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Funding Strategies for Capital Programs

October 21, 2025
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Online

(Times listed in Mountain time zone)

Fee per person: $75-member, $120-nonmember

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Special Program: Finance Community Webinar
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Objectives

  • Learn how water utilities are funding their capital programs - debt, SRFs, WIFIA, sustainable finance, etc.
  • Understand how increases in capital needs are impacting multi-year capital planning and funding strategies.
  • Learn how managing long-term forecasting, procurement, investment, and debt management is successfully handled in a growing municipal utility context.
  • Hear how capital programs, rate structures, and debt profiles influence a utility's credit rating.
  • Understand the importance of aligning capital priorities with rapidly growing demand and population needs.

Expert Panel

Moderated by: Matt Brown, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, DC Water

Melissa LaBuda, Director, PFM Financial Advisors

Helen Cregger, Vice President and Senior Credit Officer - Public Finance, Moody’s

Jessica Williams, Chief Financial Officer, New Braunfels Utilities (NBU) Texas

Description

This interactive virtual roundtable brings together leading experts from the water utility, financial, and ratings sectors. The panel will share insights and experiences in developing and implementing strategies that produce successful capital programs for water utilities.

Discussion topics will include such current and evolving subjects as: various private and municipal financing tools available for capital programs; customer affordability and water utility rate structures; the setting of capital program priorities; multi-year planning and forecasting; the evolving use of Green Bonds and sustainable finance; and the current and evolving federal programs water utilities and the sector can use to meet their capital planning needs.


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