bond issue

Mayor Cedric Glover's proposed $94-million bond issue to repair Shreveport's crumbling streets has been defeated by the city council.

Another phase of the 2011 Bond Issue process is happening this week with Mayor Cedric Glover leading a contingent of staffers in a series of meetings in New York City with perspective investors. The team, which includes Chief Administrative Officer Dale Sibley, Finance Director Charles Madden, City Council Chair Oliver Jenkins and Sherricka Fields of Grigsby & Associates, arrived Wednesday for

The Shreveport City Council has taken the first major step toward selling some of the bonds approved in the April second bond election.

More public meetings to discuss the upcoming bond election are scheduled for this week and next. The first of two public meetings this week is set for six this evening at Louisiana Technical College on North Market.

The first of five scheduled public meetings to go over the April second Shreveport bond election is planned for six this evening.