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The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association appealed to California's high court in a case challenging San Jose's plans to issue pension obligation bonds.
October 9 -
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's Financial Future Task Force released an interim report this week on Chicago's structurally imbalanced budget.
September 18 -
Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association has until the end of January to file briefs in its case challenging San Jose's pension obligation bond validation.
December 24 -
Litigants in a case challenging San Jose's validation of proposed pension bonds will have to wait another month to hear if the high court will review an appeals court ruling.
August 5 -
The one notch upgrade affects $256 million in outstanding bonds and resulted from Fitch's recent criteria change.
July 15 -
Ten other pension obligation bonds are under review by Fitch Ratings as a result of the agency's new local government criteria.
June 14 -
A city council committee received staff recommendations to fully fund the Police and Fire Pension System within 30 years.
May 28 -
Recommendations from an actuary on the city's police and fire pensions come amid a rising unfunded liability and uncertainty over the use of pension bonds.
November 20 -
The city, which issued POBs in 2005, is awaiting recommendations from an actuary on how to deal with a $3 billion unfunded liability in its public safety fund.
September 1 -
"We believe pensions have an elevated probability of stressing the state and local governments' budgets even as Illinois has made supplemental contributions above the statutorily required amounts," S&P Global Ratings analyst Joseph Vodziak said.
June 27 -
The rating agency said it could upgrade the state's ratings over a two-year period if recent healthy fund balances are maintained.
February 28 -
A substantial drop in new money volume sets California and the Far West apart from the the country.
February 16 -
With $300 million of term bonds due in 2051 underperforming in secondary market trading, Kansas officials are eyeing a surplus revenue funded buyback plan.
February 13 -
A financial instrument that has appealed to many municipalities to remedy underfunded pension plans is once again looking like a losing borrow and bet scheme.
February 3 -
As rising interest rates take pension obligation bonds off the table, city finance managers are looking to other methods to manage unfunded pension obligations.
December 15 -
Coconino County has issued debt to fund its prepayment to the Arizona State Retirement System, while Pinal County has a bond sale pending.
November 7 -
Variable-rate debt, tender option bonds and even prepaid gas bonds may stage a comeback in the current market, panelists at a GFOA conference said.
October 20 -
Richmond issued $154.1 million in pension obligation bonds in a refunding that terminates swaps, ends a county intercept, and extends the final maturity.
September 8 -
Expected voter turnout for the midterm election will likely compel other cities to join Ontario, California, in placing tax and bond measures on November's ballot.
August 5 -
Most public pension funds are fragile not distressed, according to Equable.
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