Adjustments to Payments (a) If any payment or benefit Executive would receive pursuant to this Agreement or otherwise, including accelerated vesting of any equity compensation (all such payments and/or benefits hereinafter, “Payment”), would (i) constitute a “parachute payment” within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code, and (ii) but for this sentence, be subject to the excise tax imposed by Section 4999 of the Code (the “Excise Tax”), then such Payment shall be either (x) provided to the Executive in full, or (y) provided to the Executive to such lesser extent which would result in no portion of such Payment being subject to the excise tax, further reduced by $5,000 (including such further reduction, the “Cutback Amount”), whichever of the foregoing amounts, when taking into account applicable federal, state, local and foreign income and employment taxes, such excise tax and other applicable taxes, (all computed at the highest applicable marginal rates), results in the receipt by the Executive, on an after-tax basis, of the greatest amount of the Payment, notwithstanding that all or a portion of such Payment may be subject to the excise tax. If a reduction in payments or benefits constituting “parachute payments” is necessary so that the Payment equals the Cutback Amount, reduction shall occur in the following order: (A) cash payments shall be reduced first and in reverse chronological order such that the cash payment owed on the latest date following the occurrence of the event triggering such excise tax will be the first cash payment to be reduced; (B) accelerated vesting of performance-based equity awards shall be cancelled or reduced next and in the reverse order of the date of grant for such awards (i.e., the vesting of the most recently granted awards will be reduced first), with full-value awards reduced before any performance-based stock option or stock appreciation rights are reduced; (C) health and welfare benefits shall be reduced and in reverse chronological order such that the benefit owed on the latest date following the occurrence of the event triggering such excise tax will be the first benefit to be reduced; and (D) accelerated vesting of time-based equity awards shall be cancelled or reduced last and in the reverse order of the date of grant for such awards (i.e., the vesting of the most recently granted awards will be reduced first), with full-value awards reduced before any time-based stock option or stock appreciation rights are reduced.
(b) The Company shall appoint a nationally recognized accounting firm to make the determinations required hereunder and perform the foregoing calculations. The Company shall bear all expenses with respect to the determinations by such accounting firm required to be made hereunder. The accounting firm engaged to make the determinations hereunder shall provide its calculations, together with detailed supporting documentation, to the Company and Executive within fifteen (15) calendar days after the date on which right to a Payment is triggered (if requested at that time by the Company or Executive). Any good faith determinations of the accounting firm made hereunder shall be final, binding and conclusive upon the Company and Executive.
Rights to Payment Each right to payment and each instrument, document, chattel paper and other agreement constituting or evidencing Collateral or other collateral covered by the Security Documents is (or, in the case of all future Collateral or such other collateral, will be when arising or issued) the valid, genuine and legally enforceable obligation, subject to no defense, setoff or counterclaim, of the account debtor or other obligor named therein or in the Borrower's records pertaining thereto as being obligated to pay such obligation.
Conditions to Payment The obligation of Freddie Mac to pay any Transfer Amount and/or Return Reimbursement Amount and the obligation of the Trust to pay any Return Amount pursuant to Sections 2 and 3, respectively, shall be subject to the following conditions precedent:
(a) receipt by the Indenture Trustee of the monthly “Reference Pool File” for the related Payment Date in accordance with the terms of the Indenture;
(b) the Termination Date has not occurred as of any prior Payment Date; and
(c) receipt by Freddie Mac and the Trust of a Payment Notification pursuant to Section 7.
Covenants and Agreements of the Company The Company further covenants and agrees with the Placement Agent as follows:
Quarterly Payments The quarterly payment cannot be increased in cases of target over-achievement. The payments are given on cumulative outputs, in arrears, and therefore the maximum payment available will be given by the end of the Contract if the agreed (target) number of outputs is reached or exceeded.
