2022-05 Ordinance Providing for the Issuance of not to Exceed $26,100,000 General Obligation Bonds, to Finance Water and Sewer Infrastructure Improvements, to Robert Baird & Co. Incorporated

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STATE OF ILLINOIS ) ) SS COUNTY OF MACON ) CERTIFICATION OF ORDINANCE AND MINUTES I, the undersigned, do hereby certify that I am the duly qualified and acting City Clerk of the City of Decatur, Macon County, Illinois (the "City"), and as such official I am the keeper of the official journal of proceedings,books,records,minutes and files of the City and of the Council (the "Council")thereof. I do further certify that the foregoing constitutes a full,true and complete transcript of that portion of the minutes of the meeting of the Council held on the 22nd day of February, 2022, insofar as the same relates to the adoption of an ordinance,numbered k%-0-1-Z, entitled: AN ORDINANCE providing for the issuance of not to exceed $26,100,000 General Obligation Bonds, Series 2022, of the City of Decatur, Macon County, Illinois, to finance water and sewer infrastructure improvements,authorizing designated officials to sell said bonds by the execution of a notification of sale, providing for the levy and collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the principal and interest on said bonds and authorizing the sale of said bonds to Robert W. Baird&Co. Incorporated. a true, correct and complete copy of which said ordinance as adopted at said meeting appears in the foregoing transcript of the minutes of said meeting. I do further certify that the deliberations of the Council on the adoption of said ordinance were taken openly; that the vote on the adoption of said ordinance was taken openly; that said meeting was held at a specified time and place convenient to the public;that notice of said meeting was duly given to all of the news media requesting such notice; that an agenda for said meeting was posted at the location where said meeting was held and at the principal office of the Council at least 96 hours in advance of the holding of said meeting, that at least one copy of said agenda was continuously available for public review during the entire 96-hour period preceding said meeting, that said agenda contained a separate specific item concerning the proposed adoption of said ordinance,a true, correct and complete copy of said agenda as so posted being attached to this Certificate as Exhibit A, that said meeting was called and held in strict compliance with the provisions of the Open Meetings Act of the State of Illinois,as amended,and the Illinois Municipal Code, as amended, and that the Council has complied with all of the provisions of said Act and said Code and with all of the procedural rules of the Council in the adoption of said ordinance.