NEGOTIATING PROCEDURES (1) The District and RAP shall negotiate in a good faith effort to reach agreement over the establishment or modification of policies dealing with the salaries, terms or conditions of work and matters related thereto. Any agreement so negotiated shall apply to all paraprofessionals employed in the City School District of Rochester, New York regardless of membership or lack thereof in the organization. The District and RAP shall each appoint a negotiating committee to act on its behalf.
(2) The District agrees to furnish to the negotiating committees in accordance with their reasonable request, all necessary information concerning financial resources of the District, tentative budgetary requirements and allocations, and such other information as will assist the negotiating committees in developing intelligent, accurate and constructive programs on behalf of the paraprofessionals.
(3) Meetings of the negotiating committees may be initiated at the written request of either party, but not later than the first Friday in February when school is in session of any year when negotiations shall take place. The parties shall arrange for a mutually satisfactory time and place for an initial meeting within a reasonable time thereafter. All subject matters to be negotiated shall be submitted on that date.
(4) If joint meetings of the negotiating committees are scheduled during the school day, members of the committees shall be released from their regular duties without loss of pay.
(5) Either party may utilize the services of consultants in negotiating meetings and may call upon competent professional and lay representatives to consider matters under discussion and to make suggestions.
(6) Agreements reached by the negotiating committees shall be submitted in writing to the District and RAP for ratification.
(7) Upon ratification, the Agreement shall be signed by the Superintendent of Schools and the RAP President.
(8) Should an impasse develop in the course of negotiations, the parties agree to utilize the impasse procedures of Section 209 of the Public Employees' Fair Employment Act.
Underwriting Procedures (i) If (x) any of the Initiating Holders so elects for itself or (y) with respect to any given trading day, a Designated Holder proposes to sell or dispose of more than the Daily Trade Amount and the Company's board of directors determines in good faith that it is necessary for an orderly distribution to be made pursuant to a firm commitment underwritten offering, then the Company shall use all commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Demand Registration to be in the form of, and such Designated Holder or Designated Holders shall be obligated to sell or dispose of its or their Registrable Securities pursuant to, a firm commitment underwritten offering and the managing underwriter or underwriters selected for such offering shall be the Approved Underwriter selected in accordance with Section 3(f). In connection with any Demand Registration under this Section 3 involving an underwritten offering, none of the Registrable Securities held by any Designated Holder making a request for inclusion of such Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 3(b) hereof shall be included in such underwritten offering unless such Designated Holder accepts the terms of the offering as agreed upon by the Company, the Initiating Holders and the Approved Underwriter, and then only in such quantity as will not, in the opinion of the Approved Underwriter, jeopardize the success of such offering by the Initiating Holders. If the Approved Underwriter advises the Company in its reasonable opinion that the aggregate amount of such Registrable Securities requested to be included in such offering is sufficiently large to have a material adverse effect on the success of such offering, then the Company shall include in such registration only the aggregate amount of Registrable Securities that the Approved Underwriter believes may be sold without any such material adverse effect and shall reduce the amount of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration by removing from such registration securities owned, first by the Company and second by the Designated Holders (including the Initiating Holders) pro rata based on the number of Registrable Securities owned by each such Designated Holder.
(ii) If an Initiating Holder makes a request for a Demand Registration and, pursuant to Section 3(e)(i) above, the Approved Underwriter advises the Company to reduce the aggregate amount of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such offering such that less than seventy-five percent (75%) of the Registrable Securities requested to be included by any Initiating Holder are ultimately included in and sold pursuant to such Demand Registration, the Initiating Holder shall have the right to require the Company to effect an additional Demand Registration; provided, however, that in no event shall the aggregate number of Demand Registrations to be effected by the Company for any one Initiating Holder exceed two (2).
