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FISCAL YEAR 2025-26
ANNUAL STATEMENT OF
QUALIFICATIONS
PUBLIC FINANCE ADVISING SERVICES
BY:
June 30, 2025
19900 MacArthur Blvd., Suite 1100 Irvine, CA 92612 phone: 949.660.7300 fax: 949.474.8773 www.fieldman.com
June 30, 2025
Via email: crystallene.pacheco@hawaiicounty.gov
Ms. Diane Nakagawa, Director of Finance
County of Hawai’i
25 Aupuni Street, Suite 2103
Hilo, Hawai‘i 96720
Re: Statement of Qualifications for Public Finance Bond Advising Services
Dear Ms. Nakagawa:
In order to keep our information current and to remain on the County’s approved vendor list,
enclosed please find our updated Statement of Qualifications for Public Finance Bond
Advising Services for the County of Hawai’i. Fieldman, Rolapp & Associates, Inc. (“Fieldman”)
is built on three core principals of Experience, Integrity, and Service, as detailed below:
Experience: We have been in business since 1966 doing just one thing - providing
municipal advisory services to government entities. Over the past five years, Fieldman
has advised on 584 transactions with an aggregate par amount of nearly $23.1 billion.
Integrity: We pride ourselves on the quality of our service, our long client relationships
and the confidence public agencies have in our abilities and integrity.
Service: We are prepared. We believe 80% of what our clients need is predictable. We
plan and perform this work in advance so we can focus on the 20% unexpected, time
sensitive and detailed work that can be tailored to our clients quickly.
Fieldman is a full service, western region independent municipal financial advisor that has in-
depth experience in all areas of public finance. The firm specializes in land-based, general
obligation, utility, lease revenue and transportation financings, in addition to non-transaction
based services. Fieldman has been serving as municipal advisor to the County since 2020 and
as one of our advisors is currently located in Hawai’i, we benefit from local experience. We
greatly enjoy working with the County and value the relationship we have built and we look
forward to strengthening that in the future. Please let us know if additional information is
needed, and we look forward to the opportunity to assist you in any way we can.
Sincerely,
FIELDMAN, ROLAPP & ASSOCIATES, INC.
Adam S. Bauer, CEO and President
(949) 660-7303 direct, (949) 295-5735 cell
abauer@fieldman.com
Jason Chung, Vice President
(949) 660-7314 direct, (949) 486-9501 cell
jchung@fieldman.com
Mindy Kays, Senior Associate
(808) 342-6165 direct
mkays@fieldman.com
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section 1 – Fieldman, Rolapp & Associates, Inc. ..................................................................... 1
Firm Overview ....................................................................................................................... 1
Services We Provide ............................................................................................................ 2
Resources .............................................................................................................................. 3
Section 2 – Firm Facts ................................................................................................................. 3
Section 3 – Project Team Qualifications ................................................................................... 4
Resumes ................................................................................................................................ 5
Section 4 – Recent Projects & Client References ..................................................................... 7
Demonstrated Experience ............................................................................................... 11
Section 5 – Additional Information ........................................................................................ 18
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June 30, 2025
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Standard Proposal Regulatory Disclaimers & Disclosures
Fieldman is a SEC-registered Municipal Advisor. When formally engaged by public agency clients, we
undertake a fiduciary duty with respect to advice provided on financial matters.
PROPOSAL DOES NOT CONSTITUTE “ADVICE” OR MUNICIPAL ADVISORY RELATIONSHIP
These materials are delivered to you for the purpose of obtaining an engagement as your municipal
advisor, and we wish to clarify the nature of our relationship. We are providing the information contained
in these materials for informational purposes only. The information provided in these materials does not
create or imply any fiduciary relationship, and is being provided solely for the purpose of marketing our
services to you as a prospective client of Fieldman. The information provided to you is not to be construed
as “advice” within the meaning of Section 15B of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, or relied upon
by you as advice in determining a course of action in connection with any current or prospective
undertakings relative to any municipal securities issuance or municipal financial product. Any information
contained in these materials is not intended to replace or supplement any advice you may have already
received internally or externally from any other professional.
Potential for Limitation of Advisory Scope Disclosure
At the explicit direction of the County, our scope of services may be limited to the implementation of a
pre-determined financial transaction or strategy. In such instances, a complete review of all feasible and
suitable financial alternatives will not be undertaken as part of our engagement. We would otherwise
operate under a fiduciary duty to consider all feasible and suitable alternatives to accomplish a given
objective.
Potential Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Compensation contingent on the completion of a financing or project is customary for municipal financial
advisors. To the extent that our compensation for the proposed engagement is contingent on successful
completion of any transactions, a potential conflict of interest exists as we would have a potential incentive
to recommend the completion of a transaction that might not be optimal for the County. However,
Fieldman undertakes a fiduciary duty in advising public agencies regardless of compensation structure.
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SECTION 1 – FIELDMAN, ROLAPP & ASSOCIATES, INC.
The name of the firm or person, contact information including email address, the principal place
of business, and location of all of its offices.
Firm Overview
Company Name Fieldman, Rolapp & Associates, Inc.
