Joint NAHEFA/ NCHFFA Fall 2007 Conference

 Draft Agenda     8/29

                                                                                                   Portsmouth, New Hampshire  

Day/Time

Joint Sessions

Higher Education Sessions

Health Care Sessions

Wednesday

Sept. 26

 

 

 

  7:30 - 3:00

Registration

 

 

  7:30 - 8:30

Breakfast

 

 

  8:30 - 9:00

Joint Welcoming Remarks

 

Host:  Peter F. Imse, Esq.

Board Chair, New Hampshire Health and Education Facilities Authority

 

NAHEFA: Linda Beaver, President

NCHFFA: Don Templeton, President

 

 

 9:00 - 9:45

Tax Issues

 

David Capera, Esq.

Kutak Rock

Moderator: Stephen Weyl, Esq.

Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP

 

 

 9:45 - 10:45

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When the Student Loan Industry gets the Sniffles, do Colleges and Universities get a Cold?

                                               

Rene Drouin, President & CEO, NHHEAF Network Organizations

                                             

 Loren Carlson, Managing Director, RBC Dain Rauscher

           

Moderator:  Neil Castaldo, Esq., Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP

 

What healthcare issues keep us awake at night?

 

Dick Showalter, CFO, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

 

Bruce King, President & CEO

New London Hospital

 

Steve Norton, Executive Director,

NH Center for Public Policy Studies

Moderator: Deanna Howard,      

NH HEFA Board Member & Vice President for Regional Development,

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

 

Day/Time

Joint Sessions

Higher Education Sessions

Health Care Sessions

Wednesday

Sept. 26

 

 

 

10:45 - 11:00

Break

 

 

11:00 - 12:00

Economic Update

 

James Glassman, J.P. Morgan Economist

 

Moderator: Donna Fincke, Executive Director, Washington HCFA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 12:00 - 1:00

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 - 2:00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What education issues keep us awake at night?

                                               

Edward MacKay, Vice Chancellor and Treasurer, University System of NH

 

Doug Lyon, Treasurer

Colby-Sawyer College

                                                 Moderator: Tom Horgan,

NH HEFA Board Member and

President & CEO , The New Hampshire College & University Council

Corporate Meeting / Round Table

 

(NCHFFA members only)

 

 

 

 

  2:00 – 3:00

 

Corporate Meeting / Round Table

 

(NAHEFA members only)

Borderline Credits and their unique opportunities for bond insurers

 

ACA

   Peter Hill, E.V.P.

   Carolyn Edwards-Boyce, Director

Moderator: Blaine Bandi, Executive Director, Arizona HFA

3:00 – 4:00

Organizational Merger

 

(NCHHFA and NAHEFA members only)

 

Moderators:

Marianne Remedios, Executive Director, Minnesota HEFA

 

Blaine Bandi, Executive Director, Arizona HEFA

 

 

 

Day/Time

Joint Sessions

Higher Education Sessions

Health Care Sessions

Thursday

Sept. 27

 

 

 

  8:00 -   3:00

Registration

 

 

  7:30 -   8:30

Breakfast

 

 

  8:30 -   9:45

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Secondary Schools - Trends

                                               

Julie Sayre, Assistant Vice President, George K. Baum

                                               

Marc Savaria,Director, Municipal Enterprise Group of Public Ratings, Standard & Poor’s

 

Moderator: Bob Baccon, Assistant Executive Director, Pennsylvania HEFA

 

If You Build It, They Will Come

(Rural Hospital Replacement Facility Study)

 

 Eric K. Shell,by Stroudwater Associates

 

 Larry Putnam, Former CEO of Phillips County Hospital

 

Moderator: Michelle Barstad, Executive Director, Montana HEFA

 

  9:45 - 10:30

Washington Update

 

Chuck Samuels, Esq.

Mintz Levin

 

Moderator: Robert Donovan,

Executive Director, RIHEBC

 

 

10:30 - 10:45

Break

 

 

10:45 - 12:00

Corporate Trustee Issues

 

Sonja Fuller, Senior Vice President & Manager, Chittenden Trust Co.

 

Susan Freedman, Vice President 

U.S. Bank Corporate Trust Services

 

Jennifer Lawson, Esq.

Nixon Peabody LLP

 

  Moderator: Lorraine Graciano,

Director of Operations & Finance,

New Hampshire Health and Education Facilities Authority

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day/Time

Joint Sessions

Higher Education Sessions

Health Care Sessions

Thursday

Sept. 27

 

 

 

12:00 - 1:15

 

Lunch

 

 

1:15 – 2:45

“Coming Soon to a Future Near You”

 

David Pierce Snyder

 

Moderator:  Larry Nines, Executive Director, Wisconsin HEFA

 

 

 

 

2:45 – 3:00

Break

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5:30 – 6:30

 

 

 

Reception

Music by members of the Freese Brothers Big Band

 

 

 

  6:30 

Joint Dinner

Music by Freese Brothers Big Band

 

 

 

 

 

Day/Time

Joint Sessions

Higher Education Sessions

Health Care Sessions

Friday

Sept.28

 

 

 

  8:00 – 9:00

Breakfast

 

 

  9:00 – 10:00

 

 

 

 

 

Green Construction: Why it is important to encourage

 

 

 

 

 

Moderator:  Bob Baccon

Dirigo – Maine’s Health    System

 

Maine Rep. Sharon Treat

 

Trish Riley, Director, Governor’s Office of Health Policy and Finance

(speakers not confirmed yet)

 

Moderator: Bob Lenna, Executive Director, Maine HEFA

 

 

 

 

  10:00 – 11:00

Joint Round Table

 

Spring 2008 Preview

 

 

(NCHFFA and NAHEFA members only)