- Muni Market’s Regulator Is Seeking Standards for Disclosure on ESG Debt.
- IRS Updates Procedures for Determination Letter Requests.
- Treasury Provides Added Flexibility and Clarity With Final ARPA Rule.
- U.S. Treasury Rules Against Cities Using Pandemic Aid to Pay Debt.
- As States and Localities Embrace Cryptocurrency, Problems Grow.
- Bonds are the Key to Reining in Runaway Municipal Pension Plans.
- And finally, Take Your Stray Cat (But Not Your Daughter) To Work Day is brought to us this week by Meade v. Township of Livingston, in which the former city manager appeared to make a strong case that she was terminated ‘cuz the police chief refused to comply with directives from a woman. The chief’s issues included: failing to show up for work; picking favorites, “leading to poor morale;” refusing to remove excessive tint from police vehicles; and, most critically; dealing with the town’s stray cat problem, “for which the Chief and his staff were responsible ‘because the animal control officer is a police officer or under the aegis of the policed department.'” (It remains unclear to us how exactly one manages to stick the “aegis” while fumbling the “policed department.”) All of which led to the inevitable question – one often applied to the BCB offices – “what kind of f—ing operation are you running here?”