Funding our Infrastructure Needs

The Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI), in partnership with UNC-TV, recently convened two community forums in the Triad and Fort Bragg regions which focused specifically on local financing options to pay for needed infrastructure.  Based on these discussions and survey responses from attendees, participants indicated that public-private partnerships (PPPs) are the most important funding option to explore in order to meet their region's infrastructure needs. And as we heard at the 2009 Emerging Issues Forum, a sub-standard network of physical infrastructure will not meet the needs of our state’s dynamic and rapidly growing population. 

For this reason, as the second phase of our partnership with UNC-TV, IEI will host two webinars that will focus on the use of PPPs.  This is an opportunity to ask questions and learn more about PPPs: what are they and how do they work?  What are best practices, both at the national and state level? What kind of legislation is needed for fair and effective PPPs to thrive?  We hope you’ll participate in the following two sessions to get these answers and more:

August 27, 2009 - 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Public-Private Partnerships: The Big Picture   

Featured speaker:
Richard Little, Director of the Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy at the University of Southern California

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September 3, 2009 - 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.   
Public-Private Partnerships: Bringing It Home (Possible CLE credit)

Featured speakers:
Mary Nash K. Rusher, Partner, Hunton & Williams LLP
David Jones, Partner, K&L Gates, LLP

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