Metro Debt Dashboard

From time-to-time, I hunt around for precise numbers about Metro's long term debt. I decided to collect the stats in one place. Here's my Metro Debt Dashboard.I know some of you like to look at source documents. For the six charts on the dashboard, here are the source documents:

1. General Obligation Bond Debt

   • For bond debt as of June 30, 2018, see FY2019 Treasurer's Report to Council presentation, at slide 5, and see the full FY2019 Treasurer's Report.

   • For the $775 million in new bond debt to be added before the end of 2018, see BL2018-1391.

2. Revenue Bond Debt

   • For Water & Sewer revenue bond debt, see FY2019 Treasurer's Report presentation (link above), at slide 8.

   • For Convention Center Authority revenue bond debt, see FY2019 Treasurer's Report presentation (link above), at slide 10.

   • For Sports Authority revenue bond debt, see FY2019 Treasurer's Report presentation (link above), at slide 10.

   • For Sports Authority soccer stadium debt, see RS2017-910.

3. Savings as % of budget

   • FY2019 operating budget ordinance, BL2018-1184, at page 4.

4. Debt per capita among 50 largest cities

   • FY2019 Treasurer's Report to Council presentation, at slide 23.

5. Debt service as % of operating budget

   • For this one, Metro Finance hasn't always calculated the statistic the same way, and the statistic has not been published for all fiscal years.

   • I calculate this statistic by looking at the operating budget ordinance and dividing "Debt Services Funds" by "Net Appropriation By District." For some years, this matches Metro Finance's published number precisely. But for some, my calculation is a few tenths of a percent different than Metro Finance's.

   • For FY13 and FY19, the number is my calculation.

   • For FY14 to FY18, the number is from slide 35 of the FY18 budget presentation by Metro Finance.

6. Retiree benefit obligations

   • Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For the Year Ended June 30, 2017, at page B-95