File #: 2015-0209    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 6/1/2015 In control: Budget and Fiscal Management Committee
On agenda: Final action: 7/27/2015
Enactment date: 7/30/2015 Enactment #: 18089
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to contracting indebtedness; providing for the issuance and sale of one or more series of limited tax general obligation bonds and bond anticipation notes of the county in the aggregate principal amount of not to exceed $150,000,000 outstanding at any time, for the purpose of financing the Capital Improvement Program for Solid Waste Facilities and the Solid Waste Transfer and Waste Management Plan; providing for the form, terms, covenants and other provisions of the bonds and notes; providing for sale of the bonds and notes and the disposition of the proceeds of sale; establishing funds for the receipt and expenditure of bond and note proceeds and for the payment of the bonds and notes; and providing for the annual budgeting and levy of taxes to pay the principal thereof and interest thereon.
Sponsors: Joe McDermott
Indexes: Bonds, Budget, Solid Waste
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 18089.pdf, 2. 2015-0209 legislative review form.pdf, 3. 2015-0209 transmittal letter.doc, 4. 2015-0209 fiscal note.xlsx, 5. 2015-0209_2015-0253_SR_SWD_and_Various_Purpose_Bonds.docx
Staff: Hamacher, Patrick
Drafter
Clerk 05/27/2015
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AN ORDINANCE relating to contracting indebtedness; providing for the issuance and sale of one or more series of limited tax general obligation bonds and bond anticipation notes of the county in the aggregate principal amount of not to exceed $150,000,000 outstanding at any time, for the purpose of financing the Capital Improvement Program for Solid Waste Facilities and the Solid Waste Transfer and Waste Management Plan; providing for the form, terms, covenants and other provisions of the bonds and notes; providing for sale of the bonds and notes and the disposition of the proceeds of sale; establishing funds for the receipt and expenditure of bond and note proceeds and for the payment of the bonds and notes; and providing for the annual budgeting and levy of taxes to pay the principal thereof and interest thereon.
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PREAMBLE:
The county has adopted a Capital Improvement Program for Solid Waste Facilities and a Solid Waste Transfer and Waste Management Plan. There are costs involved with carrying out both of these capital programs, and the county does not have sufficient funds readily available to accomplish the programs.
It is deemed necessary and advisable that the county authorize the issuance and sale of one or more series of its limited tax general obligation bonds in an outstanding aggregate principal amount not to exceed $150,000,000 outstanding at any time, to provide funds to pay for the cost of carrying out the Capital Improvement Program for Solid Waste Facilities and the Solid Waste Transfer and Waste Management Plan. It is also deemed necessary and advisable that the county authorize the issuance and sale of one or more series of its bond anticipation notes pending issuance of such bonds.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Definitions. The following words and terms as used in this ordinance shall have the following meanings for all purposes of this ordinance, unless some other me...

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