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City of Pleasanton Operating Budget • FY 2023/24 - FY 2024/25C - 26 <br />City of Pleasanton Debt Management Policy: Glossary of Terms <br />• Advance Refunding: For purposes of certain tax and securities laws and regulations, a refunding in <br />which the refunded issue remains outstanding fora period of more than 90-days after the issuance of <br />the refunding issue. The proceeds of the refunding issue are generally invested in Treasury securities <br />or federal agency securities (although other instruments are sometimes used), with principal and <br />interest from these investments being used (with limited exceptions) to.pay principal and interest on <br />the refunded issue. Bonds are “escrowed to maturity” when the proceeds of the refunding issue are <br />deposited in an escrow account for investment in an amount sufficient to pay the principal of and <br />interest on the issue being refunded on the original interest payment and maturity dates, although in <br />some cases an issuer may expressly reserve its right (pursuant to certain procedures delineated by the <br />Securities and Exchange Commission) to consider “pre-refunded” when the refunding issue’s proceeds <br />are escrowed only until a call date or dates on the refunded issue, with the refunded issue redeemed at <br />that time. <br />• Amortization: The gradual reduction in principal and interest of an outstanding debt according to a <br />specific repayment schedule, which details specific dates and repayment amounts on those dates. <br />• Arbitrage: In the municipal market, arbitrage refers to the difference between the tax-exempt <br />interest rate paid by the borrower and the interest rate at which the proceeds of the issue are invested. <br />The Internal Revenue Code contains specific regulations concerning the amount that can be earned <br />from the investment of tax-exempt proceeds. <br />• Call Provisions: Mandatory or optional provisions that allow or require an issuer to prepay or <br />refinance a bond prior to its stated maturity date. These provisions identify which bonds may be <br />called, when they may be called, and what premium, if any, must be paid upon redemption prior to the <br />stated maturity date of the bond. <br />• Capitalized Interest: Specific interest payments of a bond issue which are funded in advance, or <br />capitalized, through proceeds of the same bond issue. These proceeds are set aside in a specially <br />designated fund in order to pay these designated interest payments. <br />• Current Refunding: A refunding transaction where the municipal securities being refunded will all <br />mature or be redeemed within 90-days or less from the date of issuance of the refunding issue. <br />• Debt Affordability: The principal amount of debt that an issuer can afford within the constraints of <br />net revenues and debt coverage requirements. <br />• Debt Service Coverage: The ratio of the net revenue stream pledged against a debt to the debt <br />service payments to the debt. Debt service coverage ratios are most often used by rating agencies to <br />determine repayment sufficiency with respect to bonds secured by a specific revenue stream. <br />• Debt Service Reserve Fund: Traditional bond issues are structured with a debt service reserve fund, <br />which assures the timely availability of sufficient funds for the repayment of debt service in the event <br />that an issuer cannot make the required debt service payment(s). Typically, the required size of the <br />reserve fund is determined by the lesser of: 100% of maximum annual debt service; 125% of average <br />annual debt service; or 10% of the aggregate issue price. Reserve funds are usually fully funded out of <br />bond proceeds and are set-aside in a separate fund, as long as the debt service fund is fully funded, <br />and can only be used to offset debt service payments.