This workshop will cover the critical role that asset management can play in setting rates and overall financial management of drinking water systems. Topics will include an overview of specific tools and frameworks that are especially geared to getting small systems started with asset management. Next, we will look at how the outcomes of the asset management process feed into other utility management practices such as rate setting and capital planning.

You will learn how to:

1. Embark on an asset management program
2. Build a good team for asset management
3. Use asset management to inform rate design
4. Locate (and impress) external funding sources

This workshop is designed for local government drinking water system managers, clerks, treasurers, elected officials, and others who budget and/or set rates.

This workshop has been approved for 6 Management and Safety Points.

Presenter: Stacey Isaac Berahzer, Senior Project Director – Environmental Finance Center at UNC

Contact: Allison Perch, perch@sog.unc.edu

Partners: 

Resources:

Introduction
Water Finance 101
What is Asset Management?
Small Systems Document
Frameworks for Asset Management
Capital Finance
Revenues for Small Water Systems
Asset Management Videos
Resources Packet