At this year's event, we will induct late Tim Schaefer, Deputy State Treasurer for California, into The Bond Buyer's Hall of Fame. Daniel Wiles, Assistant Treasurer at the Los Angeles County, will provide a few remarks.

Great American traditions

Water situation in California and management through some pretty complex situations and options for that, including desalination.

Common wisdom held that people who work in the public sector might not earn salaries on par with private sector peers, but they could retire after 30 years with a bulletproof pension that would ensure security in their retirement years.

The law, as Emily was explaining, it covers eight different agencies and each agency is represented the same way in the language. And so for this piece of it, it's very vague, just municipal reporting.

Taken up countless pages in both mainstream media as well as the Bond Buyer has been the transit fiscal cliff that's affected agencies around the country and certainly here in California.

Our first session of the conference is the State of the Union latest trends in public finance market developments and projections from the industry veterans.

From a dramatic rise in interest rates, market volatility to plummeting bond volume, massive municipal bond outflows, which among other factors have put a lot of stress on this industry.