Southwest

The Little Rock, Ark., Board of Directors last week delayed a decision on how to allocate city funds to infrastructure projects until after a Sept. 11 bond election.

Glendale, Ariz., officials are developing a five-year plan to deal with the end of a 0.7% sales tax set to expire in 2017.

Amid protests and falling incarceration rates, Arizona plans to name the winning bid for a private prison Friday. The state will pay a 9.5% premium to go the for-profit route, according to one study.

Oklahoma voters on Aug. 28 rejected more new school debt than they approved, with passage of16 public school bond proposals totaling $34 million.

Kansas will issue $5.4 million of bonds as part of a $17 million package to wrap up financing for a 10-year renovation effort at the State Capitol in Topeka.

The South Texas Higher Education Authority Inc. has proposed paying IRS $438,243 under the voluntary closing agreement program to settle tax law issues over $255.8 million of student loan bonds it issued in 2007.

Trustees of Tyler Independent School District last week declined to call a general obligation bond election for November after discussing a proposal for several weeks.

Tulsa County Republican Party Committee last week censured two Tulsa County commissioners who set an election in November on extending an existing county-wide sales tax.

Reconciliation of state agency budgets at the end of fiscal 2012 put an additional $21.4 million into Oklahoma’s Constitutional Reserve Fund last week.

State revenues in fiscal 2014 are expected to total $5.9 billion, up $272 million from fiscal 2013 collections, according to a new fiscal forecast outlined last week to the Legislative Finance Committee.