Escrow Agent. The owners of the Refunded Obligations shall be entitled to a preferred claim and first lien upon the Escrow Securities, the proceeds thereof, and all other assets of the Escrow Fund. The amounts received by the Escrow Agent under this Agreement shall not be considered as a banking deposit by the Issuer, and the Escrow Agent shall have no right or title with respect thereto except as a trustee and Escrow Agent under the terms of this Agreement. The amounts received by the Escrow Agent under this Agreement shall not be subject to warrants, drafts or checks drawn by the Issuer or, except to the extent expressly herein provided, by a place of payment for the Refunded Obligations. 4 HOU:3537350.1 Section 3.05 Security for Cash Balances. Cash balances from time to time on deposit in the Escrow Fund shall, to the extent not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or its successor, be continuously secured by a pledge of direct noncallable obligations of, or noncallable obligations unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States of America, having a market value at least equal to such cash balances. ARTICLE IV SUBSTITUTION OF ESCROW SECURITIES Section 4.01 In General. Except as provided in Section 4.02 and 4.03 hereof, the Escrow Agent shall not have any power or duty to make substitutions for the Escrow Securities described in Exhibit C, or to sell, transfer, or otherwise dispose of such Escrow Securities. Section 4.02 Substitution of Escrow Securities at Bond Closing. Concurrently with the sale and delivery of the Refunding Bonds, the Issuer, at its option, may substitute cash or Escrow Securities for the Escrow Securities listed in part III of Exhibit C, but only if such cash and/or Escrow Securities: (a) are in an amount, and/or mature in an amount, which, together with any cash substituted for such obligations, is equal to or greater than the amount payable on the maturity date of the obligation listed in part III of Exhibit C for which such obligation is substituted, and (b) mature on or before the maturity date of the obligation listed in part III of Exhibit C for which such obligation is substituted. The Issuer may at any time substitute the Escrow Securities listed in part III of Exhibit C which, as permitted by the preceding sentence, were not deposited to the credit of the Escrow Fund, for the cash and/or obligations that were substituted concurrently with the sale and delivery of the Refunding Bonds for such Escrow Securities, provided, that upon any such substitution the Escrow Agent receives (i) a verification report from a firm of independent certified public accountants as to the sufficiency of the Escrow Securities to provide for the payment of the Refunded Obligations (assuming such substitution has been made and assuming a zero percent reinvestment rate), (ii) an opinion of bond counsel or tax counsel to the effect that such substitution shall not affect the tax-exempt status of interest on the Refunded Obligations or the Refunding Bonds and (iii) that such transaction complies with the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas. Section 4.03 Substitution of Escrow Securities following Bond Closing. At the written request of the Issuer, and upon compliance with the conditions hereinafter stated, the Escrow Agent shall sell, transfer, otherwise dispose of or request the redemption of all or any portion of the Escrow Securities and apply the proceeds therefrom to purchase Refunded Obligations or other Escrow Securities. Any such transaction may be effected by the Escrow Agent only if (i) the Escrow Agent shall have received a written opinion from a firm of independent certified public accountants that such transaction will not cause the amount of money and securities in the Escrow Fund to be reduced below an amount which will be sufficient, when added to the interest E HOU:3537350.1 to accrue thereon and assuming a zero percent reinvestment rate, to provide for the payment of principal of and interest on the remaining Refunded Obligations as they become due, and (ii) the Escrow Agent shall have received the unqualified written legal opinion of nationally recognized bond counsel or tax counsel acceptable to the Issuer and the Escrow Agent to the effect that (A) such transaction will not cause any of the Refunding Bonds to be an "arbitrage bond" within the meaning of the Code or otherwise adversely affect the tax-exempt status of the Refunded Obligations or the Refunding Bonds, and (B) that such transaction complies with the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas. The foregoing provisions of substitution notwithstanding, the Escrow Agent shall be under no obligation to effect the substitution of the Escrow Securities in the manner contemplated by Subsection 4.03(a) if the Issuer fails to deliver or cause to be delivered to the Escrow Agent no later than three Business Days prior to the proposed date such substitution is to be effected a written certificate setting forth in reasonable