Listed below are our most recent newsletters and select articles published in trade journals. To down load a copy of the publication, please click the thumbnail and the pdf version should be downloaded. If you would like to receive future newsletters by mail, please e-mail Rachel and she will add you to our mailing list.

News & Views, Fall 2006

The Fall edition of News & Views has two excellent articles on rates. Our cover story discusses what should influence rate changes and how basing changes on inflation is selling your utility short. Our inside article explores the inequity in customer classes that bimonthly billing creates.

News & Views, Spring 2006

Our Spring 2006 edition looks at rate design. The cover story, A Look at Four Rate Design Approaches, examines four different rate designs and the effort involved in implementing each of the different rate designs. Also featured in this edition is The Rate Foundation Tree which reviews the legal cases that set the standards of today's ratemaking.

Adapting GASB 34 for Water Utility Ratemaking, by Jason Mumm and Paul Matthews.

This article was published in the AWWA Journal in January 2004 and won the Division Best Paper Award in the Management Division in 2005.

News & Views, Spring 2005

This newsletter was timed to coincide with the release of AWWA's book Water Rates, Fees, and the Legal Environment. Our staff played a key role in the development of the book. The lead article in the newsletter covers the AWWA workshop that lead to the creation of the book. Also covered in this newsletter are reviews of the WEF book, Financing Charges for Wastewater Systems and a review of another AWWA book, the M54 which provides resources for small water systems.

News & Views, Summer 2003

Our Summer of 2003 newsletter celebrated IUG's 10-Year Anniversary. It contains mostly photos of parties hosted in both our Denver and Portland offices.

News & Views, Spring 2002

The Spring 2002 issue highlights the second part of GASB 34, Separating Myth from Reality. It examines the impacts and challenges to determinations of rates and charges under GASB 34. This edition of the newsletter also contains and overview of the Rates and Charges workshop that was held in the 2002 AWWA Conference.

News & Views, Winter 2001
Our winter 2001 edition contains the first installment of GASB 34, Separating Myth from Reality. Our lead article for this edition is Recent Developments on Impact Fees and a discussion of Breckenridge Sanitation District's higher impact fees for multifamily units.

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