Northeast

New York City Mayor ­Michael Bloomberg last week said he wants to rein in employee pension costs. But what he didn’t mention in his remarks at the annual meeting of the board that monitors the city’s finances was debt service costs, which are consuming a rising level of the city’s tax revenue.

Pennsylvania and New Jersey are looking to a potential public-private partnership to help finance replacement of the 50-year old Scudder Falls Bridge, which connects the two states over the Delaware River.

Mary Jane Darby, director of project management at the New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority, will serve as the agency’s acting executive director.

The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York gave final and preliminary approval to $1.15 billion of bonds at its monthly board meeting Wednesday.

Roger Anderson last week stepped down as executive director of the New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority after serving there nearly eight years.

Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission chief executive officer Joseph Brimmeier Wednesday urged more tolling of interstate highways to help generate additional revenue for transportation needs.

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Wednesday voted to hold hearings on fare and toll increases to help balance its 2011 ­budget.

The Pennsylvania Economic Development Financing Authority next month will sell $30 million of unrated tax-exempt revenue bonds to help finance a new equipment facility and terminal upgrades for US Airways at the Philadelphia International Airport.

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to release a $12.04 billion preliminary budget for 2011 today, officials said.

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority hopes to replace a $634 million bond transaction scheduled for September with commercial paper, an agency official said Monday.