Primary Office Address 19900 MacArthur Blvd., Suite 1100, Irvine, CA 92612
Telephone Number (949) 660-7303; (949) 660-7308
Email Address abauer@fieldman.com;jchung@fieldman.com;mkays@fieldman.com
Other Office Locations San Francisco, Oakland, Washington, Hawai’i, and Utah
Fieldman, Rolapp & Associates, Inc. (“Fieldman” or the “Firm”) is a western region full service,
independent registered municipal advisor focused on providing financial advisory services to
public agencies and non-profit organizations for over 59 years.
Fieldman is an independent advisor and as a fiduciary, we guard our clients’ short-term and
long-term interests. Although the Firm interacts daily with the underwriting community and
actively monitors financial markets, the Firm does not underwrite bonds or have a relationship,
direct or otherwise, with any municipal bond underwriter or broker/dealer. We do not accept
engagements representing developers or other private, for-profit enterprises.
Over the past five years Fieldman has advised its
public agency clients on 584 transactions totaling
an aggregate par amount over $23 billion. We
have advised on virtually every type of financing
done in the municipal bond marketplace for issuers
of every size and level of complexity. For every one
of these clients we have been able to apply our vast
experience, knowledgeable staff and resources to maximize bond proceeds and savings and
minimize costs.
With over a dozen active client engagements in the general government sector at any given
time, Fieldman’s constant exposure and extensive experience keep us up-to-date with all
issues clients are facing, including legislative pressures, financial market fluctuations, and
weakened economic environments. With our comprehensive understanding of the challenges
faced by each client, we can provide tailored and creative solutions. For any client, our
approach is founded in fundamental credit analysis and financial prudence. By concentrating
on a client’s global strategy, Fieldman provides practical and cost-effective advice in every
aspect of policy, capital and financial processes. At the same time, our approach is based on
making sure we educate both staff and elected officials, provide relevant information to
enhance decision making and provide the context for those decisions.
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Services We Provide
Capital planning, management, and policy development
o Familiarizing ourselves with basic decisions about the scope, cost and approach.
o Creating financial plans that allow our clients to successfully and economically fund
their capital needs.
o Designing financial models that analyze alternative funding sources and clearly
present financial outcomes to allow clients to make fully informed decisions.
o Tailoring client-specific debt management and reserve policies necessary to form a
strong financial foundation.
Capital finance transaction management
o Assisting our clients with all aspects of the debt issuance.
o Advising clients on the general feasibility of financing a project, the nature and manner
of the debt issue, the size of the issue and payments required to accomplish the client’s
funding requirements and the state of the credit markets.
o Defining objectives for the financing, determining the process for sale, and aiding in
the selection of other service providers.
o Establishing credit rating objectives and developing strategies to ensure capital
market access at the lowest cost possible.
o Timely executing the financing plans by aggressively managing the capital funding
process.
o Assisting with the marketing and sale of the debt issue and the closing process.
Secondary market disclosure services
o Working with public agencies on their post-issuance continuing disclosure
requirements set forth by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and
California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission (“CDIAC”), conducted
exclusively by employees of Fieldman under our tradename Applied Best Practices
(ABP).
o Real-time monitoring of credit ratings (utilizing the Bloomberg Terminal).
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Resources
Our technical capabilities make a huge difference in the breadth of the services we provide.
Having the necessary resources and having the ability to apply those resources to provide our
clients with sophisticated analysis and service involving the most complex financing structures
enable us to produce meaningful results. An overview of some of our resources is listed below:
All of the above resources are indispensable to Fieldman’s ability to provide our clients with
the highest level of service. Each of these resources allows us to gather and analyze data for
use in debt pricing, spread negotiations and forecasting economic conditions. By constantly
monitoring market conditions and trends, we can advise clients how to take advantage of
favorable market conditions and lock in attractive interest rates. With access to Bloomberg and
TM3, we have access to the latest pricing information in the fixed income markets. This
information gives us the ability to actively monitor our client’s debt portfolio, estimate interest
rates (which we utilize in pricing scenarios and in preparing for competitive and negotiated
sales) and to monitor refunding opportunities. We believe we can continue to utilize our
resources and vast experience and continue to provide incomparable service to the County.
SECTION 2 – FIRM FACTS
The age of the firm and its average number of employees over the past five years.
The Firm has been in business over 59 years and has been incorporated since 1974. Fieldman
has a staff of 21 employees (all 17 registered municipal advisor representatives with Series 50
certifications) and averaged approximately 20 employees over the last five years, not including
those individuals participating in the Firm’s summer intern program.
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Through our Employee Stock Ownership Program (“ESOP”), our employees, as beneficial
owners of the Firm, participate in an ownership culture; each of us has a strong interest in being
efficient and providing responsive service on every assignment. The Firm is led by the primary
shareholders and the Board of Directors of the Firm. They are:
Adam Bauer, CEO/President; based in Irvine and has over 21 years public finance
experience
Dr. Anna V. Sarabian, Principal; based in Irvine and has over 21 years public finance
experience
James V. Fabian, Principal; based in San Francisco and has over 37 years public finance
experience
SECTION 3 – PROJECT TEAM QUALIFICATIONS
The education, training, and qualifications of the individual, or if a firm, its key employees
Our mission is to provide sound, unbiased, and creative consulting services. In order to fulfill
this set of expectations, we propose to assign the team described below, each of whom will
assume different duties and responsibilities. Using a team approach assures the County that
several individuals will be familiar with the County’s needs and requirements. By being aware
of a bigger picture, and by assigning professionals at several levels, the County can derive
more value from the consulting process. This approach offers superior service, better
turnaround times and more efficient use of the County’s staff time. To the extent that specialty
expertise is required, due to the nature of a specific assignment, other qualified personnel of
the firm will be available to the County.
