Burton & Associates has successfully provided our clients with financial consulting services using our interactive decision support modeling process for two decades.

Our Utility & General Government Economics Experience

For 20 years, Burton & Associates has successfully provided our services to clients on hundreds of financial management and resources economics projects. We use our unique, proprietary live interactive process and tools during these projects which ensures the most accurate, timely and cost effective project results.

Michael Burton, President of Burton & Associates, has over 30 years of direct experience providing utility economics services to public and private utilities. He has provided those services as a rate consultant, project manager, and project director for many local governments. In the early 1990s Mr. Burton developed a unique interactive process for his clients that has set him and Burton & Associates apart from others providing similar services.  This powerful proprietary process, coupled with the lengthy and extensive experience in Utility & General Government Economics of our staff has placed Burton & Associates as perhaps the most knowledgeable and effective resource available to you.

Our staff has written and presented many papers and articles which speak to those issues facing our clients. These include:

• 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
• Evaluating and Setting Rates - Written and presented at the Water Environment Federation, Dallas, Texas 1998
• Reclaimed Water Rate Making  - Written and presented at the AWWA 1998 Water Reuse Symposium in Orlando, Florida (February 1998)
• An Automated Computer Model for the Funding and Management of Reuse Systems  - Written and presented at the AWWA 1994 Water Reuse Symposium in Dallas, Texas (March 1994)
• 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)