Jim Watts

The San Antonio City Council last week set May 12 as the election date for the city’s request for $596 million of general obligation bond authority for infrastructure improvements.

State Sen. Patrick Anderson, R-Enid, said last week he expects a lawsuit over the Oklahoma Council of Bond Oversight’s decision to approve $26 million of state lease revenue bonds for a dam project in Tulsa.

More than 75% of Shawnee, Okla., voters last week rejected proposed increases in their property and sales taxes to support $50 million of bonds for civic projects.

The Wichita City Council last week designated a 400-acre site in east Wichita as a STAR bond district that can issue debt supported by revenues from the state’s 6.3% sales tax.

Voters in North Little Rock School District No. 1 last week approved a property tax increase to support up to $200 million of 31-year general obligation bonds.

DALLAS — The Louisiana Bond Commission will meet in special session March 1 for the competitive sales of $449 million of state general obligation bonds.

DALLAS — Oklahoma sales tax revenue hit a historic peak in January, bringing in $165 million to the general fund.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s proposed executive budget for fiscal 2013 calls for total spending of $25.5 billion, down $61 million from the fiscal 2012 spending plan.

AUSTIN — Texas public school districts will face financial stresses in educating Texans to the level needed to sustain economic development, according to education officials and financial professionals at The Bond Buyer’s 16th annual Texas Public Finance Conference.

Texas cities will share $471.1 million of the more than $2 billion of state sales tax revenue that was collected in January.

The Rockwall, Texas, City Council last week set an election for May 12 on a $59 million, four-part general obligation bond program that includes a $25.1 million athletic complex.

Trustees of the Tyler Independent School District in Texas adopted a long-range capital plan last week that would begin with proceeds from a bond election in November.

Tulsa’s sales tax revenues were up 9.5% in December from 2010, Mayor Dewey Bartlett said last week.

Mayor Joe Reardon said last week that the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kan., must decide on how to use tax revenues from the new state-authorized Hollywood Casino that opened Feb. 3 in Wyandotte County.

The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board has approved the sale of $19.6 million of housing and student revenue bonds by the Arkansas State University Board of Trustees.

DALLAS — The Oklahoma Council of Bond Oversight approved a $26 million state bond issue for dam improvements near Tulsa in a special session Thursday after earlier postponing a decision.

DALLAS — The Dallas City Council on Wednesday postponed a decision on whether to create a conduit issuer that could issue tax-exempt revenue bonds to finance the expansion of a charter school chain.

The underfunded retirement system that provides pensions for police officers of the Port of New Orleans could run out of money in 2020, the Louisiana legislative auditor’s office said in a report issued Monday. It said the Harbor Police Retirement System was only 56% funded as of fiscal 2010, with benefit liabilities of $21.3 million and assets of $11.8 million.

The Louisiana Legislature has significant leeway on when it has to reimburse the state’s rainy-day fund, under a ruling last week from Judge Kay Bates in favor of the state.

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin asked lawmakers Monday to approve a bond issue to repair the deteriorating state capitol in Oklahoma City.