Upcoming Training Events & Webinars
Rates Design & Pricing – January 20, 2021 – webinar (no cost to attend)
Rates are the primary way that most drinking water utilities generate revenue. Once water utilities have calculated their financial needs for this year and beyond, they are faced with a number of policy decisions on how best to structure rates to meet that financial need. This webinar will use real life examples from water utilities to describe these policy decisions. How can we translate our financial needs into prices? How should costs be divided between the base charge and the usage charge? Should residential customers be charged differently from commercial customers? The webinar will also discuss how to communicate necessary rate changes to the public. Presenter: Glenn Barnes. For more details or to register, visit http://ctt.nonprofitsoapbox.com/2021gleic-rates-0120.
Having Enough Money for Today & Tomorrow – February 17, 2021 – webinar (no cost to attend)
What are all of the costs of running a drinking water utility? This webinar will help water systems recognize the costs related to operations and capital needs, including costs that systems often overlook. The webinar will also identify which costs are tied to water production and will describe how costs change over time. The objective of the webinar is for water systems to be able to calculate their financial needs for the next five years. The webinar will also summarize the state and federal loan and grant programs that are available to drinking water utilities. Presenter: Glenn Barnes. For more details or to register, visit http://ctt.nonprofitsoapbox.com/2021gleic-money-0217.
Rates Design & Pricing – March 17, 2021 – webinar (no cost to attend)
Rates are the primary way that most drinking water utilities generate revenue. Once water utilities have calculated their financial needs for this year and beyond, they are faced with a number of policy decisions on how best to structure rates to meet that financial need. This webinar will use real life examples from water utilities to describe these policy decisions. How can we translate our financial needs into prices? How should costs be divided between the base charge and the usage charge? Should residential customers be charged differently from commercial customers? The webinar will also discuss how to communicate necessary rate changes to the public. Presenter: Glenn Barnes. For more details or to register, visit http://ctt.nonprofitsoapbox.com/2021gleic-rates-0317.
POSTPONED: Setting the Right Rates for Your System Workshop – No new date April 23, 2020, 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. – Rockford, Illinois
This intermediate-level workshop will ensure the financial stability of your water system while providing safe, quality drinking water at fair rates. The workshop will focus on how systems can select rate-setting objectives and match those with appropriate rate structures. This workshop is appropriate for any community water system that charges customers for water consumption. It is designed for drinking water system managers, clerks, treasurers, board members, and others who budget and/or set rates. Attendees will learn how to 1) develop rate-setting objectives, 2) determine the cost of providing water service, 3) anticipate changes in revenues year to year by changes in demand, 4) measure the affordability of rates for all of your customers, and 5) create rate structures that promote water conservation or promote water use. Instructor: Shadi Eskaf, Research Director, The Environmental Finance Center at The University of North Carolina. No cost to attend. For more details or to register, visit https://efcnetwork.org/events/illinois-setting-the-right-rates-for-your-....
Stay tuned! More events coming soon!
Registering for a Training Event
Please note that GLEIC event registration is handled by the Center for Technology & Training at Michigan Technological University; you will be forwarded to their event registration page when clicking on more information or registration links. If you have a question about your registration, you can contact the GLEIC at gleic-support@mtu.edu or (906) 487-2102 or you can contact the Center for Technology & Training at ctt@mtu.edu or (906) 487-2102.
Continuing Education Policy
Please refer to the GLEIC Continuing Education Policy for information on using GLEIC training sessions for professional engineering license continuing education requirements.
Past Training Events & Webinars
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GLEIC-exclusive event! Having Enough Money for Today & Tomorrow – December 16, 2020 –view event details
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An Introduction to the Great Lakes Environmental Infrastructure Center, the EPA Region 5 Environmental Finance Center – December 1-3, 2020, Novi, Michigan –view event details
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No-cost Resilience Planning and Adaptation Training for the Water Utility Sector - In-depth Training on CREAT – November 10, 12, 17, and December 1 –view webinar series details
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Resilience Planning and Adaptation Training for the Water Utility Sector – Thursday, July 23, 2020, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon – view webinar details
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Rates and Rate Structure Designs for Small Water Systems in Illinois– July 15, 2020, 1:00-2:00 p.m. CT – view webinar detail
- Intro to Asset Management and Lead Service Line Replacement – October 17, 2019 – Maize, Kansas – view event details
- Lead Service Line Replacement Webinar – September 12, 2019
- Minnesota Water Utilities Resilience Planning & Adaptation Training – July 18, 2019 – St. Could, Minnesota – view event flyer
- How to Start Your Needed Infrastructure Project Webinar – April 23, 2019 – slides
- Great Lakes Commission des Grands Lacs Integrated Water Asset Management Webinar Series (1: What is Integrated Water Asset Management; 2: Water Infrastructure Financing and IWAM; 3: Technology and IWAM; 4: IWAM Policy and Program Implementation – February-May 2019 – Recordings of all IAMM webinars
- 2019 EPA Region 5 Water Forum & Pre-forum EFC Network Asset Management for Water Systems Workshop – February 19 & 20 – Mount Pleasant, Michigan
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2018 EPA Region 5 Water Finance Forum – June 7– Findlay, Ohio (presentations from the forum)
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2018 Infrastructure Finance Basics Workshop – May 23 – St. Cloud, Minnesota
- 2017 Strategic Land-Use Planning Webinar – July 25
- 2017 Infrastructure Finance Basics Workshop – Wausau, Wisconsin