Reserved Matters In these Conditions, “
Board Matters Unless otherwise determined by the vote of a majority of the directors then in office, the Board of Directors shall meet at least quarterly in accordance with an agreed-upon schedule. The Company shall reimburse the nonemployee directors for all reasonable out-of-pocket travel expenses incurred (consistent with the Company’s travel policy) in connection with attending meetings of the Board of Directors.
Disclosed Matters Since the date of this Agreement, there has been no change in the status of the Disclosed Matters that, individually or in the aggregate, has resulted in, or materially increased the likelihood of, a Material Adverse Effect.
Operational Matters 7.1 The LGB shall comply with the obligations set out in Appendix 2 which deals with the day-to-day operation of, and delegation of responsibilities to, the LGB.
7.2 The LGB will adopt and will comply with all policies of the Trustees communicated to the LGB from time to time.
7.3 Both the Trustees and all members of the LGB have a duty to act with integrity, objectivity and honesty in the best interests of the Company and the Academy and shall be open about decisions and be prepared to justify those decisions except in so far as any matter may be considered confidential.
7.4 The LGB will review its policies and practices on a regular basis, having regard to recommendations made by the Trustees from time to time, in order to ensure that the governance of the Academy is best able to adapt to the changing political and legal environment.
7.5 The LGB shall provide such data and information regarding the business of the Academy and the pupils attending the Academy as the Trustees may require from time to time.
7.6 The LGB shall submit to any inspections by the Trustees, and any inspections pursuant to section 48 of the Education Act 2005 (Statutory Inspections of Anglican and Methodist Schools).
7.7 The LGB shall work closely with and shall promptly implement any advice or recommendations made by the Trustees in the event that intervention is either threatened or is carried out by the Secretary of State and the Trustees expressly reserve the unfettered right to review or remove any power or responsibility conferred on the LGB under this Scheme in such circumstances.
Franchise Matters (a) Since June 30, 2003, the Company and its Subsidiaries (i) have maintained records of all franchise activities in which full, true, and complete entries have been made of all material dealings and transactions in relation to their franchise activities, including all offering circulars, Franchise Agreements (as defined below), correspondence with franchisees, written complaints by franchisees, and government audits, (ii) have complied in all material respects with all applicable Laws regarding franchise activities and other franchise-related matters, (iii) have complied with all franchise agreements and other agreements by which the Company or its Subsidiaries directly or indirectly grant any third party franchise rights (whether not such agreement was entered into before or after June 30, 2002, each, a “Franchise Agreement”), (iv) have obtained and maintained in place franchisee agreements which contain provisions requiring the franchisee to (A) indemnify the Company or any Subsidiary, as applicable, with respect to claims relating to the franchisee’s business and (B) to obtain insurance from financially sound and respectable insurers to cover such indemnity, naming the Company as additional insured and loss payee, (v) have timely filed with the applicable Governmental Entities all Uniform Franchise Offering Circulars and other required filings, (vi) each Uniform Franchise Offering Circular delivered to any franchisee, prospective franchisee, or Governmental Entity by the Company or any Subsidiary complied in all material respects as of the date delivered with all requirements of applicable Law, and, when delivered, did not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and (vii) the Company and its Subsidiaries have accounted for and administered in accordance with the Franchise Agreements and applicable franchise laws all advertising and marketing funds and cooperatives, if any, which the Company and its Subsidiaries administer and into which monies are paid by their franchisees. Section 3.25(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth a complete and accurate list, as of the date hereof, of all currently effective Franchise Agreements, including the name of the franchisee and the date and expiration date of the applicable Franchise Agreement. The Company has provided the Buyer with true, complete and correct copies of all currently effective Franchise Agreements, including any amendments or modifications thereto, as of the date hereof, and there are no oral agreements, promises or understandings with respect to any currently effective Franchise Agreements.
(b) Except as set forth in Section 3.25(b) of the Company Disclosure Letter:
(i) the royalty rates and required advertising contributions specified in each currently effective Franchise Agreement remain in effect, are being paid when due and have not been reduced, modified, waived, or otherwise affected by any Franchise Agreement “side letter,” modification, amendment, waiver, or suspension, in whole or in part and each currently effective Franchise Agreement is in full force and effect;
(ii) all franchise registrations remain in full force and effect and are not the subject of any existing or threatened action by a Governmental Entity or otherwise intended, in whole or in part, to result in the termination, revocation, modification, suspension, conditioning, or dissolution of any such franchise registration and/or any other circumstance which might or would impair, impede or preclude the Company’s ability routinely to renew or amend (as the case may be) any such franchise registration and/or enter into Franchise Agreements in any jurisdiction;
(iii) there are no written, or to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened, franchisee complaints, threats to initiate litigation or arbitration, or threats to file complaints with a Governmental Entity, whether such threats have been filed either with the Company or any Subsidiary and/or any third party (including any Governmental Entity);
(iv) there exists no extant formal or, to the Knowledge of the Company, informal, complaint, inquiry, investigation, or judicial or administrative action or proceeding, communicated or commenced (as the case may be) by any Governmental Entity, to or against the Company or any Subsidiary regarding its offer and sale of franchises; the administration of its franchise network; advancing or referring to any complaint received from any franchisee; inquiring of or contesting any element of the Company’s franchise program or franchise relationships (including antitrust issues such as predatory pricing or monopolization); and/or, otherwise related to the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s compliance with any franchise Law;
(v) there exists no litigation or other claims asserted by any third party against any of the Company’s franchisees in which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party thereto under any theory, including negligence or “vicarious liability”;
(vi) no supply Contract to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party may be unilaterally terminated by the subject supplier as a result of this Agreement, the Offer, the Merger or any of the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, if that supply contract is material to the operation of the Company’s network of franchisees, taken as a whole;
(vii) since December 31, 2004, neither the Company, nor any of its Subsidiaries has refused to renew any Franchise Agreement;
(viii) to the Company’s Knowledge, no franchisee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is currently in default in any material respect under any Franchise Agreement;
(ix) since December 31, 2004, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has terminated any Franchise Agreement; and
(x) the Company may enter into this Agreement and consummate the transactions contemplated hereby without the consent of any Franchisee.
