Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1) Provide timely information to bond rating agencies necessary to obtain bond ratings; 2) Maintain or improve the credit rating of the City as required; 3) Obtain the most advantageous timing for the sale of bonds; 4) Broaden the interest in bonds to be sold and ensure the proper structuring of bond sales; 5) Release official statements relating to any bonds to be offered for sale to prospective buyers of bonds; 6) Assist the City in complying with reporting requirements under the current and ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 17 CFR 240.l5c2·12 as amended; 7) Conduct a review of financial resources and a recommended plan of financing: a) Conduct a review of the financial resources of the City to determine the extent of its borrowing capacity to authorize issue and service debt. The review will include an analysis of existing debt structure as compared with the existing and projected sources of revenues that may be pledged to secure payment of debt service and, where appropriate, will include a study of the trend of the assessed valuation, taxing power (including both property taxes and Gross Receipts taxes) and present and future taxing requirements of the City. The review will include an analysis of outstanding bond transactions and recommendations for addressing disadvantaged features of such outstanding transactions. 8) Based on the information of the review, the Offeror will submit to the City its recommendations on current and future debt instruments under consideration including such elements as current bond market conditions, forthcoming bond issues and other general information and economic data that might normally be expected to influence interest rates or bidding conditions so that the date of sale of the debt instruments may be set at a time which will be favorable.