Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
A. Need: This legislation is needed for the City to pay the loan application fee for a loan agreement totaling $55,075,529.00, for the Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant New Headworks, Phase 3, CIP 650352 project. This Sanitary System Engineering Section project (identified in Section 1.) has been approved for financing through the Ohio Water Pollution Control Loan Fund (WPCLF). This loan program is jointly administered by the Ohio EPA's Division of Environmental and Financial Assistance, and the Ohio Water Development Authority (OWDA). The WPCLF provides below-market interest rate loans for municipal wastewater treatment improvements. The interest rate for this loan is 3.25%.
B. Emergency Designation: The City is required to pay the loan application fee upon the execution of the loan agreement. The loan agreement was approved by the OWDA on February 24, 2005 and the executed loan agreement along with the application fee invoice has been received by the City. Fund Payment Requests cannot be processed until the application fee is paid.
C. FISCAL IMPACT
Budgeted Amount: There is sufficient budget authority in the 2005 Sewer System Operating Fund for application fee expenditures.
Title
To authorize the Director of Public Utilities to pay the Water Pollution Control Loan Fund application fee to the Ohio Water Development Authority, for a Sewerage and Drainage Division project; to authorize the expenditure of $192,764.00; and to declare an emergency. ($192,764.00)
Body
WHEREAS, a Sewerage and Drainage Division project has been approved for financing through an Ohio Water Pollution Control Loan Fund award on February 24, 2005 which financial assistance will help to reduce the total project costs to the City's sewerage customers; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize the Director of Public Utilities to pay the requisite loan application fee to the Ohio Water Development Authority pay...
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