Covenants and Agreements Each Grantor hereby covenants and agrees as follows:
(i) Each Grantor shall (A) cause all cash and all Proceeds received by such Grantor to be deposited in, or swept into, either the Mellon Account or, to the extent required by the Collateral Agent, acting at the direction of the Applicable Representative, the Concentration Account on a daily basis, except that cash to make Investments permitted by the Secured Debt Documents may be deposited in a Control Account; provided that after giving effect to such deposit and/or cash sweep, the amount of such cash and Proceeds on deposit in accounts other than the Mellon Account or the Concentration Account shall not exceed $1,000,000 (exclusive of the amounts in accounts for unpaid payroll, payroll taxes and withholding taxes), (B) to the extent required by the Collateral Agent, acting at the direction of the Applicable Representative, and to the extent that such cash and Proceeds are deposited in the Mellon Account and such cash and Proceeds exceed an amount not to exceed $2,000,000, such cash and Proceeds shall be deposited in, or swept into, the Concentration Account on a daily basis, (C) not establish or maintain, or permit any other Grantor to establish or maintain, any Securities Account or commodities account that is not a Control Account, and (D) not establish or maintain, or permit any other Grantor to establish or maintain, any account with any financial or other institution in which Proceeds are deposited other than the accounts listed on Schedule 3.5; provided that amounts in all such accounts are deposited in, or swept into, the Mellon Account as set forth in clause (A); provided, further, that the amount in the accounts so indicated on Schedule 3.5 which are for unpaid payroll, payroll taxes and withholding taxes are not required to be swept on a daily basis. So long as no Default has occurred and is continuing, a Grantor may transfer funds from the Blocked Account to any existing disbursement or Deposit Accounts of such Grantor.
(ii) In the event (A) any Grantor or any Approved Securities Intermediary or Blocked Account Bank shall, after the date hereof, terminate an agreement with respect to the maintenance of a Control Account or Blocked Account for any reason, (B) the Collateral Agent shall demand the termination of an agreement with respect to the maintenance of a Control Account or a Blocked Account as a result of the failure of an Approved Securities Intermediary or Blocked Account Bank to comply with the terms of the applicable Control Account Letter or Blocked Account Letter, or (C) the Applicable Representative determines in its sole discretion that the financial condition of an Approved Securities Intermediary or Blocked Account Bank, as the case may be, has materially deteriorated, such Grantor agrees to notify all of its obligors that were making payments to such terminated Control Account or Blocked Account, as the case may be, to make all future payments to another Control Account or Blocked Account, as the case may be.
Payment and Taxes 9.1 All payments to be made by the Guarantor under this Agreement shall be made in full, without any set-off or counterclaim whatsoever and free and clear of all deductions or withholdings whatsoever save only as may be required by law for value on the day on which payment is due.
9.2 If at any time the Guarantor is required to make any deduction or withholding in respect of Taxes from any payment due under this Agreement, it shall pay the full amount required to be deducted or withheld to the relevant taxation or other authority within the time allowed for such payment under applicable law and the sum due from the Guarantor in respect of such payment shall be increased to the extent necessary to ensure that, after the making of such deduction or withholding, the Sponsor receives on the due date for such payment (and retains, free from any liability in respect of such deduction or withholding), a net sum equal to the sum which it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been required to be made and the Guarantor and shall indemnify the Sponsor against any losses or costs incurred by it by reason of any failure of the Guarantor to make any such deduction or withholding or by reason of any increased payment not being made on the due date for such payment. The Guarantor shall promptly deliver to the Sponsor any receipts, certificates or other proof evidencing the amounts (if any) paid or payable in respect of any deduction or withholding as aforesaid.
9.3 If, following any such deduction or withholding as is referred to in Clause 8.2 from any payment by the Guarantor, the Sponsor shall receive or be granted a credit against or remission for any Taxes payable by it, the Sponsor shall, subject to the Guarantor having made any increased payment in accordance with Clause 8.2 and to the extent that the Sponsor can do so without prejudicing the retention of the amount of such credit or remission and without prejudice to the right of the Sponsor to obtain any other relief or allowance which may be available to it, reimburse the Guarantor with such amount as the Sponsor shall acting in its absolute discretion certify to be the proportion of such credit or remission as will leave the Sponsor (after such reimbursement) in no worse position than it would have been in had there been no such deduction or withholding from the payment by the Guarantor as aforesaid. Such reimbursement shall be made forthwith upon the Sponsor certifying that the amount of such credit or remission has been received by it. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall oblige the Sponsor to rearrange its tax affairs or to disclose any information regarding its tax affairs and computations. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the Guarantor shall not, by virtue of this Clause 8.3 be entitled to enquire about the Sponsor’s tax affairs.
