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City Ratings

Solely for the convenience of the user, this page contains links to various rating agencies. The ratings issued reflect only the views of such rating agencies to be considered in evaluating various of the City's debt and long term obligations. No assurance can be given that any rating issued by the rating agency will be retained for any given period of time or that the same will not be revised or withdrawn entirely by such rating agencies. The City undertakes no responsibility to publish or otherwise disseminate any revision or withdrawal of the ratings.

The City's outstanding debt is rated by three municipal bond rating services. They are:

 

Ratings By Services*

Type of Bonds

Fitch

Moody's

Standard & Poor's

GO Bonds

AA-

Aa2

AA 

Voter Approved Lease Revenue Bonds

A+

Aa3

AA-

Lease Revenue Bonds

A+

A1

AA-

COPs

A+

 A1

AA-

Global Ratings Scale

n/a

Aa1

n/a

*All downloads in this table are in Portable Document Format (PDF) format.

 

Historical City GO Bond Ratings

Date

Fitch

Moody's

Standard & Poor's

2/93

 

A1

 

3/93

 

 

AA-

3/96

AA

 

 

9/97

 

Aa3

 

5/00

 

 

AA

6/04

AA-

 

 

6/08

 

Aa2