Allowable Project Costs

Educational project costs financed through the issuance of revenue bonds of the Commission may include costs of acquiring, constructing, equipping, furnishing, reconstructing, remodeling, renovating, enlarging, and improving educational facilities comprising one or more projects; including costs connected with or incidental thereto, provision of capitalized interest prior to and during the construction and for a period after the completion of the construction, appropriate reserves, architectural, engineering, financial, and legal services, and all other costs of financing, and the repayment or restoration of money borrowed or advanced for such purposes or temporarily used therefore from other sources (Section 3377.01(F) of the Revised Code). Under the law it is possible to finance 100% of the project cost.

Healthcare project costs through the issuance of revenue bonds of the Commission may include costs of acquiring hospital facilities or interests in hospital facilities, including membership interests in nonprofit hospital agencies, costs of constructing hospital facilities, costs of improving one or more hospital facilities, including reconstructing, rehabilitating, remodeling, renovating, and enlarging, costs of equipping and furnishing such facilities, and all financing costs pertaining thereto, including, without limitation thereto, costs of engineering, architectural, and other professional services, designs, plans, specifications and surveys, and estimates of cost, costs of tests and inspections, the costs of any indemnity or surety bonds and premiums on insurance, all related direct or allocable administrative expenses pertaining thereto, fees and expenses of trustees, depositories, and paying agents for the obligations, cost of issuance of the obligations and financing charges and fees and expenses of financial advisors, attorneys, accountants, consultants and rating services in connection therewith, capitalized interest on the obligations, amounts necessary to establish reserves as required by the bond proceedings, the reimbursement of all moneys advanced or applied by the hospital agency or others or borrowed from others for the payment of any item or items of costs of such facilities, and all other expenses necessary or incident to planning or determining feasibility or practicability with respect to such facilities, and such other expenses as may be necessary or incident to the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, remodeling, renovation, enlargement, improvement, equipment, and furnishing of such facilities, the financing thereof, and the placing of the same in use and operation, including any one, part of, or combination of such classes of costs and expenses, and means the costs of refinancing obligations issued by, or reimbursement of money advanced by, nonprofit hospital agencies or others the proceeds of which were used for the payment of costs of hospital facilities.

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