(30 ILCS 750/8-10)

Sec. 8-10. Affordable Financing of Public Infrastructure Loans and Grants.

(a) The Department is authorized to provide loans or grants to or on behalf of local governments, local public entities, local medical facilities, and local public health clinics for the purpose of making affordable the financing of local public infrastructure improvements under the following conditions:

(1) Where the Department has determined that no other source of affordable financing of the public infrastructure improvement project is available, Affordable Financing of Public Infrastructure loans may be provided as the sole financing source, except that no individual loan shall exceed $100,000.

(2) Where the Department has determined that other sources of financing of the public infrastructure improvement project are available, Affordable Financing of Public Infrastructure loans and grants may be provided to or on behalf of those projects for the purposes of facilitating access to, or reducing the financing costs of other sources through leveraging, credit enhancement, participations, and financing cost subsidies.

(b) The Department is authorized to provide small project Affordable Financing of Public Infrastructure loans. The Department shall determine the interest rate, if any, which the loans shall bear. The repayment period for small project loans shall not exceed 10 years. No small project loan shall exceed $100,000 in principal amount. The Department shall not exceed $5,000,000 in total small project loan balances outstanding at any time. The Department is authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with other State government public infrastructure financing entities for the purpose of reliance upon their application, credit review, security, and loan closing procedures for individual small project loans. Small project Affordable Financing of Public Infrastructure loans may be provided under the following conditions:

(1) As the sole financing source when the Department has determined that no other affordable financing source is available for projects that are necessary to local community health, safety, and economic development;

(2) As partial project financing in satisfaction of other financing source match requirements, to finance feasibility study and other project development costs necessary to accessing other financing, and to otherwise service financing gaps necessary to project feasibility.

(c) The Department is authorized to provide Affordable Financing of Public Infrastructure interest subsidy grants to local governments, local public entities, local medical facilities, and public health clinics having successfully applied for public infrastructure project loan financing from other State and federal financing programs and intermediaries. The Department shall only provide public infrastructure interest subsidy grants to or on behalf of projects where it has been determined that the interest subsidy is warranted to make the total project's financing affordable.

(d) The Department is authorized to provide small project Affordable Financing of Public Infrastructure grants to local governments, local public entities, local medical facilities, and public health clinics of up to 25% of the project costs where the Department has determined that affordable financing is available for the balance of the project cost, but not for the amount to be subject to the small project Affordable Financing of Public Infrastructure grant. No small project grant shall exceed $100,000. The Department shall not award more than $500,000 per fiscal year in small project grants.

(e) The Department is authorized to provide Affordable Financing of Public Infrastructure Credit Enhancement loans and grants to State public infrastructure financing intermediaries on behalf of local governments, local public entities, local medical facilities, and local public health clinics. Affordable Financing of Public Infrastructure Credit Enhancement loans and grants may be awarded to State public infrastructure financing intermediaries for the purpose of purchasing letters of credit and other forms of credit enhancements to allow the State public infrastructure financing intermediary to expand the pool of financing, or reduce the cost of financing available to local governments, local public entities, local medical facilities, and local public health clinics to finance public infrastructure projects necessary to local health, safety, and economic development. The Department shall not award an amount of Affordable Financing of Public Infrastructure Credit Enhancement grants which combined with the total of outstanding Affordable Financing of Public Infrastructure Credit Enhancement loans exceeds $1,000,000 at any time.

(f) The Department is authorized to provide Affordable Financing of Public Infrastructure Funding Reserve grants for the purpose of leveraging access to, and financing costs of, funding available through other State public infrastructure financing intermediaries. Affordable Financing of Public Infrastructure Funding Reserve grants may only be awarded to State public infrastructure financing intermediaries authorized to provide financing to local governments, local public entities, local medical facilities, or local public health clinics for the purposes of public infrastructure projects necessary to community health, safety, and economic development. The proceeds of Affordable Financing of Public Infrastructure Funding Reserve grants may only be used by State public infrastructure financing intermediaries to establish loss reserve funds intended to leverage access and financing costs of the public infrastructure financing available for community public infrastructure projects. Loss reserve funds shall be established pursuant to a trust indenture executed for that purpose by the grantee financing intermediary with a bank or trust company in the State of Illinois designated by the Treasurer having trust powers and possessing capital and surplus of not less than $25,000,000. The trust indenture shall limit the uses of the reserve fund to the payment of realized losses experienced in the State public infrastructure financing intermediary's community public infrastructure financing program as shall be specified in the grant award and for the fees and other costs of administering the loss reserve fund trust. Loss reserve fund trusts funded from Affordable Financing of Public Infrastructure Funding Reserve grants awarded by the Department shall not exceed 25% of the total public infrastructure financing made available by the State public infrastructure financing intermediary intended to be subject to the loss reserve fund. The Department shall not in total award Affordable Financing of Public Infrastructure Funding Reserve grants in excess of $1,000,000.

(Source: P.A. 88-453; 89-262, eff. 8-10-95.)