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File #: R-137-17    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 9/25/2017 In control: Metro Council
On agenda: 10/12/2017 Final action: 10/26/2017
Title: A RESOLUTION OF OFFICIAL INTENT OF THE LOUISVILLE/JEFFERSON COUNTY METRO GOVERNMENT TO FINANCE THE BUTCHERTOWN STADIUM DISTRICT REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT WHICH INCLUDES THE ACQUISITION AND REDEVELOPMENT OF BROWNFIELDS AND ADJACENT PROPERTIES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS IN THE BUTCHERTOWN STADIUM DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT AREA FROM THE PROCEEDS OF ONE OR MORE PROPOSED ISSUES OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND GENERAL OBLIGATION NOTES.
Sponsors: Barbara Sexton Smith (D-4), Vicki Aubrey Welch (D-13)
Attachments: 1. R-137-17 V.1 092817 Finance Capital Improvements in Butchertown Stadium District Development Area.pdf, 2. 1032017 Soccer development deal for council.pdf, 3. RES 118 2017.pdf
RESOLUTION NO. _______, SERIES 2017
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A RESOLUTION OF OFFICIAL INTENT OF THE LOUISVILLE/JEFFERSON COUNTY METRO GOVERNMENT TO FINANCE THE BUTCHERTOWN STADIUM DISTRICT REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT WHICH INCLUDES THE ACQUISITION AND REDEVELOPMENT OF BROWNFIELDS AND ADJACENT PROPERTIES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS IN THE BUTCHERTOWN STADIUM DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT AREA FROM THE PROCEEDS OF ONE OR MORE PROPOSED ISSUES OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND GENERAL OBLIGATION NOTES.
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SPONSORED BY: COUNCIL MEMBERS SEXTON SMITH AND AUBREY WELCH

WHEREAS, Treasury Regulations ?1.150-2 (the "Reimbursement Regulations"), issued pursuant to ?150 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code") prescribes certain requirements by which proceeds of tax-exempt bonds, notes, certificates or other obligations included in the meaning of "bonds" under ?150 of the Code ("Obligations") used to reimburse advances made for Capital Expenditures (as hereinafter defined) paid before the issuance of such Obligations may be deemed "spent" for purposes of ??103 and 141 through 150 of the Code are not subject to any other requirements or restrictions under those sections of the Code;
WHEREAS, the Reimbursement Regulations require that an issuer or borrower make a Declaration of Official Intent (as hereinafter defined) to reimburse any Capital Expenditure paid prior to the issuance of the Obligations intended to fund such Capital Expenditure and require that such Declaration of Official Intent be made no later than sixty (60) days after payment of the Capital Expenditure and further require that the Allocation (as hereinafter defined) of the proceeds of such Obligations to reimburse such Capital Expenditures occur no later than eighteen (18) months after the later of the date the Capital Expenditure was paid or the date the property acquired with the Capital Expenditure was placed in service, except that any such Allocation must be made no later than three...

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