Bond elections

If voters grant $500 million in new bond authority, the agency can hold down rate increases to fund mandatory projects.

City Council reservations torpedoed Mayor Adrian Perkins' request to ask voters for $207 million of general obligation bond authority.

Mayor Adrian Perkins put the bond proposals before the City Council and asked for a vote on a special April 24 election on four bond referendums.

They cite coalition building, learning from past mistakes, project planning and effective outreach during the pandemic.

Gov. Gina Raimondo signed the $12.8 billion FY21 budget bill, which includes seven ballot questions on $400 million worth of projects.

A voter-approved $5.5 billion bond measure gives the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine a new lease on life.

California voters have approved a second infusion of bond funding for stem cell research.

Moody's deemed both the likely passage of San Francisco Unified School District's parcel tax and Los Angeles USD's $7 billion bond measure credit positives.

After two failed efforts to bring light rail to one of Texas’ most congested cities, voters approved the Project Connect measure.

The state's voters weighed in on a shrunken slate of school bond measures, a split-roll property tax, and a bond measure to fund stem cell research.

The fate of the state budget and ratings may depend on the progressive income tax ballot measure. Midwest voters also face $2.3 billion of bond measures Tuesday.

This is the Lone Star State's only bond election day in 2020 after the May date was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gov. Gina Raimondo and top lawmakers want a clearer picture from Washington over coronavirus relief aid.

The pandemic's effect on the economy and learning, along with what may be growing voter antipathy, are cited for the dearth of November bond measures.

Moody's cited high leverage and fixed costs attributable to the city's pension and other post-employee benefit plans. Voters decide on new bonds in November.

In their first bond election of the COVID-19 crisis, Oklahoma voters rejected several proposals, including $120 million in the city of Norman.

The Detroit City Council agreed to put Mayor Mike Duggan's revised $250 milliot bond proposal on the November ballot after nixing his original plan last year.

The $3.7 billion measure would do more than just fix and replace schools. It could remedy an historic injustice, officials say.

Voters approve two borrowing measures totaling $120 million.

Schedule of upcoming bond elections