EXHIBIT 10.50
BOND PURCHASE LOAN AGREEMENT
This BOND PURCHASE LOAN AGREEMENT, dated as of October 1, 2014 (this “Agreement”), is by and between the DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF MURRAY COUNTY (the “Issuer”), a development authority and public body corporate and politic, created and existing under the laws of the State of Georgia (the “State”), and TDG OPERATIONS, LLC, a Georgia limited liability company, in its capacity as the lessee (the “Company”) of the Project, referred to herein, and its successors and assigns as such lessee, and in its capacity as the purchaser (the “Purchaser”) of the hereinafter-described revenue bond of the Issuer.
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, the Issuer is a public body corporate and politic and a development authority duly created pursuant to the Development Authorities Law of the State of Georgia, O.C.G.A. § 36‑62‑1, et seq. (the “Act”) and activated by resolution of the governing body of Murray County, Georgia (the “County”); and
WHEREAS, the Act provides that the Issuer is created to develop and promote trade, commerce, industry and employment opportunities for the public good and the general welfare within the County and is authorized by the Act to issue its revenue bonds to acquire “projects” (as defined in the Act) to be located in the County which shall be operated and used by private sector persons, firms or corporations in their trades and businesses; the Issuer’s revenue bonds are to be issued and validated under and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Revenue Bond Law of the State of Georgia (O.C.G.A. § 36-82-60, et seq.), as heretofore and hereafter amended, and other applicable provisions of law; and
WHEREAS, the Act further authorizes and empowers the Issuer: (i) to lease any such project at a rental which, together with other revenues which may be pledged for such purpose, shall be sufficient to pay debt service on such revenue bonds and to pay all other expenses which the Issuer may incur in connection with the undertaking, (ii) to pledge, mortgage, convey, assign, hypothecate or otherwise encumber such projects and the revenues therefrom as security for the Issuer’s revenue bonds; and (iii) to do any and all acts and things necessary or convenient to accomplish the purpose and powers of the Issuer; and
WHEREAS, the Issuer proposes to issue its revenue bond (the “Bond”) in a maximum principal amount of $12,500,000 (the “Maximum Principal Amount”), to be issued as a single Bond in the form of a draw-down instrument to be designated “Development Authority of Murray County Taxable Industrial Development Revenue Bond (TDG Operations, LLC Project), Series 2014,” which shall mature on October 1, 2023 (the “Maturity Date”) and shall bear interest at a rate per annum of six percent (6.00%), which interest shall be payable on October 1 of each year, commencing on October 1, 2015, with the final interest payment being due on the Maturity Date. The Bond is secured by that certain Assignment of Rents and Leases and Security Agreement dated as of October 1, 2014 (the “Security Document”), granted by the Issuer to the Purchaser. The Bond shall be in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A to the Bond Resolution (hereinafter defined), with such variations, omissions, substitutions, legends and insertions as may be approved by the official of the Issuer who executes such Bond and by the Purchaser; and
WHEREAS, the Bond is to be issued to acquire trade fixtures, machinery and equipment (the “Project”) to be installed and used at the Company’s existing facility in the County at 3620 Highway 411N, Eton, Georgia (the “Facility”), which Project is to be owned by the Issuer and leased to the Company for use in its carpet manufacturing business; and
WHEREAS, the property comprising the Project shall be conveyed to the Issuer by one or more bills of sale; and
WHEREAS, the Project shall be leased to the Company under a Lease Agreement dated as of October 1, 2014 (the “Lease”), under the terms of which the Company will pay Basic Rent payments and other payments at such times and in such amounts as will be required to pay debt service on the Bond as and when the same becomes due, subject to the terms and conditions of the Lease and the Bond Resolution permitting constructive payment of same; the Lease shall become effective upon the delivery thereof and its term is to end upon the final maturity of the Bond or, if sooner redeemed pursuant to the Bond Resolution or the Bond, the date of redemption; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the resolution adopted by the Issuer (the “Bond Resolution”) authorizing the issuance of the Bond and the execution of this Agreement and the other Issuer Documents (as defined in the Bond Resolution) relating to the Bond, including without limitation, the Security Document, the Issuer is pledging, as security for the payment of the Bond, the Pledged Security therefor, including, but not limited to, the Project acquired by the proceeds of the Bond, all of the Basic Rent payments and any termination payments to be received by the Issuer under the Lease, the Issuer’s interest in the Lease (except for certain Unassigned Rights), and the Net Proceeds of certain casualty insurance and eminent domain awards and other amounts to be held in the Project Fund and Sinking Fund created by the Bond Resolution for such Bond, and investment income and proceeds of the foregoing; and
WHEREAS, all capitalized terms used herein and which are not defined herein shall be defined as set forth in the Bond Resolution and in the Exhibits thereto; and
WHEREAS, the Purchaser desires to purchase the Bond and to advance funds or transfer items of property or other legal consideration to the Issuer hereunder, initially on the date of issuance of the Bond and thereafter from time to time until the Expiration Date (defined below).
