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HomeMy WebLinkAbout0024_0022.3z (d) Contingency Fund: 'Based on' an annual review of the experience as to the cost of•repairs "and replacements to the Utility System necessitates( by the occurring of emergencies and the recommendation of the Issuer'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 -(1) the 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 Issuer are insufficient for such purpose. The Issuer covenants and agreesthat in the event ,Additional •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'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 consulting 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 Issuer'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 the sale applied to the making �of payment required to be made from the Contingency Fund, whenever such payments are required to be made under the foregoing provisions of this Ordinance. (e)3 Surplus Funds: All monies- remaining in the' Utility System REvenue Fund after the requirements of subsections (a), (b), (c) and (d) of this Section 12 have been met (including any increased payments into the aforesaid Bond Fund,: Reserve Fund and Contingency Fund as may be necessary by reason of the.. issuance 'of Additional Bonds in the future under the provisions of the ordinances authorizing the Parity Bonds), and after all deficiencies shall have been made up and all replacements made, shall be either used or accumulated for the making of -improve ments, extensions and additions to the Utility System, or may,;; in tue discretion of the Issuer be used for any other city pur- pose now or hereafter permitted by law, including the use thereof in'retiring in advance of maturity any Additional Bonds then outstanding, in accordance with.' provisions made for their prior redemption, or may be used to purchase the Parity Bonds' and Additional Bonds on the open market at not exceeding the market value thereof.- All bonds so paid, redeemed or purchased shall be cancelled and shall not be reissued. Nothing herein shall be construed, however, as impairing =the right of the .Issuer to pay in accordance with the provisions thereof any junior lien bonds hereafter legally issued by it. Section "13., SECURITY FOR FUNDS. All monies which are to be paid' into the depository` under the provisions ,of the ordinances authorizing the Parity Bonds shall be secured in accordance' with the laws of the State of Texas -applicable thereto, and the Issuer covenants especially that such money 20