2018 NCSL Midwest States Fiscal Leaders Meeting Agenda and Resources

2/22/2018

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This page hosts the agenda and resources for the 2018 NCSL Midwest States Fiscal Leaders Meeting, March 2-3 at the Waldorf Astoria Chicago.

The 2018 NCSL Midwest States Fiscal Leaders Meeting has been specifically designed for legislative fiscal leaders and senior legislative fiscal staff. This meeting will provide attendees a special opportunity to communicate and collaborate with one another regarding budget realities throughout the Midwest.The meeting is made possible through the generous support of The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Friday, march 2
8-9 a.m.	Breakfast on own
8:45-9 a.m. Lobby Waldorf Astoria Chicago 11 E. Walton Chicago, Ill. 60611	Meet in hotel lobby to go to the Digital Manufacutring and Design Innovation Institue (DMDII)
9:30-11 a.m. DMDII 1415 N. Cherry Ave. Chicago, Ill. 60642	Advances in Manufacturing: optional off-site session at DMDII Join us and visit the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute. DMDII develops and demonstrates digital manufacturing technologies, and deploys and commercializes these technologies across key manufacturing industries. The goal is to create product and manufacturing process definitions simultaneously. Design innovation is the ability to apply these technologies, tools and products to re-imagine the manufacturing process from end to end.
11 a.m.	Depart DMDII to return to hotel
11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Sinclair Ballroom, 3rd floor Waldorf Astoria Chicago	Buffet lunch served
12:15-12:30 p.m. Sinclair Ballroom, 3rd Floor Waldorf Astoria Chicago	Welcome and Introductions Bill Pound, executive director, NCSL, Colorado
12:30-1:30 p.m.	Future of the Midwest Economy Speaker Edward (Ned) Hill, professor of public administration, Ohio State University Presentation PowerPoint \| PDF All Things Considered NPR Transcript
1:30-2 p.m.	Federal Healthcare Changes: What States Need to Know Speaker Haley Nicholson, policy director-health, state-federal affairs, NCSL, District of Columbia Presentation PowerPoint \| PDF
2-2:45 p.m.	Medicaid: What State Fiscal Leaders Need to Know Speaker Gabriel Petek, managing director, U.S. public finance, S&P Global, California Presentation PowerPoint \| PDF
2:45-3:15 p.m.	Snack Break
3:15-4:15 p.m.	State Debt Affordability Moderator Michael Belsky, executive director, center for municipal finance, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Speakers Natalie Cohen, director, municipal securities research, Wells Fargo Securities, New York Inside the Beltway: Budgets, Infrastructure and Such Retail Shopping Transformation and Local Fiscal Health Lois Scott, president, Epoch Advisors, Illinois
4:15-5:15 p.m.	Federal Tax Reform and the Impact on States Moderator Max Behlke, director, federal budget and tax policy division, NCSL, District of Columbia Presentation PowerPoint \| PDF Speaker Harley Duncan, tax managing director, state and local tax, KPMG, District of Columbia Presentation PowerPoint \| PDF
6:15 p.m.	Meet in lobby of hotel to walk to dinner
6:30-9 p.m. Gibsons Steakhouse 1028 North Rush Street Chicago, Ill. 60611	Reception and Dinner

Saturday, March 3
8-8:30 a.m. Sinclair Ballroom, 3rd floor Waldorf Astoria Chicago 11 E. Walton Chicago, Ill. 60611	Breakfast
8:30-9:30 a.m. Sinclair Ballroom, 3rd floor Waldorf Astoria Chicago	Measuring and Managing Local Pension Risk Moderator Luke Martel, group director, employment, labor and retirement program, NCSL, Colorado Speakers Senator Jim Stamas, Michigan Presentation PowerPoint \| PDF Gerald Young, senior research associate, Center for State & Local Government Excellence, Ohio Presentation PowerPoint \| PDF Susan Banta, project director, research, public sector retirement systems, The Pew Charitable Trusts, District of Columbia Presentation PowerPoint \| PDF
9:30-9:45 a.m.	Break
9:45 -10:45 a.m.	Transportation Funding: Looking Beyond the Gas Tax Moderator Doug Shinkle, program director, environment, energy and transportation Program, NCSL, Colorado NCSL Transportation Funding Deep Dive Recent State Gas Tax Legislations Speaker Ed Regan, senior vice president, CDM Smith, Florida Policy White Paper: The Motor Fuel Tax: A Critical System at Risk Presentation PowerPoint \| PDF
10:45-11 a.m.	Break
11 a.m.-Noon	State Fiscal Roundtable Discussion Discussion Leader Arturo Pérez, group director, fiscal affairs program, NCSL, Colorado
Noon	Meeting Adjourns