Philadelphia Set to Issue New Bonds to Refund Debt on Aging Sewer System Upgrades

Official:Constituting the Seventeenth Supplemental Ordinance to the General Gas Works Revenue Bond Ordinance of 1975 (the "1975 General Ordinance"); authorizing the Mayor, the City Controller and the City Solicitor, or a majority of them, to sell, either at public or private sale, Gas Works Revenue Bonds, Seventeenth Series (1975 General Ordinance), of the City of Philadelphia, in one or more subseries (the "Seventeenth Series Bonds") to be issued to pay the cost of refunding or redeeming all or a portion of certain outstanding Gas Works Revenue Bonds and other Project Costs, as hereinafter more particularly described, and authorizing the application of proceeds of the Seventeenth Series Bonds for such purposes; authorizing the City of Philadelphia to obtain credit enhancement for the Seventeenth Series Bonds; authorizing the City of Philadelphia to enter into swap agreements or exchange agreements with respect to the Seventeenth Series Bonds; determining the sufficiency of Project Revenues; covenanting the separation of Gas Works revenue accounts and proceeds of the Seventeenth Series Bonds from general accounts of the City of Philadelphia; covenanting the payment of interest and principal on and specifying the purposes of the Seventeenth Series Bonds; authorizing covenants and actions in order that the Seventeenth Series Bonds shall not be arbitrage bonds; authorizing the Seventeenth Series Bonds to be issued in book-entry form and providing book- entry provisions to apply in such case; and providing that this Ordinance is supplemental to the 1975 General Ordinance and that the provisions of the 1975 General Ordinance, to the extent not modified, amended or superseded by this Ordinance, are applicable.