Counties Often Underappreciated Despite Generally Improving Fund Balances and Lower Debt and Pension Liabilities By Richard A. Ciccarone County governments are generally a good place to start your search for governments with positive financial conditions as well as...
Cities, Towns & Villages
Featured Bond — Shelby County, Tennessee $243.3 Million GO Bonds
Shelby County, Tennessee Issuing $243. 3 million GO County and Public Improvement & School Bonds Our featured new issue muncipal bond of the week is Shelby County, Tennessee, home to the City of Memphis. Shelby County is set to issue $243,325,000 General...
Featured Bond — City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii General Obligation Bonds
The City & County of Honolulu, Hawaii --$250 million GO Bonds for Rail Transit Project Photo via https://www.goodfreephotos.com/ The City and County of Honolulu is issuing $250,340,000 General Obligation Bonds to finance the rail transit project under...
The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee — $724.4 Million
SHARE THIS: FACEBOOKTWITTERLINKEDIN PRINT | EMAIL Featured Municipal Bond Issue, Week of October 15, 2018: The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennesse -- $724.4 Million The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County,...
Re-Assessing the Credit Quality of America’s Cities in 2017 – Part One: Examining Financial Health Against a Backdrop of High Ratings
Are Credit Ratings Reflecting True Risk? More than two years ago, MuniNet published a five-part series on Assessing the Credit Quality of America's Cities, intended to examine and create a framework to analyze the financial health of cities. With this first...
Survey Says – Number One Issue for State and Local Governments: Hiring and Retaining Staff
Hiring Trend Continues, as Do Struggles With Turnover The Center for State and Local Government Excellence, an organization dedicated to research on state and local government employee compensation, health care, retirement, and other benefits, carried out their...
Assessing the Credit Quality of America’s Cities – Part Four: FY 2014 Financial Condition
The most basic sign that a government is living within its means is that it balances its books at the end of the year. Traditionally, most city officials, experts, and observers of state and local government focus primarily on the general fund, usually a government's...
Assessing the Credit Quality of America’s Cities – Part Two: The Achilles Heel to the Fiscal Condition of Cities – Public Pensions
In the second part of our series on city credit quality, the spotlight shifts to the Achilles heel for many cities: public pensions. by Richard A. Ciccarone Governmental credit quality is a byproduct of both the underlying economy and the cumulative...
MuniNet Medley: Timely Points of Interest from the Editor’s Desk
Chicago passes budget, EMMA adds credit ratings, Detroit looks at charter school options, Lodi keeps city control of water plant, New York business trends, Small Business Saturday
Municipal Bankruptcy Remains “Last Resort” Despite Troubled Economy
Municipalities must prove insolvency in order to file for Chapter 9 protection