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Deven Mitchell, State Debt Manager
Understanding the Municipal Bond Bank
Friday, July 12th
8:00am-9:00am
First National Bank Alaska, Operations Center
1751 Gambell St
Deven Mitchell, State Debt Manager and Executive Director of the Alaska Municipal Bond Bank Authority, will give us a briefing on the Bond Bank and it’s role in funding capital improvement projects across the state.
Deven’s PowerPoint presenatation can be downloaded here.
CWN Energy Action Coalition
Friday, June 21st
AlaskaUSA Federal Credit Union
500 W 36th Avenue
noon-1pm
We will have a briefing from Amy Pettit, Executive Director at the Alaska Farmland Trust, about their work and recommendations to enhance food security for Alaskans. Following her presentation, we will have a work session to focus on our food security study.
Fiscal Policy Study Group
June 21st
8am-9am
Alaska Housing Finance Corporation
4300 Boniface Parkway
Ted Hampton
VP-Senior Credit Officer
State Ratings Team
Moody’s Investment Services
We will have a briefing with Moody’s Investment Services about what criteria they use to determine a state’s credit rating and how that translates to Alaska.
CWN Fiscal Policy Study Group
The State’s Debt Management and Retirement System
Friday, June 7th
First National Bank of Alaska
Operations Center
1751 Gambell St
second floor
8am-9:30am
(doors open at 7:45am)
Friday morning we will have a briefing from Deven Mitchell, State Debt Manager and Executive Director of the Alaska Municipal Bond Bank Authority. He will give us an overview of the State’s debt management and the pension and retirement system obligations.
The May 29th meeting has been rescheduled.
Our next meeting will be Wednesday, June 5, for a briefing with The Food Bank of Alaska.
Energy Action Coalition
May 31st
noon-1pm
The Evolution of Railbelt Electric Utilities
We will have a briefing from Tony Izzo, CEO of the Matanuska Electric Association. Tony will discuss the changing face of the local electric utilities along with an update on the efforts of the 6 interconnected utilities to develop a regional approach for cost savings and coordinated planning.
Click here for Tony’s PowerPoint presentation.