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l exceeding $10,000,000, unless the City first obtains a written opinion of nationally recognized bond *,,, counsel that such designation or issuance, as applicable, will not adversely affect the status of the Notes as "qualified tax exempt obligations". Further, the City represents and covenants that, during any time or in any manner as might affect the status of the Notes as "qualified tax exempt obligations", it has not formed or participated in the formation of, or benefited from or availed itself of, any entity in order to avoid the purposes of subparagraph (C) or (D) of Section 265(b)(3) of the Code, and will not form, participate in the formation of, or benefit from or avail itself of, any such entity. The City further represents that the Notes are not being issued as part of a direct or indirect composite issue that combines issues or lots of tax exempt obligations of different issuers. The Director of Finance, as the fiscal officer, or any other officer of the City having responsibility for issuance of the Notes is hereby authorized (a) to make or effect any election, selection, designation, choice, consent, approval, or waiver on behalf of the City with respect to the Notes as the City is permitted or required to make or give under the federal income tax laws, including, without limitation thereto, any of the elections provided for in Section 148(f)(4)(C) of the Code or available under Section 148 of the Code, for the purpose of assuring, enhancing or protecting favorable tax treatment or status of the Notes or interest thereon or assisting compliance with requirements for that purpose, reducing the burden or expense of such compliance, reducing the rebate amount or payments of penalties, or making payments of special amounts in lieu of making computations to determine, or paying, excess earnings as rebate, or obviating those amounts or payments, as determined by that officer, which action shall be in writing and signed by the officer, (b) to take any and all other actions, make or obtain calculations, make payments, and make or give reports, covenants and certifications of and on behalf of the City, as may be appropriate to assure the exclusion of interest from gross income and the intended tax status of the Notes, and (c) to give one or more appropriate certificates of the City, for inclusion in the transcript of proceedings for the Notes, setting forth the reasonable expectations of the City regarding the amount and use of all the proceeds of the Notes, the facts, circumstances and estimates on which they are based, and other facts and circumstances relevant to the tax treatment of the interest on and the tax status of the Notes. Section 11. If in her judgment it is appropriate, the Director of Finance is authorized to request a rating for the Notes from Moody's Investors Service, Inc., Standard & Poor's Ratings Service or Fitch IBCA, or two or all of those rating agencies, as she determines is in the best interest of the City. The expenditure of the amounts necessary to secure any such ratings, as well as to pay the other financing costs (as defined in Section 133.01 of the Revised Code) in connection with the Notes, is hereby authorized and approved and the amounts necessary to pay those costs are hereby appropriated from the proceeds of the Notes. Section 12. The legal services of the law firm of Squire Sanders (US) LLP be and are hereby retained. Those legal services shall be in the nature of legal advice and recommendations as to the documents and the proceedings in connection with the authorization, sale and issuance of the Notes and rendering at delivery a related legal opinion, all as set forth in the form of engagement letter dated as of December 3, 2013, now on file in the office of the Clerk of Council. In providing those legal services, as an independent contractor and in an attorney-client relationship, that firm shall not exercise any administrative discretion on behalf of this City in the formulation of public - 5 -