detail the maturity dates and maturity amounts of the Escrow Securities to be substituted and the proposed date such substitution is to occur. Section 4.04 Allocation of Certain Escrow Securities. The maturing principal of and interest on the Escrow Securities may be applied to the payment of any Refunded Obligations and no allocation or segregation of the receipts of principal or interest from such Escrow Securities is required. Section 4.05 Arbitral;e. The Issuer hereby covenants and agrees that it shall never request the Escrow Agent to exercise any power hereunder or permit any part of the money in the Escrow Fund or proceeds from the sale of Escrow Securities to be used directly or indirectly to acquire any securities or obligations if the exercise of such power or the acquisition of such securities or obligations would cause any Refunding Bonds or Refunded Obligations to be an "arbitrage bond" within the meaning of Section 148 of the Code. ARTICLE V APPLICATION OF CASH BALANCES Section 5.01 In General. Except as provided in Sections 5.02 and 5.03 hereof, neither the Issuer nor the Escrow Agent shall reinvest any moneys deposited to or held as part of the Escrow Fund. Section 5.02 Reinvestment in SLGS. Cash balances in the Escrow Fund shall be reinvested as set forth on Exhibit E attached hereto. Section 5.03 Reinvestment of Cash Balances. At the written request of the Issuer, and upon compliance with the conditions hereinafter stated, the Escrow Agent shall permit or cause the reinvestment of cash balances in the Escrow Fund, pending the use thereof to pay when due the principal of and interest on the Refunded Obligations, in Escrow Securities which obligations must mature on or before the respective dates needed for payment of the Refunded Obligations. Any such modification must include (a) an opinion of nationally recognized bond counsel or tax counsel that such transaction (i) does not adversely affect the tax-exempt nature of the Refunding Bonds or the Refunded Obligations and (ii) complies with the Constitution and laws of the State 6 HOU:3537350.1 of Texas and (b) a verification report by a firm of independent certified public accountants verifying the sufficiency of the Escrow Fund and the yield on the investment thereof. ARTICLE VI RECORDS, REPORTS AND NOTICES Section 6.01 Records. The Escrow Agent will keep books of record and account in which complete and correct entries shall be made of all transactions relating to the receipts, disbursements, allocations and application of the money and Escrow Securities deposited to the Escrow Fund and all proceeds thereof, and such books shall be available for inspection at reasonable hours and under reasonable conditions by the Issuer and the owners of the Refunded Obligations. Section 6.02 Reports. While this Agreement remains in effect, the Escrow Agent at least annually shall prepare and send to the Issuer a written report summarizing all transactions relating to the Escrow Fund during the preceding year, including, without limitation, credits to the Escrow Fund as a result of interest payments on or maturities of the Escrow Securities and transfers from the Escrow Fund for payments on the Refunded Obligations or otherwise, together with a detailed statement of all Escrow Securities and the cash balance on deposit in the Escrow Fund as of the end of such period. ARTICLE VII CONCERNING THE PAYING AGENTS AND ESCROW AGENT Section 7.01 Representations. The Escrow Agent hereby represents that it has all necessary power and authority to enter into this Agreement and undertake the obligations and responsibilities imposed upon it herein, and that it will carry out all of its obligations hereunder. Section 7.02 Limitation on Liability. The liability of the Escrow Agent to transfer funds for the payment of the principal of and interest on the Refunded Obligations shall be limited to the proceeds of the Escrow Securities and the cash balances from time to time on deposit in the Escrow Fund. Notwithstanding any provision contained herein to the contrary, neither the Escrow Agent nor any place of payment for the Refunded Obligations shall have any liability whatsoever for the insufficiency of funds from time to time in the Escrow Fund or any failure of the obligors of the Escrow Securities to make timely payment thereon, except for the obligation to notify the Issuer promptly of any such occurrence. The recitals herein and in the proceedings authorizing the Refunding Bonds shall be taken as the statements of the Issuer and shall not be considered as made by, or imposing any obligation or liability upon, the Escrow Agent. The Escrow Agent is not a party to the proceedings authorizing the Refunding Bonds or the Refunded Obligations and is not responsible for nor bound by any of the provisions thereof (except as a place of payment or a paying agent/registrar therefor). In its capacity as Escrow Agent, it is agreed that the Escrow Agent need look only to the terms and provisions of this Agreement. 