File #: 4118    Version: 0 Name: selection of an underwriter related to the JaCo MO Special Obligation bonds
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 7/13/2009 In control: County Legislature
On agenda: 7/13/2009 Final action: 7/13/2009
Title: AN ORDINANCE authorizing the selection of an underwriter related to the Jackson County, Missouri Special Obligation bonds (Animal Shelter Project), Series 2009; and authorizing certain other actions in connection with the issuance of said bonds.
Sponsors: Dennis Waits
Indexes: ANIMAL SHELTER, SPECIAL OBLIGATION BONDS
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI


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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the selection of an underwriter related to the Jackson County, Missouri Special Obligation bonds (Animal Shelter Project), Series 2009; and authorizing certain other actions in connection with the issuance of said bonds.

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ORDINANCE #4118, July 13, 2009

INTRODUCED BY Dennis Waits, County Legislator

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WHEREAS, Jackson County, Missouri (the County), operates pursuant to a County Charter, and is a political subdivision of the State of Missouri, duly created, organized and existing under and by virtue of the Constitution and laws of the State of Missouri; and,

WHEREAS, the County desires to finance and refinance the costs of certain capital improvements to provide animal shelter service and facilities (the Project) in Jackson County, Missouri, and is authorized under the provisions of the Constitution of Missouri and its Charter to issue and sell special obligation bonds for the purpose of providing funds to finance and refinance the costs of certain capital improvements and to provide that the principal of and interest on such special obligations bonds shall be payable solely from the revenues derived from annual appropriations by the County Legislature; and,

WHEREAS, it is necessary and advisable and in the best interest of the County and of its inhabitants that special obligation bonds (the Series 2009 Bonds) be issued for such purpose; and,

WHEREAS, it is necessary and desirable in connection with the issuance of the Series 2009 Bonds that the County take certain other actions and approve the execution of certain other documents as herein provided; now therefore,

BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri as follows:
Section 1. The County is hereby authorized to issue and sell the Series 2009 Bonds for the purpose of providing funds to finance the Project. The County selects Oppenheimer & Co., LLC., as the underw...

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