2011-06-03 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

• The Arkansas Natural Resources Commission (the "Commission") and the Arkansas Development Finance Authority (the "Authority") hereby offer to enter into this Bond Purchase Agreement (the "Agreement") with you, the Issuer, for the purchase by the Authority from moneys in the Construction Assistance Revolving Loan Fund, created by Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated § 15-5-901, as the same may be amended from time to time (the "Revolving Loan Fund"), and the sale by you of the Bond of the Issuer more particularly described below. Upon approval by you and by the execution of the acceptance hereof by the Mayor of the Issuer, this Agreement shall be in full force and effect in accordance with its terms and shall be valid, binding, and enforceable upon the Issuer,the Commission, and the Authority. Further terms of this Agreement are: 1. Upon the terms and conditions and upon the basis of the representations herein set forth, the Authority hereby agrees to purchase from the Issuer and the Issuer hereby agrees to sell to the Authority the entire Principal Amount of the Bond to be issued under and secured by the Bond Ordinance. 2. The Bond is being issued for the purpose of financing a portion of the costs of the planning, design, construction and/or rehabilitation of the wastewater treatment and/or wastewater collection facilities of the Issuer's water and sewer system described in the facilities plan furnished by the Issuer to and concurred with by the Commission (the "Project"), paying costs incidental thereto and paying approved expenses incurred in connection with the issuance of the • Bond as set forth in Exhibit B. 3. The Bond and the Financing Fee shall be secured by a pledge of and payable from Tax collections, subject to the terms of the Bond Ordinance. The pledge in favor of the Bond is on a parity with the pledge in favor of the City's Sales and Use Tax Bond, Series 2010 (the "Series 2010 Bond"). The Issuer may issue up to $23,700,000 of additional bonds secured by collections of the Tax, which bonds will rank on a parity of security with the Bond and the Series 2010 Bond("Additional Parity Bonds"). 4. The Bond shall be dated the date of the Closing. The Bond shall be authorized in an amount up to the Principal Amount identified above, and shall bear interest at the Interest Rate identified above. Principal and interest shall be amortized in accordance with the schedule set forth on Exhibit A attached hereto (which is based upon semiannual repayment of principal and interest commencing six months following the Disbursement Cut-Off Date and a twenty-year amortization), and the Issuer shall pay to the Authority on the first business day of each month, commencing six months prior to the first principal payment date set forth on Exhibit A, an amount equal to 1/6 of the next installment of interest and principal due on the Bond, and the Issuer shall pay to the Authority interest on the Bond on each April 15 and October 15 to and including the Disbursement Cut-Off Date. In addition to the payment of the principal and interest on the Bond,the Issuer shall be obligated to pay the Financing Fee to the Authority. The Financing Fee shall be payable in the same manner and on the same dates as interest on the Bond is due. The payment of the Financing Fee is expressly made subordinate to the payment of the principal of and . interest on the Bond, the Series 2010 Bond and any Additional Parity Bonds. The Issuer agrees that any delay in completion of the Project beyond the Disbursement Cut-Off Date shall not result 2