About Us - Burton & Associates - Utility Rates, Assessments and Financial Planning Consultants

About Us

Experience and Expertise - Since 1988, Burton & Associates has provided quality service to local governments, special districts, and privately-owned utilities. Our consultants have a combined total of over 50 years of industry experience. When our experience is combined with our proprietary software and unique approach, it produces consensus-based solutions to today's complex economic, political, and regulatory challenges.

Solutions Based Approach - There are many challenges facing today's community leaders and there are many potential solutions to every challenge. Often it is difficult to determine the "best" solution when so many stakeholders are involved: citizens, businesses, the environment, community leaders, etc. Our proprietary modeling tool, FAMS-XL©, allows us to open up the process of analyzing and determining different potential solutions. FAMS-XL© is flexible, fast, and provides instantaneous feedback for alternative scenarios and "what-if" questions.

Interactive Decision Support Process - Using our process and models, you are given many opportunities to provide real-time input to the assumptions and data during our interactive work sessions, which are an integral part of every analysis. Our process identifies viable solutions to the challenges you face and provides an understanding of the consequences of each decision. This naturally builds consensus among participants to the "best" solutions from a pool of alternatives.

22 Years Serving Many Clients - Burton & Associates has provided quality services to over 300 satisfied clients throughout the Southeastern US over the past 22 years using this approach and our sophisticated modeling tools. We look forward to the opportunity to serve you!

Michael Burton, President and Founder of Burton & Associates, has over 30 years of experience providing utility economics services to public and private utilities.

Our staff has written and presented many papers and articles related to the issues facing our clients. A sampling of these include:

Water Conservation’s Role in Alternative Water Supply Planning - Written for the St. Johns River Water Management District – 2009, Palatka, Florida
Effective Water Conservation Rate Structures – Presented to the St. Johns River Water Management District – 2009, Palatka, Florida
Funding Total Water Management – Co-Authored and presented at the Florida Section AWWA Annual Meeting – 2007, Orlando, Florida
Integration of Financial and Capital Planning – Written for and presented at the 2007 Florida Water Resources Conference
Utility Rate Studies and Minimizing Rate Increases – Co-authored and presented at the Florida Governmental Finance Officers Association Annual Meeting – 2007, Orlando, Florida
Efficient Financing of Water Supplies Through Regional Cooperation – Written for and presented at the Florida Chamber Summer School – 2006, Marco Island, Florida
Reclaimed Water Metered Pricing & Its Effect Upon Water & Sewer Rates – Co-authored and presented at the WEF/TEC Annual Meeting – 2006, Houston, Texas
AWWA MANUAL M54 - Developing Rates for Small Systems - Co-Authored for AWWA – Published in 2004
Integration of Financial and Capital Planning - Written and presented at the Florida Water Resources Conference-2003 -Tampa, Florida
Financial Implications of Alternative Water Supply - Written and presented at the Florida Water Resources Conference-2003 Tampa, Florida
The Effect of Inclining Block Water Rates Upon Water Usage & Revenue - Presented at the Florida Water Resources Conference-2003 Tampa, Florida
Utility Rate Studies - A paper and presentation to the Gulf Coast Chapter of the Florida Governmental Finance Officers Association - 2002 - Clearwater, Florida
Implementation of Reclaimed Water Rates & Metering - Co-Authored With Al Castro, P.E. – Orange County Utilities, written and presented at the Florida Water Resources Conference - 2002 Orlando, Florida, and published in the FWR Journal – 2002
Water Rate Making for Governmental Utilities - This paper was developed for presentation to the St. Johns River Water Management District under contract with the Orange County Public Utilities (utilities serving the greater Orlando area)

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