ACTION REQUESTED:
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Communication from the City Manager and Finance Director Comptroller with a Request to ADOPT an ORDINANCE Providing for the ISSUANCE of GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, in an Aggregate Amount not to Exceed $18,500,000.00, of the City of Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, for the Purpose of Financing Various Capital Improvements in and for the City and Refunding Certain of the City’s Outstanding Bonds, Providing for the Levy of a Direct Annual Tax Sufficient to Pay the Principal of and Interest on Said Bonds, and Authorizing the Sale of Said Bonds to the Purchaser Thereof.
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BACKGROUND: The 2019 Revised Annual Budget approved bonding in the amount of $5,475,500 for capital projects including sidewalks, land acquisition, Fire Station replacement, building improvements and fleet replacement. The attached parameters ordinance provides for the issuance of bonds to meet these capital needs. The ordinance states that the amount of new borrowing will not exceed $6,000,000.
In addition to the issuance of bonds for 2019 capital projects, the attached ordinance provides for the issuance of bonds to refund bonds issued in 2010. Speer Financial Inc., our financial advisors, has determined that significant savings in debt service will be realized as a result of refinancing the Taxable General Obligation Bonds, Series 2010 C Build America Bonds in an amount not to exceed $12,500,000.
This ordinance authorizes the Designated Officials (Mayor, City Clerk, City Treasurer, City Manager and Finance Director/Comptroller to sell bonds. The authority granted in this Ordinance for the Designated Officials will expire April 29, 2020 without any further direction from the Council to sell bonds based on terms as prescribed in this Ordinance.
The attached Ordinance provides for the issuance of general obligation to be issued in a principal amount not to exceed $18,500,000.
FINANCIAL IMPACT: Capital projects in the amount of $5,475,500 will be completed as budgeted. Debt service payments on new bond will be paid in future years. Future savings from reduction in debt service requirements related to the 2010 Taxable General Obligation Build America Bonds should be approximately $100,000 annually from 2020 through 2031.
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERNS: None expressed.
IMPACT IF APPROVED: Capital projects will be completed as budgeted and debt service for new issue will be paid in future years. Savings on future debt service related to the refunding of the 2010 Taxable General Obligation Bonds will be realized.
IMPACT IF DENIED: The 2019 capital projects outlined above will not be completed and additional debt will not be issued thereby reducing future debt service payments. The 2010 Taxable General Obligation Build America Bonds will not be refunded and savings on future debt service payments would not be realized.
ALTERNATIVES: None
EEO CERTIFICATION NUMBER: N/A
WHICH OF THE GOALS IDENTIFIED IN THE COUNCIL’S 2017 - 2032 STRATEGIC PLAN DOES THIS RECOMMENDATION ADVANCE?
1. Financially Sound City
2. Safe Peoria
WHICH CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR(S) FROM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DOES THIS RECOMMENDATION IMPLEMENT?
1. Have an efficient government.
2. Invest in our infrastructure and transportation.
3. Reinvest in neighborhoods.
DEPARTMENT: Finance