Operating Procedures Company shall observe and comply with the Operating Procedures. Company shall ensure that Company's Stores personnel are trained regarding the Operating Procedures and shall ensure their compliance with them. The Operating Procedures may be supplemented, amended or modified by Bank from time to time in its reasonable discretion; provided, however, a copy of any such supplement, amendment or modification shall be provided to Company at least ninety (90) days before its effective date (the "Notice Date") unless otherwise required by Applicable Law, and for those changes required by Applicable Law, notice shall be given as soon as practicable. For changes that are (A) required by Applicable Law, or (B) determined by Bank in good faith to be necessary from the standpoint of safe and sound banking practices (both (A) and (B) being referred to herein as the "Required Changes"), where Bank implements such Required Changes with all of its other clients that are also affected by such change in Applicable Law or operate in circumstances similarly requiring changes from the standpoint of safe and sound banking practices, Bank shall identify the changes as Required Changes in the notice to Company. Unless such change is a Required Change, Company shall have the right within thirty (30) days after the Notice Date to object to such change and the parties' representatives will promptly thereafter meet to discuss such change in good faith in order to agree upon such change or a mutually agreeable alternative to such change. In the event the parties are unable to agree upon such change or an alternative within sixty (60) days after the Notice Date, then a senior executive from both Company and Bank shall meet to negotiate in good faith in order to agree upon such change or a mutually agreeable alternative to such change. If the parties' senior executives are unable to mutually agree within ninety (90) days after the Notice Date, then Bank shall have the right to implement the initially proposed change so long as (i) Bank implements such change with all or substantially all of its other similar clients, (ii) such change does not change the chargebacks section of the Operating Procedures, and (iii) such change does not impose a material adverse financial or operational burden on Company.
Procedures for Advances (a) In the case of the making of any Advance, the repayment of any Advance, or any termination, increase or reduction of the Facility Amount and prepayments of Advances, the Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent a Borrower Notice. Each Borrower Notice shall specify the amount (subject to Section 2.1 hereof) of Advances to be borrowed or repaid and the Funding Date or repayment date (which, in all cases, shall be a Business Day) and whether such Advance is a Revolver Advance or a Swing Advance.
(b) Subject to the conditions described in Section 2.1, the Borrower may request an Advance from the Lenders by delivering to the Administrative Agent at certain times the information and documents set forth in this Section 2.2.
(c) No later than 12:00 noon (New York, New York time) five (5) Business Days prior to the proposed Funding Date for a Revolver Advance (or such shorter period of time or later date as may be agreed to by the Required Lenders), the Borrower shall notify (i) the Collateral Custodian by delivery to the Collateral Custodian of written notice of such proposed Funding Date, and (ii) the Administrative Agent by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a credit report and transaction summary for each Loan that is the subject of the proposed Advance setting forth the credit underwriting by the Originator of such Loan, including without limitation a description of the Obligor and the proposed loan transaction in the form of Exhibit M hereto; provided that, in the case of Advances funding Revolver Loans, the requirements of this Section 2.2(c) shall apply only with respect to the first Advance to be made with respect to each such Revolver Loan. By 5:00 p.m. (New York, New York time) on the next Business Day, the Administrative Agent shall use its best efforts to confirm to the Borrower the receipt of such items and whether it has reviewed such items and found them to be complete and in proper form. If the Administrative Agent makes a determination that the items are incomplete or not in proper form, it will communicate such determination to the Borrower. Failure by the Administrative Agent to respond to the Borrower by 5:00 p.m. (New York, New York time) on the day the related Funding Request is delivered by the Borrower shall constitute an implied determination that the items are incomplete or not in proper form. The Borrower will take such steps requested by the Administrative Agent to correct the problem(s). In the event of a delay in the actual Funding Date due to the need to correct any such problems, the Funding Date shall be no earlier than two (2) Business Days after the day on which the Administrative Agent confirms to the Borrower that the problems have been corrected.
(d) No later than 1:00 p.m. (New York, New York time) one (1) Business Day prior to the proposed Funding Date for a Revolver Advance (or such shorter period of time or later date as may be agreed to by the Required Lenders), the Administrative Agent, each Managing Agent and the Collateral Custodian, as applicable, shall receive or shall have previously received the following:
(i) a Funding Request in the form of Exhibit A;
(ii) a wire disbursement and authorization form shall be delivered to the Administrative Agent; and
(iii) a certification substantially in the form of Exhibit H concerning the Collateral Custodian’s receipt of certain documentation relating to the Eligible Loan(s) related to such Advance shall be delivered to the Administrative Agent, which may be delivered either as a separate document or incorporated in the Monthly Report. Each Funding Request for a Revolver Advance shall specify the aggregate amount of the requested Advance, which shall be in an amount equal to at least $500,000.
