After the meeting, the LGA said "a small number" of authorities faced specific short-term problems.
But he did not say whether the authorities had specific information about a continuing threat.
In addition, some named public authorities have specific duties as to how they must meet this general duty.
Local authorities have specific obligations for equal pay under the Equality Act 2010, but there are also some obligations for private sector employers.
The party promises legislation to create "cleaner neighbourhoods" with a clampdown on litter – a difficult task for some authorities as specific funding for this area has been squeezed.
The Republican challengers also argued that the borrowing would violate the constitutional requirement that bond issues go before the voters, although the Supreme Court has recently permitted bonding without voter approval by state authorities for specific projects.
Salman Rushdie, who was forced to pull out of Asia's biggest literary festival in India after authorities revealed "specific intelligence" of a death threat against him, has said he believes the information was false.
Steffen Riedel of Eza!, an environmental and energy conservation consulting firm in southern Germany, said potential buyers of historic properties should press sellers for details of any preservation restrictions and check with the local authorities about specific requirements.
By the end of April it will be replaced with a more focused — color-free — system that promises to point authorities to specific threats while alerting the public through the news and social media (Watch Out! in 140 characters).
An algorithm was designed to highlight related bloodstream infections using data from a nosocomial infection surveillance system to help local public health authorities direct specific measures towards clusters of cases.
But the Conservative Treasury Minister Nicky Morgan said Mr Miliband was "playing catch-up" with the coalition, which was boosting regional development through policies like City Deals, which hand control of budgets to local authorities for specific projects.
