McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP and City & Financial are partnering to host The California Infrastructure Summit, Meeting the Infrastructure Challenge, on December 2 and 3, 2008 at the Sheraton Garden Grove – Anaheim South Hotel, Anaheim, California. The event is the first in a series of State and Local Government Infrastructure Summits.
The objective of these gatherings is to serve as hands-on regional summits for decision makers and stakeholders, from both the public sector and the private sectors, in order to find ways to move their agenda forward and solve the imminent infrastructure crisis. They will seek to identify the complexities of PBI initiatives and how to move these initiatives through complex legislative processes; to address the nuances of public-private partnerships that are best suited for the United States; to review how projects can be developed at the municipal level; and to consider project implementation of specific regional transportation initiatives.
Please see the following for the program agenda. To register, please email bookings@cityandfinancial.com.
Program
DAY ONE December 2nd 2008
08:30 Coffee and registration
08:55 Chairman’s opening remarks
Frank Rapoport, Esq.
09:00 Keynote Address
Arnold Schwarzenegger Governor, State of California (invited)
09:20 The new administration and its impact on PPP
D.J. Gribbin, General Counsel, Federal Department of Transportation
CREATING A PBI-FRIENDLY LEGISLATIVE ENVIRONMENT
09:40 Roundtable on the key issues that need to be addressed in order to attract private sector infrastructure investment including:
· Legislation to increase the speed and efficiency with which transport projects are delivered
· Specific design-build legislation, both incorporating the use of Proposition 1B funds
Carl DeMaio, San Diego City Council
Additional speakers to be confirmed
ISSUES RELATING TO REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AND THE NEED FOR INTER-STATE COLLABORATION
10:20 Successfully integrating privately financed infrastructure
Dale Bonner, Secretary of the Business, Transport and Housing Agency
10:40 Getting business and government to work together to solve infrastructure challenges
Lucy Dunn, President and CEO, The Orange County Business Council
11:00 Morning coffee
11:20 Cross-border and intra-state tolling issues
Bob Poole Executive Director, Reason Foundation
11:40 Congestion initiatives and other environmental considerations
Michael Replogle Transportation Director, Environmental Defense Fund
12:00 Roundtable on the role of partnerships in increasing the efficiency of multi-modal freight transportation in the region and related logistical challenges
· Developing integrated, multi-modal policy frameworks for freight at federal, state & local levels
· Rail, road and port capacity
· Single-mode and inter-modal transfer capacity
· Regional capacity planning and coordination
Sean Connaughton, Administrator, Maritime Administration
Ian McAvoy, Chief Development Officer, Caltrain
Additional speakers to be confirmed
12:40 Lunch
14:00 Keynote Address
Curt Pringle Mayor, City of Anaheim
PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION PRESENTATIONS:
SPECIFIC REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION INITIATIVES IN STATE OF CALIFORNIA
14:20 Overview
Will Kempton Director, Department of Transport
14:40 Highways
Cindy McKim Chief Financial Officer, Department of Transport
15:00 Rail – the $30 billion California HSL
Quentin Kopp Chairman, High Speed Rail Authority
15:20 Transit
Ian McAvoy, Chief Development Officer, Caltrain
15:40 Afternoon tea
16:00 Airports and Seaports
Omar Benjamin Executive Director, Port of Oakland
16:20 Panel discussion on the prospects for infrastructure investment in California
Will Kempton Director, Department of Transport
Cindy McKim Chief Financial Officer, Department of Transport
Quentin Kopp Chairman, High Speed Rail Authority)
Omar Benjamin Executive Director, Port of Oakland
LESSONS LEARNT TO DATE IN THE U.S.
17:00 Roundtable discussion
Optimizing risk allocation between the public and private sectors
· Bid costs and tender procedures
· Greenfield developments and environmental permits
· Payment models, including availability-based payments
· Integrating public funds into deal structures
· Innovation in financing structures
Will Kempton Director, Department of Transport
Additional speakers to be confirmed
17:40 Chairman’s closing remarks and end of day one
DAY TWO December 3rd 2008
08:30 Coffee and registration
08:55 Chairman’s opening remarks and review of Day 1
Sotiris A. Pagdadis, Ph. D. (confirmed)
LESSONS FROM ABROAD
09:00 The UK – developing from PFI to next generation PPP models
Speaker to be confirmed
09:20 The French approach to public private partnerships
Francois Bergere, Head of PPP Unit, French Ministry of Finance
09:40 The Irish PPP experience of establishing a PPP program
Speaker to be confirmed
10:00 Lessons from Canada – what has made individual states successful?
Larry Blain, Chief Executive Officer, Partnerships British Columbia
10:20 Morning coffee
10:40 Panel discussion on addressing public interest concerns
· Value for money – how to assess it
· Optimizing risk allocation between the public and private sectors
· Realizing the benefits of whole life cycle costing
· Managing the cultural shift from input-based to output-based project specifications
· Competition and managing the deal pipeline
· Performance measurement incentives
· Private sector management skills
Francois Bergere, Head of PPP Unit, French Ministry of Finance
Additional speakers to be confirmed
Larry Blain, Chief Executive Officer, Partnerships British Columbia
FOCUS ON NON-TRANSPORT SECTORS
11:20 Expanding the types of projects, services and government entities that can enter into PBI arrangements
Speaker to be confirmed
11:40 Courthouses – the proposed $2 billion bond and how it can be combined with PBI funding
Speaker to be confirmed
12:00 Social housing
Lynn Jacobs, Director, Department of Housing and Community Development
12:20 Water and water management
Speaker to be confirmed
12:40 Lunch
14:00 Schools and colleges
Speaker to be confirmed
14:20 Natural Resources
Joel Shapiro, Chief Executive Officer, Timbervest, LLC
14:50 The Military Housing Program and Enhanced Use Leasing in California
Frank Rapoport, Esq.
FINANCING ISSUES
15:10 Combining Proposition 1B and other transportation funds, such as TIFIA and private activity bonds, with private sector funding in PBI transactions
Speaker to be confirmed
15:30 Modeling of PBI structures – evaluating the sensitivity of assumptions and the interrelationship between them
Speaker to be confirmed
15:50 Afternoon tea
16:10 Latest innovations in PPP financing
Speaker to be confirmed
16:30 Addressing the concerns of equity investors
Speakers from major contractor and infrastructure fund
16:50 Chairman’s concluding remarks and close of conference