Vol. 31 No. 6, December - December 2015

Index

• Classifying municipal securities as HQLA.
• Encouraging water-efficient growth.
• GFOA authorizes policy statement on retirement security.
• Participatory budgeting produces impressive results, under the right circumstances.
• GFOA Executive Board approves new best practices.
• Long-term trends in state finances.
• Connecting P3s, bond ratings, and debt calculation.
• Going green: considerations for green bond issuers.
• Developing an investment policy.
• Crafting a plain-English financial policy.
• Government-owned life insurance in public pensions and OPEB financing.
• GFOA's distinguished budget presentation program achieves major milestone: more than 1,500 governments participate in GFOA's budget awards program, which was launched in 1984.
• Considering an onsite clinic.
• Analyzing the Internet Tax Freedom Act: GFOA strongly opposes a permanent extension of the Internet Tax Freedom Act, which was originally enacted to safeguard the Internet when it was a nascent industry.
• New guidance on the GAAP Hierarchy.
• Mitigating the worst impacts of silos.
• GFOA key dates.
• The next big thing in local government.