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HomeMy WebLinkAbout0250_231co co Iq 0 Q Q 231 the interest thereon when due, and shall give due notice thereof to the City of Georgetown. All money resulting from the maturity of principal and interest of the securities in which the Reserve Fund is invested may be reinvested and accumulated in said Reserve Fund and considered a part thereof and used for and only for the purposes hereinabove provided with respect to said Fund. When the outstanding bonds, Series 1966, Series 1970 and Series 1971, have been paid off, cancelled and retired, the Reserve Fund for these Series 1981 Bonds may be commin- gled with Reserve Funds established for series of bonds hereafter issued which are similarly secured and payable from the same source without impairment of the obligation of contract. The City further convenants that when Additional Bonds are issued, the aggregate amount to be accumulated and maintained in the Reserve Fund shall be not less than the average annual principal and interest requirements of all bonds similarly secured, and any additional amount required to be accumulated in the Reserve Fund shall be accumulated therein in not less thaii five years and one month from the date of the Additional Bonds. Money in the Reserve Fund may be invested in direct obligations of or obligations uncondi- tionally guaranteed by the United States Government having maturities not in excess of five years from the date of the making of such investment. (d) CONTINGENCY FUND: Based on an annual review of the experience as to the cost of repairs and replacements -to the Utility System necessitated by the occurring of emergen- cies and the recommendation of the City's Consulting Engineer, the. City Council has determined that the Utility System Contingency Fund (hereinafter referred to as the "Contingency Fund"), heretofore created and ordered to be established and maintained in the amount of $15,000 is sufficient for the time being. The Contingency Fund shall be used to pay the (1) cost of any repairs or replacements to the Utility System necessitated by the occurring of an emergency and (2) interest on and/or principal of the Parity Bonds or any Additional Bonds, when other funds of the City are insuffi- cient for such purpose. The City covenants and agrees that in the event Addi- tional Bonds are issued, the Ordinance authorizing such Additional Bonds shall provide for such appropriate additional or larger amounts to be accumulated in the Contingency Fund as deemed advisable by the City Council, based on as annual review of the experience as to the cost of repairs and replacements to the Utility System necessitated by the occurring of emergencies and the recommendation of a Consul- ting Engineer. No payments need be made into the Contingency Fund after there shall have been accumulated in said Fund the amount of money then required to be on deposit therein, except that whenever any money is paid out of said Fund, payments into the Fund shall be resumed and continued until such time as the Fund has been restored to the required sum. The City's official Depository is hereby authorized to invest the money in the Contingency Fund in direct obligations of or obligations unconditionally guaranteed by the United States Government, having maturities not in excess of five (5) years from the date of the making of such investment, as the City Council may direct. Any obligations in which money is so invested shall be kept in escrow in said Depository and shall be promptly sold and the proceeds of sale applied to the making of payment: required to be made from the Contin- gency Fund, whenever such payments are required to ee made under the foregoing provisions of this Ordinance. \'z