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Public Notices Published Wednesday, August 4th, 2010CITY OF WINNSBORO SPECIAL CALLED MEETING JULY 13, 2010 6:00 PM CALL TO ORDER PRAYER PLEDGE The Board of Aldermen of the City of Winnsboro, Louisiana, met in a special called meeting on Tuesday, July 13, 2010, at 6:00 PM at Winnsboro City Hall, 3814 Front Street, Winnsboro, Louisiana, with Mayor Jackie R. Johnson presiding. Aldermen present: Richard Mahoney, John Dumas, Betty Johnson, Rex McCarthy Absent: Craig Gill RESOLUTION NO. 10-0701: WHEREAS, the City of Winnsboro has been afforded the opportunity to participate in the Disaster Recovery Community Development Block Grant (DR CDBG) Municipalities Infrastructure Program (MIP) administered by the Division of Administration; and, WHEREAS, the City of Winnsboro has held a public hearing to solicit responses from the citizens of Winnsboro in order to prepare the Hurricanes Gustav and Ike Disaster Recovery Community Development Block Grant (DR CDBG) Application; and WHEREAS, officials and representatives from the City of Winnsboro participated in the public hearing to compile the activity to be submitted for funding through the Disaster Recovery Community Development Block Grant (DR CDBG) Municipalities Infrastructure Program (MIP). WHEREAS, the City of Winnsboro officials and citizens discussed the drainage improvements as the project to be submitted for funding through the Disaster Recovery Community Development Block Grant (DR CDBG) Municipalities Infrastructure Program (MIP). THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City of Winnsboro does hereby adopt the Drainage Improvements Project to be submitted for funding through the Disaster Recovery Community Development Block Grant (DR CDBG) Municipalities Infrastructure Program (MIP). Passed and adopted by the City of Winnsboro, State of Louisiana, on this 13th day of July 2010, by the following votes: YEAS: Mahoney, Dumas, Johnson, McCarthy NAYS: None ABSENT: Gill I, Jackie Johnson, Mayor, do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of the RESOLUTION duly passed and adopted by the City of Winnsboro, State of Louisiana, on the 13th day of July 2010. RESOLUTION NO. 10-0702: WHEREAS, the City of Winnsboro has been afforded the opportunity to participate in the Disaster Recovery Community Development Block Grant (DR CDBG) Municipalities Infrastructure Program (MIP) administered by the Division of Administration; and, WHEREAS, it is necessary under the program regulations to authorize certain procurement actions for engineers and administrative consultants where Disaster Recovery CDBG funds are utilized for such professional services and individuals to perform certain designated functions by the State. WHEREAS, on June 21, 2010, the City Council unanimously adopted a resolution that included the selection criteria for administrative consultants and engineers; and WHEREAS, the Disaster Recovery Community Development Block Grant (DR CDBG) Municipalities Infrastructure Program (MIP) program regulations require that persons be appointed as the Disaster Recovery CDBG Municipalities Infrastructure Program Professional Services Selection Committee to review and rank Administrative Consulting Firms and Engineering Firms. NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the City of Winnsboro, as legal recipient of the Disaster Recovery CDBG Municipalities Infrastructure Program funds, does hereby appoint the following persons as the Disaster Recovery CDBG Program Professional Services Selection Committee to review and rank Administrative Consulting Firms and engineering firms in conformance with the following selection criteria: Jackie R. Johnson, Rex McCarthy and Richard Mahoney NOW, THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City of Winnsboro does hereby authorize the advertisement for professional services of consultants and engineering firms to assist the city with the application and implementation of the Disaster Recovery CDBG Municipalities Infrastructure Program. BE IT ALSO RESOLVED, that selection of those services be advertised one time in the official journal and that the selection be scheduled for August 12, 2010. Passed and adopted by the City of Winnsboro, State of Louisiana, on this 13th day of July 2010 by the following votes: YEAS: Mahoney, Dumas, Johnson, McCarthy NAYS: None ABSENT: Gill I, Jackie Johnson, Mayor, do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of the RESOLUTION duly passed and adopted by the City of Winnsboro, State of Louisiana, on the 13th day of July 2010. ADJOURNMENT: Motion by Dumas, second by Mahoney, and unanimously approved to adjourn. Roxy Fletcher Jackie R. Johnson City Clerk Mayor 8/4 1tb mmm CITY OF WINNSBORO ORDINANCE NO. 939 An Ordinance providing for the incurring of debt and issuance of One Hundred Ninety Thousand Dollars ($190,000) of Certificates of Indebtedness, Series 2010, of the City of Winnsboro, Parish of Franklin, State of Louisiana, prescribing the form, terms and