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Title:

TARGET FINANCE 2 - Capital Budgeting for the Public Works Professional

This is part of the "Target Finance" series, which also included the following events:
* TARGET FINANCE 1 - Terms and Tools for Effectively Preparing and Managing Your Operations Budget
* TARGET FINANCE 3 - Creative Financing: Linking Budget Know How with Strategic Planning

Date(s):

July 15, 2004

Location:

Audio/Web Broadcast

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Description:

The second component in the TARGET Finance series, �Capital Budgeting for the Public Works Professional�, AIMS to help you, and your staff, with:

Identification of capital project & infrastructure needs
Inventorying and evaluating the conditions of existing facilities and infrastructure
Identifying new capital improvement needs to meet or spur growth
Capital improvement programming
Prioritizing capital projects
Capital financing
Capital project authorization and appropriation
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Capital projects include large investments of your time and money. This program will give you confidence to make decisions on what capital projects to fund and how to finance these projects. This program will be especially important for medium and smaller-size cities and counties.

Speaker:

Lynda Dennis

Lynda M. Dennis received her undergraduate degree in accounting and finance from the University of West Florida and her Masters in Public Administration from the University of Central Florida. Currently, she is working on her dissertation for a PhD in Public Affairs from the University of Central Florida while serving as a graduate teaching assistant in the Public Administration Department. She is a Florida CPA and a Florida certified government finance officer. Most recently she was the Finance Director for the City of Maitland, Florida. Prior to joining the City of Maitland in May 2000, she was the Special Projects Assistant to the Chief Financial Officer for the City of Orlando.

Before joining the City of Orlando, Lynda was the Chief Financial Officer for the Central Florida YMCA. Prior to that, she served as the Director of Finance and Administrative Services for the City of Oviedo, Florida for five years. Her experience includes working as an auditor for local and Big 4 firms with an emphasis in the insurance, government and not-for-profit sectors

Speaker:

Jack Vogt

A. John (Jack) Vogt received a B.S. from Georgetown University, his M.P.I.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, and Ph.D. from Cornell University. Before coming to the University of North Carolina, he worked as Budget Operations Coordinator for the Wisconsin State Budget Office and as a Research Associate for the Center for Studies in Education and Development at Harvard University. Dr. Vogt is the author of Capital Improvement Programming: A Handbook for Local Government Officials; and the editor and principal author of A Guide to Municipal Leasing, for which he received the Research and Publications Award of the Government Finance Officers Association of the U. S. and Canada (GFOA). His new book, Capital Budgeting and Finance: A Guide for Local Governments, is being published by the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) in early 2004. Dr. Vogt directed the Institute of Government's Municipal and County Administration courses from 1991 through 1995, and the North Carolina Local Government Performance Measurement Project from 1995 until 1999. He teaches budgeting and finance in the Institute�s courses for North Carolina local government officials and in national programs sponsored by the GFOA, ICMA, and the National League of Cities. Dr. Vogt was recently appointed as an advisor to the GFOA Committee on Economic Development and Capital Budgeting. He is the recipient of the 2003 S. Kenneth Howard Award for lifetime professional achievement in public budgeting and finance from the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management of the American Society for Public Administration.

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