9.4 Without prejudice to the foregoing provisions of this Clause 8, if the Sponsor is required to make any payment on account of Tax (not being a Tax imposed on and calculated by reference to the net income or a capital gain of the Sponsor by the jurisdiction in which it is incorporated other than any such Tax (including in respect of any balancing charge) imposed as a consequence of the exercise of the Put Option, the First Call Option or the Second Call Option (after taking into account the acquisition by the Sponsor of the Option Interest or the Residual Partnership Interest as the case may be) or otherwise on or in relation to any sum received or receivable or deemed to be received or receivable hereunder by the Sponsor (including any sum received or receivable or deemed to be received or receivable under this Clause 8) or any liability in respect of any such payment is asserted, imposed, levied or assessed against the Sponsor, the Guarantor shall, upon demand of the Sponsor, promptly indemnify the Sponsor against such payment or liability, together with any interest, penalties, costs and expenses payable or incurred in connection therewith (except to the extent that such interest penalties, costs or expenses have been incurred by the Sponsor’s gross negligence or wilful misconduct) by making to the Sponsor such payment as is necessary to ensure that the Sponsor receives a sum net of such Tax equal to the sum which it would have received had no such Tax been imposed.
9.5 If the Guarantor is required to indemnify the Sponsor pursuant to Clause 8.5 or a Tax arises in respect of which the Guarantor has an obligation under this Clause 8, then, without in any way limiting, reducing or otherwise qualifying any rights or obligations of the Sponsor, the Sponsor shall promptly upon becoming aware of the same notify the Guarantor thereof and, in consultation in good faith with the Guarantor, for a period of up to sixty (60) days from the date of such notification, the Sponsor shall take such steps at the request and expense of the Guarantor as may be open to it to mitigate the effects of such circumstances on the Guarantor including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing by using all reasonable endeavours to transfer its rights and obligations under this Agreement to another office or to a subsidiary or an affiliate of the Sponsor or to another institution, in each case not affected by the relevant circumstances provided that the Sponsor shall not be under any obligation to take or continue to take any such action or other steps if the Guarantor is in breach of this Agreement or if in its reasonable opinion, acting in good faith, to do so would have a material adverse effect on its business, operations or financial condition or the financial basis under which, inter alia, this Agreement has been entered into or would entail any cost or expense to the Sponsor (unless, in the case of any adverse effect on such financial basis, or cost or expense, the Sponsor shall have been indemnified or otherwise secured to its satisfaction).
9.6.1 If a claim shall be made by the Sponsor for any Tax for which the Guarantor may be required to indemnify the Sponsor pursuant to Clause 8.2 or Clause 8.5, and under applicable law of the taxing jurisdiction the Guarantor is allowed to contest directly such Tax in its own name, then without prejudice to the obligation of the Guarantor to pay any sum due to the Sponsor pursuant to this Clause 8 on its due date, the Guarantor shall be permitted, at is expense and in its own name, and with the prior written consent of the Sponsor, to contest the imposition of such claim.
9.6.2 If the Guarantor is prevented by applicable law from validly contesting such claim in its own name or if it is necessary for the Sponsor to join in or assist in the contesting by the Guarantor of any claim, upon request of the Guarantor supported by an opinion of counsel selected by the Guarantor reasonably acceptable to the Sponsor confirming that there is a reasonable basis for contesting the validity, applicability or amount of such Taxes, the Sponsor shall, subject to sub-clause 8.7.3, in good faith, at the Guarantor’s expense, contest or assist in contesting the imposition of such Tax. After considering any views offered by the Sponsor and the Sponsor’s counsel concerning the forum in which a claim is most likely to be favourably resolved, the Guarantor may in its sole discretion select the forum for such consent and determine whether any such contest shall be by (a) resisting payment of such Tax, (b) paying such Tax under protest, (c) paying such Tax and seeking a refund or other repayment thereof or (d) seeking a reduction in the amount of such Tax.
9.6.3 In no event shall the Sponsor be required to contest nor shall the Sponsor be required to join in or assist in contesting the imposition of any such Tax:
(a) if the Sponsor reasonably believes that to do so would be prejudicial to its interest;
(b) unless the Guarantor shall have agreed to pay the Sponsor on demand, and indemnify the Sponsor from, all reasonable costs and expenses that the Sponsor incurs in contesting or assisting in contesting such claim or arising out of or relating to such contest or assistance (including, but not limited to, all reasonable out-of-pocket costs, expenses, losses, reasonable legal and accounting fees, disbursements, penalties and interest); and
(c) if such contest shall be conducted in a manner requiring the prior payment of the claim by the Sponsor or, if the Guarantor shall request the Sponsor to make payment thereof pursuant to sub-clauses (b) or (c) of Clause 8.7.2 unless the Guarantor shall have advanced to the Sponsor sufficient funds (on an interest free basis) (and if such payment results in Taxable income to the Sponsor in respect of which the Sponsor does not receive a corresponding deduction, on an after tax basis) to make such payment.
