I-1 - Preliminary Official Statement - GO Bond 2024A

AUTHORITY AND PURPOSE The General Obligation Corporate Purpose Bonds, Series 2024A (the “Bonds” or the “Issue”) are being issued by the City of Tiffin, Iowa (the “City” or the “Issuer”) pursuant to Code of Iowa, Section 384.24A, as amended, as well as all other laws amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, and in conformity with a resolution of the City authorizing and approving the Loan Agreement and providing for the issuance and securing the payment of the Bonds. Proceeds of the Bonds will be used to finance street, utility and signage improvements; purchase vehicles and equipment; and to pay costs associated with issuance of the Bonds. SECURITY/SOURCES AND USES OF FUNDS Security Pursuant to the Resolution and the Act, the Bonds and the interest thereon are general obligations of the Issuer, and all taxable property within the corporate boundaries of the Issuer is subject to the levy of taxes to pay the principal of and interest on the Bonds without constitutional or statutory limitation as to rate or amount. Section 76.2 of the Code of Iowa, 2021, as amended (the “Iowa Code”) provides that when an Iowa political subdivision issues general obligation bonds, the governing authority of such political subdivision shall, by resolution adopted before issuing the bonds, provide for the assessment of an annual levy upon all the taxable property in the political subdivision sufficient to pay the interest and principal of the bonds. A certified copy of this resolution shall be filed with the County Auditor in which the Issuer is located, giving rise to a duty of the County Auditor to annually enter this levy for collection from the taxable property within the boundaries of the Issuer, until funds are realized to pay the bonds in full. For the purpose of providing for the levy and collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the Bonds as the same become due, the Resolution provides for the levy of a tax sufficient for that purpose on all the taxable property in the Issuer in each of the years while the Bonds are outstanding. The Issuer shall file a certified copy of the Resolution with the County Auditor, pursuant to which the County Auditor is instructed to enter for collection and assess the tax authorized. When annually entering such taxes for collection, the County Auditor shall include the same as a part of the tax levy for Debt Service Fund purposes of the Issuer and when collected, the proceeds of the taxes shall be converted into the Debt Service Fund of the Issuer and set aside therein as a special account to be used solely and only for the payment of the principal of and interest on the Bonds and for no other purpose whatsoever. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 76.4 of the Iowa Code, each year while the Bonds remain outstanding and unpaid, any funds of the Issuer which may lawfully be applied for such purpose, may be appropriated, budgeted and, if received, used for the payment of the principal of and interest on the Bonds as the same become due, and if so appropriated, the taxes for any given fiscal year as provided for in the Resolution, shall be reduced by the amount of such alternate funds as have been appropriated for said purpose and evidenced in the Issuer’s budget. –4–