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File #: RES 14-993    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
In control: City Council
Final action: 6/4/2014
Title: Accepting the offer of the Minnesota Public Facilities Authority to purchase a Water Revenue Note in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $2,200,000, providing for the issuance of the 2014 note, and authorizing execution of a Project Loan Agreement with the Minnesota Public Facilities Authority.
Sponsors: Kathy Lantry
Ward: Bond Sale
Attachments: 1. Exhibit A, 2. Exhibit B, 3. Updated $2.2mm Budget, 4. BWC resolution 7209 3.12.13
Related files: RES 14-559
Title
Accepting the offer of the Minnesota Public Facilities Authority to purchase a Water Revenue Note in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $2,200,000, providing for the issuance of the 2014 note, and authorizing execution of a Project Loan Agreement with the Minnesota Public Facilities Authority.

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WHEREAS, Saint Paul Regional Water Services on behalf of the City Council (the "Council") of the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota (the "City"), has heretofore applied for a loan from the Minnesota Public Facilities Authority (the "PFA") to provide financing pursuant to the City's home rule charter and Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 475 (the "Municipal Debt Act"), for funding the purchase and installation of a sludge filter press and appurtenanceswith proceeds of the sale of a water revenue note (the "2014 Project") as an improvement to the City's municipal water utility (the "Water Utility") operated by Saint Paul Regional Water Services; and

WHEREAS, Saint Paul Regional Water Services has, since its acquisition in 1885, been under the jurisdiction of the Board of Water Commissioners of the City of Saint Paul (the "Board") and the Board and this Council deem it necessary and expedient to undertake the 2014 Project; and

WHEREAS, the PFA is authorized pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 446A, as amended (the "PFA Act"), to issue its bonds and to use the proceeds thereof, together with certain other state and federal funds, to provide loans to municipalities such as the City to fund eligible costs of construction of publicly owned drinking water systems in accordance with the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act; and

WHEREAS, the PFA has committed to make a loan to the City in the principal amount of up to $2,200,000, to be disbursed and repaid in accordance with the terms of a Minnesota Public Facilities Authority Revenue Bond Purchase and Project Loan Agreement (the "Project Loan Agreement") executed by the PFA and the City and a...

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