Where’s The Funding? Episode 7: Tapping Municipal Markets

Welcome to the Fiber Broadband Association’s “Where’s The Funding?” series. WTF is a free-to-attend 12-part webinar series to help members understand, navigate, and obtain matching funds for broadband grants.

Interested in community ownership, now or later? Different kinds of public debt known as municipal bonds can offer a low cost of capital way to bring grant-funded broadband projects to life. Broadband grant applicants will learn the basics in this episode. Find out how municipal takeouts, and various kinds of “anticipation notes” work.

Webinar Panel

As the Managing Director of the Municipal Capital Markets Group, Chris Perlitz works with a wide range of investor clients on capital market securitizations, private placement and other funding sources. He funds profiles from high-rated to non-rated. His deep knowledge of the evolving financial regulatory landscape has also benefited from federal lending programs, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service, and with non-profits. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.