The Legislature finds and declares that local agencies may be unable to sell short-term notes to financial institutions at the end of the 1977–78 fiscal year and the beginning of the 1978–79 fiscal year due to the lack of certainty in their ability to raise revenue to repay such short-term notes. Therefore, another source of short-term financing is necessary to ensure the orderly delivery of basic programs and services during the beginning of the fiscal year. In order to meet this need, the state, in this article, hereby establishes a Local Agency Emergency Loan Fund to serve as the lender of last resort.