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Approval of Bonding Project - Resolution of support for the Economic Development Corporation of Oakland County's bonding project, EDC of Oakland County, applicant.
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Whereas, there exists in the County of Oakland the need for programs to alleviate and prevent conditions of unemployment, to assist and retain local industrial and commercial enterprises, and to encourage the location and expansion of such enterprises in order to strengthen and revitalize the County's economy and to provide needed services and facilities to the County, the City of Rochester Hills, and their residents; and
Whereas, the Economic Development Corporation Act, Act No. 338 of the Michigan Public Acts of 1974, as amended (the "Act"), provides a means for the encouragement and assistance of industrial and commercial enterprises in locating, purchasing, constructing, reconstructing, modernizing, improving, maintaining, repairing, furnishing, equipping and expanding in the City and the County; and
Whereas, the Economic Development Corporation of the County of Oakland (the "EDC") has commenced proceedings for the assistance, pursuant to the provisions of the Act and through the issuance of its limited obligation economic development revenue bonds, of the Exhibit Enterprises, Inc. Project (the "Project") which is located in this City; and
Whereas, the EDC has determined that the Project is reasonable and necessary to effectuate the purposes of the Act, that the Project Plan prepared in connection with the Project satisfies all of the requirements of Section 8 of the Act regarding project plans, that the persons who will be active in the management of the Project for at least one (1) year after the projected date of the County Board of Commissioners' approval of the Project Plan will have sufficient ability and experience to manage the Plan properly, that the proposed method of financing the Project is feasible, and the EDC has approved the Project Plan in the form attach...
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