Management and Control Systems Grantee will:
1. maintain an appropriate contract administration system to ensure that all terms, conditions, and specifications are met during the term of the contract through the completion of the closeout procedures.
2. develop, implement, and maintain financial management and control systems that meet or exceed the requirements of Uniform Statewide Accounting System (UGMS). Those requirements and procedures include, at a minimum, the following:
i. Financial planning, including the development of budgets that adequately reflect all functions and resources necessary to carry out authorized activities and the adequate determination of costs;
ii. Financial management systems that include accurate accounting records that are accessible and identify the source and application of funds provided under each Contract of this Contract, and original source documentation substantiating that costs are specifically and solely allocable to a Contract and its Contract and are traceable from the transaction to the general ledger;
iii. Effective internal and budgetary controls;
iv. Comparison of actual costs to budget; determination of reasonableness, allowableness, and allocability of costs;
v. Timely and appropriate audits and resolution of any findings;
vi. Billing and collection policies; and
vii. Mechanism capable of billing and making reasonable efforts to collect from clients and third parties.
Production Report and Lease Operating Statements Within 60 days after the end of each fiscal quarter, a report setting forth, for each calendar month during the then current fiscal year to date, the volume of production and sales attributable to production (and the prices at which such sales were made and the revenues derived from such sales) for each such calendar month from the Oil and Gas Properties, and setting forth the related ad valorem, severance and production taxes and lease operating expenses attributable thereto and incurred for each such calendar month.
Capital Equipment Collaborator’s commitment, if any, to provide ICD with capital equipment to enable the research and development activities under the Research Plan appears in Appendix B. If Collaborator transfers to ICD the capital equipment or provides funds for ICD to purchase it, then ICD will own the equipment. If Collaborator loans capital equipment to ICD for use during the CRADA, Collaborator will be responsible for paying all costs and fees associated with the transport, installation, maintenance, repair, removal, or disposal of the equipment, and ICD will not be liable for any damage to the equipment.
Borrowing Base Properties (a) Except where the failure to comply with any of the following would not have a Material Adverse Effect, each of Parent and Borrower shall, and shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause each other Loan Party or the applicable tenant, to:
(b) Pay all real estate and personal property taxes, assessments, water rates or sewer rents, ground rents, maintenance charges, impositions, and any other charges, including vault charges and license fees for the use of vaults, chutes and similar areas adjoining any Borrowing Base Property, now or hereafter levied or assessed or imposed against any Borrowing Base Property or any part thereof (except those which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted).
(c) Promptly pay (or cause to be paid) when due all bills and costs for labor, materials, and specifically fabricated materials incurred in connection with any Borrowing Base Property (except those which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted), and in any event never permit to be created or exist in respect of any Borrowing Base Property or any part thereof any other or additional Lien or security interest other than Liens permitted by Section 8.01.
(d) Operate the Borrowing Base Properties in a good and workmanlike manner and in all material respects in accordance with all Laws in accordance with such Loan Party’s prudent business judgment.
(e) Cause each other Loan Party to, to the extent owned and controlled by a Loan Party, preserve, protect, renew, extend and retain all material rights and privileges granted for or applicable to each Borrowing Base Property.
Operating Plan To Agent and Lenders, as soon as available, but not later than thirty (30) days after the end of each Fiscal Year, an annual combined operating plan (the "Operating Plan") for Parent and its Subsidiaries, approved by the Board of Directors of Parent, for the following Fiscal Year, which (i) includes a statement of all of the material assumptions on which such plan is based, (ii) includes projected monthly income statement, balance sheets and source and use of funds for the following year and (iii) Borrowing Availability projections, all prepared on the same basis and in similar detail as that on which operating results are reported (and in the case of cash flow projections, representing management's good faith estimates of future financial performance based on historical performance), and including plans for personnel, Capital Expenditures and facilities.
