Funding overload: prioritizing and building your community’s funding strategy with ARP, EDA, infrastructure and more

With a wave of funding sources, opportunities and requirements, many state, county and local government leaders are looking for resources to help them prioritize and align spending with their community’s needs. In this continuing series of webinars on stimulus funding, we demonstrated our newly launched ARP ACTion application and how it can help you:

1. Identify eligible expenses and investments
2. Aggregate responses from community leaders
3. Build an analytical strategic funding plan

We also discussed the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s (EDA) funding priorities and ways communities can maximize this unprecedented investment in community economic development projects.

Key takeaways

After watching this webinar, you will be able to:

• Identify and prioritize your community’s available funding opportunities, expenses and investments, including EDA
• Factor in interlocal collaboration opportunities
• Differentiate between funding sources for local matching
• Determine when debt leverage may be a good option to align with grant or stimulus funding

This webinar is intended for professionals from cities, towns, counties, economic development organizations and utilities interested in or responsible for financial management and/or public finance.

Presenters and subject matter specialists

• Jolena Presti, Managing Director, Public Sector Advisory practice
• Eric Walsh, CPA, Partner, Municipal Advisory practice
• Sean McGill, Manager, Municipal Advisory practice

 For more information, or to learn how Baker Tilly's public sector specialists can help your organization, contact our team.