7 HOU:3537350.1 The Escrow Agent makes no representations as to the value, conditions or sufficiency of the Escrow Fund, or any part thereof, or as to the title of the Issuer thereto, or as to the security afforded thereby or hereby, and the Escrow Agent shall not incur any liability or responsibility in respect to any of such matters. It is the intention of the parties hereto that the Escrow Agent shall never be required to use or advance its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or the exercise of any of its rights and powers hereunder. The Escrow Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or neglected to be taken by it in good faith in any exercise of reasonable care and believed by it to be within the discretion or power conferred upon it by this Agreement, nor shall the Escrow Agent be responsible for the consequences of any error of judgment; and the Escrow Agent shall not be answerable for any loss unless the same shall have been through its negligence or want of good faith. The Escrow Agent may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, written investment direction, statement, instrument, opinion, notice or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party. The Escrow Agent need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document. The Escrow Agent may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through its agents or attorneys and may in all cases pay reasonable compensation to any agent or attorney retained or employed by it in connection therewith. Unless it is specifically otherwise provided herein, the Escrow Agent has no duty to determine or inquire into the happening or occurrence of any event or contingency or the performance or failure of performance of the Issuer with respect to arrangements or contracts with others, with the Escrow Agent's sole duty hereunder being to safeguard the Escrow Fund, to dispose of and deliver the same in accordance with this Agreement. If, however, the Escrow Agent is called upon by the terms of this Agreement to determine the occurrence of any event or contingency, the Escrow Agent shall be obligated, in making such determination, only to exercise reasonable care and diligence, and in event of error in making such determination the Escrow Agent shall be liable only for its own misconduct or its negligence. In determining the occurrence of any such event or contingency the Escrow Agent may request from the Issuer or any other person such reasonable additional evidence as the Escrow Agent in its discretion may deem necessary to determine any fact relating to the occurrence of such event or contingency, and in this connection may make inquiries of, and consult with counsel, among others, the Issuer at any time. Section 7.03 Compensation. (a) Concurrently with the sale and delivery of the Refunding Bonds, the Issuer shall pay to the Escrow Agent the sum of $750, the sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged by the Escrow Agent to pay its fee for performing the services of Escrow Agent hereunder and for all expenses incurred or to be incurred by it as Escrow Agent in the administration of this Agreement. In the event that the Escrow Agent is requested to perform any extraordinary services hereunder, the Issuer hereby agrees to pay reasonable fees to the E HOU:3537350.1 Escrow Agent for such extraordinary services and to reimburse the Escrow Agent for all expenses incurred by the Escrow Agent in performing such extraordinary services, and the Escrow Agent hereby agrees to look only to the Issuer for the payment of such fees and reimbursement of such expenses. The Escrow Agent hereby agrees that in no event shall it ever assert any claim or lien against the Escrow Fund for any fees for its services, whether regular or extraordinary, as Escrow Agent, or in any other capacity, or for reimbursement for any of its expenses. (b) Concurrently with the sale and delivery of the Refunding Bonds, the Issuer shall pay to the Escrow Agent the sum of $300 per call notice, the sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged by the Escrow Agent, for all future reasonable fees and expenses for paying agency services relating to the Refunded Obligations for which it serves as the paying agent. The Escrow Agent shall be obligated to make available for the Refunded Obligations amounts from the Escrow Fund sufficient to pay when due the principal of and interest on any Refunded Obligations presented for payment. The Escrow Agent hereby agrees that in no event shall it ever assert any claim or lien against the Escrow Fund for any fees for its services, whether regular or extraordinary, as paying agent for any of the Refunded Obligations or for reimbursement for any of its expenses. (c) Upon receipt of the aforesaid specific sums stated in subsections (a) and (b) of this Section, the Escrow Agent shall acknowledge such receipt to the Issuer in writing. Section 7.04 Successor Escrow Agents. (a) If at any time the Escrow Agent or its legal successor or successors should