Case Study

Local agencies in California have the ability to charge a wide range of user and regulatory fees. Common examples of these include: Cities or fire districts have fire prevention programs and [...]

Accuracy and Public Accountability Should Be Priorities The accuracy of customer bills sent out by municipal water and sewer agencies is reviewed far less than it probably should be. Particularly [...]

Cities across California grapple with the increasing annual costs and efforts to address stormwater. As charging any type of utility fee for this effort is challenging, most cities choose to pay [...]

The City of Oxnard has close to 100 Special Financing Districts (SFDs) across the city, serving a variety of neighborhood needs. Over time, the management of these districts have become [...]

The Valley-Wide Recreation and Park District serves a very large area in Riverside County. They provide many services for dozens of parks and other facilities over hundreds of square miles, [...]

The City of Folsom is using CFD financing to fund a portion of the estimated $877 million backbone infrastructure and public facilities necessary to serve the Folsom Plan Area (“FPA”) at [...]

The Yerba Buena CBD, a property-based BID, is an integral part of San Francisco’s lively South of Market Area, known to many as SOMA. This area has gone through a dramatic transformation with [...]

The County of Sonoma Board of Supervisors governs four water systems referred to as Zone of Benefit: Fitch Mountain, Freestone, Jenner and Salmon Creek. These various zones range in size from [...]

Fountain Valley is located in Orange County, California. With over 57,000 residents and a City budget of just under $100MM, the City has many demands. The most pressing of which was the fact that [...]

Burlingame Avenue is a quaint yet vital downtown district on the San Francisco Peninsula, with local restaurants, boutiques, and well-known retail stores. Sales and values per square foot are [...]