Premium Payments If an employee with at least three years of service in the employ of the Shaker Heights Board of Education should exhaust his/her sick leave within the time specifications of this contract and is granted a leave of absence by the Board, the Board shall continue to pay his/her premiums in accordance with his/her work assignment for the following fringe benefits for a period not to exceed twelve (12) months. The payment of such premiums will cease on the effective date an employee retires, resigns, goes on disability retirement or his/her contract is terminated.
1. PPO medical coverage 2. Prescription drug coverage
Obligations of and Services to be Provided by the Sub-Advisor The Sub-Advisor will:
(a) Provide investment advisory services, including but not limited to research, advice and supervision for the Allocated Assets of each Series.
(b) Furnish to the Board of Directors of the Fund for approval (or any appropriate committee of such Board), and revise from time to time as conditions require, a recommended investment program for each Series consistent with each Series’ respective investment objective(s) and policies and any specific criteria applicable to the Allocated Assets.
(c) Implement the approved investment program for the Allocated Assets by placing orders for the purchase and sale of securities without prior consultation with the Manager and without regard to the length of time the securities have been held, the resulting rate of portfolio turnover or any tax considerations, subject always to the provisions of the Fund’s registration statement, Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws and the requirements of the 1940 Act, as each of the same shall be from time to time in effect.
(d) Advise and assist the officers of the Fund, as requested by the officers, in taking such steps as are necessary or appropriate to carry out the decisions of its Board of Directors, and any appropriate committees of such Board, regarding the general conduct of the investment business of each Series.
(e) Maintain, in connection with the Sub-Advisor’s investment advisory services provided to the Allocated Assets, compliance with the 1940 Act and the regulations adopted by the SEC thereunder and the Series’ investment strategies and restrictions as stated in the Fund’s prospectus and statement of additional information and any specific criteria applicable to the Allocated Assets.
(f) Report to the Board of Directors of the Fund at such times and in such detail as the Board of Directors may reasonably deem appropriate in order to enable it to determine that the investment policies, procedures and approved investment program of each Series (and any specific criteria applicable to the Allocated Assets) are being observed.
(g) Upon request, provide assistance and recommendations for the determination of the fair value of certain securities when reliable market quotations are not readily available for purposes of calculating net asset value in accordance with procedures and methods established by the Fund’s Board of Directors.
(h) Furnish, at its own expense, (i) all necessary investment and management facilities, including salaries of clerical and other personnel required for it to execute its duties faithfully, and (ii) administrative facilities, including bookkeeping, clerical personnel and equipment necessary for the efficient conduct of the investment advisory affairs of each Series.
(i) Open accounts with Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act compliant broker-dealers and futures commission merchants (“broker-dealers”), select broker-dealers to effect all transactions for each Series, place all necessary orders with broker‑dealers or issuers (including affiliated broker-dealers), and negotiate commissions, if applicable. To the extent consistent with applicable law, purchase or sell orders for each Series may be aggregated with contemporaneous purchase or sell orders of other clients of the Sub-Advisor. In such event allocation of securities so sold or purchased, as well as the expenses incurred in the transaction, will be made by the Sub‑Advisor in the manner the Sub-Advisor considers to be the most equitable and consistent with its fiduciary obligations to the Fund and to other clients. The Sub-Advisor will report on such allocations at the request of the Manager, the Fund or the Fund’s Board of Directors providing such information as the number of aggregated trades to which each Series was a party, the broker-dealers to whom such trades were directed and the basis for the allocation for the aggregated trades. The Sub-Advisor shall use its best efforts to obtain execution of transactions for each Series at prices which are advantageous to the Series and at commission rates that are reasonable in relation to the benefits received. However, the Sub-Advisor may select brokers or dealers on the basis that they provide brokerage, research or other services or products to the Sub-Advisor. To the extent consistent with applicable law, the Sub-Advisor may pay a broker or dealer an amount of commission for effecting a securities transaction in excess of the amount of commission or dealer spread another broker or dealer would have charged for effecting that transaction if the Sub-Advisor determines in good faith that such amount of commission is reasonable in relation to the value of the brokerage and research products and/or services provided by such broker or dealer. This determination, with respect to brokerage and research products and/or services, may be viewed in terms of either that particular transaction or the overall responsibilities which the Sub-Advisor and its affiliates have with respect to each Series as well as to accounts over which they exercise investment discretion. Not all such services or products need be used by the Sub-Advisor in managing the Allocated Assets. In addition, joint repurchase or other accounts may not be utilized by the Series except to the extent permitted under any exemptive order obtained by the Sub-Advisor provided that all conditions of such order are complied with.