conditions of said Certificates, designating the date, denomination and place of payment of said Certificates, providing for the payment thereof in principal and interest; and providing for other matters in connection therewith. WHEREAS, the General Fund Budget for the City of Winnsboro, Parish of Franklin, State of Louisiana (the “Issuer”), for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2010, shows surplus moneys sufficient to meet the maximum principal and interest requirements in any future year on the Certificates of Indebtedness authorized herein, and the Mayor and Board of Aldermen (the “Governing Authority”), acting as the Governing Authority of the Issuer, will herein obligate the Governing Authority of the Issuer, and its successors in office to budget and set aside annually adequate funds for the payment of the Certificates in principal and interest in future years; and WHEREAS, the USDA-RD has provided a letter of conditions to finance the costs of a community center and related public improvements (the “Project”); and WHEREAS, Sections 2921 to 2925, inclusive, of Title 33 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended (R.S. 33:2921, et seq), authorize the Issuer to issue Certificates of Indebtedness covering the costs of the Project, which Certificates are payable from the excess of annual revenues of subsequent years above the statutory, necessary and usual charges; and WHEREAS, pursuant to and in accordance with the foregoing, the Issuer now desires to incur debt and issue of One Hundred Ninety Thousand Dollars ($190,000) of its Certificates of Indebtedness, Series 2010, in the manner authorized and provided by the aforesaid Sections of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as hereinafter provided, for the purpose of (i) financing the cost of the Project; and (ii) paying costs of issuance of the Certificates, and WHEREAS, it is the desire of this Governing Authority to fix the details necessary with respect to the issuance of the Certificates and to provide for their authorization and issuance; and WHEREAS, it is the further desire of this Governing Authority to provide for the sale of the Certificates at the price and in the manner provided for herein. SECTION 1. Definitions. As used herein, the following terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires: “Certificate” means any certificate of indebtedness of the Issuer authorized to be issued by this Ordinance, whether initially delivered or issued in exchange for, upon transfer of, or in lieu of any certificate previously issued. “Certificate Register” has the meaning stated in Section 4. “Certificates” means the Issuer’s Certificates of Indebtedness, Series 2010, authorized by this Ordinance, in the total aggregate principal amount of One Hundred Ninety Thousand Dollars ($190,000). “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. “Executive Officers” mean, collectively, the Mayor and the Clerk of the Issuer. “Fiscal Year” means the one-year accounting period ending December 31 of each year, or such other or period as may be designated by the Governing Authority as the fiscal year of the Issuer. “Governing Authority” means the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the Issuer. “Government Securities” means direct obligations of, or obligations the principal of and interest on which are unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of America, which are non-callable prior to their maturity, may be United States Treasury obligations such as the State and Local Government Series and may be book-entry form. “Issuer” means the City of Winnsboro, Parish of Franklin, State of Louisiana. “Outstanding” when used with respect to Certificates means, as of the date of determination, all Certificates theretofore issued and delivered under this Ordinance, except: 1. Certificates theretofore canceled by the Issuer or delivered to the Issuer for cancellation. 2. Certificates for which payment or redemption sufficient funds have been theretofore deposited in trust for the owners of such Certificates, provided that if such Certificates are to be redeemed, irrevocable notice of such redemption has been duly given or provided for pursuant to this Ordinance or waived. 3. Certificates in exchange for or in lieu of which other Certificates have been registered and delivered pursuant to this Ordinance; 4. Certificates alleged to have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, which have been paid as provided in this Ordinance or by law; and 5. Certificates for the payment of the principal (or redemption price, if any) of and interest on which money or Government Securities of both are held in trust with the effect specified in this Ordinance. “Owner’ or “Owners” when used with respect to any Certificate means the Person in whose name such Certificate is registered in the Certificate Register. “Parity Certificates” have the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto. “Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof. “Purchaser” means the United Stated Department of Agriculture-Rural Development as the original purchasers of the Certificates. SECTION 2. Authorization of Certificates: Maturity. In compliance with the terms and provisions of Sections 2921 to 2925 of Title 33 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended (LSA-R.S. 33:2921-2925), and other constitutional and statutory authority, there is hereby authorized the incurring of an indebtedness of One Hundred Ninety Thousand Dollars ($190,000) for, on behalf of, and in the name of the Issuer, for the purpose of (i) financing the cost of the Project; and (ii) paying costs of issuance of the Certificates, and to represent said indebtedness, this Governing Authority does hereby authorize the issuance of One Hundred Ninety Thousand Dollars ($190,000) of Certificates of Indebtedness, Series 2010, of the Issuer. The Certificates shall be in fully registered form, shall be dated the date of delivery thereof, and shall be issued in the form of two Term Bonds, Numbered R-1 and R-2. The unpaid principal of the Certificates shall bear interest from the date thereof until paid. The principal of and interest on the Certificates shall be payable over a ten (10) year period commencing one month after the date of the Certificates, continuing monthly thereafter over the life of the Certificates, payments shall be equal in amount and consist of fully amortized payments of principal and interest. Each payment shall be applied, first, to the payment of accrued interest and, second, to the payment of principal, at the following rates of interest per annum: Bond No. Term Bond Due Amount Interest Rate R-1 July 20, 2020 $150,000 4.000% R-2 July 20, 2020 $ 40,000 4.000% The outstanding principal of the Certificates upon maturity or redemption, together with all accrued unpaid interest thereon, shall be payable at the principal office of the Issuer upon presentation and surrender thereof. Principal and interest payments on the Certificates shall be payable by check of the Issuer mailed by the Issuer to the Owner (determined as of the close of business on the Record Date) at the address shown on the Certificate Register. Each Certificate delivered under this Ordinance upon transfer of, in exchange for or in lieu of any other Certificate shall carry all the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Certificate, and each such Certificate shall bear interest (as herein set forth) so neither gain nor loss in interest shall result from such transfer, exchange or substitution. No Certificate shall be entitled to any right or benefit under this Ordinance, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such Certificate a certificate of registration, substantially in the form provided in this Ordinance, executed by the Issuer by manual signature. SECTION 3. Redemption Provisions. The Certificates may be called for redemption at any time prior to maturity without penalty. SECTION 4. Registration and Transfer. The Certificates may be transferred, registered and assigned only on the Certificate Register, and such registration shall be at the expense of the Issuer. A Certificate may be assigned by the execution of an assignment form on the Certificate or by other instruments of transfer and assignment acceptable to the Issuer. A new Certificate or Certificates will be delivered by the Issuer to the last assignee (the new Owner) in exchange for such transferred and assigned Certificates after receipt of the Certificates to be transferred in proper form. Such new Certificate or Certificates shall be in the denomination of $5,000 or any integral multiple thereof within a single maturity. SECTION 5. Form of Certificates. The Certificates and the endorsements to appear thereon shall be in substantially the form of Exhibit A attached hereto. SECTION 6. Execution of Certificates. The Certificates shall be signed by the Executive Officers for, on behalf of, and in the name of the Issuer, which signature may be either manual or facsimile. SECTION 7. Pledge and Dedication of Revenues. The Certificates shall be secured by and payable solely from a pledge and dedication of the excess of annual revenues of the Issuer above statutory, necessary and usual charges in each of the Fiscal Years during which the Certificates are outstanding. There is hereby irrevocably pledged and dedicated to the payment of the Certificates an amount of such excess of annual revenues sufficient to pay same in principal and interest as they respectively mature. Until, the Certificates shall have been paid in full in principal and interest, the Governing Authority does hereby obligate the Issuer, itself and its successors in office to budget annually a sum of money sufficient to pay the Certificates and the interest thereon as they respectively mature, including any principal and/or interest theretofore matured and then unpaid and to levy and collect other revenues within the limits prescribed by law, sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the Certificates. SECTION 