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Resumes
ADAM S. BAUER
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER/PRESIDENT
CO-ENGAGEMENT MANAGER
Mr. Adam S. Bauer, joined the firm in September 2004 and is the head
of the firm’s school district practice. Mr. Bauer has been involved with
a variety of public agencies assisting them with their debt transactions
and policy development.
Furthermore, Mr. Bauer has specific expertise in public financings for
school districts. Mr. Bauer has developed capital facilities funding
plans that incorporate General Obligation Bonds, Lease Financings,
Special Tax Bonds and State funding. Prior to joining the firm, Mr.
Bauer acted as a Financial Advisor, Special Tax Consultant and
Community Facilities District Administrator.
Mr. Bauer is an active participant in organizations associated within
his field. He has been an annual speaker for University of Southern
California (USC) Rossier School of Education and frequent speaker
and writer on issues related to school districts for the California Debt
Investment Advisory Committee (CDIAC). Mr. Bauer is the former Co-
Chair of the Finance Strand of the Planning Committee for the
California’s Coalition for Adequate School Housing (CASH), is a
member of the California School Board Association (CSBA), the
Association of California School Administrators (ACSA), the California
Association of School Business Officials (CASBO) and the Committee
on Assessments Special Taxes and other Financing Facilities
(CASTOFF). Mr. Bauer also has been asked to speak about school
district finance at the California Association of Latino Superintendents
and Administrators (CALSA).
Contact
19900 MacArthur Blvd.
#1100
Irvine, CA 92612
949.660.7303 direct
949.295.5735 cell
abauer@fieldman.com
Education
B.S. in Business
Administration with a
concentration in Finance
San Francisco State
University
Professional
Designations &
Licenses
Series 50 (Municipal
Advisor Representative)
Series 54 (Municipal
Advisor Principal)
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JASON CHUNG
VICE PRESIDENT
CO–ENGAGEMENT MANAGER
Mr. Jason Chung, Vice President, has worked with the firm since July
2012. Since joining the firm, Mr. Chung has been active with the firm’s
school district and higher education clients, placing a special interest
in GO Bonds and COPs. Mr. Chung will serve as Co-Engagement
Manager and primary contact to the County. The role of the
Engagement Manager is to ensure that the consultant’s services are
delivered seamlessly and that the client has access to an experienced
and knowledgeable consultant. It will also be Mr. Chung’s
responsibility to make sure that the team has the right resources
deployed to fully discharge the firm’s duties to the County. Mr. Chung
will supervise all of the financial modeling, numerical analysis, and
research work necessary to position the County and the team with the
correct information required to make informed judgments.
Mr. Chung received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Business
Economics from the University of California, Irvine in June 2012,
where he was a board member and served as Director of Alumni
Relations for the Undergraduate Finance Association. Mr. Chung has
passed the MSRB’s Municipal Advisor Representative Qualification
Examination (Series 50) and Municipal Advisor Principal Qualification
Examination (Series 54).
Contact
19900 MacArthur Blvd.
#1100
Irvine, CA 92612
949.660.7314 direct
949.486.9501 cell
jchung@fieldman.com
Education
B.A in Business
Economics from the
University of California,
Irvine
Professional
Designations &
Licenses
Series 50 (Municipal
Advisor Representative)
Series 54 (Municipal
Advisor Principal)
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MELINDA KAYS
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
CONSULTANT SUPPORT
Ms. Melinda Kays, Senior Associate, joined the firm in May 2021.
Since joining the firm, Ms. Kays has been assisting with the firm’s city,
county, and school district clients providing technical and
quantitative analysis. Before joining the firm, Ms. Kays worked as a
Payroll Specialist and an Accounting Assistant in Honolulu, HI.
Ms. Kays received her Bachelor of Arts degrees in Economics and in
Anthropology, both from the University of Washington.
Ms. Kays is a registered municipal advisor representative and holds
the Series 50 license.
Contact
Hawaii Office
808.342.6165 cell
mkays@fieldman.com
Education
B.A. in Economics
Professional
Designations &
Licenses
Series 50 (Municipal
Advisor Representative)
Meet the Full Fieldman Team!
Resumes of Others - To the extent that other Fieldman personnel are needed to assist the
County, additional resumes will be provided to supplement the foregoing information.
SECTION 4 – RECENT PROJECTS & CLIENT REFERENCES
A list of recent projects and the names of up to five clients who may be contacted, including at
least two for whom services were rendered during the preceding year.
The assignments highlighted below demonstrate our experience assisting Counties and other
agencies with projects which have been, are, or will be facing them in the immediate future.
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COUNTY OF KAUA’I
4444 Rice Street Lihue, HI 96766
Reiko Matsuyama*, Director of Finance
(808) 241-4200, rmatsuyama@Kaua’i.gov
Fieldman has served as the municipal advisor to the County of Kaua’i since 2006, assisting
on the CFD program and bond sales.
