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V.3. Resolution Giving Host Approval to the Issuance by the City of St. Bonifacius, Minnesota of its Healthcare Revenue Bonds (Augustana Chapel View Homes, Inc. Project) CITY OF HOPKINS City Council Report 2025-068 To: Honorable Mayor and Council Members Mike Mornson, City Manager From: Nick Bishop, Finance Director Date: April 15, 2025 Subject: Public Hearing Regarding a Health Care Facility and Consenting to the Issuance of Revenue Obligations by the City of St. Bonifacius for the Benefit of Augustana Chapel View Homes _____________________________________________________________________ RECOMMENDED ACTION MOTION TO adopt Resolution 2025-030 Giving Host Approval to the Issuance by the City of St. Bonifacius, Minnesota of its Healthcare Revenue Bonds (Augustana Chapel View Homes, Inc. Project), Series 2025 Under Minnesota Statutes, Sections 469.152 through 469.165 OVERVIEW Augustana Chapel View Homes intends to issue approximately $35 million of healthcare revenue bonds through the City of St. Bonifacius. The bonds will be used to acquire, construct and equip an 88-bed/84-unit skilled nursing facility to be located at 412 5th Avenue North, Hopkins, MN 55343. The project will be owned and operated by Augustana Chapel View Homes, LLC. The bonds will be issued through the City of St. Bonifacius. The bonds will not be a general obligation of the City of Hopkins and will not be secured by or payable from any assets or taxing authority of the City of Hopkins. The redevelopment project was previously approved by City Council in the fall of 2023. An overview of the approval process can be found here: https://www.hopkinsmn.com/1155/Cassia-Chapel-View-Care-Center SUPPORTING INFORMATION • Resolution 2025-030 Finance Department 172086134v2 Extract of Minutes of a Meeting of the City Council of the City of Hopkins, Minnesota Pursuant to due call and notice thereof, a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Hopkins, Minnesota, was duly held on Tuesday, April 15, 2025, commencing at 6:30 P.M. The following members were present: and the following were absent: Member ___________ introduced the following resolution and moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 2025-030 RESOLUTION GIVING HOST APPROVAL TO THE ISSUANCE BY THE CITY OF ST. BONIFACIUS, MINNESOTA OF ITS HEALTHCARE REVENUE BONDS (AUGUSTANA CHAPEL VIEW HOMES, INC. PROJECT), SERIES 2025 UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTIONS 469.152 THROUGH 469.165 BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council (the “Council”) of the City of Hopkins, Minnesota (the “City”),as follows: Section 1. Statutory Authorizations. The purpose of Minnesota Statutes, Sections 469.152 through 469.165, as amended, (the “Act”), is, among other things, to promote the welfare of the State of Minnesota (the “State”) by the provision of necessary health care facilities, so that adequate health care services are available to residents of the state at reasonable cost. The Act authorizes municipalities to issue revenue obligations for the purpose of financing the cost of properties, real or personal, used or useful in connection with a revenue producing enterprise engaged in providing health care services, including hospitals, nursing homes, and related medical facilities and to enter into agreements necessary or convenient in the exercise of powers granted by the Act. Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Section 471.656, as amended, if the property is located outside of the corporate boundaries of the municipality issuing the obligations, that municipality may nevertheless issue obligations to finance the acquisition or improvement of the property if the property constitutes a single project and the governing body of the city in which the project is located consents by resolution to the issue of the obligations. Section 2. Description of the Project. (a) The City has received a proposal from Augustana Chapel View Homes, Inc., a Minnesota nonprofit corporation (the “Borrower”), the sole member of which is Augustana Care, a Minnesota nonprofit corporation and 501(c)(3) organization, the sole member of which is Cassia, a Minnesota nonprofit corporation and 501(c)(3) organization (“Cassia”), that the City consent to the issuance by the City of St. Bonifacius, Minnesota (the “Issuer”), of the Issuer’s 172086134v2 2 Healthcare Revenue Bonds (Augustana Chapel View Homes, Inc. Project), Series 2025 (the “Obligations”), pursuant to the Act, in an amount not to exceed $35,000,000, for the purpose of (i) financing the acquisition, construction, and equipping of an 88-bed/84-unit skilled nursing facility (the “Facility”), located at 412 5th Avenue North, in the City, (ii) funding any required reserve funds; (iii) funding any capitalized interest, and (iv) paying all or a portion of costs of issuance of the Obligations (the “Project”). The Project will be owned and operated by the Borrower. (b) The City has been advised that the Obligations, as and when issued, will not constitute a charge, lien, or encumbrance, legal or equitable, upon any property of the City or the Issuer, except the revenues to be derived from one or more loan agreements (the “Loan Agreement”) to be entered into between the Issuer and the Borrower. The Obligations will not give rise to a pecuniary liability of the City or the Issuer or be a charge against the general credit or taxing powers of the City or the Issuer, but are payable from sums to be paid by the Borrower pursuant to the Loan Agreement. Section 3. Recital of Representations Made by the Borrowers. (a) The Borrower has agreed to pay any and all costs incurred by the City in connection with the issuance of the Obligations, whether or not such issuance is carried to completion. (b) The Borrower has represented to the City that no public official of the City or the Issuer has either a direct or indirect financial interest in the Project nor will any public official either directly or indirectly benefit financially from the Project. Section 4. Public Hearing. (a) As required by the Act and Section 147(f) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), a Notice of Public Hearing was published in the City’s official newspaper and newspaper of general circulation, for a public hearing on the proposed issuance of the Obligations by the Issuer and the proposal to undertake and finance the Project. (b) As required by the Act and Section 147(f) of the Code, the City Council of the City has on this same date held a public hearing on the issuance of the Obligations by the Issuer and the proposal to undertake and finance the Project located within the jurisdictional limits of the City, at which all those appearing who desired to speak were heard and written comments were accepted. Section 5. Host Approval. The City Council hereby gives the host approval required under Section 147(f) of the Code and pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Section 471.656, Subdivision 2(2), the City Council hereby consents to the issuance of the Obligations by the Issuer. (The remainder of this page is intentionally left blank.) 172086134v2 3 Adopted by the City Council of the City of Hopkins, Minnesota, on April 15, 2025. _______________________________________ Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by member ______________, and after full discussion thereof and upon vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof: and the following voted against the same: whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted. 172086134v2 4 STATE OF MINNESOTA ) COUNTY OF HENNEPIN )SS CITY OF HOPKINS ) I, the undersigned, being the duly qualified and acting City Clerk of the City of Hopkins, Minnesota, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that I have compared the attached and foregoing extract of minutes with the original thereof on file in my office, and that the same is a full, true and complete transcript of the minutes of a meeting of the City Council of said City duly called and held on the date therein indicated, insofar as such minutes relate to giving host approval to the issuance of a revenue obligation for a project in the City. WITNESS my hand this ___ day of ____________, 2025. _______________________________ City Clerk