Events in Detroit, Stockton, Flint, and Puerto Rico highlight the severe challenges related to fiscal systems that support public services and the continued stress they face given local governments’ shrinking revenue streams.

Whether you want to better understand public-private partnerships, new approaches to debt and municipal securities, or leading land-based finance strategies to finance infrastructure projects, this Professional Certificate in Municipal Finance will give you the skills and insights you need as you advance your career in urban planning, real estate, treasury, or economic development.

Overview

Created by Harris Public Policy’s Center for Municipal Finance and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, this three day program provides a thorough foundation in municipal finance with a focus on urban planning and economic development. This course will include modules on the following topics:

• Urban Economics and Growth
• Intergovernmental Fiscal Frameworks, Revenues, Budgeting
• Capital Budgeting/Accounting and Infrastructure Maintenance
• Debt/Municipal Securities
• Land-Based Finance/Land Value Capture
• Public-Private Partnerships
• Cost Benefit Analysis – Across Public Finance Instruments
• Fiscal Impact Analysis

Participants will learn how to effectively apply tools of financial analysis to make strategic decisions and gain an improved understanding about the interplay among finance, urban economics and public policy as it relates to urban planning and economic development.

Upon completion of the program, participants will receive a Certificate in Municipal Finance.

Who Should Attend

Those with the following experience will be given preference for admission:

• New to senior-level urban planners who work in both the private and public sectors as well as individuals in the treasury, economic development, and land development industry at large.
• Relevant job titles include:
  • Urban Planners
  • Community and Economic Development staff
  • Developers and real estate professionals
  • Real Estate Attorneys
  • Treasury and Finance professionals

The Collins Center and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy have organized this conference as part of the Lincoln Institute’s Critical Issues for the Fiscal Health of New England Cities and Towns series in order to provide New England municipal officials with highly practical capital planning advice, ideas, best practices, and tools that they can put to use in their own municipalities.

The morning will include two sessions: (1) capital planning, with concurrent panels for officials from municipalities with different levels of knowledge and practice (ranging from those that have no capital plan to those that have a sophisticated capital plan); and (2) financing capital spending, with one panel for those looking for basic finance strategies and another for those interested in advanced financing strategies.

The afternoon will provide a variety of special topics, including communicating with the public about capital needs and expenditures, capital planning and climate change preparedness, and alternative strategies for funding capital expenditures.

This is an invitation only event.

Las intervenciones urbanas de gran envergadura, denominadas usualmente Grandes Proyectos Urbanos (GPU), combinan una escala espacial importante con la complejidad de su gestión, y constituyen uno de los rasgos dominantes actuales de las ciudades de América Latina. El componente suelo hace parte esencial en la estructura de estos proyectos, puesto que éstos pueden impulsar cambios urbanos inmediatos capaces de afectar los valores de los terrenos. La valorización del suelo generada por la implementación de este tipo de proyectos representa un potencial de autofinanciamiento y viabilidad económica, a partir de la movilización de plusvalías para beneficio público.

Los GPU incluyen intervenciones dirigidas a la recuperación de áreas urbanas deterioradas o abandonadas (incluyendo centros históricos), desarrollo de proyectos de expansión urbana, consolidación de centralidades, la utilización de tierras públicas en desuso (antiguos aeropuertos o puertos, zonas industriales, etc.) o la ejecución de proyectos de mejoramiento habitacional de gran dimensión.

Esta forma de hacer ciudad plantea una serie de desafíos: la articulación del plan de ordenamiento territorial con el proyecto, la captación de las plusvalías generadas por los proyectos, el rol de la institucionalidad pública y del sector privado, la conformación de un equipo gestor, la participación ciudadana, su contribución a la integración y cohesión social en la ciudad, la utilización del marco normativo urbanístico general o la adopción de marcos específicos, y su contribución a la sostenibilidad urbana, entre otros.

Requisitos previos: Manejo de conceptos de formación de precios del suelo y su relación con la planificación urbana.

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