Southeast

The Lexington County School District No. 4 expects to competitively sell $9.75 million of general obligation new-money debt today.

The five-week old state tax amnesty program has generated more than $40 million. The program began Sept. 1 and is set to expire Oct. 31.

A planned March 2010 election for $200 million of bonds requested by the Jefferson Parishwide School District has been postponed until October 2011.

Voters in Louisiana’s Iberia Parishwide School District will decide on a $60 million general obligation bond package Saturday that would finance projects contained in a capital improvement plan adopted by school trustees in July.

Atlanta officials announced Friday that in preparation for the upcoming sale of debt for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, a due-diligence review found a number of errors in classifying expenses dating back to 2003.

Fitch Ratings last week upgraded the Hernando County School Board’s $143.4 million of outstanding certificates of participation to A-minus from BBB-plus. The rating agency also raised the school district’s general obligation credit, and its $800,000 of outstanding GOs, to A from A-minus.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Florida Department of Transportation Secretary ­Stephanie Kopelousos said this week that her agency has received the necessary letter of credit from Miami for a portion of its funding for the $1 billion Port of Miami Tunnel project.

DALLAS — East Baton Rouge Parish’s proposed $900.8 million bond package will remain on the Nov. 14 ballot despite efforts by several members of the Metropolitan Council to postpone the election until 2010.

Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor’s raised their ratings on Louisiana’s general obligation bonds by one notch as the state prepares a competitive sale of $324.8 million of GOs for Oct. 27.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Atlanta today expects to price $433.4 million of fixed-rate water and sewer revenue refunding bonds in one of the larger deals of its kind in this holiday-shortened week.