Operating Budgets (i) The Borrowers shall, not later than thirty (30) days before the Commercial Operation Date for any Plant, adopt an Operating Budget with respect to such Plant and an updated aggregate Operating Budget for the Project from such date to the conclusion of the calendar year immediately following the then-current calendar year and provide a copy of such operating plan and budget at such time to the Administrative Agent.
(ii) No less than sixty (60) days in advance of the beginning of each calendar year with respect to each Plant that has achieved its Commercial Operation Date, the Borrowers shall similarly adopt an operating plan and a budget setting forth in reasonable detail the projected requirements for Operation and Maintenance Expenses and Maintenance Capital Expenses for the ensuing two (2) calendar years for each Plant that has achieved its Commercial Operation Date and an aggregate operating plan and budget for the Project and provide a copy of each such operating plan and budget at such time to the Administrative Agent. (Each such operating plan and budget is herein called an "Operating Budget").
(iii) Each Operating Budget shall include the same items and detail as provided in the Financial Model and be prepared in accordance with a form similar to the Madera Operating Budget delivered on the Closing Date (or a form otherwise approved by the Administrative Agent) and shall become effective upon approval of the Administrative Agent (acting in consultation with the Consultants if the Administrative Agent reasonably determines that such consultation is necessary or desirable). The Administrative Agent's approval of such updated Operating Budgets shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
(iv) If the Borrowers have not adopted an annual Operating Budget covering the applicable two-year period for each Plant that has achieved its Commercial Operation Date and for the Project before the beginning of any calendar year following the Madera Funding or any Operating Budget adopted by the Borrowers has not been accepted by the Administrative Agent before the beginning of any upcoming calendar year, the Operating Budget for each relevant Plant for the preceding calendar year shall, until the adoption of an annual Operating Budget by the Borrowers and acceptance of such Operating Budget by the Administrative Agent, be deemed to be in force and effective as the annual Operating Budget for such Plant for such upcoming calendar year; provided that if the initial Operating Budget for any Plant is not approved by the Administrative Agent, the Borrowers may use a budget for such Plant that is consistent with the Financial Model until an initial Operating Budget is approved, and the Borrowers shall work diligently to prepare an initial Operating Budget for each Plant that is acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
(v) If either the actual Operation and Maintenance Expenses or Maintenance Capital Expenses for any Fiscal Quarter is in excess of the applicable Permitted Operating Budget Deviation Levels, the Borrowers may deliver to the Administrative Agent and the Consultants a proposed updated Operating Budget(s), which shall be subject to approval by the Administrative Agent. Such proposed updated Operating Budget(s) shall not become effective until approved by the Administrative Agent.
(vi) Each Operating Budget delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 7.01(j) shall be accompanied by a memorandum addressing all material deviations from the Financial Model.
Total Operating Expenses All costs and expenses paid or incurred by the Company, as determined under GAAP, that are in any way related to the operation of the Company or its business, including the Advisory Fee, but excluding (i) the expenses of raising capital such as Organization and Offering Expenses, legal, audit, accounting, underwriting, brokerage, listing, registration, and other fees, printing and other such expenses and taxes incurred in connection with the issuance, distribution, transfer and registration of securities, (ii) interest payments, (iii) taxes, (iv) non-cash expenditures such as depreciation, amortization and bad debt reserves, (v) incentive fees paid in compliance with the NASAA REIT Guidelines; (vi) acquisition fees and Acquisition Expenses, (vii) real estate commissions on the sale of Real Property, and (viii) other fees and expenses connected with the acquisition, disposition, management and ownership of real estate interests, mortgages or other property (including the costs of foreclosure, insurance premiums, legal services, maintenance, repair, and improvement of property). The definition of “Total Operating Expenses” set forth above is intended to encompass only those expenses which are required to be treated as Total Operating Expenses under the NASAA REIT Guidelines. As a result, and notwithstanding the definition set forth above, any expense of the Company which is not part of Total Operating Expenses under the NASAA REIT Guidelines shall not be treated as part of Total Operating Expenses for purposes hereof. 2%/25% Guidelines. 2%/25% Guidelines shall have the meaning set forth in Section 14.
