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October 26, 2007
Renewing California's Infrastructure, October 26, 2007
Renwing California's Infrastructure: Finding a Way Forward * Why PPP, why now? *Enabling Legislation
* Global Experience *PPP Coordination Agencies * A Way Forward
Presentations
'Dynamic Influence Mapping of PPP Stakeholders' presentation by Wit Henisz
'Enabling Legislation in California' presentation by Geoffrey S. Yarema
'The Infrastructure Ontario and Partnerships BC Models' presentation by Bert Clark and Grant Main
'Lessons from Latin America' presentation by Antonio Vives
'Brainstorming Session' presentation compiled in realtime by CRGP Graduate Students
Other Materials
State of California Debt Affordability Report, by the Office of the Treasurer, 2007
UK Report
CRGP KPMG Report
UN Report
Vives Report
Guasch Book
Bay Area Council Report
Overview
The Workshop is designed to bring together a group of senior-level, forward-thinking experts from industry, academia, and government to develop a strategy for infrastructure renewal in California, to contemplate the broader enablement of PPPs within the State, and to consider possibilities for public finance backed by user fees.
Participation in the Workshop is by invitation only, and participants have been selected based on their acknowledged commitment to public service.
Numbers have been limited to a small and select few to encourage real discussion and debate, with an emphasis on several questions:
- What approaches exist for infrastructure renewal in California? Are PPPs a viable alternative?
- With the current legislation that is in place, what is entitled to happen with respect to private participation in infrastructure?
- How much private involvement already exists, at the grassroots level?
- What would need to be done in order to more broadly enable the activity?
- What were the experiences with PPPs in the Asia, Latin America and the UK during the 1990s? How do these experiences apply to California?
- What is the role of the PPP Coordination Agencies that have been instituted in Canada, in short-listing, approving, and monitoring projects?
- What would a fully enabled PPP legislation look like?
- How should the State go forward? What should the Governor present to the public in January? What should the strategy be?
- What about a proposal for an Infrastructure Finance Authority, with the public finance of projects backed by user fees?
Participants are asked to come to the event prepared to focus on the needs of the State and to lay their political, corporate and self-interests aside. Stanford University offers a neutral venue for a collaborative, non-partisan discussion.
The Workshop will be moderated by the dynamic duo of Gregory Keever (Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP) and Peter Luchetti (Board of Directors, Bay Area Economic Forum) and will involve much interactive discussion.
Posted by rjorr at October 26, 2007 03:08 PM
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