Northeast

Nassau County, N.Y., ended fiscal 2010 with a $17.2 million surplus and cut its structural deficit to $131.6 million, according to unaudited fiscal results from Comptroller George Maragos.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett Tuesday released a $27.3 billion spending plan that is $866 million smaller than the current-year budget and includes no new taxes or tax increases.

New York City this week will issue its first general obligation bond deal of 2011 with a $641 million refinancing to generate debt-service savings.

Sam Katz, a founder of Public Financial Management Inc., will serve on the board of the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority, which reviews Philadelphia’s budgets and five-year fiscal plans.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett last week appointed six new commissioners to the board of the Delaware River Port Authority.

Moody’s Investors Service last week revised its outlook for Fordham University to stable from positive as the school plans to increase its borrowing more quickly in advance of expected fundraising and balance-sheet growth.

New Jersey residents are split over whether they approve Gov. Chris Christie’s $29.4 billion budget proposal, according to a Rutgers-Eagleton Poll released last week. Of the 912 adults polled, 48% are displeased with the fiscal 2012 spending plan while 45% approve of it.

In the 1930s, motorists paid 50 cents to drive through the Holland Tunnel, and a night at the Hotel Chesterfield in Jersey City cost $2.50.

A Boston hotel project failed to make an interest payment of $297,600 on March 1 to bondholders of Series 2002 Crosstown Center Project subordinate revenue bonds.

When former New York Assemblyman Richard Brodsky stepped down to make an unsuccessful run to become attorney general, observers wondered who would be the next chairman of the Assembly Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions that the Westchester County Democrat had used as bully pulpit for eight years.