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                  <text>Meeting Date: 12/28/2020
Resolution*: 12/120/2020
VILLAGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
VILLAGE OF SLEEPY HOLLOW, NEW YORK
A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Sleepy Hollow was
convened on December 28, 2020, at 6:00 p.m.
The following resolution was duly offered and seconded, to wit:
RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE
OF SLEEPY HOLLOW (i) AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION AND
DELIVERY OF A CERTAIN LEASE AGREEMENT WITH THE
SLEEPY HOLLOW LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (THE
"CORPORATION") IN CONNECTION WITH A CERTAIN PROJECT
(AS FURTHER DESCRIBED HEREIN); AND (ii) THE EXECUTION
AND DELIVERY OF RELATED DOCUMENTS (AS FURTHER
DESCRIBED HEREIN).
WHEREAS, pursuant to the purposes and powers contained within Section 1411
of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law of the State of New York (the "State"), as
amended (hereinafter collectively called the "Act"), and pursuant to its certificate of
incorporation filed on September 18, 2014 (the "Certificate"), the Sleepy Hollow Local
Development Corporation (the "Corporation") was established as a not-for-profit local
development corporation of the State with the authority and power to own, lease and sell
personal and real property for the purposes of, among other things, acquiring,
constructing and equipping certain projects exclusively in furtherance of the charitable or
public purposes of relieving and reducing unemployment, promoting and providing for
additional and maximum employment, bettering and maintaining job opportunities,
instructing or training individuals to improve or develop their capabilities for such jobs,
by encouraging the development of, or retention of, an industry in the community or area,
and lessening the burdens of government and acting in the public interest; and
WHEREAS, the Corporation owns a certain parcel of real estate commonly
referred to as the "East Parcel" comprising approximately 28 acres as identified by TMID
No. 115.11-1-2; and
WHEREAS, the Corporation and the Village of Sleepy Hollow, New York (the
"Village") contemplate undertaking the comprehensive redevelopment and adaptive reuse
of the East Parcel as a municipal public facilities and recreation complex (herein, the
"East Parcel Project"), such proposed East Parcel Project to include buildings and
infrastructure to serve the Department of Public Works of the Village of Sleepy Hollow
("DPW"), a bus garage and repair facility for the Tarrytown Union Free School District
(the "School"), public recreation and community facilities to include multiple soccer and
multi-use fields and related improvements, and parking improvements for the Village,

�public and not-for-profit usage, and related utilities and infrastructure that may include a
vehicle and/or pedestrian bridge to serve the East Parcel; and
WHEREAS, the Corporation previously reviewed the East Parcel Project as lead
agency pursuant to and in accordance with the State Environmental Quality Review Act
and regulations adopted pursuant thereto (collectively, "SEQRA") and adopted findings
relative thereto dated April 24,2017; and
WHEREAS, in furtherance of the foregoing, and for the benefit of the Village,
the Corporation contemplates and desires to issue its Sleepy Hollow Local Development
Corporation Tax-Exempt Revenue Bonds (Village of Sleepy Hollow East Parcel
Redevelopment Project - Phase II), Series 2020 (the "Bonds") in the aggregate principal
amount presently estimated not to exceed $35,000,000 in order to finance or refinance
certain costs in connection with the undertaking of a project (collectively, the "Phase II
Project") consisting of: (A) the refunding of the outstanding principal amount of the
Corporation's $10,000,000 original principal amount Tax-Exempt Revenue Bonds
(Village of Sleepy Hollow East Parcel Redevelopment Project - Phase I), Series 2018
(the "Series 2018 Bonds"), the proceeds of which were applied to finance: (i) the
acquisition or retention by the Corporation of certain lands located within the Village of
Sleepy Hollow, New York commonly referred to as the "East Parcel" (the "Land"); (ii)
the planning, design, engineering and construction of site and infrastructure
improvements to support the East Parcel Project, including (a) the acquisition and
placement of approximately 210,000 cubic yards of fill to satisfy local approvals and
raise areas of the East Parcel to design finish grade for the East Parcel Project; (b) the
acquisition and installation of prefabricated vertical drains to accommodate site
compression and site drainage requirements; (c) the acquisition and installation of 20"
sanitary sewer lines to relocate and replace existing sewer service infrastructure; and (d)
the acquisition and installation of 18" water lines to relocate and replace existing water
service infrastructure, along with related site work and improvements, including, but not
limited to site preparation, security, management and preliminary redevelopment
improvements, all for lease to the Village for general governmental purposes (the "2018
Improvements"); and (iii) the acquisition and installation in and around the 2018
Improvements of certain items of equipment, machinery and other tangible personal
property (the "2018 Equipment" and, collectively with the Land and the 2018
Improvements, the "2018 Facility"); (B)(i) the retention by the Corporation of the Land;
(ii) the planning, design, engineering, construction and operation of site-wide
improvements on the Land to support the East Parcel Project, including the acquisition,
construction and equipping of new buildings and infrastructure to serve the DPW
including Roadway A construction, viaduct removal, site utilities, passive and active
recreation improvements, site-wide grading and preliminary site work for future
vehicular bridge construction to connect the East and West Parcels, along with related
site work and improvements, including, but not limited to site preparation, security,
management and preliminary redevelopment improvements, all for lease to the Village
for general governmental purposes (the "2020 Improvements", and collectively with the
2018 Improvements, the "Improvements"); and (iii) the acquisition and installation in and
around the 2020 Improvements of certain items of equipment, machinery and other

