Specifications include, but are not limited to: The selected Financial Advisor(s) will be required to perform the following: a. Provide analysis related to the Authority’s debt portfolio for traditional and synthetic bond refunding opportunities; review financial policy including budget, tax, cash management issues and related fiscal policies; b. Assist, advise and perform financial analyses of policies and fiscal issues affecting long range capital development and financial programs undertaken by the Authority; c. Provide assistance to the Authority in the development of an aggressive, effective and well researched credit rating program, as needed; meet with analysts from the major ratings services, furnish the rating services with all necessary and relevant documentation and information, prepare any graphic support to be used for presentations made to the rating agencies; coordinate the overall rating agency program; attend and support in other appropriate ways any bond rating meetings or conference calls; develop and support an overall program of investor relations; d. Provide regular updates of tax-exempt, and/or taxable, bond market conditions and advise the Authority as to advantageous times for issuing or restructuring its debt. Such analysis will include review of interest rate levels and trends, projected volume of financing, data on comparable financing, economic projections, and other relevant information and analysis;