become unable, through operation of law or otherwise, to act as Escrow Agent hereunder, or if its property and affairs shall be taken under the control of any state or federal court or administrative body because of insolvency or bankruptcy or for any other reason, a vacancy shall forthwith exist in the office of Escrow Agent hereunder. In such event the Issuer, by appropriate action, promptly shall appoint an Escrow Agent to fill such vacancy. If no successor Escrow Agent shall have been appointed by the Issuer within 60 days, a successor may be appointed by the owners of a majority in principal amount of the Refunded Obligations then outstanding by an instrument or instruments in writing filed with the Issuer, signed by such owners or by their duly authorized attorneys -in -fact. If, in a proper case, no appointment of a successor Escrow Agent shall be made pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this section within three months after a vacancy shall have occurred, the owner of any Refunded Bond may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction to appoint a successor Escrow Agent. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper, prescribe and appoint a successor Escrow Agent. (b) The Escrow Agent may at any time resign and be discharged from the trust hereby created by giving not less than 60 days' written notice to the Issuer; provided, that, no such resignation shall take effect unless: (i) a successor Escrow Agent shall have been appointed by the Issuer as herein provided; (ii) such successor Escrow Agent shall have accepted such appointment; (iii) the successor Escrow Agent shall have agreed to accept the fees currently in effect for the Escrow; and (iv) the Escrow Agent shall have paid over to the successor Escrow Agent a proportional part of the Escrow Agent's fee hereunder. Such resignation shall take effect immediately upon compliance with the foregoing requirements. 9 HOU:3537350.1 (c) Any successor Escrow Agent shall be: (i) a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States or the State of Texas; (ii) authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers; (iii) have a combined capital and surplus of at least $5,000,000; (iv) subject to the supervision or examination by Federal or State authority and (v) qualified to serve as Escrow Agent under the provisions of Chapter 1207, Texas Government Code, as amended. (d) Any successor Escrow Agent shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Issuer and the Escrow Agent an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and the Escrow Agent shall execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Escrow Agent, subject to the terms of this Agreement, all the rights, powers and trusts of the Escrow Agent hereunder. Upon the request of any such successor Escrow Agent, the Issuer shall execute any and all instruments in writing for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Escrow Agent all such rights, powers and duties. The Escrow Agent shall pay over to its successor Escrow Agent a proportional part of the Escrow Agent's fee hereunder. ARTICLE VIII MISCELLANEOUS Section 8.01 Notice. Except as provided in Sections 3.01 and 8.08 hereof, which require actual receipt of notice or consent, as the case may be, any notice, authorization, request, or demand required or permitted to be given hereunder, shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given when mailed by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, addressed as follows: To the Escrow Agent: The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. 2001 Bryan Street, 11 th Floor Dallas, Texas 75201 To the Issuer: City of Lubbock, Texas 1625 13th Street Lubbock, Texas 79457 Attention: Executive Director of Finance To the Rating Agencies: Moody's Investors Service, Inc. 2200 Ross Avenue Suite 4650 West Dallas, Texas 75201 Attention: Public Finance Department Standard & Poor's Rating Group 25 Broadway New York, New York 10004 E HOU:3537350.1 Fitch Investors Service, L.P. 4514 Cole Avenue, Suite 600 Dallas, Texas 75205 The United States Post Office registered or certified mail receipt showing delivery of the aforesaid shall be conclusive evidence of the date and fact of delivery. Either party hereto may provide an electronic address to which notices are to be delivered in lieu of the physical address provided above or change the physical address to which notices are to be delivered by giving to the other party not less than ten (10) days prior notice thereof. Section 8.02 Termination of Responsibilities. Upon the taking of all the actions as described herein by the Escrow Agent, the Escrow Agent shall have no further obligations or responsibilities hereunder to the Issuer, the owners of the Refunded Obligations or to any other person or persons in connection with this Agreement. Section 8.03 Binding Agreement. This Agreement shall be binding upon the Issuer and the Escrow Agent and their respective successors and legal representatives, and shall inure