1)   establish investment-supported performance trajectories that after finance costs generate positive returns for the city

2)  provide sustainability assurance to support expanded city investment funding and an enlarged municipal finance market with reduced risk.

Here Geoff Beckwith of the Massachusetts Municipal Association, an early supporter of the Initiative, introduces  Dr. David Peterson with a short demonstration of the framework addressing the situation faced by a major US city:

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The United States has an infrastructure problem.

By some estimates, America needs about $3 trillion of investment in its critical infrastructure to support its crumbling bridges, highways, dams and other structures. That’s a big number. The American Society of Civil Engineers’ grades our infrastructure as a D+, and the World Economic Forum ranks the U.S. 16th in overall infrastructure quality, behind France, Spain and Japan.

The good news is that, if you go to Washington today, about the only thing that people in government can agree on is the need for more infrastructure investment. It’s a central issue that we all, as a country, need to solve together. And we know that. But, even despite this massive need, it just isn’t happening.

Worse, there is about $20 trillion sitting on the sidelines in pension funds and other funds that could be used to support these types of projects. The returns are there, the investors are interested, but people just aren’t investing in infrastructure yet. Why not?

Listen in or read the transcript at iSelect.

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