(j) Maintain all accounts, books and records with respect to the Allocated Assets as are required of an investment advisor of a registered investment company pursuant to the 1940 Act and Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the “Advisers Act”), and the rules thereunder, and furnish the Fund and the Manager with such periodic and special reports as the Fund or the Manager may reasonably request. In compliance with the requirements of Rule 31a-3 under the 1940 Act, the Sub-Advisor hereby agrees that all records that it maintains for each Series are the property of the Fund, agrees to preserve for the periods described by Rule 31a-2 under the 1940 Act any records that it maintains for the Series and that are required to be maintained by Rule 31a-1 under the 1940 Act, and further agrees to surrender promptly to the Fund any records that it maintains for a Series upon request by the Fund or the Manager. The Sub-Advisor has no responsibility for the maintenance of Fund records except insofar as is directly related to the services the Sub-Advisor provides to a Series.
(k) Observe and comply with Rule 17j-1 under the 1940 Act and the Sub-Advisor’s Code of Ethics adopted pursuant to that Rule as the same may be amended from time to time. The Manager acknowledges receipt of a copy of the Sub-Advisor’s current Code of Ethics. The Sub-Advisor shall promptly forward to the Manager a copy of any material amendment to the Sub-Advisor’s Code of Ethics along with certification that the Sub-Advisor has implemented procedures for administering the Sub-Advisor’s Code of Ethics.
(l) From time to time as the Manager or the Fund may request, furnish the requesting party reports on portfolio transactions and reports on investments held by a Series, all in such detail as the Manager or the Fund may reasonably request. The Sub-Advisor will make available its officers and employees to meet with the Fund’s Board of Directors at the Fund’s principal place of business on due notice to review the investments of a Series.
(m) Provide such information as is customarily provided by a sub-advisor, or as may be required or reasonably requested by the Manager, for the Fund or the Manager to comply with their respective obligations under applicable laws, including, without limitation, the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), the 1940 Act, the Advisers Act, the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and any state securities laws, and any rule or regulation thereunder. Such information includes, but is not limited to: the Sub-Advisor’s compliance manual and policies and procedures adopted to comply with Rule 206(4)-7 of the Advisers Act; the Sub-Advisor’s most recent annual compliance report or a detailed summary of such report; timely and complete responses to all Quarterly Compliance Questionnaires (including the identification of any material compliance maters and a copy of any material changes to the Sub-Advisor’s Rule 206(4)-7 compliance policies and procedures, marked to show changes along with a written summary of the purpose of each such change); Annual Proxy Voting Questionnaires; Annual Best Execution and Soft Dollar Questionnaires, and responses to all other requests from the Manager. The Sub-Advisor agrees to make available for the Manager’s review all deficiency letters issued by the SEC together with all responses given by Sub-Advisor to such letters. The Sub-Advisor will advise the Manager of any material changes in the Sub-Advisor’s ownership within a reasonable time after any such change.
(n) Vote proxies received on behalf of each Series (with respect to the portion thereof allocated to the Sub-Advisor) in a manner consistent with the Sub-Advisor’s proxy voting policies and procedures and provide a record of votes cast containing all of the voting information required by Form N-PX in an electronic format to enable the Series to file Form N-PX as required by SEC rule.
(o) Respond to tender offers, rights offerings and other voluntary corporate action requests affecting securities held by each Series (with respect to the portion thereof allocated to the Sub-Advisor) and complete and file notices of claims in connection with class action lawsuits concerning securities owned by the Fund (with respect to the portion of each Series thereof allocated to the Sub-Advisor).
(p) Cooperate with the Manager in its performance of quarterly and annual tax compliance tests to monitor the Series’ compliance with Subchapter M of the Code and Section 817(h) of the Code. If it is determined by the Manager or its tax advisors that the Series is not in compliance with the requirements imposed by the Code, the Sub-Advisor, in consultation with the Manager and its tax advisors, will take prompt action to bring the Series back into compliance with the time permitted under the Code.
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