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New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, with disparate challenges, set the tone for effective planning, said Kroll.

Municipal bond buyers will see several big deals head their way this week. Taking the top spot is a $654 million deal from the Regents of the University of California to be priced by UBS while Citi is set to price the Lower Colorado River Authority's $370 million offering.

Scott Mitnick, who was county administrator of Sutter County, California, will be a director at financial advisory firm KNN Public Finance.

If the budget passes as proposed, some municipalities would default on bonds, said the president of the Alaska Municipal League.

State Sen. John Moorlach's legislation would make California only the second state to adopt the machine-readable computer language for financial documents.

The California Supreme Court left the so-called California Rule on pensions untouched in a ruling favoring the state's right to eliminate an "air time" benefit.

The West and East Coasts will battle it out for the top municipal deal of the week — with California coming with a $2.3 billion GO deal and NYC coming with almost $990 million of bonds.

The region's 2018 new money bond sales were up 2% year-over-year, but refundings fell 57%.

The new money segment of the $438 million deal will help fund a midfield concourse at LAX.

Lawmakers are weighing legislation that would authorize $100 million of special purpose revenue bonds to build and operate the plant.