TITLE
Adopt resolution authorizing the issuance of special tax bonds for Community Facilities District No. 5 (Long Beach Towne Center), and approving related documents. (District 5)
DISCUSSION
In 1999, under the provisions of the Long Beach Special Tax Financing Improvement Law, the City Council formed Community Facilities District NO.5 (Long Beach Towne Center) of the City of Long Beach (CFD 5) to provide a means to finance public improvements in connection with the development of the Towne Center Shopping facility. CFD 5 is authorized to levy a special tax on the leasehold interest of the shopping center owner in the land on which the shopping center is located. The revenues from that special tax have been used to pay the debt service on $15,385,000 of bonds issued in May of 2000 by the City for CFD 5 (the "2000 Bonds") to finance public improvements required for the development of the shopping center. All of the original capital projects associated with the development of the Long Beach Towne Center have been completed.
Due to lower interest rates in the public debt market, City staff have determined that the City can issue bonds for CFD 5 (the "Refunding Bonds") to refund the outstanding 2000 Bonds, as well as to provide funds to finance additional public improvements, without an increase in the annual debt service for CFD 5.
Bond Counsel, working with City staff and representatives of the current lessee, CREAlPPC Long Beach Towne Center PO, LLC, has approved a 50/50 split of the savings that can be achieved by refunding the bonds. The total net savings are projected to be approximately $750,000. The final amount of the net savings is subject to market conditions in effect at the time the Refunding Bonds are issued.
The estimated savings from this refunding are included in the FY 2008 budget as one of the many pooled revenue sources that will be used to fund in whole or in part projects in the FY 2008 Capital Improvement Plan. As the original infrastr...
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