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CREDIT OPINION <br />20 October 2016 <br />New Issue <br />City of Orono, MN <br />New Issue - Moody's assigns Aaa to the City of Orono, MN's <br />Ser. 2016A GO bonds <br />Summary Rating Rationale <br />Moody's Investors Service has assigned a Aaa rating to the City of Orono, MN's $2.8 million <br />General Obligation Street Reconstruction Refunding Bonds, Series 2016A. Concurrently, <br />Moody's maintains the Aaa rating on the city's outstanding general obligation (GO) debt. <br />Post sale, the city will have $9.7 million of GO debt outstanding. <br />Contacts The Aaa rating reflects the city's moderately sized and very wealthy residential tax base <br />Jennifer Card 312-706-9983 favorably located near the Twin Cities employment center; strong financial operations <br />Analyst supported by conservative management practices and healthy reserves, modest debt burden <br />jennifer.card@moodys.com and with a slightly above average pension liability. <br />Edward (Ted) 212-553-6990 <br />Damutz Credit Strengths <br />VP -Sr Credit Officer <br />edward.damutz@moodys.com » Favorably located in the Twin Cities Metropolitan area <br />Stable financial operations and healthy reserves levels, supported by a proactive and <br />conservative management team with well-established financial policies <br />Very strong income indices <br />Credit Challenges <br />Relatively smaller valuation than similarly rated entities <br />Rating Outlook <br />Outlooks are typically not assigned to local government issuers with this amount of debt. <br />Factors that Could Lead to a Downgrade <br />Material declines in fund balances and liquidity <br />Deterioration of the city's tax base and demographic profile <br />Materials increase in fixed cost burden <br />Substantial increase in the city's debt burden and pension liability <br />