In 2006, Fieldman initiated financial advisory activities for the County of Kaua′i related to the
formation and financing for the master planned community of Kukui′ula. The project is a
1,010 acres luxury resort community entitled for 1,500 residential units, 94,000 sq. ft. of
commercial and an 18-hole golf course. With the assistance of its financing team, the County
formed CFD No. 2008-1 (Kukui′ula Development Project) in 2008 with a $120 million bond
authorization. This was the first CFD formation in the State of Hawai′i. Fieldman guided and
educated the County through the CFD formation process, this included providing
educational workshops for staff and council members and advising on the implementation
of the County’s CFD formation and bond issuance law, similar to the model used in
California. In 2012, 2019 and 2022, we assisted with the structuring and successful issuance
of the first three series of parity bonds for the CFD with par amounts totaling over $63 million.
In 2020, Fieldman served as a pricing consultant on the County’s $28.56 million General
Obligation Bonds issued as both tax-exempt and taxable series.
In 2022, Fieldman assisted the County with soliciting and evaluating proposals for paying
agent and trustee services to replace the existing providers. We participated in all stages of
the selection process, including interviews with the finalists and final award.
*Please note, most of the work we have undertaken on the islands has been in conjunction
with Brian Hirai, McCorriston Miller Mukai Mackinnon LLP. We believe Mr. Hirai would be a
good resource to provide feedback on our expertise, work ethic, cooperativeness, and
general assessment of our firm. Mr. Hirai can be reached at 808-529-7404 or
hirai@m4law.com.
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COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE
4080 Lemon Street, 4th Floor, Riverside, CA 92501
Don Kent, County Finance Director
(951) 955-1110, drkent@rivco.org
Fieldman has served as primary municipal advisor to Riverside County since 2010 and during
that time we have advised the County on General Fund-backed securities, tax and revenue
anticipation notes (“TRANs”), land-secured financings, Teeter, and pensions. In addition, we
have provided input on the County’s financial policies, provided ad hoc financial advice and
evaluation of various proposals.
We advised the County on significant lease financings in between 2011 and 2019 and in
2021, we were the co-municipal advisor on the $499.8 million Lease Revenue Refunding
Bonds (comprised of tax-exempt and taxable portions) that refunded seven separate series
and terminated the County’s swap. In 2024, we advised on the $517.03 million Lease
Revenue Bonds issued by the California Enterprise Development Authority on behalf of the
County to fund a behavioral health facilities campus. As grant proceeds were pending, this
transaction was separated into two series to allow for an early optional redemption feature
when grants were received.
We have also advised the County on its issuance of TRANs each year since 2010, totaling
over $4.85 billion. Most recently, we served as municipal advisor on its FY 2025-26 TRAN
issue with a principal amount of $450 million.
We have served as the sole advisor on all of its land-secured financings. To date, more than
two dozen CFDs and ADs have been formed. Since 2017, we have served the County on
new money financings and refinancings of bonds for CFD Nos. 89-1, 89-4, 05-8 and 07-02
totaling over $132 million in par amount. Concurrently with the financing processes for the
Lease Revenue Bonds and the TRANs mentioned above, we advised on two refundings for
CFD Nos. 04-2 and 05-8 in par amounts of $9.895 million and $13.375 million, respectively.
Since 2008, we have served the County in connection with its issue of Commercial Paper
Teeter Program Notes and we provided advice on the FY 2024-25 Teeter Notes issued in
October 2024. We also currently aid the County with the ongoing management of the Teeter
program.
Fieldman served the County’s Pension Advisory Review Committee (“PARC”) on the planning
and implementation of a resolution of the County’s Unfunded Actuarial Accrued Liability to
CalPERS. We worked with the PARC for more than six months on a major two part analysis
of the actuarial reports for the Miscellaneous and Safety plans and the analysis of potential
restructuring actions with CalPERS. Ultimately, the County opted for a “fresh start” re-
amortization of unfunded liabilities in its Miscellaneous Plan prior to the issuance of any
pension obligation bonds.
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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
500 W. Temple St. Los Angeles, CA, 90012
John Wong, Treasurer and Tax Collector Finance Analyst
(213) 974-6802, Jwong@ttc.lacounty.gov
Fieldman has served Los Angeles County since 2003, advising the County on a wide range
of topics, spanning from a financial model for their Renewable Energy Improvements
Program to Recovery Zone Facility Bonds to analyses of lease and potential purchase of real
estate.
Additionally, we have assisted with the issuances of lease revenue bonds in 2005, 2006 and
2011, totaling almost $770 million in par amount.
Most notably, we assisted the County with the formation and financing of the Valencia Project
which consists of a CFD structure with multiple Improvement Areas including approximately
25,000 dwelling units and approximately 13 million square feet of commercial, industrial,
and other non-residential uses. It will include a broad range of housing types, from
apartments to single-family attached and detached homes of all sizes as well as affordable
housing and approximately 10,000 acres of protected open space and a multitude of public
facilities. The first series of special tax bonds sold at the end of June of 2022 in a par amount
of $52.84 million. The second series of special tax bonds sold in August 2024 in a par
amount of $27.135 million. We also aided with the annexation of Improvement Area No. 2.
COUNTY OF ORANGE
333 W. Santa Ana Blvd., Santa Ana, CA 92701
Louis McClure, Public Finance Manager
(714) 834-5999, Louis.McClure@ocgov.com
Fieldman has served as an advisor to Orange County since 1986, working on the County’s
land-secured program and pension obligation bonds.
