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and is ordered computed, certified, levied and extended upon the tax duplicate and collected by the
<br />same officers, in the same manner and at the same time that taxes for general purposes for each of
<br />those years are certified, levied, extended and collected, and shall be placed before and in preference
<br />to all other items and for the full amount thereof. The proceeds of the tax levy shall be placed in the
<br />Bond Retirement Fund, which is irrevocably pledged for the payment of the debt charges on the
<br />Bonds when and as the same fall due. In each year to the extent the proceeds from the City's
<br />municipal income taxes are available for the payment of debt charges on the Bonds and are
<br />appropriated for that purpose in accordance with the City's covenants in this ordinance, the amount of
<br />the tax within the 11.1-mill limitation shall be reduced by the amount of the income tax proceeds so
<br />available and appropriated.
<br />The debt charges on the Bonds shall be paid from the City's lawfully available
<br />municipal income taxes to the extent needed to meet those debt charges. The City covenants to levy
<br />and collect, and continue to levy and collect, its municipal income tax during the period the Bonds are
<br />outstanding in amounts necessary to pay such debt charges and to apply the proceeds thereof in
<br />accordance with its covenants herein. The City further covenants to appropriate annually from its
<br />lawfully available municipal income taxes such amount as is necessary to meet the annual debt
<br />charges on the Bonds.
<br />Section 11. Federal Tax Considerations. The City covenants that it will use, and will
<br />restrict the use and investment of, the proceeds of the Bonds in such manner and to such extent as
<br />may be necessary so that (a) the Bonds will not (i) constitute private activity bonds, arbitrage bonds or
<br />hedge bonds under Sections 141, 148 or 149 of the Code or (ii) be treated other than as bonds to
<br />which Section 103 of the Code applies, and (b) the interest thereon will not be an item of taY
<br />preference under Section 57 of the Code.
<br />The City further covenants that (a) it will take or cause to be taken such actions that
<br />may be required of it for the interest on the Bonds to be and to remain excluded from gross income for
<br />federal income tax purposes, and (b) it will not take or authorize to be taken any actions that would
<br />adversely affect that exclusion, and (c) it, ar persons acting for it, will, among other acts of
<br />compliance, (i) apply the proceeds of the Bonds to the governmental purpose of the borrowing, (ii)
<br />restrict the yield on investment property acquired with those proceeds, (iii) make timely and adequate
<br />payments to the federal government, (iv) maintain books and records and make calculations and
<br />reports, and (v) refrain from certain uses of those proceeds, and, as applicable, of property financed
<br />with such proceeds, all in such manner and to the extent necessary to assure such exclusion of that
<br />interest under the Code.
<br />The Director of Finance, as the fiscal officer, or any other officer of the City having
<br />responsibility for issuance of the Bonds is hereby authorized (a) to make or effect any election,
<br />selection, designation, choice, consent, approval, or waiver on behalf of the City with respect to the
<br />Bonds as the City is permitted or required to make or give under the federal income tax laws,
<br />including, without limitation, any of the elections available under Section 148 of the Code, for the
<br />purpose of assuring, enhancing or protecting favorable tax treatment or status of the Bonds or interest
<br />thereon or assisting compliance with requirements for that purpose, reducing the burden or expense
<br />of such compliance, reducing the rebate amount or payments or penalties, or making payments of
<br />special amounts in lieu of making computations to determine, or paying, excess earnings as rebate, or
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