solely to the benefit of the owners of the Refunded Obligations, the Issuer, the Escrow Agent and their respective successors and legal representatives. Section 8.04 Severability. In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Agreement shall for any reason be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect. such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provisions of this Agreement, but this Agreement shall be construed as if such invalid or illegal or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein. In the event any one or more provisions hereof are held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable the Issuer shall promptly notify each of the rating agencies then maintaining a rating on the Refunded Obligations. Section 8.05 Texas Law Governs. This Agreement shall be governed exclusively by the provisions hereof and by the applicable laws of the State of Texas. Section 8.06 Time of the Essence. Time shall be of the essence in the performance of obligations from time to time imposed upon the Escrow Agent by this Agreement. Section 8.07 Effective Date of Agreement. This Agreement shall be effective upon receipt by the Escrow Agent of the funds described in Exhibit C and the Escrow Securities, together with the specific sums stated in subsections (a) and (b) of Section 7.03 for Escrow Agent and paying agency fees, expenses, and services. Section 8.08 Modification of Agreement. This Agreement shall be binding upon the Issuer and the Escrow Agent and their respective successors and legal representatives and shall inure solely to the benefit of the owners of the Refunded Obligations, the Issuer, the Escrow Agent and their respective successors and legal representatives. Furthermore, no alteration, amendment or modification of any provision of this Agreement (a) shall alter the firm financial arrangements made for the payment of the Refunded Obligations or (b) shall be effective unless (i) prior written consent of such alteration, amendment or modification shall have been obtained from the owners of all Refunded Obligations outstanding at the time of such alteration, 11 HOU:3537350.1 amendment or modification and (ii) such alteration, amendment or modification is in writing and signed by the parties hereto; provided, however, the Issuer and the Escrow Agent may, without the consent of owners of the Refunded Obligations, amend or modify the terms and provisions of this Agreement to cure in a manner not adverse to the owners of the Refunded Obligations any ambiguity, formal defect or omission in this Agreement. Prior notice of any such modification shall be given to each rating agency then maintaining a rating on the Refunded Obligations. ARTICLE IX ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RECEIPT OF NOTICE Section 9.01 Acknowledgment of Receipt of Notice of Defeasance and Redemption. The Escrow Agent, by its execution hereof, as paying agent/registrar for the Refunded Obligations set forth on Exhibit A, acknowledges receipt of the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the Refunding Bonds constituting written notice of defeasance and redemption of the Refunded Obligations, and agrees to provide or cause to be provided to the owners thereof notice of defeasance and redemption of such Refunded Obligations as required by the respective ordinances that authorized the issuance of such Refunded Obligations. [Execution Page Follows] 12 HOU:3537350.1 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Escrow Agreement has been executed in multiple counterparts, each one of which shall constitute one and the same original Agreement, as of the date and year appearing on the first page of this Agreement. CITY LUBBOCK, TEXAS Z!>s _ —«r Z City ATTEST: City Lecretary Signature Page for Escro-w� Agreement HOU.3537449.1 THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. By:_ Title: Signature Page for Escrow Agreement HOU:3537350.1 INDEX TO EXHIBITS Exhibit A Description of the Refunded Obligations Exhibit B Schedule of Debt Service on Refunded Obligations Exhibit C Description of Beginning Cash Balance and Escrow Securities Exhibit D Escrow Fund Cash Flow Exhibit E Reinvestments in Zero Interest Rate SLGS HOU:3537350.1 Ma6.11:31wil DESCRIPTION OF THE REFUNDED OBLIGATIONS A-1 HOU:3537350.1 GENERAL CERTIFICATE We, the undersigned, Mayor, City Manager and City Secretary, respectively, of the City of Lubbock, Texas (the "City"), do hereby certify the following information: 1. This certificate relates to the City of Lubbock, Texas, General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Taxable Series 2015 (the "Bonds"). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meaning assigned thereto in the ordinances (the "Ordinance") of the City Council authorizing the issuance of the Bonds. 