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Rates and Financial Planning Workshops
You work hard to provide safe, quality drinking water to your customers at fair rates. But how are your finances? This training will teach you about utility finance, how to track and benchmark financial performance, plan for future capital costs, and revenues and rate design. You will learn about these topics through examples from real small systems. This workshop will provide you with the tools to improve the fiscal health of your utility without compromising service or deferring maintenance.
No upcoming trainings. View a webinar recording or sign-up for our emails to be invited to attend our next Utility Rates and Financial Planning Workshop.
On Demand Webinars
Understanding Affordability and How to Self Assess Your Rates
Ask the Expert: Capital Improvement Planning
The Kansas Department of Health Environment (KDHE) Capacity Development Program, in partnership with Wichita State Environmental Finance Center (EFC ), Ranson Financial and Kansas Municipal Utilities (KMU), encourages representatives from your utility to attend an upcoming rate setting and financial planning training. The session provides participants with an understanding on major considerations when setting rates; rate structure options and pricing objectives; financial planning considerations; and strategies for communicating rate information to your board and community. The training will provide classroom instruction as well as interactive participant exercises and discussion. View training calendar
Training is approved for 1 CMC Experience or 1 MMC Advanced Education point for city clerks.
The Rate Checkup program is a free online tool that was developed to assist small Kansas public water supply
systems with the process of reviewing water rates. This tool was made available and
developed through funding from KDHE.
This training will provide classroom instruction as well as interactive use of the
Rate Checkup tool. The session provides participants with a basic understanding of
the on-line tool’s functionality and usability. Participants will be able to work
through the on-line registration process, input of historical data, forecasting of
revenues and expenses, capital improvement projection functions, building up reserves,
and multiple scenario analysis. For better discussion opportunities, it is recommended
that a participant has attended a Water/Wastewater Rates & Financial Planning Workshop
prior to attending a Kansas Water Rate Checkup Tool Workshop, but is not a requirement. Participants will need to bring a laptop to use during this class. View training calendar
Funding for this training is provided through a contractual agreement between KDHE PWS Capacity Development Program, State Revolving Loan Set-aside, and the Wichita State University Environmental Finance Center and Kansas Municipal Utilities.