SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
 

 
FORM 6-K
 
REPORT OF FOREIGN ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
For May, 2018
(Commission File No. 1-31317)
 

 
Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo - SABESP
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
Basic Sanitation Company of the State of Sao Paulo - SABESP
(Translation of Registrant's name into English)
 


Rua Costa Carvalho, 300
São Paulo, S.P., 05429-900
Federative Republic of Brazil
(Address of Registrant's principal executive offices)



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COMPANHIA DE SANEAMENTO BÁSICO DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO - SABESP

Corporate Taxpayer’s ID (CNPJ) No. 43.776.517/0001-80

State Registry (NIRE) 35.3000.1683-1

 

EXCERPT OF THE MINUTES OF THE EIGHT-HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIRST MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

On May 10, 2018, at 9 a.m., convened by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, ordinarily, as provided for in the head provision of Article 12 of the Bylaws, at the meeting room at the headquarter of the Company, located at Rua Costa Carvalho n° 300, São Paulo, the undernamed and undersigned members of the Board of Directors of Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo – SABESP gathered together (...)

(...)

 

After, the Chairman of the Board, Dr. Mario Engler, gave the floor to the Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Officer, Rui de Britto Álvares Affonso, to the Technology, Enterprises and Environment Officer, Edison Airoldi, and to the Superintendent of Funding and Investor Relations, Mario Azevedo de Arruda Sampaio, together with the Superintendent of Economic and Financial Controllership, Agnaldo Pacheco Sampaio, the Manager of the Department of National Resources Funding, Marcelo de Assis Rampone, and the Manager of the Department of Planning and Control, Andrea Ferreira, started to present item 3 of the agenda, “ Authorization to negotiate and contract a financing in foreign currency with Inter-American Development Bank (IBD), to carry out the Stage IV of the Cleanup Program of the Tietê River . Amount: US$300,000,000.00 ” (time: 50), based on the Executive Board’s Resolution 0088/2018, of April 18, 2018, in the FI Internal Notice 13/2018, of April 5, 2018, and in the power point presentation, documents filed in the electronic folder of meetings. After discussing and voting on the matter, the Board of Directors unanimously approved , based on Item XXII of Article 14 of the Bylaws of the Company, negotiating and contracting a financing in foreign currency with Inter-American Development Bank (IBD), to carry out the Stage IV of the Cleanup Program of the Tietê River , according to the following conditions:

• Purpose: Implementing the Cleanup Program of the Tietê River - Stage IV

• Borrower: Sabesp - Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo

• Financing Bank: IDB - Inter-American Development Bank

• Amount Financed: US$300,000,000.00 (three hundred million US dollars)

• Compensation: US$200,000,000.00 (two hundred million US dollars)

• Currency: US Dollar

• Disbursement Term: 5.5 years

• Grace Period: 6 years

• Amortization Period: 19 years

• Total Term: 25 years

• Interest: LIBOR-based interest rate mechanism, calculated as established in IDB’s standards and procedures, specially Article 3.03 of Chapter III of the General Standards. Briefly, in this modality the interest rate is calculated and structured as follows: (i) three-month LIBOR rate; (ii) plus the margin applicable to ordinary capital loans of the Bank.


 

• Credit Commission: It will be paid up to 0.75% p.a. on the undisbursed balance.

• Frequency of Payment: (interest, commission and amortization): Half-yearly

• Inspection and supervision resources: at the discretion of the IDB, every six months during the disbursement period, up to 1.00% of the financing amount will be paid, divided by the number of semesters included in the original disbursement term.

• Guarantor: Federal Government (Federative Republic of Brazil)

• Counter-guarantor: Government of the State of São Paulo

• Counter-guarantor: Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo - SABESP

• SABESP’s counter-guarantees: own revenues, limited to the amount of the debt service, until the settlement of all the commitments of Sabesp from this financing with IDB.

To grant the above guarantees, the following agreements will be entered into:

1) counter-guarantee agreement between the Federal Government, the Government of the State of São Paulo and SABESP;

2) counter-guarantee agreement between the Government of the State of São Paulo and SABESP;

The Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Officer is authorized to take all necessary steps and measures to conclude the negotiations, detail the financing and guarantee agreements and the contracting of the credit transaction in question.

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The minutes, once approved, will be signed by the Members of the Board of Directors: Mario Engler Pinto Junior, Ernesto Rubens Gelbcke, Francisco Luiz Sibut Gomide, Francisco Vidal Luna, Jerônimo Antunes, Luís Eduardo Alves de Assis, Reinaldo Guerreiro and Rogério Ceron de Oliveira.

This is a free English translation of the original minutes drawn up in the Book of Minutes of the Meetings of the Company’s Board of Directors.

São Paulo, May 24, 2018.

Mario Engler Pinto Junior

Chairman of the Board of Directors

Marialve de Sousa Martins

Secretary of the Board of Directors

 

SIGNATURE   
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city São Paulo, Brazil.
Date: May 30, 2018
 
Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo - SABESP
By: /s/   Rui de Britto Álvares Affonso     
 
Name: Rui de Britto Álvares Affonso
Title: Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Officer
 

 

 
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

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