Southwest

DALLAS — Little Rock voters will be asked to extend an existing property tax to support $105 million of general obligation bonds for public works projects under a plan outlined Tuesday by Mayor Mark Stodola.

DALLAS — The Arizona Board of Regents on Tuesday priced $123 million of bonds for the University of Arizona in one of the largest deals of the year from the state.

DALLAS — A $500 million general obligation bond package going to Dallas voters this fall will do little to whittle down the city's $4.4 billion of needed street repairs and reconstruction.

DALLAS — The Austin Community College District plans to price $44.4 million of lease-revenue bonds to build its first campus in suburban Hays County after a Texas Supreme Court victory cleared a path to the market.

Oklahoma lawmakers are considering $150 million of bonds to finance repairs and renovations at the state capitol that are expected to cost $140 million.

The Kansas House has adopted a bill that would dedicate revenues from state-owned casinos to support of the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System, which faces an $8.3 billion shortfall in promised benefits through 2033.

Both chambers of the Kansas Legislature last week adopted versions of a $14 billion budget for fiscal 2013, but differences in the measures will require negotiations by a conference committee.

An independent audit of the Phoenix suburb of Surprise found $16 million of accounting errors that will erase the city’s meager rainy-day fund and blow a $3 million hole in the fiscal 2012 budget.

Phoenix may end fiscal 2013 with a multimillion dollar surplus in a turnaround after posting the city’s biggest deficit ever in 2010.

DALLAS — Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. may have to cover debt service payments of $1.2 million for a northern Colorado municipal district that defaulted on $25 million of bonds last December, the district indicated.