2. The total tax supported debt of the City, after giving effect to the issuance of the proposed Bonds, is $ 3. The assessed value of property for the purpose of taxation in the City of Lubbock, Texas, as shown by its official tax rolls for the year 2014, being its latest approved official assessment rolls is $14,183,510,930, which amount is net of the amount of any exemptions to which property otherwise subject to taxation was entitled pursuant to applicable provisions of the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas. 4. A true and correct copy of the debt service schedule for the Bonds and all other outstanding indebtedness of the City payable from ad valorem taxes is set forth in the table entitled "Table 9 -General Obligation Debt Service Requirements" included in "APPENDIX A - Financial Information Regarding the City" to the City's Official Statement pertaining to the Bonds (the "Official Statement"), such debt service schedule being incorporated herein by reference for all purposes. 5. The City of Lubbock, Texas, is a duly incorporated Home Rule City, with a population greater than 50,000, and is operating and existing under the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas and the duly adopted Home Rule Charter of the City. The Home Rule Charter was last amended at an election held in the City on November 2, 2004. 6. The following are duly qualified and acting, elected or appointed officials of the City of Lubbock, Texas: Glen C. Robertson, Mayor Victor Hernandez ) Karen Gibson, Mayor Pro Tem Floyd Price ) Members of Jeff Griffith ) the Council Jim Gerlt ) Latrelle Joy ) James Loomis, City Manager Pamela Moon, Executive Director of Finance Rebecca Garza, City Secretary 7. No litigation of any nature has been filed or is now pending to restrain or enjoin the issuance or delivery of the Bonds or which would affect the provisions made for their payment or security, or in any manner questioning the proceedings or authority concerning the issuance of the Bonds, and so far as we know and believe, no such litigation is threatened. 1 IOU:3537455.1 8. The City's Executive Director of Finance has assumed the duties of Chief Financial Officer. 9. Neither the corporate existence nor the boundaries of the City, nor the title of its present officers to their respective offices is being contested, and so far as we know and believe, no litigation is threatened regarding such matters, and no authority or proceedings for the issuance of the Bonds have been repealed, revoked or rescinded. 10. There has not been filed or presented to the City Secretary or the City Council any petition protesting, challenging or otherwise questioning the issuance of the Bonds. 11. The Ordinance was duly adopted by the City Council on March 26, 2015. 12. None of the Refunded Obligations were ever purchased by or held in the interest and sinking fund created for their payment and redemption; none of the Refunded Obligations are now held in or owned by the sinking fund created for the purpose of paying off or redeeming any of the Refunded Obligations; none of the Refunded Obligations will be taken up and paid for with money in said sinking fund; and, there is no money in the sinking fund with which to pay principal of any of the Refunded Obligations. 13. The principal and interest payments due on the Bonds on August 15, 2015, will be paid from funds of the City that have been appropriated for such purpose and are lawfully available to pay such principal and interest payments. 14. The City is not in default in the payment of principal and interest on its debt obligations. 15. The descriptions and statements of or pertaining to the City contained in its Official Statement, and any addenda, supplement or amendment with respect to such descriptions or statements thereto, on the date of such Official Statement, on the date of sale of the Bonds and on the date of the delivery, were and are true and correct in all material respects. 16. Insofar as the City and its affairs, including its financial affairs, are concerned, such Official Statement did not and does not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. 17. Insofar as the descriptions and statements, including financial data of or pertaining to entities other than the City and their activities contained in such Official Statement are concerned, such statements and data have been obtained from sources which the City believes to be reliable and the City has no reason to believe that they are untrue in any material respect. 18. There has been no material adverse change in the financial condition and affairs of the City since the date of the Official Statement. 19. The undersigned Mayor and City Secretary officially executed and signed the Bonds, including the Initial Bonds delivered to the initial purchasers of the Bonds, by manually -2- HOU:3537455.1 executing the Bonds or by causing facsimiles of our manual signatures to be imprinted or copied on each of the Bonds, and we hereby adopt said manual or facsimile signatures as our own, respectively, and declare that said facsimile signatures constitute our signatures the same as if we had manually signed each of the Bonds. 