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be made. The performance by the City of its Continuing Disclosure Agreement shall be subject <br />to the annual appropriation of any funds that may be necessary to perform it. <br />(d) Application for Rating or Bond Insurance• Financing Costs. If, in the judgment of <br />the Mayor or the Director of Finance, the filing of an application for (i) a rating on the Bonds by one <br />or more nationally recognized rating agencies, or (ii) a policy of insurance from a company or <br />companies to better assure the payment of principal of and interest on all or a portion of the Bonds, <br />is in the best interest of and financially advantageous to this City, the Mayor or the Director of <br />Finance may prepare and submit those applications. The Director of Finance is also authorized to <br />provide to each such agency or company such information as may be required for the purpose. If, in <br />their judgment, it is in the best interest of and financially advantageous to the City, the Mayor or the <br />Director of Finance may accept a commitment for insurance issued by a nationally recognized <br />municipal bond insurance company insuring the payment when due of the principal of and interest <br />on all or any portion of the Bonds. The Mayor or the Director of Finance may to enter into any <br />agreements, on behalf of and in the name of the City, that they determine to be necessary or <br />required to obtain such ratings or insurance, which agreements may be included in the Registrar <br />Agreement. <br />The expenditure of the amounts necessary to secure any such rating or ratings on the <br />Bonds and any such policy and to pay the other financing costs (as defined in Section 133.01 of the <br />Revised Code) in connection with the Bonds, to the extent not paid by the Original Purchaser in <br />accordance with the Purchase Agreement, is authorized and approved, and the Director of Finance <br />is authorized to provide for the payment of the cost of obtaining each such rating, any such policy <br />and all such other financing costs, except to the extent paid by the Original Purchaser in accordance <br />with the Purchase Agreement, from the proceeds of the Bonds to the extent available and otherwise <br />from any other funds lawfully available and that are appropriated or shall be appropriated for that <br />purpose. <br />Section 7. Refunding; Redemption of Refunded Bonds. This Council determines that it is <br />necessary and in the best interest of the City to refund all of the Refunded Bonds and to redeem all <br />of the Refunded Bonds by optional redemption on a date within sixty days after the Closing Date, <br />which date shall be determined by the Director of Finance and specified in the Escrow Agreement, <br />at a redemption price of 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued interest to the <br />redemption date, in accordance with the Series 2006I Bond Legislation. The Director of Finance is <br />authorized and directed to give to U.S. Bank National Association, as the bond registrar for the <br />Refunded Bonds, or to its successor as the authenticating agent, bond registrar, transfer agent and <br />paying agent for the Refunded Bonds, on or promptly after the Closing Date, written notice of that <br />call for redemption, and those Refunded Bonds shall be redeemed in accordance with the Series <br />20061 Bond Legislation and the Escrow Agreement. The City covenants for the benefit of the <br />holders of the Refunded Bonds and of the Bonds, that it will at no time on or after the Closing Date <br />take actions to modify or rescind that call for prior redemption, and that it will take, and will cause <br />the bond registrar and paying agent for the Refunded Bonds to take, all steps required by the terms <br />of the Refunded Bonds to make and perfect that call for prior redemption. <br />Section 8. Escrow Trustee. U.S. Bank National Association is authorized and <br />appointed to act as the initial Escrow Trustee with respect to the refunding of the Refunded Bonds. <br />-12- <br />