Ted Phillips

The Municipal Forum of New York honored three public finance veterans at its 21st annual awards dinner in New York City Wednesday.

The Municipal Forum of New York honored three public finance veterans at its annual awards dinner last night.

The Whitney Museum of American Art has had informal talks with the New York City Trust for Cultural Resources about selling bonds to help finance a new building in downtown Manhattan.

The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York today plans to competitively price $800 million of taxable personal income tax Build America Bonds.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority could sell revenue anticipation notes to fill a hole caused by New York’s withholding of subsidies, officials said at a finance committee meeting yesterday. This month the state has withheld $275 million of certain aid payments to the MTA, officials said.

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority today will recommend Lamont Financial Services Corp. and Swap Financial Group LLC to replace Goldman, Sachs & Co. as its financial and swap advisers, according to materials posted on the MTA’s website.

The New York State Environmental Facilities Corp. plans to market its first bond deal using a new security structure this week. The EFC’s new indenture for state revolving fund projects doesn’t require a reserve fund, something that bonds issued under the old indenture needed.

New York City deputy mayor for economic development Robert Lieber announced his resignation last week, effective next month. He will become a senior executive at affiliates of Island Capital Group LLC, a New York-based real estate banking and asset management firm.

NEW YORK - New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority will recommend Lamont Financial Services Corp. and Swap Financial Group LLC to replace Goldman, Sachs & Co. as financial and swap advisers at a Monday meeting, according to materials posted on the MTA’s website.

The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York approved $2.31 billion of personal income tax bonds at a special board meeting in Albany yesterday.

The New York City Transitional Finance Authority plans to market its first qualified school construction bonds tomorrow as part of a $1.39 billion deal that began taking retail orders on Friday.

The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York last week revised a previously approved financing because staff expected that credit rating recalibrations obviated the need for mortgage insurance.

The longtime vice chairman of the New York City Industrial Development Agency’s board announced his resignation last week. Derek Bryson Park was appointed to the board in 2000 by then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and became its vice chairman in 2001.

New York’s cash-strapped Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced yesterday that a reorganization of its bridge and tunnel maintenance operations would save $25 million annually.

A federal judge Wednesday issued a temporary restraining order blocking New York Gov. David Paterson’s plan to save funds by furloughing state employees starting next week. Three unions sued Paterson after the Legislature Monday passed an emergency spending bill that included the furlough plan.

New York’s public authorities are proliferating and in some cases duplicating the work of others, the chairman of a task force on the implementation of an authority reform law said yesterday.

A New York state task force overseeing the implementation of public authorities reform legislation is looking at how the New York City Industrial Development Agency conducts its ­business.

Rhode Island’s $144.7 million, three-part bond deal tomorrow will be the first in which an entire state has been designated a “recovery zone.”

Former Nassau County, N.Y., Executive Thomas Suozzi is joining the new Long Island office of law firm Harris Beach PLLC, a spokesman confirmed Monday.

The University of Connecticut plans to market tax-exempt bonds to institutional investors tomorrow in a $138.8 million offering that began a two-day retail order period on Friday.