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MiniBond pitches app to let residents micro‑invest in Douglas County projects
Summary
Arthur Scott of MiniBond presented to the Douglas County board on a platform that packages municipal projects for small investors, automates regulatory filings and partners with banks to hold funds; commissioners asked about ERP integration, tax treatment and investor protections and took no action.
Arthur Scott, co‑founder of MiniBond, demonstrated a platform for "micro" municipal investing during a Douglas County board meeting, saying it allows residents to back local capital projects through small, pooled investments.
Scott told the board that two barriers keep ordinary residents from buying municipal bonds: the capital minimums (many offerings sell in $5,000 increments) and the difficulty of extracting a compelling project narrative from long official statements. "MiniBond is a platform that empowers local governments to peel back all of this stuff ... to get to the core of the story behind the capital," he said.
He walked the board through searching the Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA) portal for Douglas County issuers, showing an example Elkhorn Public Schools $40,000,000 general obligation bond and noting that project details are typically buried across many pages of municipal…
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