Fishkind & Associates is pleased to announce the availability of Fiscal Impact Model training seminars, which will be held in our dedicated 30-seat training suite, located in our home office in Orlando, Florida.

The purpose of these training sessions is to familiarize each attendee with the Fiscal Impact Model, its inputs, benefits, and applications. As the architect of the Fiscal Impact Model, Fishkind & Associates is the recognized expert and thus, able to offer the most comprehensive training.


What you will learn in each training session:

• How to populate the model and where to obtain the proper data.
  
  
• How to properly analyze all aspects of the model's output.
  
  
• How to adjust the model for use on individual projects.
  
  
• How to adjust the model for use on proposed land use changes.
  
  
• Analysis of the impact of a project on capital infrastructure such as roads, fire/EMS, police, and parks.
  
  
• Relationship of input variables such as millage rates, expected growth in property value, inflation rates, etc. and how they affect the output results of the model.
  
  
• Get specific answers to your particular Fiscal Impact Model questions.
  
  
• Methodologies for determining the existing and future land-use inventories for Comprehensive Plan fiscal neutrality.
  
  

Fishkind & Associates will be offering the Fiscal Impact Model training in their Orlando, Florida office on an as requested basis. The training will be a one-day workshop and will include a continental breakfast and lunch.

The scheduled training dates, as well as a pricing list are provided below:

2008 Fiscal Impact Model Training Schedule - Orlando Office
Session	Date	Time
	Dates to be Determined

2008 Fiscal Impact Model Training Schedule - Offsite
Session	Date	Time
	Call for Availability

2008 Price Schedule Basic Fiscal Impact Model Training Sessions
Category	Price
Local Governmental Employees	$99
Non-Governmental / Private Sector Attendees	$500
Advanced or Speciality Training	Hourly Rate

Important Notes

The Fiscal Impact Model is an Excel Workbook. Computers are available for use on a limited basis. It is suggested that the participants bring a laptop computer equipped with Microsoft Excel 2002 or later, if possible. Please note on the registration form if you will be bringing your own laptop for use in training.

The Fiscal Impact Model training program has some basic prerequisites:

• First, since the model was developed as a large Excel "workbook," the trainee must have a working knowledge of Microsoft Excel. This knowledge should include making changes to cells, tracking formulas throughout integrated workbooks, formatting, printing and worksheet protection. To facilitate its application in a wide range of real-world circumstances, it was designed as an open-code system. Thus, the FIAM trainee must have a good working knowledge of Excel prior to the commencement of training.
  
  
• Second, the trainee must posses a good working knowledge of algebra. While the Fiscal Impact Model formulae are mathematically intricate, they are almost exclusively very simple algebraic constructs.