We have assisted the County with 54 transactions totaling over $3.1 billion in par amount,
In 2023 we advised on the pooled refunding of the CFD Nos. 2002-1 and 2003-1, and the
standalone refunding of CFD No. 2004-1, and in 2018 on the pooled refunding of CFD Nos.
99-1, 2000-1, and 2001-1, and the pooled assessment district refunding bonds for RAD No.
17-1R (Newport Coast Phase IV) to refund four series of outstanding assessment district
bonds. Most recently, we served as the municipal advisor for the formation and financing of
$66.175 million in bonds for CFD No. 2023-1 Rienda Phase 2B.
From 2019 – 2022 we had also assisted the County place taxable security with the Orange
County Treasurer and Tax Collector that were used to prefund pension contributions for the
next succeeding year. The Bonds were sold to refinance a Debenture, which takes the place
of a TRAN due to the specific requirements of the Orange County Employees Retirement
System (OCERS).
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CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102
Anna Van Degna, Director, Controller’s Office of Public Finance
(415) 554-5956, anna.vandegna@sfgov.org
Fieldman has been in the City and County of San Francisco (“CCSF”) prequalified municipal
advisor pool since 2011, and has served as the municipal advisor to the CCSF on GO Bond
transactions sold in 2016, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024, and we recently assisted with
the CCSF’s GO Bond sale issued at the end of January 2025.
In our role as CCSF’s municipal advisor, we assisted CCSF throughout the entire financing
process, and took the lead on managing the financing timeline and ensuring that
deliverables from all other financing team members stayed on track. Fieldman took sole
responsibility for the creation of all financial models and cashflows. We performed numerous
bond structuring scenarios of each of the three bond series with the goal of maximizing bond
proceeds, minimizing interest costs and meeting CCSF’s overall tax rate targets. Fieldman
assisted bond and disclosure counsel with the preparation of the legal documents and the
drafting of the notice of intention to sell, notice of sale, and preliminary official statement,
reviewed all legal and financing documents and provided comments on all drafts.
We advised CCSF on the strategy for their 2023 GO competitive bond sale, selling three
series on the same day, as well as timing of market entry. In order to achieve the widest
participation in the competitive sale and to achieve the lowest interest costs, we reached out
to over a dozen underwriting desks active in competitive California GO bond sales for
feedback on the timing of the bond sales and bid times. CCSF received significant interest
from banks, with 17 firms bidding for the Series 2023A Bonds and 11 firms bidding for the
Series 2023B and Series 2023C Bonds. Additionally, CCSF achieved very competitive
interest rates for its bonds when compared to other comparable bond issues that also sold
competitively on the same day. Fieldman was responsible for the verification of all bids and
selection of the best bid, and reviewed all closing documents to ensure a smooth and
successful closing. As one of our common services for competitive sales, we also prepared
a pre-pricing book and memo to illustrate and analyze the current municipal market
conditions, trends in the market and how these may favorably or unfavorably affect CCSF’s
proposed financing. As noted above, we managed the entire competitive sale process,
investor outreach and document review and closing.
Demonstrated Experience
We are consistently one of the most active financial advisors by volume and number of bond
issues in California and are accustomed to both high volume and advising large/sophisticated
issuers. The number of transactions and assignments we have completed and the diversity of
our clients has provided our consultants with a unique understanding of the business side of
the municipal industries. It is this understanding which permits us to approach challenges with
practicality which, when added to our financial expertise, yields unparalleled advice for our
clients.
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Highlighted below is our relevant experience regarding certain financing types, as well as our
experience with general municipal advisory projects.
Hawai’i Experience
Fieldman has provided municipal advisory
services to the Counties of Kaua’i and
Hawai’i over the last few years and this
experience is invaluable to the services that
we provide as it allows us to possess a
strong understanding of the economic,
demographic and financial conditions of
the region. This intimate knowledge of the
local area and experience is particularly
important for land-secured and value
capture financing methods.
In 2020, we served as pricing consultant for the County of Hawai’i’s $77.135 million General
Obligation bonds, issued as 4 separate series. Due to a large amount of supply in the market,
the pricing team had to be flexible to capture the attention of investors when they had so many
options. As a result of the very heavy supply, the team agreed to adjust the pricing spreads,
resulting in large oversubscriptions that allowed the underwriter to make further yield
reductions. We served as pricing consultant for the County’s $99 million 2023 General
Obligation Bonds in June 2023. The initial plan was to issue the bonds over a 3-day pricing
period, starting with a retail-only order period. However, as the bonds experienced strong
retail demand, due in large part to the County’s recent S&P credit rating upgrade to “AA+”,
Fieldman remained flexible and the pricing was accelerated, resulting in over $275 million in
orders and 2.8x oversubscribed, which Fieldman leveraged with the underwriters to lower
yields. We also served as pricing consultant for the County’s $142.14 million 2025 General
Obligation Bonds in April 2025. The initial plan was to issue the bonds over a 3-day pricing
period, starting with a retail-only order period. However, as the markets experienced extreme
volatility in the days leading up to the scheduled order period, the finance team decided to
accelerate the bond sale, resulting in over $1 billion in orders and at least a 4.3x
oversubscription across all maturities. Based on the level of investor interest, Fieldman agreed
with the underwriters to lower yields by as much as 3 to 15 basis points throughout the curve.