�tangible personal property (the "2020 Equipment", and collectively with the 2018
Equipment, the "Equipment"; the Land, the 2020 Improvements and the 2020 Equipment
collectively referred to as the "2020 Facility") (the 2018 Facility and the 2020 Facility
collectively referred to as the "Facility"), such Facility to be owned and operated by the
Corporation; and (C) the paying of certain costs and expenses incidental to the issuance
of the Bonds, including capitalized interest (the costs associated with items (A) through
(C) above being hereinafter referred to as the "Project Costs"); and
WHEREAS, it is contemplated that the Bonds will be issued pursuant to a certain
Bond Purchase Agreement, dated as of December 1, 2020 (the "Bond Purchase
Agreement"), by and between the Corporation and Signature Public Funding Corp., as
purchaser (the "Purchaser"); and
WHEREAS, in connection with the issuance of the Bonds, the Corporation and
the Village contemplate entering into a certain Amended and Restated Lease Agreement,
dated as of December 1, 2020 (the "Lease Agreement"), pursuant to which the
Corporation will lease the Facility to the Village and the Village will lease the Facility
from the Corporation in return for the Rent Payments (as defined in the Lease
Agreement) to be made under the Lease Agreement by the Village, subject to annual
appropriation, in an amount sufficient to pay, among other things, the principal of and
interest on the Bonds; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees, as the elected legislative body of the Village,
has been advised by the Corporation that, in order to assist in the financing or refinancing
of the Facility, the Corporation intends to issue the Bonds, contingent upon the adoption
of this resolution authorizing the Lease Agreement; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees, after due consideration of the foregoing,
desires to approve the execution and delivery of the Lease Agreement, which will provide
sufficient revenues for the repayment of the Bonds, provided the principal, premium, if
any, and interest on the Bonds shall be special limited obligations of the Corporation and
shall never be a debt of the State or any political subdivision thereof, including, without
limitation, the Village, and neither the State, nor any political subdivision thereof,
including, without limitation, the Village, shall be liable thereon.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Board of Trustees of the
Village as follows:
Section 1.
The Corporation previously reviewed the East Parcel Project
pursuant to SEQRA. In connection with the foregoing SEQRA review, the Corporation
on April 24, 2017 made certain findings and determinations in accordance with SEQRA
and 6 NYCRR Part 617.11. No further review is necessary for the East Parcel Project for
purposes of SEQRA.
Section 2.
The Village hereby approves the form of Lease Agreement as set
before this meeting and authorizes the execution and delivery of same, with such

�changes, variations, omissions and insertions as the Mayor, the Deputy Mayor, the
Village Treasurer or the Village Attorney shall approve, subject to the Corporation's
issuance of the Bonds. The execution thereof by the Mayor, the Deputy Mayor, or the
Village Treasurer shall constitute conclusive evidence of such approval.
Section 3.
The Mayor, the Deputy Mayor, the Village Treasurer and the
Village Attorney are hereby authorized and directed for and in the name and on behalf of
the Village to do all acts and things required or provided for by the provisions of the
Lease Agreement, including, without limitation, all such additional certificates,
instruments and documents, including a Tax Certificate required by the Coiporation and
Purchaser, pay all such fees, charges and expenses and to do all such further acts and
things as may be necessary or, in the opinion of the Mayor, the Deputy Mayor, or the
Village Treasurer, desirable and proper to effect the purposes of the foregoing resolutions
and to cause compliance by the Village with all of the terms, covenants and provisions of
the Lease Agreement binding upon the Village.
Section 4.

This Resolution shall take effect immediately.

The question of the adoption of the foregoing Resolution was duly put to a vote
on roll call, which resulted as follows:
Yea
Hon. Kenneth Wray
Glenn Rosenbloom
Rachelle Gebler
Sam Gonzalez
John Leavy
Denise Scaglione
Sandra Spiro

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�STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER

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I, the undersigned, VILLAGE CLERK of the VILLAGE OF SLEEPY HOLLOW,
NEW YORK, DO HEREBY CERTIFY:
That I have compared the annexed extract of minutes of the meeting of the
Village of Sleepy Hollow (the "Village"), including the resolution contained therein, held
on December 28,2020, with the original thereof on file in my office, and that the same is
a true and correct copy of the proceedings of the Village and of such resolution set forth
therein and of the whole of said original insofar as the same related to the subject matters
therein referred to.
I FURTHER CERTIFY, that all members of the Village had due notice of said
special meeting, that the meeting was in all respects duly held and that, pursuant to
Article 7 of the Public Officers Law (Open Meetings Law), said meeting was open to the
general public, and that public notice of the time and place of said meeting was duly
given in accordance with such Article 7.
I FURTHER CERTIFY that there was a quorum of the members of the Village
present throughout said meeting.
I FURTHER CERTIFY that as of the date hereof, the attached resolution is in full
force and effect and has not been amended, repealed or modified.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of
said Village this 28th day of December, 2020.

Paula McCarthy, Village Clerk
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