Mineral Reserves and Resources The estimated proven and probable mineral reserves and estimated indicated, measured and inferred mineral resources disclosed in the Company Public Documents since December 31, 2006 have been prepared and disclosed in all material respects in accordance with accepted engineering practices and all applicable Laws. There has been no material reduction in the aggregate amount of estimated mineral reserves, estimated mineral resources or mineralized material of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, from the amounts disclosed in the Company Public Documents since December 31, 2006.
Operating Budget (a) No less than forty-five (45) days prior to the Substantial Completion of each train of the Project, and no less than forty-five (45) days prior to the beginning of each calendar year thereafter, the Borrower shall prepare a proposed operating plan and a budget setting forth in reasonable detail the projected requirements for Operation and Maintenance Expenses for the Borrower and the Project for the ensuing calendar year (or, in the case of the initial Operating Budget, the remaining portion thereof) and provide the Independent Engineer, the Common Security Trustee, and the Senior Facility Agent with a copy of such operating plan and budget (the “Operating Budget”). Each Operating Budget shall be prepared in accordance with a form approved by the Independent Engineer, shall set forth all material assumptions used in the preparation of such Operating Budget, and shall become effective upon approval of the Senior Facility Agent, acting reasonably and in consultation with the Independent Engineer; provided, that if the Senior Facility Agent shall not have approved or disapproved the Operating Budget within thirty (30) days after receipt thereof, such Operating Budget shall be deemed to have been approved; and provided, further that the Senior Facility Agent shall have neither the right nor the obligation to approve costs for Gas purchase contracts for the Project contained in the Operating Budget. If the Borrower does not have an effective annual Operating Budget before the beginning of any calendar year, until such proposed Operating Budget is approved, the Operating Budget most recently in effect shall continue to apply; provided, that (A) any items of the proposed Operating Budget that have been approved shall be given effect in substitution of the corresponding items in the Operating Budget most recently in effect, (B) costs for Gas purchase contracts for the Project shall be as provided by the Borrower and (C) all other items shall be increased by the lesser of (x) two and one-half percent (2.5%) and (y) the increase proposed by the Borrower for such item in such proposed Operating Budget.
(b) Each Operating Budget delivered pursuant to this Section 1.12 shall contain Operating Budget Categories, and shall specify for each Fiscal Quarter and for each such Operating Budget Category the amount budgeted for such category for such Fiscal Quarter.
Annual Operating Budget Manager shall, on or before December 20 in each calendar year during the Term, deliver to Owner for Owner’s approval, an annual operating budget for the Community for the next calendar year (the “Annual Operating Budget”) which shall include separate line items for Capital Replacements and set forth an estimate, on a monthly basis, of Gross Revenues and Community Expenses, together with an explanation of anticipated changes to Tenants charges, payroll rates and positions, non-wage cost increases, the proposed methodology and formula employed by Manager in allocating shared Community Expenses, and all other factors differing from the then current calendar year. The Annual Operating Budget shall be accompanied by a narrative description of operating objectives and assumptions. If Owner does not approve an Annual Operating Budget or any portion thereof, it shall do so, to the extent practicable, on a line item basis. Manager and Owner shall cooperate to resolve disputed items, provided if the Annual Operating Budget is not approved by Owner within thirty (30) days of Owner’s receipt, Manager shall operate under the expired Annual Operating Budget until a new Annual Operating Budget is approved, provided that line items for Impositions, insurance premiums and utilities shall be the amounts actually incurred for such items. If agreement on the Annual Operating Budget cannot be reached within forty-five (45) days of Owner’s receipt (which time may be extended upon mutual agreement of the parties), the matter shall be resolved by arbitration. The Annual Operating Budget as approved by Owner, or as resolved by arbitration, will be the “Approved Budget” for the applicable calendar year. Manager will obtain Owner’s prior approval for any expenditure which will, or is reasonably expected to, result in a variance of 5% or more of any Approved Budget.
