2021.09.07 RESO 2021-60 Sale of GO Bonds

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the manner herein specified until all of the Bonds and interest thereon have been fully paid and the City has been fully reimbursed from the pledge of Tax Abatements for payment of the principal on the Bonds paid by the City from taxes levied on property in the City other than the Project. There shall be maintained in the Fund the following separate accounts: (a) Construction Account. To the Construction Account there shall be credited the proceeds of the sale of the Bonds. From the Construction Account there shall be paid all costs and expenses of the Project, including the cost of any construction contracts heretofore let and all other costs incurred and to be incurred of the kind authorized in Minnesota Statutes, Section 475.65. Moneys in the Construction Account shall be used for no other purpose except as otherwise provided by law. Proceeds of the Bonds may be used to the extent necessary to pay interest on the Bonds due prior to the anticipated date of commencement of the collection of Tax Abatements and taxes herein levied or covenanted to be levied and if upon completion of the Project there shall remain any unexpended balance in the Construction Account, the balance shall be transferred to the Debt Service Account. (b) Debt Service Account. To the Debt Service Account there is hereby irrevocably appropriated and pledged, and there shall be credited (i) Tax Abatements in an amount sufficient to pay the annual principal payments on the Bonds; (ii) any collections of all taxes herein and hereafter levied for the payment of the interest on the Bonds; (iii) all funds remaining in the Construction Account after completion of the Project and payment of the costs thereof; (iv) all investment earnings on funds held in the Debt Service Account; and (v) any and all other moneys which are properly available and are appropriated by the governing body of the City to the Debt Service Account. The Debt Service Account shall be used solely to pay the principal and interest and any premiums for redemption of the Bonds. No portion of the proceeds of the Bonds shall be used directly or indirectly to acquire higher yielding investments or to replace funds which were used directly or indirectly to acquire higher yielding investments, except (1) for a reasonable temporary period until such proceeds are needed for the purpose for which the Bonds were issued and (2) in addition to the above in an amount not greater than the lesser of five percent of the proceeds of the Bonds or $100,000. To this effect, any proceeds of the Bonds and any sums from time to time held in the Construction Account or Debt Service Account (or any other City account which will be used to pay principal or interest to become due on the bonds payable therefrom) in excess of amounts which under then -applicable federal arbitrage regulations may be invested without regard to yield shall not be invested at a yield in excess of the applicable yield restrictions imposed by said arbitrage regulations on such investments after taking into account any applicable "temporary periods" or "minor portion" made available under the federal arbitrage regulations. Money in the Fund shall not be invested in obligations or deposits issued by, guaranteed by or insured by the United States or any agency or instrumentality thereof if and to the extent that such investment would cause the Bonds to be "federally guaranteed within the meaning of Section 149(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"). 16. Tax Abatements; Use of Tax Abatements. The Council has adopted the Abatement Resolution and has thereby approved the Tax Abatements, including the pledge thereof to the payment of principal of the Bonds. As provided in the Abatement Resolution, the estimated total amount of Tax Abatements, if received as estimated for the full maximum term 14 53590415v1