The Albany County Airport Authority (the Authority) is scheduled to issue $42.2 million in Special Obligation and Revenue Bonds. Proceeds from the 2019 Series will be used to finance a portion of the Upstate Airport Development & Revitalization Project and other projects in the Authority's 2015-2019 Capital Plan.

EPA has awarded nearly $30 million to 87 tribes in California to fund projects on water quality monitoring, watershed protection and restoration, water and energy efficiency, and wastewater recycling and treatment. Tribes in California will also use EPA funding to develop programs to monitor, protect and improve air quality, and build public awareness of these efforts.

A $5 million grant from JPMorgan Chase will seed a new $20 million fund designed to spur the revitalization of Linden. JPMorgan's grant, announced Tuesday, will be part of a $20 million loan pool that will fund several neighborhood-building initiatives, including the development or rehabilitation of 500 affordable housing units. Ohio Capital Finance Corporation will structure the $120 million loan pool with three CDFI Funds.

The Hawaii Energy Office and state Department of Health have created an online map that identifies contaminated lands that officials hope developers can turn into renewable energy sites. The Hawaii Brightfields Initiative grew out of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's brownfield program that aims to clean up contaminated sites.

USDA has invested $7.2 million in high-speed broadband infrastructure that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for rural households and farms in Iowa and South Dakota. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA's ReConnect Pilot Program investments.

2019 has been another year of progress toward the revitalization of the former Beech-Nut food processing plant, Montgomery County's major economic development project. In 2016, the county received a $500,000 Restore New York grant; in February 2017, it received a $300,000 Brownfield Redevelopment grant from National Grid; and in February 2018, it received a $6 million Restore New York grant.

As 2019 winds down, the Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2019 is gaining momentum in Congress. Among other things, the key proposals in the 2019 legislation would establish a minimum 4% credit rate for tax-exempt bond financed transactions, and increase the housing credit volume cap by 50% over five years.

The site of a vacant mall in a Minneapolis suburb is one step closer to being redeveloped into mixed-use, with affordable senior housing as an anchor. Funding for the redevelopment's residential component will consist of low income housing tax credits (LIHTC) along with $5 million in tax increment financing, with the balance consisting of first mortgage debt.

Members of Congress continue to propose bipartisan bills for expanding the use of tax-exempt private activity bonds in rural America with the latest legislation involving broadband and aggie bonds. A bipartisan Senate bill to expand the use of PABs for rural broadband would also allow state and local governments the option of issuing direct-pay bonds which would provide a 35% federal subsidy to the issuers to help offset their interest costs.

The Seattle area's regional transit agency plans to continue collecting vehicle registration taxes that were rescinded by a statewide ballot measure until bonds that use the taxes as a funding source are paid off. The board of Sound Transit met to discuss the Nov. 5 passage of Initiative 976, which caps so-called "car tab" fees at $30 a year per vehicle. Sound Transit has no plans to defease or retire the bonds at this time.

The CDFA-Ice Miller Broadband Financing Bootcamp will provide a high-level discussion on issues impacting broadband development, deployment, and financing. Topics include an overview of the current broadband landscape and the challenges faced by urban and rural markets, approaches to expanding broadband access including using public/private partnerships, and discussing the innovative financing for broadband at the federal, state, and local levels. This comprehensive bootcamp will also provide attendees with critical information for accessing the plethora of financing available to support broadband expansion into underserved markets throughout the country.

Rural communities commonly have difficulty financing middle-mile and last-mile broadband infrastructure. The Massachusetts Broadband Initiative and the Wyoming Broadband Advisory Council represent two state-level entities attempting to bridge the middle-mile and last-mile broadband gaps. One potential solution for this issue is to construct a fiber-optic network for municipal usage and lease the excess capacity (also called "dark fiber") to telecommunications providers to generate revenue. During this webinar, speakers will discuss solutions to financing middle-mile and last-mile fiber-optic networks.

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