In 2021, we assisted the County of Hawai’i with the formation of the Kaloko Heights Project
Community Facilities District (“CFD”), comprised of 391 acres planned for development of 521
single-family homes and 620 additional units. The bonds for this CFD were sold in March 2023
in a par amount of $13.055 million. In addition, we assisted the County with calculating the
arbitrage yield and weighted average maturity for the Hawai’i Papaikou Transit Replacement
Project USDA Loan and are currently assisting the County in the formation of a new CFD,
Waikoloa Heights Project No. 1-2025.
Similarly, since 2006, Fieldman has assisted the County of Kaua’i with CFD formations, pricing
consulting and financing services. In 2008, Fieldman helped form the master planned
community of Kukui′ula, the first CFD formation in the State of Hawai′i. The project is a 1,010
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acres luxury resort community entitled for 1,500 residential units, 94,000 sq. ft. of commercial
and an 18-hole golf course. Over the next few years we assisted with three financings of parity
special tax bonds for the CFD. In 2012, we assisted with the issuance of the first series of bonds
in the par amount of $11.875 million, in 2019 we assisted with the $20.32 million second
issuance and in 2022 we helped complete the $30.81 million third issuance. Additionally, in
2020 we served as a pricing consultant on the County of Kaua’i’s $28.56 million General
Obligation bonds issued as tax-exempt and taxable series. In 2022, we also assisted the
County with the selection of a new paying agent and trustee.
Land-Secured Expertise
Fieldman is the undisputed leader and has comprehensive knowledge in
land-secured financing in California. Since
2020, Fieldman has served as municipal
advisor on 184 land-secured financings
totaling approximately $3.1 billion in par
amount. Furthermore, according to
Refinitiv, since 2014 our firm acted as the
financial advisor on the most CFD
issuances, with a par amount totaling over
the next eight competitors combined.
However, our true value lies beyond rankings — it is rooted in
our extensive leadership and deep understanding of land-secured finance. This depth directly
translates into substantial knowledge and resources, enabling us to deliver the highest caliber
of service to the County.
No other financial advisor in California has the CFD experience of Fieldman. Our extensive
experience with land-secured transactions means we have encountered, reasoned and
addressed issues that many advisors have not. Similar to the County, we have served other
prominent public agencies with large master-planned CFDs, such as Los Angeles County (for
Valencia), Orange County (for Rancho Mission Viejo), City of Los Angeles (for Ponte Vista) and
the City of Irvine (for Great Park).
In addition to the counties and cities mentioned above, for the City of Sacramento we
completed financings for the Greenbriar, Delta Shores and the Railyards CFDs and recently
advised them on a second series Greenbriar and Delta Shores CFD financings that sold in
December 2024. Moreover, we currently serve as the municipal advisor to Eastern Municipal
Water District (“EMWD”) and Jurupa Community Services District (“JCSD”), who are the two
largest issuers of land-secured debt in California, and have assisted them with 40 issues,
totaling nearly $342 million in bonds sold since 2020. We assisted JCSD with a pooled
refunding of eleven series of CFDs, EMWD with a pooled refunding of twenty five series of
CFDs, and the City of San Marcos with a pooled refunding of seventeen series of CFDs.
Other completed special tax bond transactions include those for the cities of Irvine, Aliso Viejo,
Dana Point, Dublin, Elk Grove, Encinitas, Folsom, Murrieta, Perris, Rialto, San Clemente, San
Diego, San Francisco, Stockton, and Temecula. There is no other firm with the experience and
expertise possessed by Fieldman.
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Certificates of Participation/Lease Experience
Fieldman has extensive experience in the issuance of General Fund-backed
financings, serving as municipal advisor on 74 financings totaling
approximately $2 billion in par amount since 2020. Additionally, we are very
familiar with the complexity associated with certificates of
participation/lease revenue bonds, from finding appropriate pledged
assets, to forming/amending public financing authorities, and to
formulating and analyzing the most cost-effective financing structures.
We have served as the municipal advisor on multiple General Fund-backed
transactions that finance public facilities.
In 2024, Fieldman was the municipal advisor on three concurrent Lease Revenue Bonds for the
Cities of Garden Grove and Moreno Valley and County of Riverside. For the City of Garden
Grove, we advised on the $140 million lease revenue bonds to fund the civic center
revitalization (which included the construction of a new public safety facility, parking structure,
park improvements, and demolition of the existing police headquarters). For the County of
Riverside, we advised on the $517.03 million financing issued by the California Enterprise
Development Authority on behalf of the County of Riverside to fund a behavioral health
facilities campus. The transaction had over fifty finance team members and included numerous
components, such as incorporating grant funding and meeting a firm construction timeframe.
Finally, $22 million of bonds for the City of Moreno Valley was sold in August 2024. Proceeds
of these bonds refunded the outstanding 2014 bonds.
In 2023, we were engaged by the City of Irvine for the issuance of the city’s $326.28 million
Lease Revenue Bonds to fund the 700-acre open space preserve in the hills above the city,
serving as a gateway to the Cleveland National Forest. Fieldman coordinated the completion
of the bond sale to coincide with the purchase of the property on which the project would be
located.
