Providing for the issuance and sale of bonds in the maximum
principal amount of $13,420,000 for the purpose of paying costs
of improving the City’s street system, in cooperation with the
Department of Transportation of the State of Ohio and
otherwise, by (i) improving streets by constructing,
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reconstructing and rehabilitating the pavement base, bridges,
curbs, drainage improvements, driveway approaches, pedestrian
ramps, bicycle paths and sidewalks, widening, realigning,
adjusting radius cutbacks, manholes and catch basins, preparing
the surface and surfacing and resurfacing, and installing traffic
signs, signals and signalization, where necessary, and (ii)
improving bridges by constructing, reconstructing, replacing,
rehabilitating, restoring and widening bridge decks, supporting
piers, abutments, arches, beams, columns and other structural
steel components and bridge bearing systems and related
embankments and drainage facilities, restoring and installing
expansion joints, bridge railings and traffic barrier railings and
constructing, reconstructing and rehabilitating the pavement
base, curbs, drainage improvements, driveway approaches,
bicycle paths and sidewalks and surfacing and resurfacing the
roadway on those bridges and approaches to those bridges,
where necessary, in each case as designated in the plans
approved or to be approved by Council, and declaring an
emergency.
SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:
Body:
This is one of a series of ordinances that authorize the issuance of
general obligation bonds the City plans to issue prior to November
2024.
This Ordinance authorizes the issuance and sale of bonds in the
maximum principal amount of $13,420,000 to provide approved debt
funding for portions of the street and bridge construction,
reconstruction, rehabilitation and resurfacing projects included in the
City’s 2024 Capital Improvement Program. With the issuance of the
bonds authorized by this Ordinance, the City’s outstanding debt will be
increased by not more than $13,420,000. The bonds will be subject
to statutory direct debt limits and the statutory and constitutional
indirect debt limitation and reduce the City’s legal borrowing capacity.
The Director of Finance, as fiscal officer of the City, has certified
to this Council that the estimated life or period of usefulness of the
improvement described in Section 2 is at least five years the estimated
maximum maturity of the Bonds described in Section 2 is at least 15
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