Author: Rick Taggart
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Transparency a two-way street for metro district debt | OPINION
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Rick Taggart In the last legislative session I worked as a cosponsor to successfully pass a bipartisan bill codifying best practices for metro districts, which included strong local oversight, greater accountability for district directors, mandated disclosures, caps on bond payments so property taxes don’t go above a certain level and requirements that the interest rate…