Other recently completed lease revenue bond and certificates of participation transactions
include assisting the cities of Barstow, Beverly Hills, Brea, Cathedral City, Concord, Diamond
Bar, Dublin, Elk Grove, Encinitas, Hesperia, Indio, La Habra, Lodi, Mission Viejo, and Thousand
Oaks.
General Obligation Experience
Fieldman has significant experience with the issuance of General Obligation
(“GO”) bonds sold via both negotiated and competitive sales. This sector
plays a key role in the Firm’s practice with 201 GO financings totaling
approximately $9.4 billion in par amount since 2020.
Recent relevant experience includes financings for the City of Oakland, the
City and County of San Francisco, the East Bay Regional Park District and
the Hayward Area Recreation and Park District.
In January 2025, Fieldman assisted with the $552.03 million City and County
of San Francisco General Obligation Bonds, Series 2024 A, B, C, and D.
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Other recently completed GO bond transactions that Fieldman has assisted on in 2025 include
those for the following school districts: Antelope Valley Community College, Beaumont, Buena
Park, Carlsbad, Desert Sands, East Whittier, Fowler, Fullerton, Hemet, Inglewood, Jurupa, Los
Banos, Menifee, Moreno Valley, Mount Diablo, Nuview, Perris, Riverside, San Bernardino, San
Dieguito, San Marcos, and Val Verde.
In addition to GO transaction experience, Fieldman has extensive experience in reviewing and
modeling GO bond authorizations, taking into account the timing of capital needs, projected
tax rates and other key variables such as future assessed valuation growth. To ensure that tax
rate estimates are accurate, Fieldman provides custom financial models with detailed
calculations of projected tax rates. Before initiating any potential GO transaction, Fieldman
conducts a detailed examination of our client’s assessed valuation and performs a thorough
tax rate analysis. Our GO debt planning model and tax rate analysis are developed using a
conservative approach to ensure that the financial plan remains feasible throughout the bond
program. This approach helps to ensure that the financing program remains viable and can
deliver our clients’ goals over the long term.
Our scope of services extends far beyond that of a transactional financial advisor. This involves
creating an entire plan of finance including (i) assessed value and credit rating review, (ii)
review of all long-term outstanding debt and tax rate analysis and (iii) exploration of needs for
future facilities and financing plan(s). After we have explored all financing options and
reviewed them with district staff, we then execute our plan of finance.
Tax Increment Experience
Since 2020, Fieldman has assisted with the issuance of 6 tax allocation
bond (“TAB”) financings totaling more than $171 million in par.
We have acted as municipal advisor on the TAB refundings for the City of
Cathedral City in 2021 (where we were successful in getting an expedited
Department of Finance approval in 27 days as opposed to the typical 65-
day review period) and we advised the city on the refunding of its 2014
TABs, that priced and closed in July 2024.
We also currently serve as the Independent Registered Municipal Advisor (“IRMA”) to the City
of Sacramento and have assisted the city with the formation of the Aggie Square Enhanced
Infrastructure Financing District (“EIFD”). The tax increment revenues that will be generated
from the Aggie Square EIFD will fund infrastructure and parking related improvements and
affordable housing projects. The first bond financing, is expected to be a CFD bond issue with
tax increment revenues covering the debt service so no special tax will need to be levied.
We are also currently advising the City and County of San Francisco, Office of Community
Investment and Infrastructure (“OCII”) on their Tax Allocation Bonds (Mission Bay South
Infrastructure and Refunding), estimated par amount of $175 million scheduled to close in
2026. OCII is one of two agencies in the State allowed to issue new money TABs and we
completed a comprehensive technical analysis advising OCII on its long-term debt program,
and affordability and timing of issuing approximately $800 million in TABs over the next 20
years.
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Given the complexity of these financings, our experience in this area demonstrates our ability
to structure any type of financing.
Utility Experience
Fieldman is one of the most active advisors of California utility enterprise
systems for cities and water/wastewater agencies. Since January 1, 2020, we
have assisted with the issuance of 80 enterprise revenue bond financings
amounting to more than $3.7 billion in par size.
For Jurupa Community Services District, we worked on two concurrent
refundings of their outstanding taxable 2010 COPs Series B Build America
Bonds for the water and sewer systems. The refunding revenue bonds took
advantage of the optional redemption provision in order to remove the
Build America Bonds structure and closed in June 2024.
Recent relevant experience includes financings for the cities of Bakersfield, Beverly Hills, Brea,
Discovery Bay, Folsom, Garden Grove, La Habra, Lodi, Milpitas, Norco, Poway, Sacramento,
San Elijo and Tustin. Other recently completed utility bond transactions include those for the
following districts: Carpinteria Valley Water District, El Dorado Irrigation District, Marina Coast
Water District, Mesa Water District, Monte Vista Water District, Orange County Water District,
Silicon Valley Clean Water, South Coast Water District, and Union Sanitary District.
Since 2018, the Fieldman utility practice sector has advised on nine new money Water
Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (“WIFIA”) Loans totaling over $1 billion, two WIFIA
Master Agreements totaling approximately $555 million; completed two rate re-sets
(refundings) in the amount of $353 million and an amendment of an existing loan in the amount
of $218 million. The Fieldman utility practice is currently advising on five additional WIFIA
Loans / Master Agreements. Over that same time period we have assisted clients to close on
approximately $406 million of State Water Resource Control Board’s SRF Loans.