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, the parties hereto agree as follows:
1.THE CREDIT FACILITY AND THE COMMITMENT AMOUNT: The Purchaser agrees to purchase the Bond and in connection therewith to provide to the Issuer a credit facility (the “Credit Facility”) of up to the Maximum Principal Amount of the Bond on the following terms and conditions.
2.ADVANCES: Advances under the Credit Facility may be made only with respect to costs of the Project and costs of issuance of the Bond. Such advances shall be made in cash or in property or both. An initial advance shall be made with respect to the Bond on the date the Bond is issued; all or some portion of such advance shall be made in cash to pay or to reimburse issuance costs relating to the Bond. Thereafter, from time to time to, and including, the Expiration Date (as hereinafter defined), the Issuer may make one or more requests for advances with respect to the Bond which shall, when aggregated with prior advances, not exceed the Maximum Principal Amount of the Bond. Costs incurred by the Purchaser for costs of the Project shall be deemed to have been advanced by the Purchaser to the Issuer hereunder with respect to the Bond and immediately disbursed by the Issuer to reimburse the Purchaser for such costs. Any amounts advanced in cash under the Credit Facility with respect to the Bond shall be used to pay or to reimburse the Issuer or the Company, as applicable, for Costs of the Project and transaction costs of issuing the Bond. For purposes of the foregoing and all other purposes related to the Bond, “Costs of the Project,” “Purchaser’s cost of such items,” and “cost to the Company,” as mentioned in the attached form of Certificate and Requisition for Payment, shall have the meaning set forth in the Bond Resolution with respect to
“Costs of the Project” and shall be determined based on the Purchaser’s or the Company’s actual cost.
Advances under the Credit Facility shall be made upon the written Request for Advance in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, executed by an authorized representative of the Company, as agent of the Issuer, which shall be delivered to the Purchaser at its notice address by mail, courier, hand delivery or fax; such Request for Advance shall be accompanied by a copy of one or more requisitions (in the form provided at the end of Exhibit A hereto), submitted by the Company, as agent of the Issuer, which are in an aggregate amount equal to the amount of the advance being requested. It shall not be necessary for the Company to attach to said Request for Advance or requisitions evidence of Costs of the Project with respect to which the requested advance is made, but the Purchaser, at the written request of the Issuer, shall make such information available to the Issuer.
Requests for Advances with respect to the Bond shall be promptly honored, provided that (i) the conditions precedent set forth in Section 7 below shall have been satisfied at the time of each advance, (ii) the gross amount requested in such Request for Advance, plus the aggregate gross amounts of all prior advances with respect to the Bond shall not exceed the Maximum Principal Amount of the Bond, and (iii) the Request for Advance is received on or before the Expiration Date. The Purchaser shall be entitled to rely upon any Request for Advance which the Purchaser reasonably believes in good faith to have been signed by the proper person. In addition, the Purchaser shall have no obligation to, but may if it so elects, fund any advance under the Credit Facility if an “Event of Default” (being an “Event of Default” as defined in the Bond Resolution or in any of the Issuer Documents or Company Documents) has occurred and is continuing on and as of such date.
3.COMMENCEMENT DATE: The commencement date of the Credit Facility shall be the date of issuance of the Bond (the date set forth above being merely for purposes of reference).
4.EXPIRATION DATE: The “Expiration Date” shall be the earliest of (i) the date the Maximum Principal Amount of the Bond has been advanced, (ii) the date the Bond is retired, (iii) the date the Company delivers a written notice to the Issuer and the Purchaser that it will make no further request for advances hereunder or (iv) December 31, 2018. The Purchaser shall not make any further advances to the Issuer under the Credit Facility with respect to Requests for Advances received after the Expiration Date.
5.UTILIZATION; THE BOND: All advances in cash or in other legal consideration under the Credit Facility shall be evidenced by the Bond, which shall be issued in the form of a draw-down instrument in substantially the form reviewed by the Purchaser and approved by the Bond Resolution, with such modifications, if any, as are acceptable to the Issuer and the Purchaser, the Issuer’s approval of such modifications, if any, to be conclusively presumed by the execution and delivery thereof, and the Purchaser’s acceptance of such modifications, if any, to be conclusively presumed by the Purchaser’s acceptance of the Bond. The Bond shall be registered in the name of the Purchaser.
6.ISSUANCE FEE: Upon issuance of the Bond, a one-time issuance fee of one-eighth (1/8) of one percent (1%) of the Maximum Principal Amount of the Bond is to be paid to the Issuer by the Company.
7.CONDITIONS PRECEDENT: The Purchaser’s obligation to fund the initial advance hereunder with respect to the Bond shall be subject to its receipt from the Issuer of the duly executed Bond, together with an approving Bond Counsel opinion of Seyfarth Shaw LLP, which shall be in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser.
