Need Doesn’t Get You Funded, Readiness Does. A Roundtable Discussion on What Small Water and Wastewater Utilities Need in Place Before They Ask for Money 

Need Doesn’t Get You Funded, Readiness Does. A Roundtable Discussion on What Small Water and Wastewater Utilities Need in Place Before They Ask for Money 

Hosts: James Markham, The Southwest Environmental Finance Center Guests: Michael Gilmore, Rural / Frontier Equity Ombud in the Infrastructure Planning Division of the New Mexico Department of Finance and Administration and Karen Pereira, Assistant Field Manger at RCAC...

What Funding Is Available for Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Projects?

Now that you have done some necessary capital improvement preparation at your system by completing your financial audits and general financial health check, doing a rate analysis and rate adjustment, developing or updating your Asset Management Plan, identifying your...

Budget Blog Series #4: Sample Budget for a Small Wastewater Utility

A Quick Review of the Series So Far: A budget involves forecasting revenues and expenses for the coming year and helps to ensure appropriate spending levels on the utility’s highest priority concerns. The budget provides a variety of benefits to everyone in the...

Budget Blog Series #3: Depreciation, Reserve Accounts, and Balancing the Budget

A Quick Review of the Series So Far: A budget involves forecasting revenues and expenses for the coming year and helps to ensure appropriate spending levels on the utility’s highest priority concerns. The budget provides a variety of benefits to everyone in the...