The authority shall have the power, from time to time, to issue:
(1) Notes to renew notes; and
(2) Bonds to pay notes
including the interest thereon and, whenever it deems refunding expedient, to refund any bonds by the issuance of new bonds, whether the bonds to be refunded have or have not matured, and to issue bonds partly to refund bonds then outstanding and partly for any of its corporate purposes.