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Sun Meals
Free breakfasts and lunches will be offered to all children 18 years old and younger at 33 locations from May 27 through July 24.
Tax-Free Bonds
As the adage goes: "The cure for high prices, is high prices". Today--ahead of next week's November elections in the United States -- we explore fiscal runaway with particular interest in the instruments that finance construction of the real assets. We recap what we have been doing for 30-odd years placing downward pressure on life-cycle cost.
Municipalization
Municipalization refers to a local governmental unit purchasing a merchant utility; a practice gathering pace in university towns in recent years. It is a very large transaction. Best practice discovery and promulgation begins with an accumulation of case studies before any concepts stabilize into a "standard". Today at the usual hour we examine a few representative case studies. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Educational Settlement Finance
We follow listings of a few offerings; examining their claims about new building construction, operations, maintenance and related budgetary "sausage-making". Large chunks of the US population want to retire on the yield thrown off by these instruments. School bonds can partially protect retirees from the looming tax hammering to be administered by partisans of Leviathan government.
Quadrivium: Summer
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. Titles are time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 15:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Joint Use of Electric Power Transmission & Distribution Facilities and Equipment
We follow concepts tracking in this draft standard that may be incorporated by reference in the 2023 National Electrical Safety Code and the 2026 National Electrical Code; both of which inform decisions made by local and state energy regulators with oversight over the "cities-within-cities" which educational settlements in the United States often are.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We are tooling up for the NFPA 2029 National Electrical Code Technical Committee Meetings in September and the IEEE Industrial Applications Society Meetings in October.
2028 National Electrical Safety Code
Today we review the 15 comments on proposed revisions we submitted to the IEEE Standards Association yesterday. Subcommittees begin meeting in August.