Southeast

Denham Springs Mayor Jimmy Durbin said earlier this week that $50 million of sales tax revenue bonds issued in 2007 to bring in a Bass Pro Shops store could be paid off years earlier than planned.

The Shreveport City Council Tuesday approved a list of capital improvement projects that will be financed with $79 million of general obligation bond proceeds.

Gov. Robert Bentley Tuesday announced the appointment of Marquita Davis as director of the Alabama Finance Department.

House Financial Services Committee chairman Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., last week told mayors in Jefferson County that he believes the right decisions will be made by county commissioners dealing with the sewer debt crisis, according to the Birmingham News.

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta on Oct. 4 will hear arguments in the appeal filed by former Jefferson County Commissioner Gary White.

BRADENTON, Fla. — The Tennessee State Funding Board is revising its debt-management policies in addition to requiring that all local governments adopt their own such policies by the end of this year.

BRADENTON, Fla. - South Miami, has reached a closing agreement and settlement with the Internal Revenue Service over impermissible uses of tax-exempt bond and bank loan proceeds to build a parking garage.

BRADENTON, Fla. - A stalled beltway project near Jacksonville in northeast Florida will get a partial kick-start with the construction of a bond-financed segment, state officials announced Wednesday.

DALLAS - The Louisiana State Bond Commission gave the go-ahead Thursday for the sale of $31 million of tax-credit bonds to finance an energy-efficiency effort at state prisons.

The Louisiana Legislature failed to implement long-term financial solutions while balancing the fiscal 2012 budget, Treasurer John Kennedy said last week in a letter to the editor sent to media outlets in the state.