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RES 2010-06 PROVIDING FOR SHORT-TERM BORROWING FROM THE WATER -FUND TO THE SEWER FUNDRESOLUTION o, 2010-06 A RESOLUTION of the City Council of the City of Bainbridge Island, Washington, providing for short-term borrowing from the - Water -Fund to the Sewer Fund of the Consolidated Water ror s Utility for the first five maths of 2010. WHEREAS, the City of Bainbridge Island, Washington (the "City's) intends to manage its fiscal matters in a prudent manner; and WHEREAS, the City has by Resolution No. 200 8-14 sought -to- "establish conditions for the use of debt and to create procedures and policies that minimize the City's -cleft service and issuance costs, retain the highest practical credit rating, and maintain full and complete financial disclosure and reporting"'; and WHEREAS, the City has also b .Resolution No. 2008-14 pertaining to "Purposes and Uses of Debt" established Polis' 1 - Short -term Borrowing which states; "Except for LIDs and similar situations, the use of short-term borrowing, such as bond anticipation- notes N arra tax-exempt commercial paper will be undertaken only if the transaction costs plus interest of the debt are less than the cost of an iaterfand loan, or available Cash is insufficient to meet working capital requirements"; and WHEREAS, the City . has previewed the current financial p sition and its cash flow analysis for the fiscal year of 2010 for the General and the Water Fund of the Consolidated Waterworks s Utility and has determined that it would be prudent for the General Fuad to engage in short-term borrowing in 2010 of an amount not to exceed $600,000 from the Nater Fund within the Consolidated Waterworks Utility of the City, with a scheduled repayment slate of no later than May 31, 2010, is order to maintain positive cash balances in the General Fund until the Cit receives. property tax receipts for the first half of the year and/or the scheduled grant funds related to the Williams property acquisition and/or proceeds from the sale of surplus property currently in process; and WHEREAS, the 2008 GAAP BARS Manual, Volume 1, part 3, chapter 4, page 1, states that "the legislative body of a municipality must, by ordinance or resolution, approve all interfund lows, and provide in the authorization a planned schedule of repayment of the loan principal a well as setting a reasonable rate of interest (based on the external rate available to the municipality) to be paid to the lending fund"; and WHEREAS, the City has determined that the combination of transaction costs plus interest for the City to issue commercial paper or a note to a third party will exceed the costs to the General Fund of an i terfnd loan, primarily because an interfund loam entails no gird --party transaction costs; and WHEREAS, the use of an intend loan allows considerably greater flexibility and timeliness than commercial paper or a note to a third -party leader, and thereby permits the City to reduce the interest cost to the General Fund by controlling the draws and prepayments from month to month to ensure that the interest-bearing balance is not substantially in excess of that month's .: requirements; and {- W LEAS, the City Council finds . that it has exercised due regard for the maintenance and operation expense f the. Water System n ' .t ds t the Water Fun revenues aid cash balances are expected to be more than sufficient to meet all of the needs of the Water Fund ,through the loan period and has f nds available to male the intend loan authorized herein; and WHEREAS,, the Fater Frond of the Consolidated Waterworks Utility will be benefited by the interest rates of the interfund loan; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, WAS INGTON,.AS FOLLOWS: Section I. Authorization of Loan. The City's Director of Finance is authorized and directed, on and after February 1, 2010, and from month to month thereafter until May 3 1, 2010, to cause the City's General Fund to borrow cash from the Water Fund of the Consolidated Waterworks s Utility in one or more drags, where the outstanding principal amount of the loan shall at no time exceed $600,000, and which may vary as determined by the said Director based on the Director's analysis of the cash needs of the General Fund from time to time between February 11, 2010 . and the scheduled final repayment date In Section 2, Section 2. Scheduled Repayment. . The Director of Finance shall cause any and all outstanding balance of the said interfund loan to .be repaid to the Water Fund by the General Fund Within the Consolidated Waterworks [utility o (and in no event later than) May 3 f, 20 10, and this interfund lending authorization shall terminate on that date. Section 3. Interest Payable to Water Fund. Each draw shall bear interest at the interest rate set forth in this Section 3. which shall accrue from the date of that Draw and be adjusted monthly. Interest shall be computed monthly on the amounts outstanding on the basis of a 360 - day year for the actual number of days. Fach Loan draw shall bear interest at an annual rate equal to 25 basis points, plus the higher of the monthly net earnings nate for the preceding calendar month on investments- in either a the Washington Mate Local Government Investment Pool, or b the Kitsap County Local Government investment fool. The City Council finds that the fixing of the interest rate set forth herein is reasonable and in the Best interest of the City, its ratepayers and its taxpayers. Section 4. No Fees or Prepayment Penalties. f'repayments shall be permissible in the discretion of the Director of Finance, and there shall be no fees or prepayment penalties on inter- fuse loans and, subject to the $600,000 overall principal limit on outstanding balance as stated in Section 1, there shall be no advance notice required for any additional interfnd draw or prepayment. Section 5. Monthly Reporting to City Council. The Director of Finance shall report monthly to the City Council from February 2010 through May 2010, the inter -fund loan reporting information shown on Exhibit A to this Resolution. Secdon 6. Effective -Y e. This resolution shall be in fall force and effect from and after its approval by the City Council until the cute stated in Sectioti 2. PASSED by the City Council this 27t" ' of January 20 10. APPROVED by. the Mayor this 28"' r of January 20 10. Bob Scalps, Mayor ATTEST. y da U �5 o Rosalind D. Lassoff, Cit Cl ri FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK; January 21, 2 1 PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL; January 27, 2010 RESOLUTION N . 2010-06 Exhibit;. Sample Forms of Repqrtsto Cid a x e . Rort of Intr Loan' Draws and Repay t