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The International Municipal Lawyers Association has filed a friend of the court brief asking a federal appeals court to reconsider its decision to disregard a qualified immunity defense for Miami, Fla.'s former budget director, warning that allowing the Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit against him to go forward would negatively affect municipalities everywhere.

San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer appointed Maksim Pecherskiy as the city's chief data officer with the aim of making the city more transparent, efficient and innovative.

Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the rating on Glendale, Calif.'s outstanding water revenue debt a notch from to A1 from Aa3 affecting $86 million in debt.

San Bernardino hires consultant to study service levels needed in the city in the hope of crafting a feasible bankruptcy exit strategy.

Northern Virginia Transportation Authority will sell $69 million of revenue bonds to finance regional transportation infrastructure.

California's total reserves could grow to over $4 billion by the end of fiscal year 2016, according to estimates by the state's Legislative Analyst's Office.

Trends in the San Bernardino bankruptcy case put the city's bondholders on track to feel more pain than other creditors.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has unanimously approved new rules to require self-regulatory organizations and alternative trading systems to strengthen their defenses against technological failures.

Fremont Unified School District sold $140 million of general obligation bonds on Tuesday to fund school projects throughout the San Francisco Bay Area district.

A northern Idaho school district superintendent wants state legislators to sponsor a proposal that would allow school districts to use sales tax increases to pay for school construction.