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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. Each covenant made in this Section with respect to the Notes is also made with respect to all issues any portion of the debt service on which is paid from proceeds of the Notes (and, if different, the original issue and any refunding issues in a series of refundings), to the extent such compliance is necessary to assure exclusion of interest on the Notes from gross income for federal income tax purposes, and the officers identified above are authorized to take actions with respect to those issues as they are authorized in this Section to take with respect to 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 Patton Boggs (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 the consolidated issue of which they are expected to be a part) and rendering at delivery a related legal opinion, all as set forth in the form of engagement letter dated as of December 9, 2014, 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 policy, expenditure of public funds, enforcement of laws, rules and regulations of the State, any county or municipal corporation or of this City, or the execution of public trusts. For those legal services that firm shall be paid just and reasonable compensation and shall be reimbursed for actual out -of- pocket expenses incurred in providing those legal services. The Mayor is authorized and directed to sign and deliver the engagement letter, and the Director of Finance is authorized and directed to make appropriate certification as to the availability of funds for those fees and any reimbursement and to issue an appropriate order for their timely payment as written statements are submitted by that firm. Section 13. The Clerk of Council is directed to deliver to the County Fiscal Officer (i) a certified copy of this ordinance and (ii) a signed copy of the Certificate of Award, as soon as each is available. Section 14. This Council determines that all acts and conditions necessary to be done or performed by the City or to have been met precedent to and in the issuing of the Notes in order to make them legal, valid and binding general obligations of the City of North Olmsted have been performed and have been met, or will at the time of delivery of the Notes have been performed and have been met, in regular and due form as required by law; that the full faith and credit and general property taxing power (as described in Section 9) of the City are pledged for the timely payment of