20. The Bonds, including the Initial Bonds delivered to the initial purchasers of the Bonds, are substantially in the form, and have been duly executed and signed in the manner, prescribed in the Ordinance. 21. At the time the undersigned Mayor and City Secretary so executed and signed the Bonds we were, and at the time of executing this certificate we are, the duly chosen, qualified, and acting officers indicated therein, and authorized to execute the same. 22. We have caused the official seal of the City to be impressed, or printed, or copied on each of the Bonds; and said seal on the Bonds has been duly adopted as, and is hereby declared to be, the official seal of the City. [EXECUTION PAGES FOLLOW] -3- I IOU:3537455.1 EXECUTED AND DELIVERED this MANUAL SIGNATURE OFFICIAL TITLE of Mayor, City of Lubbock Texas Y STATE OF TEXAS § COUNTY OF LUBBOCK § Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared Glen C. Robertson, Mayor, of the City of Lubbock, Texas, known to me to be such person who signed the above and foregoing certificate in my presence and acknowledged to me that such person executed the above and foregoing certificate for the purposes therein stated. GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE THIS fciay aFP2415. CELIA WEBS Notary pubkc, Slate of Texas MyComm �iresWi-2018 Notary Public, In and for the State of Texas [SEAL] Signature Page far General Certifrcate HOU 3537455.1 EXECUTED AND DELIVERED this MANUAL SIGNATURE STATE OF TEXAS § COUNTY OF LUBBOCK OFFICIAL TITLE City Manager, City of Lubbock, Texas Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared James Loomis, City Manager, of the City of Lubbock, Texas, known to me to be such person who signed the above and foregoing certificate in my presence and acknowledged to me that such person executed the above and foregoing certificate for the purposes therein stated. GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE THIS~Re4^ go ECELIA WEBB Notary Public, State of Texas My Commission E)#res 03.01.2018 [SEAL] a4�� Notary Public, In and for the State of Texas Signature Page for General Certificate HOU.3537455. l EXECUTED AND DELIVERED this -4000 MANUAL SIGNATURE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF LUBBOCK OFFICIAL TITLE City Secretary, Ci ubbock, Texas Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared Rebecca Garza, City Secretary, of the City of Lubbock, Texas, known to me to be such person who signed the above and foregoing certificate in my presence and acknowledged to me that such person executed the above and foregoing certificate for the purposes therein stated. GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE THIS J" ) A51. Notary Public, ,"oo�pER C�Ftii•,''.. In and for the State of Texas PW ofro a►a3�o1►�N� Signature Page for General Certificate HOU-3537455 Exhibit A ISI HOU:3537455.1 CERTIFICATE PURSUANT TO PURCHASE CONTRACT I, the undersigned official of the City of Lubbock, Texas (the "City"), acting in my official capacity, in connection with the issuance and delivery by the City of Lubbock, Texas, of its General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Taxable Series 2015 (the "Bonds"), hereby certify that: 1. This certificate is delivered pursuant to the Purchase Contract relating to the Bonds, dated , 2015 (the "Purchase Contract"), between the City and George K. Baum and Raymond James and Associates, Inc. (collectively, the "Underwriters"). Capitalized words used herein as defined terms and not otherwise defined herein have the respective meanings assigned to them in the Purchase Contract. 2. The representations and warranties of the City contained in the Purchase Contract are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date hereof as though made on and as of the date hereof. 3. Except to the extent disclosed in the Official Statement, no litigation is pending or, to my knowledge, threatened in any court to restrain or enjoin the issuance or delivery of the Bonds, or collection or application of the ad valorem taxes to pay the principal of and interest on the Bonds, or the pledge thereof, or in any way contesting or affecting the validity of the Bonds or the City Documents, or contesting the powers of the City or the authorization of the Bonds or the City Documents, or contesting in any way the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the Official Statement. 4. To the best of my knowledge, no event affecting the City has occurred since the date of the Official Statement that should be disclosed in the Official Statement for the purpose for which it is to be used or that it is necessary to disclose therein in order to make the statements and information therein not misleading in any material respect. 5. There has not been any material and adverse change in the affairs or financial condition of the City since September 30, 2014, the latest date as to which audited financial information is available. [Execution Page Follows.] I-IOU:3537464.1 DATF HOU-3537464 l City Lubbock, Texas M Signature Page for Certificate Pursuant to Purchase Contract