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Summerville council approves $47.5 million revenue bonds for public safety complex after amendments
Summary
The Summerville Town Council approved second and final reading of an ordinance authorizing up to $47.5 million in installment-purchase revenue bonds for a municipal public safety complex. Amendments added an emergency dispatch function and named three nonprofit corporation directors; one council member voted no over lack of a debt service reserve.
The Summerville Town Council on Oct. 9 approved second and final reading of an ordinance authorizing the issuance of up to $47,500,000 in installment-purchase revenue bonds to finance the design, construction, equipping and furnishing of a municipal public safety complex.
Bond counsel Theodore DuBose of Hansworth, Sinclair & Boyd told the council the bonds are being issued by a newly created nonprofit entity and are not general obligation debt of the town. “These are not general obligations of the town. They are not bonds of the town,” DuBose said. He advised the council to approve several amendments before the second reading to add an emergency dispatch function to the facility and to name the nonprofit’s directors.
The council approved the amendments, which add emergency dispatch to the…
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