Section 16 Matters Prior to the Effective Time, the Company shall take all such steps as may be required to cause to be exempt under Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act any dispositions of shares of Company Common Stock (including derivative securities with respect to such shares) that are treated as dispositions under such rule and result from the transactions contemplated by this Agreement by each director or officer of the Company who is subject to the reporting requirements of Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act with respect to the Company immediately prior to the Effective Time.
Related Matters Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, additional conditions or restrictions related to such Options may be contained in the Plan or the resolutions of the Plan Committee authorizing such grant of Options.
Fiscal Matters a. The School District will provide all required Course Materials (textbooks and electronic materials) and will be billed for applicable Instructional Materials charges embedded in courses requiring electronic materials in accordance with the College respective course agreement.
b. The School District will act as the fiscal agent for purposes of this MOU, including student fees. Based on School District policies, the School District may recover fees incurred by students.
c. Any transportation and applicable food services required for Students participating in Dual Credit programs at the College site will be provided by the School District.
d. All personal fines, late fees, parking tickets, etc. incurred by Student at the College are the student’s individual responsibility.
e. Adjunct Instructors at the School site delivering dual credit courses may teach students enrolled in ECHS and Traditional Dual Credit in the same course section. However, Alamo Colleges District will only pay dual credit stipends for dual credit courses with 15 dual credit students or more in each course section. Dual Credit students constitute those in traditional Dual Credit or ECHS.
f. The Cost-Sharing Model was implemented beginning with the 2017-18 Academic Year. Following the model of who primarily funds the cost of the Dual Credit Instructor, the Alamo Colleges District will either pay a stipend to the School District or the School District will pay the Alamo Colleges District the appropriate amount listed below. The College will verify all student enrollments per College census dates.
i. Where the School District contracts the instructor to teach college courses, the Alamo Colleges District will pay $600 for each course section that contains at least 15 students. The official student enrollment count will be taken on the course sections’ census date. The Alamo Colleges District Business Office will communicate with the School District Business Office to provide the appropriate payment to be paid the first full week of December for the Fall semester and the third full week of April for the Spring semester.
ii. Where the College contracts the college instructor to teach a course section and the student enrollment in each specific course section totals less than 80% of the total student enrollment count of the said course section, the School District will pay $100 per student to the Alamo Colleges District. The official student enrollment count will be taken on the course sections’ census date. The Alamo Colleges District Business Office will communicate with the School District Business Office to provide an invoice by mid-January for the Fall semester and the third full week of April for the Spring semester. Each of these invoices are to be paid net 45 days from the date of the invoice.
iii. Where the College contracts the college instructor to teach a course section and the student enrollment in each specific course section totals to 80% or greater of the total student enrollment of the said course, the School District will pay $2,800 per course to the Alamo Colleges District. The official student enrollment count will be taken on the course sections’ census date. The Alamo Colleges District Business Office will communicate with the School District Business Office to provide an invoice by mid-January for the Fall semester and the third full week of April for the Spring semester. Each of these invoices are to be paid net 45 days from the date of the invoice.
iv. Where Students are required to use Course Materials as part of the prescribed courses in their degree plan, as referenced in Section 13 – Course Materials, the Alamo Colleges District Business Office will communicate with the School District Business Office to provide an invoice by mid-January for the Fall semester and the third full week of April for the Spring semester. Each of these invoices are to be paid net 45 days from the date of the invoice.
g. School District’s failure to meet its financial responsibilities as the fiscal agent will result in a College’s refusal of enrollment of its Students for the next Academic Year after determination of payment default and may be subject to outside collection agency action.
h. Tuition promotions, incentives or discounts vary during each academic year. All current promotions are published on the Alamo Colleges District web site at: xxx.xxxxx.xxx, and are available in printed or electronic formats. Applicability of said for students enrolled in Dual Credit programs, Early College High School or Alamo Academies must be verified at the time of enrollment. Examples of promotional incentives include the “Summer Momentum Plan” published in the Alamo Colleges District web site at: xxxx://xxx.xxxxx.xxx/free.
