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Communicating Value to Consumers: Strategies for
Water and Sewer Utilities
New Jersey Future
May 14, 2015
Agenda
• Introduction: Why Change?
– Elaine Clisham, New Jersey Future
• Case Study: What we do, and how we do it
– Rick Dovey, Atlantic County Utilities Authority
• Case Study: Building a Communications Strategy
– Tiffany Ledesma, Philadelphia Water
• Making the Media Your Friend
– Elizabeth Ruebman, Amplify, Inc.
• Questions
Profile of New Jersey CSO Cities
• Most are “small” – 60,000 residents or fewer
• All are older, with very old infrastructure
• Many are distressed, with large numbers of residents earning well below the statewide median income
• Many have declining property tax bases, making it difficult to find ways to finance infrastructure upgrades that won’t burden residents
• Most have begun to grow again!
THANK YOU!We will email all participants with links to the webinar and the presentations as soon as they’re available.
GET IN TOUCHChris Sturm, Senior Director of State Policy609-393-0008 ext. 114 or csturm@njfuture.org
Jane Rosenblatt, Planning and Policy Associate609-393-0008 ext. 110 or jrosenblatt@njfuture.org
RESOURCEShttp://njfuture.org/water
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