8. Parity Certificates. The Issuer shall issue no other certificates or obligations of any kind or nature payable from or enjoying a lien on the excess of annual revenues having priority over or parity with the Certificates except that additional certificates may hereafter be issued on a parity with the Certificates under the following conditions: (1) The Certificates herein authorized or any part thereof, including the interest thereon, may be refunded, and the refunding certificates so issued shall enjoy complete equality of lien with the portion of the Certificates which is not refunded. If there be any and the refunding certificates shall continue to enjoy whatever priority of lien over subsequent issues may have been enjoyed by the Certificates refunded; provided, however, that if only a portion of the Certificate outstanding is so refunded and the refunding certificates require total principal and interest payments during any year in excess of the principal and interest which would have been required in such year to pay the Certificates refunded thereby, then such Certificates may not be refunded without the consent of the Owner of the unrefunded portion of the Certificates issued hereunder (provided such consent shall not be required if such refunding certificates meet the requirements set forth in clause 2 of this Section). (2) Additional certificates of Indebtedness may be issued on and enjoy a full and complete parity with the Certificates and the outstanding Parity Certificates with respect to the excess of annul revenues, provided that the anticipated excess of annual revenues in the year in which the additional certificates of indebtedness are to be issued, as reflected in the budget adopted by the Governing Authority, must be at least equal to the combined principal and interest requirements for any calendar year on the Certificates, the outstanding Parity Certificates and the said additional certificates of indebtedness. (3) Junior and subordinate certificates of indebtedness may be issued without restriction. (4) The Issuer must be in full compliance with all covenants and undertakings in connection with the Certificates and there must be no delinquencies in payments required to be made in connection therewith. (5) The additional certificate must be payable on the same terms as the Certificates. SECTION 9. Budget; Audit. As long as any of the Certificates are outstanding and unpaid in principal or interest, the Issuer shall prepare and adopt a budget prior to the beginning of each Fiscal Year and shall furnish a copy of such budget within thirty (30) days after its adoption to the Purchaser; the Issuer shall also furnish a copy of such budget to the Owners of any of the Certificates who request the same. Not later than three (3) months after the close of each Fiscal Year, the Issuer shall cause an audit of its books and accounts to be made by the Legislative Auditor or an independent firm of certified public accountants showing the receipts and disbursements made by the Issuer during the previous Fiscal Year. Such audit shall be available for inspection by the Owner of any of the Certificates, and a copy of such audit shall be furnished to the Purchaser. SECTION 10. Application of Proceeds. The Executive Officer is hereby empowered, authorized and directed to do any and all things necessary and incidental to carry out all of the provisions of this Ordinance, to cause the necessary Certificates to be printed, issued and executed, and to effect delivery thereof as hereinafter provided. The proceeds derived from the sale of the Certificates, except accrued interest, shall be deposited by the Issuer with its fiscal agent bank or banks to be used only for the purposes for which the Certificates are issued. Accrued interest, if any derived from the sale of the Certificates shall be deposited in the Sinking Fund to be applied to the first interest payment. SECTION 11. Ordinance a Contract. The provisions of the Ordinance shall constitute a contract between the Issuer, or its successor, and the Owner or Owners form time to time of the Certificates, and any such Owner or Owners may at law or in equity, by suit, action, mandamus or other proceedings, enforce and compel the performance of all duties required to be performed by the Governing Authority or the Issuer as a result of issuing the Certificates. No material modification or amendment of this Ordinance, or of any Ordinance amendatory hereof or supplemental hereto, may be made without the consent in writing of the Owners of two-thirds (2/3) of the aggregate principal amount of the Certificates then outstanding; provided, however, that no modification or amendment shall permit a change in the maturity or redemption provisions of the Certificates, or a reduction in the rate of interest thereon, or in the amount of the principal obligation thereof, or affecting the obligation of the Issuer to pay the principal of and the interest on the Certificates as the same shall come due from the revenues