Financial Matters (a) The unaudited balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of December 31, 1997 and the related statements of income, stockholders equity and cash flows for the fiscal year period then ended, copies of which have been delivered to the Agent, have been prepared in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (subject to the absence of notes required by Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and to normal year-end adjustments) and fairly present the financial position of the Borrower as of such date and the results of operations of the Borrower for the period covered thereby.
(b) Except (i) as fully reflected in the financial statements referred to in subsection (a) above (including the notes thereto, if any), (ii) incurred in the ordinary course of business since the respective dates of such financial statements and (iii) for the obligations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries under the Credit Documents, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any material direct or indirect obligations or liabilities of any kind, whether or not required by Generally Accepted Accounting Principles to be set forth on financial statements.
(c) The unaudited consolidated pro forma balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of December 31, 1997 has been delivered to the Agent and appears in the Borrower's Form S-1, filed on April 23, 1998 (the "Pro Forma Balance Sheet"). The Pro Forma Balance Sheet has been prepared in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (subject to the absence of footnotes required by Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and subject to normal year-end adjustments) and, subject to stated assumptions made in good faith and having a reasonable basis set forth therein, presents fairly the consolidated financial position of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on an unaudited pro forma basis as of the date set forth therein.
(d) The Borrower has prepared, and has furnished to the Agent a copy of, consolidated and consolidating pro forma projected statements of income of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the three-year period beginning January 1, 1998, prepared on a quarterly basis for fiscal year 1998 and on an annual basis thereafter, giving effect to the consummation of the Credit Documents, the extensions of credit made under this Agreement, the payment of transaction fees and expenses related to the foregoing (the "Projections"). In the opinion of management of the Borrower, the assumptions used in the preparation of the Projections were reasonable when made and continue to be reasonable as of the Amendment Effective Date, subject to the uncertainties and approximations inherent in any projection. The Projections have been prepared in good faith by the executive and financial personnel of the Borrower and represent, as of the Amendment Effective Date, a reasonable estimate of the future performance of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries it being acknowledged by the Agent and the Lenders that these projections as to future events are subject to the uncertainties and estimations inherent in any projections and that actual results during the periods covered by such Projections may differ from the projected results (and that such differences may be material and adverse).
Compliance Matters (a) The Sub-Adviser understands and agrees that it is a “service provider” to the Trust as contemplated by Rule 38a-1 under the 1940 Act. As such, the Sub-Adviser agrees to cooperate fully with the Adviser and the Trust and its Trustees and officers, including the Fund’s CCO, with respect to (i) any and all compliance-related matters, and (ii) the Trust’s efforts to assure that each of its service providers adopts and maintains policies and procedures that are reasonably designed to prevent violation of the “federal securities laws” (as that term is defined by Rule 38a-1) by the Trust, the Adviser and the Sub-Adviser. In this regard, the Sub-Adviser shall:
(1) submit to the Board for its consideration and approval, prior to the effective date of this Agreement, the Sub-Adviser’s compliance program, it being understood that the Sub-Adviser’s obligation under Section 2(e) of this Agreement to vote all proxies solicited by or with respect to the issuers of securities in which the assets of the Portfolio may be invested shall be subject to the fulfillment of the condition that the Board approve the Sub-Adviser’s proxy voting policies and procedures;
(2) submit annually (and at such other times as the Trust may reasonably request) to the Fund’s CCO and the Adviser for consideration by the Board, a report discussing the adequacy and effectiveness of the Sub-Adviser’s compliance program, and fully describing any material amendments to such compliance program since the most recent such report;
(3) provide periodic reports, certifications and information concerning the Sub-Adviser’s compliance program including, but not limited to, the following;
(i) Quarterly Compliance Certifications, including any required attachments, no later than the tenth (10th) business day after each calendar quarter; and
(ii) Annual Report on Code of Ethics Matters, including any required attachments, no later than the fifteenth (15th) business day of October each year.
(4) provide the Adviser and the Trust and its Trustees and officers with reasonable access to information regarding the Sub-Adviser’s compliance program, which access shall include on-site visits with the Sub-Adviser as may be reasonably requested from time to time;
(5) permit the Adviser and the Trust and its Trustees and officers to maintain an active working relationship with the Sub-Adviser’s compliance personnel by, among other things, providing the Adviser and the Fund’s CCO and other officers with a specified individual within the Sub-Adviser’s organization to discuss and address compliance-related matters;
(6) provide the Adviser and its chief compliance officer and the Trust and its Trustees and officers, including the Fund’s CCO, with such certifications as may be reasonably requested; and
(7) reasonably cooperate with any independent registered public accounting firm engaged by the Trust, ensure that all reasonably necessary information and the appropriate personnel are made available to such independent registered public accounting firm, to support the expression of the independent registered public accounting firm’s opinion, and each year provide the Adviser and such independent registered public accounting firm with a copy of the most recent SSAE 16 Report prepared by the Sub-Adviser’s independent auditors regarding the Sub-Adviser’s internal controls.
(b) The Sub-Adviser represents, warrants and covenants that it has implemented and shall maintain a compliance program in accordance with the requirements of Rule 206(4)-7 under the Advisers Act.
