Southwest

DALLAS — Dallas may finance a $300 million drainage project with revenue bonds rather than with proceeds from a $500 million general obligation package expected to go to voters in November.

DALLAS – Santa Fe, N.M., will power a community center using solar energy panels financed with proceeds from $17.8 million of general obligation bonds approved by voters Tuesday.

DALLAS — Voters in North Richland Hills, Texas, will decide May 12 on $48 million of general obligation bonds to build a new municipal complex in the Fort Worth suburb.

DALLAS — The triple-A rated Dallas suburb of Irving will spend $200,000 to obtain separate ratings on a potential bond issue for a $210 million entertainment center backed by public and private funds.

DALLAS — As George Bush Intercontinental Airport's $1 billion redevelopment gets under way, Houston will issue $520 million of refunding bonds for the facility Tuesday, the largest deal of the year so far in Texas.

Trustees of the New Caney Independent School District in Texas have set a May 12 election for a $97.5 million general obligation bond proposal.

Oklahoma County commissioners last week approved initial steps last week to develop a new 2,800-bed jail that would replace the county’s 13-story lockup in downtown Oklahoma City.

A plan to rebate $2.25 million of city hotel tax revenue to developers of a new hotel in downtown Wichita was rejected last week by 61% of voters.

State revenues in Kansas topped $261 million in February, the Department of Revenue said last week.

Arkansas’ net available state revenues in the first eight months of fiscal 2012 came to a total of $3 billion, an increase of $54.2 million from the same period of fiscal 2011 and $20.2 million more than expected.