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Award-winning journalist Vicki Gonzalez hosts interviews with community leaders, advocates, experts, artists and more to provide background and understanding on breaking news, big events, politics and culture in the Sacramento region and beyond.

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Policy Expert Illuminates How Municipal Bonding Works

Tuesday, June 18, 2019 | Sacramento, CA
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Recent discussions in the City of Sacramento about bonds and bonding might have illuminated the various ways that budget numbers can work. But, unless this is the world you work in, bonding can be pretty mysterious.

Here’s a short explanation: Bonding is a way to raise money. It’s essentially a loan that has to be paid back with interest, not unlike a home mortgage. Recently, a variety of bonding formulas — and projects submitted for bond issues — were before the Sacramento City Council.

Mayor Darrell Steinberg was on Insight last week, ahead of the City Council’s vote on the budget. He expressed some consternation about people’s reaction to a proposal to issue a particular bond: “There’s controversy over a bond. There is nothing new about city government or government or bonding to invest in capital projects in a city.”

But how does bonding actually work? For a broad explanation, host Beth Ruyak will talk to Patrick Murphy. He’s policy director of fiscal and governance reform and a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California.

Read PPIC's report on their annual survey on how Californians feel about their government here.

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    Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg joins Insight to talk about tonight’s vote on the city’s $1.2 billion budget plan, including several projects that may be paid for with a $16 million budget surplus.

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