Matters ▸ Attachment
Appropriation Order MWRA 9-19-c — File 208855
81322474v.1
AN ORDER MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF
$900,000
FOR THE COST OF REPLACEMENT OF LEAD SERVICE LINES,
AS PART OF THE
MWRA LEAD REPLACEMENT PROGRAM
AND AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF NOT EXCEEDING
$900,000 BONDS OF THE CITY
TO MEET SAID APPROPRIATION
Ordered:
Section 1. That the Mayor’s request for approval of the City Council to appropriate
$900,000 for the cost of replacement of lead service lines as part of the Massachusetts Water
Resources Authority (the “MWRA”) Lead Replacement Program, including the payment of all
costs incidental and related thereto and in order to meet said appropriation to authorize the
Mayor and the City Treasurer to issue not exceeding $900,000 bonds of the City to the MWRA
and, and pending the issuance thereof the making of temporary borrowings for such purposes to
meet said appropriation is hereby approved, and further, that the Mayor and the City Treasurer
are the officers authorized to issue and sell said bonds or bond anticipation notes in accordance
with the provisions set forth herein and in Chapter 44 of the General laws of Massachusetts.
Section 2. The bonds shall be issued to the MWRA at a zero interest rate and such bonds
shall be repaid to the MWRA within ten years from their dates. They shall be general
obligations of the City and each of the bonds shall recite that every requirement of law relating to
its issue has been duly complied with and that such bond is within every debt and other limit
subscribed by law and that the full faith and credit of the City are pledged to the payment of the
principal thereof and interest thereon.
Section 3. The City hereby expresses its official intent pursuant to §1.150-2 of the
Federal Income Tax Regulations, Title 26 (the “Regulations”), to reimburse expenditures paid
sixty days prior to and anytime after the date of passage of this ordinance in the maximum
amount and for the projects defined in Section 1 with the proceeds of bonds, notes, or other
obligations authorized to be issued by the City. The bonds shall be issued to reimburse such
expenditures not later than 18 months after the later of the date of the expenditure or the
substantial completion of the project, or such later date the Regulations may authorize. The City
hereby certifies that the intention to reimburse as expressed herein is based upon its reasonable
expectations as of this date. The City Treasurer or his designee is authorized to pay project
expenses in accordance herewith pending the issuance of reimbursement bonds, and to amend
this declaration.