- MSRB Publishes Guide for Customer and Municipal Advisory Client Complaint Problem and Product Codes.
- Former GSA Head Reiterates Urgency for Scoring Reform.
- BE AWARE: Governments Being Hit by Sophisticated Electronic Fraud Scams.
- GFOA Alert: Public-Private Partnerships (P3).
- Early Tax Abatement Disclosures Under GASB 77: Incomplete, Mislabeled – and Occasionally Spectacular.
- California Taxpayers Action Network v. Taber Construction, Inc. – Court of Appeal holds that tax objector alleged sufficient facts to state cause of action against contractor, as corporate consultant, for violation of conflict of interest provision in statute barring public officials or employees from being personally financially interested in contracts they formed in their official capacities, stemming from contractor’s lease-leaseback construction contracts with school district. On remand, this case appears poised to invalidate the entire lease-leaseback construction contract system as currently configured.
- And finally, You’ve Been a Very Naughty Boy, Prepare for Strict Scrutiny is brought to us this week by For the People Theatres of N.Y. Inc. v. City of New York, which dealt with zoning regs for adult businesses. You’ll doubtless be pleased to learn that your “specified anatomical areas” are subject to intermediate scrutiny. But you should probably run this by HR prior to office-wide implementation of any such scrutiny.