When?
On March 24, 2006 the USC Keston Institute for Infrastructure and the USC California Policy Institute convened a seminar entitled, "Protecting the Public Interest in Public Private Partnerships" at the USC State Capital Center in Sacramento. The seminar was attended by over 40 participants representing the California Legislature, Executive Branch, and business and academic interests. The goal of the seminar was to draw upon recent experience from both the public and private sectors to identify the issues that will need to be considered if Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) are to become an important component of a California infrastructure funding strategy. Dr. Adrian Moore of Reason Foundation presented an overview of PPPs including examples of where they have worked well and where they have not. He was followed by Barbara Lloyd and Stephen Howard of Lehman Brothers who described some recent PPP concession agreements that have been executed in the U.S. Kathleen Brown of Goldman, Sachs, and Company reviewed the needs of the private sector and was followed by Fred Kessler of Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott, LLP, who described public sector concerns with these agreement and how they have been addressed in other states. John Barna, Executive Director of the California Transportation Commission concluded the presentations with a discussion of how these agreements might be tailored to be more applicable in California.
Click here to see the Overview of Recent Concession Agreements.
Click here to see the paper on Infrastructrue Investing - Goals Motives and Considerations.
Click here to see the paper on What the Public Sector Needs from Public Private Partnerships.
Click here to see the paper on The California Experience with Public Private Partnerships.