- U.S. Municipal Credit Report, Third Quarter 2016
- S&P Reassessing, Deferring Some Ratings Due to Errors in Sector Models.
- This Government Bond Insures Against Failure.
- An Inconvenience of Qualified Equity: Squire Patton Boggs
- Trump’s Tax, Infrastructure Plans Jeopardize Exemption for Munis.
- GFOA Webinar: Current Issues in Debt Management.
- Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority v. City of St. Louis – Appeals court holds that status as a registered voter and signatory to a referendum petition is not an interest of adequate directness or immediacy as required to intervene as a matter of right in case concerning public financing of sports complex.
- City of Bakersfield v. West Park Home Owners Association and Friends – Court of Appeal holds that certificates to be issued by Public Benefit Corporation under an installment sale agreement entered into with city constituted “bonds” under article XIX, section 6 and Streets and Highways Code section 2107.4, and thus City could not pledge gas tax revenues in non-voter approved financing. Worth reading this opinion for its analysis of Public Benefit Corporations and pledged revenues.
- And finally, this week’s BCB Travel Alert is brought to you by Ex Parte Sedigas, in which the court upheld the constitutionality of the Waco city ordinance prohibiting any employee who appears nude in a sexually oriented business from knowingly or intentionally touching a customer or the clothing of a customer on the premises. (Wait, what about employees appearing nude while working the McDonald’s drive-thru?) Jeez, talk about taking the party out of parte.