appropriated, pledged and dedicated to the payment thereof by this Ordinance or reduce the percentage of the Owners required to consent to any material modification or amendment of this Ordinance, without the consent of the Owners of the Certificates. SECTION 12. Severability; Application of Subsequently Enacted Laws. In case any one or more of the provisions of this Ordinance or of the Certificates is deemed by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal or invalid, this Ordinance and the Certificates shall be construed and enforced as if such illegal or invalid provisions had not been contained therein. Any constitutional or statutory provisions enacted after the date of this Ordinance which validate or make legal any provision of this Ordinance and/or the Certificates which would not otherwise be valid or legal, shall be deemed to apply to this Ordinance and to the Certificates. SECTION 13. Recital of Regularity. This Governing Authority having investigated the regularity of the proceedings had in connection with the Certificates and having determined the same to be regular, the Certificates shall contain the following recital, to-wit: “It is certified that this Certificate is authorized by and is issued in conformity with the requirements of the Constitution and statutes of the State of Louisiana.” SECTION 14. Effect of Registration. The Issuer, and any agent thereof may treat the Owner in whose name any Certificate is registered as the Owner of such Certificate for the purpose of receiving payment of the principal (and redemption price) of and interest on such Certificate and for all other purposes whatsoever, and to the extent permitted by law, the Issuer shall not be affected by notice to the contrary. SECTION 15. Notices to Owners. Wherever this Ordinance provides for notice to Owners of Certificates of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) in writing and mailed, first class postage prepaid, to each Owner of such Certificates, at the address of such Owner as it appears in the Certificate Register in any case where notice to Owners of Certificates is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice to any particular Owner of Certificates, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to all other Certificates. Where this Ordinance provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Owner or Owners entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Owners shall be filed with the Issuer, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver. SECTION 16. Cancellation of Certificates. All Certificates surrendered for payment, redemption, transfer, exchange or replacement, if surrendered to the Issuer, shall be promptly canceled by it. The Issuer may at any time cancel any Certificates previously registered and delivered which the Issuer may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Certificates so delivered shall be disposed of as directed in writing by the Issuer. SECTION 17. Mutilated, Destroyed Lost or Stolen Certificates. If (1) any mutilated Certificate is surrendered to the Issuer, or the Issuer received evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Certificate, and (2) there is delivered to the Issuer such security or indemnity as may be required to save it harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Issuer that such Certificate has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Issuer shall execute, register and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost, or stolen Certificate, a new Certificate of the same maturity and of like tenor, interest rate and principal amount, bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding. In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate has become or is about to become due and payable, the Issuer in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Certificate, pay such Certificate. Upon the issuance of any new Certificate under this Section, the Issuer may require the payment by the Owner of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses connected therewith. Every new Certificate issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen certificate shall constitute a replacement of the prior obligation of the Issuer, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate shall be at any time enforceable by anyone and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Ordinance equally and ratably with all other Outstanding Certificates. Any additional procedures set forth in the Agreement, authorized in this Ordinance, shall also be available with respect to mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificates. The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the replacement and payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificates. SECTION 18. Discharge of Ordinance; Defeasance. If the Issuer shall pay or cause to be paid, or there shall pay or cause to be paid, or there shall otherwise be paid to the Owner, the principal of and interest on the Certificates, at the