Green Economy/Carbon Footprint a) The Supplier/Service Provider has in its bid provided Transnet with an understanding of the Supplier’s/Service Provider’s position with regard to issues such as waste disposal, recycling and energy conservation.
Business Plan The Lenders shall have received a satisfactory business plan for fiscal years 1999-2006 and a satisfactory written analysis of the business and prospects of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the period from the Closing Date through the final maturity of the Term Loans.
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Annual Business Plan (a) On or before November 15th of each year during the term of this Agreement, Manager shall prepare and submit to Owner for Owner's prior approval an annual business and leasing plan in accordance with the requirements of EXHIBIT D hereto (as such EXHIBIT D may be modified by Owner from time to time) (the "ANNUAL BUSINESS PLAN"). The Annual Business Plan shall be a comprehensive plan for the management, operation, leasing, repair, maintenance and promotion of the Property and for the other matters set forth on EXHIBIT D. Manager shall consult the Owner concerning the proposed Annual Business Plan and shall promptly incorporate therein such changes as Owner may direct. The Annual Business Plan, and all budgets contained therein, shall be in a form consistent with the Reporting Package. (b) Manager shall: (i) perform its duties hereunder in accordance with the Approved Annual Business Plan; and (ii) use all reasonable efforts to ensure that the actual costs of maintaining and operating the Property do not exceed the operating budget (the "OPERATING BUDGET") which is a part of the Approved Annual Business Plan either in total or in any one accounting category. All actual expenses must be charged to the proper account on a basis consistent with the Operating Budget classifications and Reporting Package. Except in case of emergencies which could reasonably pose a threat of injury to persons or property, in which event Manager shall inform Owner of such emergency within two (2) business days, no expense may be reclassified except as needed to correct an inadvertent error. Manager will secure Owner's prior approval for any expenditure that will result in a variance of the greater of $5,000 or 5% of the annual budgeted amount in any one accounting line item of the Operating Budget. In addition, Manager shall obtain Owner's prior approval for any expenditure in excess of $5,000, regardless of whether such expenditure is set forth in the Approved Annual Business Plan. (c) Owner shall have the right to require changes in the Approved Annual Business Plan from time to time; provided, however, that Owner shall provide Manager with at least fifteen (15) days' notice of such changes.
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.
CONTRACT SALES ACTIVITY REPORT Each calendar quarter, Vendor must provide a contract sales activity report (Report) to the Sourcewell Contract Administrator assigned to this Contract. A Report must be provided regardless of the number or amount of sales during that quarter (i.e., if there are no sales, Vendor must submit a report indicating no sales were made). The Report must contain the following fields: • Customer Name (e.g., City of Staples Highway Department); • Customer Physical Street Address; • Customer City; • Customer State/Province; • Customer Zip Code; • Customer Contact Name; • Customer Contact Email Address; • Customer Contact Telephone Number; • Sourcewell Assigned Entity/Participating Entity Number; • Item Purchased Description; • Item Purchased Price; • Sourcewell Administrative Fee Applied; and • Date Purchase was invoiced/sale was recognized as revenue by Vendor.
Enterprise Information Management Standards Grantee shall conform to HHS standards for data management as described by the policies of the HHS Office of Data, Analytics, and Performance. These include, but are not limited to, standards for documentation and communication of data models, metadata, and other data definition methods that are required by HHS for ongoing data governance, strategic portfolio analysis, interoperability planning, and valuation of HHS System data assets.