8.INVESTMENT: By acceptance hereof, the Purchaser understands, represents and agrees that: (i) the obligations of the Issuer under the Bond and under the related Issuer Documents, are special and limited obligations payable solely from the Pledged Security for the Bond; (ii) the obligations of the Issuer under the Bond and under the Issuer Documents, and the obligations of the Company under the Company Documents and any other obligations that would constitute “separate securities” relating to the Bond (collectively, herein called the “securities”) have not been registered under the Federal Securities Act of 1933, the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, the Georgia Uniform Securities Act of 2008, or the securities laws, if applicable, of any other state, and applicable rules and regulations thereunder (collectively, the “Securities Acts”) and are unrated; (iii) no official statement or other offering document has been prepared in connection with the issuance of the Bond; (iv) the Purchaser shall have performed its own “due diligence” investigation as to the Issuer, the Project, the Company, and as to any of the sources of payment of debt service on the Bond and has not relied on any representations of the Issuer, its members, directors, officials, employees, agents or legal counsel as to any matters relating to the adequacy of the Pledged Security to provide for the payment of debt service on the Bond; (v) the Bond is being purchased by the Purchaser in a private placement for its own account and not with a view to resale or other distribution or transfer, except in a transaction in which the Purchaser also assigns its leasehold interest in the Project; (vi) the Bond may not be sold, transferred, pledged or hypothecated by the Purchaser or any subsequent holders except in accordance with the provisions of the Bond Resolution governing transfers of the Bond; and (vii) if any transfer of the Bond would subject the Issuer or the Company to any disclosure requirements under any of the Securities Acts, the Company shall, at its own expense and without cost to the Issuer, make such disclosure as to the Issuer, the Company, the Project, the Pledged Security and the Bond, as is required by the Securities Acts. The representations and agreements contained in this Section shall prevail over any inconsistent term or condition that may be contained in the Lease relating to the Project, in the Bond Resolution or in the Bond.
9.GOVERNING LAW: This Agreement shall be governed by and construed under and in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Georgia (without giving effect to its conflicts of law principles).
10.ASSIGNMENT: The Purchaser shall be entitled to assign the Bond and its rights under this Agreement in accordance with the terms and conditions of section 8 above, the Bond and Section 2.7 of the Bond Resolution.
11.AMENDMENT: No amendment or modification of this Agreement shall be effective unless it is in writing and executed by the Issuer, the Company and the Purchaser.
12.HEADINGS: All paragraphs or other headings used in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and do not constitute a substantive part of this Agreement.
13.REQUESTS FOR ADVANCES AND NOTICES: All Requests for Advances shall be delivered to the Purchaser at its address set forth below. All other requests, notices, demands, and other communications under this Agreement shall be given in writing and are to be deemed to have been duly given and to be effective upon delivery to the party to whom they are directed, to such party at its notice address set forth below, provided that any party may by written notice to the other parties designate a different address for receiving notices under this Agreement; provided, however, that no such change of address will be effective unless and until written notice thereof is actually received by the party to whom such change of address notice is sent.
| To the Issuer: | Development Authority of Murray County 121 N. Fourth Avenue Chatsworth, Georgia 31539 Attention: Chairman |
| with copies to: | Gregory H. Kinnamon, P.C. 512 South Thornton Avenue Dalton, Georgia 30720 Attention: Gregory H. Kinnamon, Esq. |
Murray County 121 N. Fourth Avenue Chatsworth, Georgia 31539 Attention: Brittany Pittman, Sole Commissioner and | |
Seyfarth Shaw LLP 1075 Peachtree Street, N.E. Suite 2500 Atlanta, Georgia 30309 Attention: Daniel M. McRae, Esq. | |
| To the Company and Purchaser: | TDG Operations, LLC c/o The Dixie Group, Inc. 2208 South Hamilton Street Extension Dalton, Georgia 30721 Attn: Jon A. Faulkner, President |
| with a copy to: | Miller & Martin PLLC Suite 1000 Volunteer Building 832 Georgia Avenue Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402 Attention: Robert L. Dann, Esq. |
Any person designated in this Section 13 may, by notice given to the others, designate any additional or different addresses to which subsequent notices, certificates, or other communications shall be sent to it.
14.EFFECTIVE DATE: This Agreement may be executed prior to the delivery of the Bond to the Purchaser, but shall not become effective until a counterpart hereof executed by all parties hereto is delivered simultaneously with the issuance of the Bond. Upon execution and delivery hereof, as aforesaid, this Agreement and the terms and provisions of the Bond, the Bond Resolution and other documents approved by the Bond Resolution shall supersede the provisions of any commitment letter(s) heretofore issued by the Purchaser to the Issuer and the Company with respect to the Bond, the Credit Facility and the Maximum Principal Amount.
15.COUNTERPARTS: This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but all of which shall constitute one instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered, under seal, by its respective duly authorized officers.
DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
OF MURRAY COUNTY
By: /s/ Craig Brock
Chairman
Attest:
/s/ John Kenemer
Secretary
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TDG OPERATIONS, LLC,
a Georgia limited liability company
By: /s/ Jon A. Faulkner (seal)
Jon A. Faulkner, President