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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 08-19-2008- 4nnORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: August 19, 2008 Action Agenda Item No. ~~ SUBJECT: Reimbursement Resolution for Affordable Housing Bonds DEPARTMENT: Finance PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): Resolution INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary Humphreys, 245-2453 Robert Jessup, 919-755-1800 PURPOSE: To approve a resolution providing for reimbursement of capital expenses for Affordable Housing from the proceeds of a future financing. BACKGROUND: In 2001, the voters approved the issuance of $4 million of Affordable Housing Debt to be used for capital costs of providing housing for the benefit of persons of low and moderate income. The County has issued $2.6 million of this debt. The County staff is planning to ask the Board to authorize moving forward with the issuance of $1.4 million of Affordable Housing debt to occur early in calendar year 2009. The use of previously issued debt proceeds for various Affordable Housing projects are such that the Affordable Housing programs may need to provide funds for approved projects before the issuance of the additional $1.4 million in debt. In order to allow the County to reimburse itself from the proceeds of this future issuance, it is necessary to adopt the attached resolution prepared by the County's bond counsel. FINANCIAL IMPACT: There is no fiscal impact associated with approval of this reimbursement resolution. RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board approve the reimbursement resolution. 2 REIMBURSEMENT RESOLUTION - AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS WHEREAS, the Manager has described to the Board the desirability of adopting a resolution, as provided under federal tax law, to facilitate the County's using proceeds of tax-exempt financing to restore the County's funds when the County makes capital expenditures prior to closing on the financing. BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of Orange County, North Carolina, as follows: Section 1. The project is the payment of capital costs of providing housing for the benefit of persons of low and moderate income. Section 2. The County intends to finance the project. The expected type of financing (which is subject to change) is the general obligation bonds approved at the County's 2001 bond referendum, or in the alternative installment financing pursuant to 160A-20 of the General Statutes. The expected maximum amount of bonds or other obligations to be issued or contracted for the project is $1,400,000. Section 3. The County intends that funds that have been advanced, or may be advanced, from the County's general fund for project costs will be reimbursed from the financing proceeds. Section 4. The County intends that the adoption of this resolution will be a declaration of this County's official intent to reimburse project expenditures from financing proceeds. ~ ~ * * ~ ~ ~ I certify that the foregoing resolution was duly adopted at a meeting of the Board of Commissioners of Orange County, North Carolina, duly called and held on 2008, and that a quorum was present and acting throughout such meeting. Such resolution remains in full effect as of today. Dated this day of , 2008. [SEAL] Donna Baker Clerk, Board of Commissioners Orange County, North Carolina