- SIFMA Develops Model Sophisticated Municipal Market Professional Affirmation for Institutional Customers.
- Bond Insurance Penetration Climbs to 5.8% in Q1.
- A Tale of Two Cities: How Municipal M&A Saves Taxpayers, Prevents Budget Shortfalls.
- Green-Bond Guidelines Show ‘Incremental Progress’
- 2015 Municipal Finance Conference – Call for Papers.
- Protect Our Benefits v. City and County of San Francisco – Court of Appeal holds that City charter amendment conditioning the payment of supplemental COLA on the retirement fund being “fully funded” based on the market value of the assets for the previous year could not be constitutionally applied to employees who retired after effective date of initiative establishing the supplemental COLA.
- 110 Wyman, LLC v. City of Minneapolis – Court of Appeal holds that statutorily-imposed “reasonably related” special services standard, rather than common law special-benefit standard, applied to landowners’ challenge to charges imposed on property owners in special service district in city’s downtown.
- And finally, Officer Down! is brought to us this week by Vaughn v. City of Carbondale, in which Officer Jeffrey Vaughn made the somewhat-less-than-ultimate sacrifice when he reached into his squad car for the radio and bumped his head on the door frame. Laugh all you want, but your editor has involuntarily encountered more than his share of police car door frames and can personally attest that they’ll leave a mark.