Furthermore, Fieldman has a long history of providing municipal advisory services to
transportation and other public agencies. Our list of transportation clients include:
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We were retained by the Federal Highway Administration (“FHWA”) to serve as Build America
Bureau’s independent financial advisor with respect to eight TIFIA loans from 2019 to the
present for the Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission, Minnesota
Department of Transportation, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District and the Santa
Barbara County Association of Governments. We are currently assisting the Bureau on two
pending Toll TIFIA loans for HRTAC and for Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation
Authority and we are currently under the Bureau’s Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity
(“IDIQ”) contract.
We have advised these clients on a variety of financing structures, including sales tax revenue
bonds, express lane toll revenue bonds, TIFIA Loans backed by sales tax, toll revenue and
vehicle fee revenue, and pay-as-you-go financings. On these financing matters, we have
helped to assemble the financing teams, negotiated financing terms, developed and
coordinated presentations to stakeholders (governing bodies, rating agencies, bond insurers,
investors and FHWA). Additionally, we have developed dozens of separate educational
presentations directed to rating agencies, bond investors and the general public for
transportation financings for these public agencies, as well as developed and updated
comprehensive financial plans involving multiple revenue sources.
Advance Financial Modeling Skills and Experience
The team assigned to the County has extensive experience with complex financial modeling
using Excel and has advanced skills in the use of DBC. We have staffed the County team with
senior advisors who personally will perform the financial modeling. We believe this is unique
as other firms may assign the financial modeling to their junior team members with the senior
advisors reviewing their work. This process may work fine for non-complex financial models
but for complex models, having senior advisors perform the analyses ensures that the financial
models are optimally and efficiently structured for all projects. This also allows for faster
turnaround times for deliverables and other requests made by the County.
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (“LACMTA”) (sales tax)
Riverside County Transportation Commission (“RCTC”) (sales tax; toll bonds; TIFIA; financial
modeling for SR-91 and I-15 Express Lanes)
San Bernardino County Transportation Authority (“SBCTA”) (toll – TIFIA)
San Mateo County Transportation Authority (“SMCTA”) (sales tax; managed lanes modeling and
toll revenue repayment of sales tax loan)
Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (“SBCAG”) (sales tax – TIFIA)
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (“SCVTA”) (toll – bonds)
Minnesota Department of Transportation (“MnDOT”) (permit revenue – TIFIA)
City of Bakersfield (sales tax – TIFIA)
Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission (“HRTAC”) (sales tax and toll – TIFIA)
San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (“BART”) (sales tax – TIFIA)
Transportation Experience
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A good example of this is in 2023, at the City of Murrieta’s request, Fieldman conducted a
comprehensive debt affordability analysis of the city’s Measure T Sales Tax Fund. The primary
objective was to assist the city in planning its long-term capital projects while ensuring fiscal
prudence. Additionally, the debt affordability analysis aimed to identify which capital projects
could be feasibly undertaken within the city’s financial constraints. We recommended that the
city strategically combine bond issuances where feasible, aiming to minimize issuance
expenses and to achieve the lowest interest cost for the city’s debt financings.
Another good example is our recent and ongoing engagement with the City of Sacramento.
For background, the city’s debt management policy requires a feasibility analysis performed
by an independent financial advisory firm prior to the issuance of General Fund supported
debt to finance capital projects. In 2021 and 2022, Fieldman provided detailed reviews of the
city’s debt affordability and potential issuance of $67 million to $100 million in general fund
backed debt to support homelessness projects in the city. As part of our review, Fieldman
created a dynamic custom financial model in Excel incorporating the city’s detailed budget
data and multi-year projections, as well as a dynamic bond model. Our analysis also
incorporated potential impacts to the city’s outstanding credit ratings with the issuance of
additional debt.
SECTION 5 – ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Any promotional or descriptive literature which the individual or firm desires to submit.
We greatly enjoy working with the County and value the relationship we have built and we look
forward to strengthening that in the future. To demonstrate our commitment to the public
finance industry, please refer to our website for public finance materials and financing
presentations: www.fieldman.com.
As further evidence of our dedication and leading expertise in land secured financings,
Fieldman is the founder of the Committee on Assessments, Special Taxes & Other Financing
Facilities (“CASTOFF”). CASTOFF is an ad hoc organization whose members are all
professionals working in the private sector specializing in the fields of law, public finance
advising, real estate, investment banking, tax policy and consulting, engineering and special
tax consulting, real estate appraising and other related professional disciplines with a focus on
land secured financings. CASTOFF's goal is to promote the development and implementation
of sound business, policy and financing practices in this field. Fieldman hosts and moderates
CASTOFF’s annual conference with the most recent meeting held on March 14, 2025 in Irvine.
In addition, in 2020 we started a series of public finance conversations with industry
professionals and online video library of public finance fundamentals which includes
introductory videos that span a variety of public finance topics. Fieldman additionally provides
a bi-monthly Municipal Market Update email to our clients providing the latest relevant market
information. Our market update information and accompanying video summarizing the slides
can be found on our website at http://www.fieldman.com/news/. All of our videos are also
available on our YouTube channel found here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4sV3jRwELQN0FqcJYjT-g.