times and in the manner stipulated in this Ordinance, then the pledge of the money, securities, and funds pledged under this Ordinance and all covenants, agreements, and other obligations of the Issuer to the Owner shall thereupon cease, terminate, and become void be discharged and satisfied. Certificates or interest installments for the payment of which money shall have been set aside and shall be held in trust (through deposit by the Issuer of funds for such payment or otherwise) at the maturity date thereof shall be deemed to have been paid within the meaning and with the effect expressed above in this Section if they are defeased in the manner provided by Chapter 14 of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended. SECTION 19. Disclosure Under SEC Rule 15c2-12. It is recognized that the Issuer will not be required to comply with the continuing disclosure requirements described in the Rule 15c2-12(b) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (17-CFR Section 240.15c212(b), because the Certificates are not being purchased by a broker, dealer or municipal securities dealer acting as an underwriter in a primary offering of municipal securities. SECTION 20. Arbitrage. The Issuer covenants and agrees that to the extent permitted by the laws of the State of Louisiana, it will comply with the requirements of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and any amendment thereto (the “Code”) in order to establish, maintain and preserve the exclusion from “gross income” of interest on the Certificates under the Code. The Issuer further covenants and agrees that it will not take any action or permit any action within its control to be taken, or permit at any time or times any of the proceeds of the Certificates or any other funds of the Issuer to be used directly or indirectly in any manner, the effect of which would be to cause the Certificates to be “arbitrage bonds” or would result in the inclusion of the interest on any of the Certificates in gross income under the Code, including, without limitation, (i) the failure to comply with the limitation on investment of Certificate proceeds or (ii) the failure to pay any required rebate or arbitrage earnings to the United States of America or (iii) the use of the proceeds of the Certificates in a manner which would cause the Certificates to be “private activity bonds”. The Executive Officer is hereby empowered (authorized and directed to take any and all action and to execute and deliver any instrument, document or certificate necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section. SECTION 21. Qualified Tax Exempt Obligations. The Certificates are designated as “qualified tax-exempt obligations” within the meaning of Section 265(b)(3) of the Code, in making this designation, the Issuer finds and determines that: (a) the Certificates are not “private activity bonds” within the meaning of the Code; and (b) the reasonably anticipated amount of qualified tax-exempt obligations which will be issued by the Issuer and all subordinated entities in calendar year 2010 does not exceed $10,000,000. SECTION 22. Publication; Recordation. A copy of this Ordinance shall be published immediately after its adoption in one issue of the official journal of the Issuer. SECTION 23. Declaration of Official Intent Under Regulation 1.150-2. Prior to the delivery of the Certificates, the Issuer anticipates that it may pay a portion of the costs of the project from the General Fund. Upon the issuance of the Certificates the Issuer reasonably expects to reimburse any such expenditures of other available funds from a portion of the proceeds of the Certificates. Any such allocation of proceeds of the Certificates for reimbursement will be with respect to capital expenditures (as defined in Reg. 1.150-(b) and will be made upon the delivery of the Certificates and not later than one year after the later of (i) the date such expenditure was paid or (ii) the date which the project was placed in service. This Section is intended to be a declaration of SECTION 24. Award of Certificates. The Issuer hereby accepts the offer to purchase the Certificates of the Purchaser attached as Exhibit “A” hereto. The Certificates shall be delivered to said Purchasers upon the payment of the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest from the date of the Certificates to the date of delivery thereof. SECTION 25. Headings. The headings of the various sections hereof are inserted for convenience of reference only and shall not control or affect the meaning of the provisions hereof. SECTION 26. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall become effective immediately. [SIGNATURES APPEAR ON FOLLOWING PAGE] The Ordinance having been submitted to a vote, the vote hereon was as follows: YEAS: Mahoney, Dumas, Johnson, Gill NAYS: None ABSENT: McCarthy THUS DONE, adopted and signed on this the 19th day of July, 2010. Jackie Johnson, Mayor Roxy Fletcher, Clerk 8/4 1tb mmm |
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