What do municipalities and utilities need to consider when designing a green infrastructure (GI) program? Learn how green infrastructure installations are designed to maximize community benefits, delivered at scale, and maintained for the long-term, and how they can be funded and financed.
Leave with a better understanding of a program’s foundations and steps to take to create a program in your municipality.
Speakers include:
April Mendez,
Chief Executive Officer
, Greenprint Partners
Greenprint Partners is a GI delivery partner that helps cities achieve high-impact, community-driven stormwater solutions. They have worked throughout the country in markets like St. Louis, Peoria, IL, San Francisco, and Philadelphia, among others. In St. Louis, Greenprint Partners is developing over 70% of the projects in the large property rainscaping program by leveraging private capital and ensuring multi-benefit projects.
Jessica Brooks, PE
,
Director,
Green Stormwater Infrastructure Implementation
, Philadelphia Water Department
The Philadelphia Water Department plans for, operates, and maintains both the infrastructure and the organization necessary to purvey high quality drinking water; provides an adequate and reliable water supply for all household, commercial, and community needs; and sustains and enhances the region’s watersheds and quality of life by managing wastewater and stormwater effectively.
Chris Sturm, Managing Director, Policy and Water, New Jersey Future (moderator)
New Jersey Future is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that promotes sensible growth, redevelopment, and infrastructure investments to foster vibrant communities protect natural lands and waterways, enhance transportation choices, cultivate aging-friendly neighborhoods, and fuel a strong economy. New Jersey Future is firmly committed to pursue a culture of greater justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
