- MSRB Provides State and Local Governments with Tool to Improve Disclosure of Financial Information. This service allows state and local governments to schedule automated email reminders about an approaching deadline for providing annual and quarterly financial disclosures.
- Marysville Exempted Village Local School Dist. Bd. of Edn. v. Union Cty. Bd. of Revision, in which the Supreme Court of Ohio held that a valuation complaint validly invokes jurisdiction when the property owner is a corporate entity and the complaint was prepared and filed by a salaried employee of the entity who is neither an officer nor a lawyer.
- City of Champaign v. Madigan, in which the court held that communications “pertaining to public business” and sent to and from individual city council member’s personal electronic devices during the time that city council meetings were convened are subject to FOIA.
- NYT: Public-Private Partnerships Could Be a Lifeline for Cities.
- Basel III Rules Likely to Curb Big Banks’ Muni Purchases.
- SIFMA Social Media Seminar – October 16 – NYC.
- Yes, I am aware of the little Detroit kerfuffle. Rather than breathlessly spamming you with a moment-by-moment account of the proceedings, we’ll be trying to limit our coverage to matters of general/gloval interest and significance.
- Otherwise, a very quiet week. You’ll want to get up to speed on the new MSRB tool referenced above and pass that info on to clients as you see fit. And finally, from our Department of Understatement, comes the excited utterance (admitted as such) of a terrified teacher who expressed concern that a terminated co-worker had “not been making good choices” following his traumatic brain injury.