CaLBOC Statewide Conference Highlights
Alternative and Unconventional School Bond Financing Structures
Mark Saladino will speak on alternative financing structures designed to augment funding over authorized limits, and controversial (and costly) financing structures designed to circumvent tax rate limitations, and the improper use of bond proceeds.
Excerpts from Articles & Links:
County of Los Angeles School District General Obligation Bonds - White Paper -- ...To help manage the current fiscal challenges, many districts have sought to issue debt as one means of meeting their financial needs. While debt issuance can be part of a larger fiscal plan, the use of general obligation (GO) bonds to solve budget problems can pose a serious risk to school and community college districts. ....
www.bondbuyer.com/pdfs/0523LA.pdf
Regulators crack down on schools' borrowing
The Los Angeles County Treasurer and Tax Collector warned local school finance managers this week that a number of common internal borrowing practices are dishonest to taxpayers and prohibited by law. ... ... The letter outlines several unacceptable financing practices that include borrowing from bond project funds, using a joint powers authority to augment Qualified School Construction Bonds, and issuing capital appreciation bonds with maturities over 25 years. ...
www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?xid=zprytaoyvoxgsu
Officials warn schools about mishandling bond money
California school districts are using construction bond money to cover day-to-day operations and in other ways that regulators say misuse taxpayer money and violate state and federal law. In recent weeks, the state attorney general's office and county treasurers have issued warning letters to school officials after seeing an uptick in unauthorized district bond deals that saddle communities with higher debt payments. ...
californiawatch.org/dailyreport/officials-warn-schools-about-mishandling-bond-money-10710
MARK SALADINO -- County Treasurer-Tax Collector, County of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. Mr.Saladino was appointed in 1998 to serve as the Treasurer and Tax Collector of Los Angeles County by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Prior to 1998, he was an attorney in the office of the Los Angeles County Counsel, handling finance and investment matters. Mr. Saladino also was in private law practice at major law firms in New York and Los Angeles from 1982-1990. He was a 1979 graduate of the University of Illinois, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance with High Honors. Mark Saladino obtained his law degree from New York University in 1982 and has been admitted to practice law in the states of New York, California and the District of Columbia.,
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