Murdoch, Walrath & Holmes’

Ninth Annual

School Finance Conference for Businesses

January 12 - 13, 2012

Hyatt Grand Champion Resort, Villas and Spa

44-600 Indian Wells Lane
Indian Wells, California, 92210
Tel: 1 800 233 1234 or 1 760 341 1000 Fax: 1 760 568 2236

January 13-16, 2012

Sheraton Maui Resort

2605 Kaanapali Parkway,

Lahaina Maui, Hawaii 96761

Phone: (808) 661-0031

Now is the time to register for the Ninth Annual School Finance Conference for Businesses! This Conference is designed to provide private businesses with information on how schools will be funded for school operations and capital projects during the next 18 months. The Conference will give your business the best information to create your marketing and service delivery plans for your school district clients.

The worst recession in 70 years is behind us; the future is looking better. While school operations and facility funding continue to challenge schools, the bottom has been reached. The 2012-13 State Budget for schools is improving with better than expected 2010-11 and 2011-12 state revenues.

Governor Brown has not proposed a statewide school bond for 2012. While Murdoch, Walrath & Holmes is confident there will be such a bond, rumors are circulating in Sacramento that there will not be a school bond in 2012. The chair of the Senate Education Committee has raised doubts, as have others, regarding a school bond. If the state does not have a school bond, then school infrastructure needs will have to be addressed locally. The School Finance Conference for Businesses will include the following new topics:

• Which school districts have the greatest eligibility for modernization and new construction? Where are they and how much eligibility?
• Which school districts have the greatest remaining bond capacity?
• What is the waiver process, through the State Board of Education, to waive the bond capacity limits?
• What type of polling and local groundwork needs to be accomplished prior to placing a school
facilities bond on the ballot?
• What type of opposition can be expected from other organizations and how can that opposition be
overcome?

Obtaining information on these topics will assist businesses in talking to school districts about funding projects and programs; particularly, those school districts that have unused bond authorization. Developer Fees and new Mello-Roos agreements will not be significant facility revenue sources during the next 3-5 years. Until school districts can pass new bonds in 2012, school districts that have existing bond capacity and existing new construction and/or modernization eligibility will be the most likely districts that will be looking for services from businesses.

In addition to these new topics, the School Finance Conference will continue to provide presentations on:

• Governor Brown’s policies and priorities for 2012;
• How the budget proposal will affect state and local infrastructure projects;
• Updates on school law and architecture;
• How the federal fiscal reform will affect school operational and capital funding;
• The municipal bond market and economic projections;
• K-14 Demographics; and
• Energy program business opportunities.

Murdoch, Walrath & Holmes (MWH) has been instrumental in shaping statewide policy and implementing regulations for K-12 schools for almost three decades. Strategic relationships have been forged with the State Administration through agencies such as the Department of Education, the Office of Public School Construction, the State Allocation Board, and the Department of Finance; and, on the federal level, with key Congressional Members and the Executive Branch.

Click here to view the Indian Wells and Maui brochure.

Click here to view the Indian Wells brochure.

Click here to register online!