Business Plans As promptly as possible, but in no event later than July 15, 2010 (and, as applicable, with current information as of June 30, 2010) the Manager shall deliver to the Initial Member written plans (each, a “Business Plan”) detailing the strategy to be used by it in managing and disposing of the assets of the Company in respect of all of the Loans for achieving the Company’s purposes with respect thereto, in conformance with the Servicing Standard, based, to the extent appropriate, on information gathered by the Company with respect to the Loans, which shall include (i) individual Business Plans for each of the ten (10) largest Loans based on their Unpaid Principal Balance as of the Cut-Off Date (as set forth on the Loan Schedule), and (ii) a consolidated Business Plan covering all Loans (a “Consolidated Business Plan”). With respect to the first such Business Plans and Consolidated Business Plan, the Manager shall meet with the Initial Member as reasonably requested by the Initial Member from time to time during the thirty (30) Business Days following the Initial Member’s receipt of the same, to review and discuss such Business Plans and Consolidated Business Plan, including changes thereto suggested by the Initial Member. Within thirty (30) Business Days following expiration of such review period, the Manager will deliver to the Initial member a final version of such Business Plans and Consolidated Business Plan reflecting such changes as the Manager considers to be appropriate in light of its discussions with the Initial Member during such review period. The Manager shall thereafter review and revise each Business Plan and Consolidated Business Plan as the circumstances may require, and in any event provide periodic updates to such Business Plans (and for each such update, the same shall cover the ten (10) largest Loans based on their Unpaid Principal Balance as of the time of such update) and Consolidated Business Plan to the Initial Member, in January (current as of December 31 of the immediately preceding year) and July (current as of June 30 of such year) of each year, commencing in January 2011, with each such periodic update to de delivered as part of the Monthly Reports due at such time pursuant to Section 7.4(b), Upon reasonable notice by the Initial Member, the Company shall make its personnel who are familiar with such Business Plans and Consolidated Business Plans available during normal business hours for the purposes of discussing such Business Plans and Consolidated Business Plans with representatives of the Initial Member and responding to questions therefrom. (a) Each Business Plan and Consolidated Business Plan will set forth a strategy for the disposition of the Loans addressed thereby which strategy may consist of one or more of the following: (i) the pay-off of Loans at a discount; (ii) modifications of the related note and/or mortgage, including reductions in the mortgage loan interest rate, reductions in the principal balance and rescheduling principal payments; (iii) foreclosure upon the related Underlying Collateral (or acquisition thereof by deed in lieu of foreclosure) and subsequent sale thereof; (iv) assumptions of Loans by new borrowers; (v) repairs to and, if applicable, completion of construction of the related Underlying Collateral, with a view towards selling such Underlying Collateral or the Loan secured thereby; (vi) sale of a Loan, either singly or in pools, before or after restructuring; and (vii) any other method of work-out, rehabilitation and disposition consistent with the Servicing Standard and other general duties of the Company specified in this Agreement. (b) Each Business Plan and Consolidated Business Plan will set forth a strategy for the disposition of each related Acquired Property which strategy may consist of one or more of the following: (i) the sale or leasing of the Acquired Property in whole or in parts, or in pools; (ii) making repairs to and, if applicable, completion of construction the Acquired Property or making changes to the Acquired Property so that it may be used for uses other than its current use, with a view toward selling the Acquired Property; (iii) rehabilitation or improvement and, if applicable, completion of construction of the Acquired Property, with a view toward selling the Acquired Property; (iv) continued leasing or sales activity with respect to the Acquired Property available for leasing or sale (in whole or in part) at the time it is transferred to a Ownership Entity; and (v) maintenance, landscaping and general upkeep of the Acquired Property. (c) Each Business Plan or Consolidated Business Plan shall contain the Company's estimate of the present value of the net amount that is recoverable with respect to each related Loan and projected Working Capital Expenses with respect thereto, and, in reasonable detail, the manner of calculation of such estimates. The Consolidated Business Plan shall include projected financials including statements of income, assets, and cash flows for the Company. Such cash flow projections shall, for the Consolidated Business Plan and each update thereto, include an Excel model of projected cash flows by month, as of June 30 and December 31 of each year (or, in the case of the initial Consolidated Business Plan, as of the date of preparation and delivery thereof) and covering a period not less than the upcoming 6 months, including projected monthly cash inflows on the Loans and REO, projected Excess Working Capital Advances and/or Discretionary Funding Advances, projected outflows of Servicing Expenses, projected Funding Draws, projected Working Capital Reserve levels, projected net monthly cash available for deposit into the Defeasance Account, and the amount and allocation of any projected distributions to Initial Member and Private Owner.
Business Plan and Budget As soon as available, but in any event within sixty (60) days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, an annual business plan and budget of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis, including forecasts prepared by management of the Borrower, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Lender, of Consolidated balance sheets and statements of income or operations and cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a fiscal year basis and, in the case of such forecasted statements of income, on a fiscal quarterly basis for the immediately following fiscal year. As to any information contained in materials furnished pursuant to Section 6.02(f), the Borrower shall not be separately required to furnish such information under Section 6.01(a) or (b) above, but the foregoing shall not be in derogation of the obligation of the Borrower to furnish the information and materials described in Sections 6.01(a) and (b) above at the times specified therein.
Promotional Probationary Period An employee who has previously completed the requisite probationary period and who is rejected during a subsequent probationary period for a promotional appointment shall be reinstated to the former position from which the employee was appointed. If the employee was dismissed from employment during the promotional probationary period, the employee shall not be entitled to such reinstatement rights.