(e) No later than 12:00 noon (New York, New York time) on the Business Day proposed for a Swing Advance, the Administrative Agent shall receive or shall have previously received the following:
(i) a Funding Request in the form of Exhibit A; and
(ii) a wire disbursement and authorization form.
(f) Each Funding Request shall be accompanied by (i) a Borrower Notice, depicting the outstanding amount of Advances under this Agreement and representing that all conditions precedent for a funding have been met, including a representation by the Borrower that the requested Advance shall not, on the Funding Date thereof, exceed the Availability on such day, (ii) a calculation of the Borrowing Base as of the applicable Funding Date (which calculation may, for avoidance of doubt, take into account (A) Loans which will become Transferred Loans on or prior to such Funding Date and (B) an updated Loan List including each Loan that is subject to the requested Advance, (C) the proposed Funding Date, and (D) wire transfer instructions for the Advance; provided, however, the Funding Request for a Swing Advance shall be required to contain only the information described in Section 2.2(e)(i) and (ii) above. A Funding Request shall be irrevocable when delivered; provided however, that if the Borrowing Base calculation delivered pursuant to clause (ii) above includes a Loan which does not become a Transferred Loan on or before the applicable Funding Date as anticipated, and the Borrower cannot otherwise make the representations required pursuant to clause (i) above, the Borrower shall revise the Funding Request accordingly, and shall pay any loss, cost or expense incurred by any Lender in connection with the broken funding evidenced by such revised Funding Request.
(g) On the Funding Date following the satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in this Section 2.2 and Article III, the Lenders shall make available to the Administrative Agent at its address listed beneath its signature on its signature page to this Agreement (or on the signature page to the Joinder Agreement pursuant to which it became a party hereto), for deposit to the account of the Borrower or its designee in same day funds, at the account specified in the Funding Request, an amount equal to such Lender’s ratable share of the Advance then being made (except that in the case of a Swing Advance, the Swingline Lender will make available to the Borrower the amount of any such Swing Advance). Each wire transfer of an Advance to the Borrower shall be initiated by the applicable Lender no later than 3:00 p.m. (New York, New York time) on the applicable Funding Date.
Borrowing Procedures and Settlements (a) Each Revolving Facility Borrowing or a Borrowing of Other Revolving Loans shall be made by a written request by an Authorized Person delivered to the Administrative Agent (which may be delivered through the Administrative Agent’s electronic platform or portal) and received by the Administrative Agent no later than 1:00 p.m., Local Time, (i) on the Business Day that is the requested funding date in the case of a request for a Swingline Borrowing, (ii) on the Business Day that is one Business Day prior to the requested funding date in the case of a request for an ABR Borrowing, and (iii) on the Business Day that is three Business Days prior to the requested funding date in the case of all other requests, specifying (A) the amount of such Borrowing, and (B) the requested funding date (which shall be a Business Day); provided that the Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, elect to accept as timely requests that are received later than 1:00 p.m., Local Time, on the applicable Business Day. All Borrowing requests which are not made on-line via the Administrative Agent’s electronic platform or portal shall be subject to (and unless the Administrative Agent elects otherwise in the exercise of its sole discretion, such Borrowing shall not be made until the completion of) the Administrative Agent’s authentication process (with results satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) prior to the funding of any such requested Loan. Each such Borrowing request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02:
(i) the aggregate amount of the requested Borrowing, which amount shall not result in the Revolving Facility Credit Exposure exceeding the Borrowing Base;
(ii) the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day;
(iii) whether such Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurocurrency Borrowing;
(iv) in the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, the initial Interest Period to be applicable thereto, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”; and
(v) the location and number of the Borrower’s account to which funds are to be disbursed. If no election as to the Type of Revolving Facility Borrowing is specified, then the requested Revolving Facility Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period is specified with respect to any requested Eurocurrency Borrowing, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration. Promptly following receipt of a Borrowing request in accordance with this Section 2.03(a), the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of the amount of such Lender’s Loan to be made as part of the requested Borrowing.
