HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 2025-57 Setting Public Hearing Date for Aurora on FranceRESOLUTION NO. 2025- 57
CALLING FOR A PUBLIC HEARING ON AN ISSUE OF REVENUE BONDS
BY THE NATIONAL FINANCE AUTHORITY
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Edina, Minnesota (the "City"), as
follows:
I . The Centurion Foundation, Inc., a Georgia nonprofit corporation and an
organization described in Section 50I(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
(the "Code") (together with any parent, subsidiary, or other affiliate, the "Borrower"), has
advised this Council of its desire to finance, with proceeds of one or more series of tax-exempt
and/or taxable revenue bonds (the "Bonds") issued by the National Finance Authority, a
component unit of the Business Finance Authority of the State of New Hampshire (the "Issuer"),
(I) the acquisition of and certain improvements to the senior living facility known as Aurora on
France located at 6500 France Avenue S. in the City of Edina, Minnesota (the "Project") and (2)
certain expenses incurred in connection with the issuance of the Bonds. The Project will be
leased to Edina Senior Living, LLC, a Minnesota limited liability company and a disregarded
entity, whose sole member is the Ebenezer Society, a Minnesota nonprofit corporation and an
organization described in Section 50I (c)(3) of the Code (together with any parent, subsidiary,
or other affiliate, the "Operator"). The Project will be owned by the Borrower and operated by
the Operator in accordance with their charitable purposes.
2. Since the facilities proposed to be financed by the Bonds are located in the City,
Section I 47(f) of the Code, and regulations promulgated thereunder, require that prior to the
issuance of any tax-exempt Bonds, this Council approve the issuance of such Bonds by the
Issuer, after conducting a public hearing thereon. A public hearing on the proposal that the
Issuer issue the Bonds is hereby called and shall be held on August 19, at 7:00 P.M., at City Hall,
4801 West 50th Street.
3. The City Clerk shall cause notice of the public hearing, in substantially the form
attached hereto as Exhibit A, to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the City,
once not fewer than 7 days prior to the date fixed for the public hearing.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Edina on this I 5th day of July, 2025.
CITY OF EDINA
4801 West 50th Street • Edina, Minnesota 55424
www.EdinaMN.gov • 952-927-8861
EXHIBIT A
CITY OF EDINA
4801 WEST 50TH STREET
EDINA, MINNESOTA 55424
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE ISSUANCE OF REVENUE BONDS UNDER
SECTION 147(F) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986,
ON BEHALF OF THE CENTURION FOUNDATION, INC. AND THE NATIONAL
FINANCE AUTHORITY
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing shall be conducted by the City Council
of the City of Edina, Minnesota (the "City"), at the City Hall, 4801 West 50th Street in the City,
on August 19, 2025, at 7:00 p.m., on a proposal that the National Finance Authority, a
component unit of the Business Finance Authority of the State of New Hampshire (the "Issuer"),
issue revenue bonds (the "Bonds") on behalf of The Centurion Foundation, Inc., a Georgia
nonprofit corporation and an organization described in Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code") (together with any parent, subsidiary, or
other affiliate, the "Borrower"), in one or more taxable or tax-exempt series, in order to (1)
finance the acquisition of and certain improvements to the senior living facility known as Aurora
on France located at 6500 France Avenue S. in the City of Edina (the "Project"); and (2) pay
certain expenses incurred in connection with the issuance of the Bonds. The Project will be
leased to Edina Senior Living, LLC, a Minnesota limited liability company and a disregarded
entity, whose sole member is the Ebenezer Society, a Minnesota nonprofit corporation and an
organization described in Section 501 (c)(3) of the Code (together with any parent, subsidiary,
or other affiliate, the "Operator"). The Project will be owned by the Borrower and operated by
the Operator in accordance with their charitable purposes.
The Bonds will not be issued by the City. The Bonds will be issued by the Issuer as part
of an issue in an aggregate amount not to exceed $50,000,000.
All persons interested may appear and be heard at the time and place set forth above,
or may submit written comments with the City Clerk prior to the date of the hearing set forth
above.
Dated: July IS, 2025.
CITY OF EDINA, MINNESOTA
By s/ Sharon Allison
City Clerk
Attest:
Sharon Allison, City Clerk James B. Hovland, Mayor
STATE OF MINNESOTA )
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN) SS
CITY OF EDINA
CERTIFICATE OF CITY CLERK
I, the undersigned duly appointed and acting City Clerk for the City of Edina do hereby certify that
the attached and foregoing Resolution was duly adopted by the Edina City Council at its Regular-
Meeting of July 15, 2025, and as recorded in the Minutes of said Regular Meeting.
WITNESS my hand and seal of said City this day of , 2025.
Sharon Allison, City Clerk
The motion for adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by
Councilmember , and upon vote being taken thereon the following voted in
favor thereof:
and the following voted against the same:
whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted.