NOTICE OF INTENTION TO ISSUE

TAX AND WATERWORKS AND SEWER SYSTEM

SURPLUS REVENUE CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION

          NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Strawn, Texas, will convene in the Council Chambers of the Strawn City Hall, 118 East Housley Street, Strawn, Texas at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, August 8, 2022, and, during such meeting, the City Council will consider passage of an ordinance and take such other actions as may be deemed necessary to authorize the issuance of tax and waterworks and sewer system surplus revenue certificates of obligation in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $773,000 for the purpose of paying contractual obligations of the City to be incurred for (1) the planning, design and construction of certain improvements to the City’s water system, such improvements being identified as Texas Water Development Board Project No. 62926; and (2) the payment of professional services and costs of issuance related thereto.  The certificates of obligation will be payable from the levy of an annual ad valorem tax, within the limitations prescribed by law, upon all taxable property within the City and a pledge of the surplus revenues of the City’s Waterworks and Sewer System.  The certificates of obligation are to be issued, and this notice is given, under and pursuant to the provisions of the Certificate of Obligation Act of 1971, as amended, Local Government Code, Section 271.041, et seq.

As further required by Local Government Code Section 271.049(b)(4), the following additional information is provided:

• The current principal of all outstanding debt obligations of the City is $870,000. This amount consists of $417,000 in principal of General Obligation Bonds and $453,000 in principal of Revenue Bonds.
• The current combined principal and interest required to pay all outstanding debt obligations of the City on time and in full is $1,229,634. This amount consists of $521,930 in principal and interest for the City’s General Obligations Bonds and $707,704 in principal and interest for the City’s Revenue Bonds.
• The maximum principal amount of the certificates to be authorized is $773,000.
• The estimated combined principal and interest required to pay the certificates to be authorized on time and in full is approximately $773,000.
• The estimated interest rate for the certificates to be authorized is 0%.
• The maximum maturity date of the certificates to be authorized is September 1, 2055.

Pursuant to Texas Local Government Code Section 271.049(c), an election on the question of the issuance of the certificates will be called if before the time tentatively set for the authorization and issuance or if before the authorization of the certificates, the City Secretary receives a petition signed by at least five percent of the qualified voters of the City protesting the issuance of the certificates, the City may not issue the certificates unless the issuance is approved at an election ordered, held and conducted in the manner provided for bond elections under Chapter 1251, Government Code. 

                                                                                    /s/ Omer Mallory                                   

Mayor, City of Strawn, Texas