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New York City finance officials appeared before the City Council Monday to discuss the mayor’s fiscal 2025 preliminary budget. Testimony centered around the $109.4 billion preliminary budget that Mayor Eric Adams proposed in January, which is balanced as required by law, and includes a near-record $8.2 billion in reserves, including $1.2 billion in general reserve, $4.8 billion in the Retiree Health Benefits

The city of Dolton, Illinois, in south Cook County, shares a boundary with Harvey. It also appears to share a level of financial turmoil that brings basic city operations under court scrutiny. It’s been two years since Dolton made public an audited annual financial report. But an annual treasurer’s report for 2023 shared with The

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board is gearing the industry up for two meetings aimed at addressing the now discarded 2024 rate card fee model. The board recently announced these meetings, the first of which will gather four trade associations and focus on the comments received, market projections and fee volatility as part of the board’s

Nearly seven years after the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority went into bankruptcy, the restructuring entered its potential final stage with arguments over the proposed plan of adjustment’s legality and assumptions. In a separate PREPA development, the Puerto Rico Oversight Board approved a municipal bond restructuring for PREPA’s private power supplier AES Puerto Rico, which

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Professional sports-hungry Utah is hoping to entice baseball and hockey to come to Salt Lake City with bills state lawmakers passed last week that authorize bond issuance for stadiums. House Bill 562 allows up to $900 million in financing to cover half the cost of a Major League Baseball stadium within a Fairpark Area Investment

The municipal primary kicked into swing Monday with New York City Municipal waters pricing for retail investors while the secondary was quiet in light trading leading to a steady tone, even as U.S. Treasuries were weaker and equities were mixed near the close. In the primary market Monday, Siebert Williams Shank held a one-day retail

The bankers on a $167.9 million refunding say San Diego Community College District became the first community college in California to tender general obligation bonds in a deal that converted taxable debt into tax-exempt for savings. RBC managing directors Karma Pemba and Katherine Jacobson priced the debt for the community college on Feb. 8, achieving

Fiscal 2024 transportation funding would remain essentially flat to the previous year under a bipartisan spending bill unveiled Sunday, with a few cuts to grant programs that President Joe Biden had hoped to fund. The full six-bill “minibus” totals $465 billion, and if passed by Friday would fund the federal agencies through the remainder of

New York City on Monday announced its selection of financial advisors for upcoming bond issuances in 2024. The Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget, the Office of the New York City Comptroller, the New York City Transitional Finance Authority, the New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority, the Hudson Yards Infrastructure Corp. and TSASC Inc.

J.P. Morgan plans to beef up its muni team, hiring three former Citi employees with plans to bring on three more in the coming weeks. The bank has also hired some analysts for its infrastructure group over the past several weeks. The latest hires from Citi are Andrew Hildreth as executive director in the infrastructure

Enjoy complimentary access to top ideas and insights — selected by our editors. William W. “Bill” Fish, who spent his career working with municipal bonds, died on Feb. 18 at The Connecticut Hospice overlooking the Long Island Sound, which he loved. Mr. Fish was born on Nov. 12, 1944, in Brunswick, Maine. He attended Bowdoin

S&P Global Ratings Friday revised its outlook on Mississippi to negative from stable and affirmed the state’s general obligation bonds at AA. S&P also the AA-minus rating on the state’s appropriation-backed special obligation bonds and lease revenue certificates of participation. In addition, S&P affirmed the A rating on the Mississippi Development Bank’s outstanding debt, reflecting

A recent report warns that Boston’s tax revenue may fall by $1.2 to $1.5 billion over the next five years — the equivalent of the city’s 2024 education budget. Not every analyst concurs with the report’s headline number, but there’s consensus that the triple-A-rated city is uniquely vulnerable to the national decline in commercial real

Municipals were little changed to end the week ahead of an estimated $6.1 billion new-issue calendar. U.S. Treasuries were firmer, and equities ended up. Muni yields were steady throughout the week, ignoring small but “well-behaved” UST movements, which stayed “in a relatively narrow range despite some important data releases,” according to Barclays PLC strategists Mikhail

The Ohio state Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that included $1.27 billion in bonds for state government agency facilities, K-12 classrooms, local subdivisions’ capital improvement projects and conservation projects. The bill, HB 27, was originally intended only to give students more information about college fees and loan repayment. And Senate Democrats voiced reservations about

On Thursday the Internal Revenue Service provided updated guidance on how utility companies are allowed to use securitization to recover costs through rate increases to customers.   The new regulations are denoted by the IRS as Rev. Proc. 2024-15 which updates Rev. Proc. 2005-62. The ruling expands the definition of public utility companies to include publicly owned power

Hawaii lawmakers grilled the budget director Thursday as recovery costs for the Maui wildfire are coming in double expectations, putting the budget at risk. During a hearing before the Senate Ways and Means Committee, Budget Director Luis Salaveria was asked when Gov. Josh Green’s administration realized costs to temporarily house people displaced by the fire

Congress is expected to begin voting next week on the first set of fiscal 2024 budget bills – five months into the fiscal year – after the parties reached another short-term deal to avert a government shutdown Friday. The two chambers on Thursday passed a stopgap bill that extends the deadline for four spending bills,

After years of soliciting market feedback, new Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board Rule G-46 on the duties of solicitor municipal advisors is in effect as of March 1, setting the stage for closer scrutiny from both municipal advisors and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Solicitor municipal advisors are a much smaller crowd than traditional municipal advisors

Global exports from Kentucky rose 16.6% year-over-year to a record high of $40.2 billion in 2023, as more products made in the Bluegrass State were shipped around the world. Aerospace products and parts led the state’s exports by category in 2023, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau, Foreign Trade Division and WISERTrade.