229.74 Special debt service reserve funds.

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(1)Designation of special debt service reserve funds. A district may designate one or more accounts in funds created under s. 66.0621

(e)as special debt service reserve funds, if, prior to each issuance of bonds to be secured by the special debt service reserve fund, the secretary of administration determines that all of the following conditions are met with respect to the bonds:

(a)Purpose. The proceeds of the bonds, other than refunding bonds, will be used for baseball park facilities.

(b)Feasibility. The proceeds of bonds, other than refunding bonds, will be used for feasible projects and there is a reasonable likelihood that the bonds will be repaid without the necessity of drawing on funds in the special debt service reserve fund that secures the bonds. The secretary of administration may make the determinations required under this paragraph only after considering all of the following:

1. Whether a pledge of the tax revenues of the district is made under the bond resolution.

2. How the tax revenues of the district are pledged to the payment of the bonds.

3. Revenue projections for the project to be financed by the bonds, including tax revenues, and the reasonableness of the assumptions on which these revenue projections are based.

4. The proposed interest rates of the bonds and the resulting cash-flow requirements.

5. The projected ratio of annual tax revenues to annual debt service of the district, taking into account capitalized interest.

6. Whether an understanding exists providing for repayment by the district to the state of all amounts appropriated to the special debt service reserve fund pursuant to sub.

(7).

8. Whether the district has agreed that the department of administration will have direct and immediate access, at any time and without notice, to all records of the district.

(c)Limit on bonds issued. The amount of all bonds, other than refunding bonds, that would be secured by all special debt service reserve funds of the district will not exceed $160,000,000. In determining compliance with the limitation under this paragraph, the secretary of administration need not include bonds that are secured by a special debt service reserve fund to the extent that proceeds of the bonds are for the following purposes:

1. To make a deposit into a special debt service reserve fund.

2. To pay issuance costs of bonds secured by a special debt service reserve fund.

3. To pay capitalized interest costs on bonds secured by a special debt service reserve fund.

4. To pay any original issue discount.

(d)Date of issuance. The bonds, other than refunding bonds, will be issued no later than December 31, 2000.

(e)Refunding bonds. All refunding bonds to be secured by the special debt service reserve fund meet all of the following conditions:

1. The refunding bonds are to be issued to fund, refund or advance refund bonds secured by a special debt service reserve fund.

2. The refunding of bonds by the refunding bonds will not adversely affect the risk that the state will be called on to make a payment under sub.

(7).

(f)Approval of outstanding debt. All outstanding debt of the district has been reviewed and approved by the secretary of administration. In determining whether to approve outstanding debt under this paragraph, the secretary may consider any factor which the secretary determines to have a bearing on whether the state moral obligation pledge under sub.

(7)should be granted with respect to an issuance of bonds.

(g)Financial reports. The district has agreed to provide to the department of administration, the legislative fiscal bureau and the legislative audit bureau all financial reports of the district and all regular monthly statements of any trustee of the bonds on a direct and ongoing basis.