Cheryl MacKelvie

Buy American Deadlines and Guidance As most of you know, the President has signed into law the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The $1.2 trillion package provides the largest federal clean water federal investments in decades for communities to update aging infrastructure, as well as helps address growing climate, water quality, and affordability challenges. One area of concern [...]

2022 CASA Winter Conference Returns to Palm Springs Join us at CASA’s 2022 Winter Conference at the Hilton Palm Springs, January 19-21. Bring your colleagues and join the panel sessions on hot topic items facing all our agencies, including infrastructure funding, climate resiliency, public messaging, PFAS, and much more! We are also bringing back the [...]

Explore Hot Topics at the 2022 CASA Winter Conference Join us at CASA’s 2022 Winter Conference at the Hilton Palm Springs on January 19-21. Bring your colleagues and join the hot topic discussions we are all concerned with including infrastructure funding, climate resiliency, public messaging, PFAS, and much more! We are also bringing back all [...]

IRS Releases Guidance The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued guidance on the taxability of Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds established under the American Rescue Plan Act (SLFR Funds) used to pay utility bills during the pandemic. Under the new guidance, payments received under SLFR Funds is not considered gross income and thus [...]

Low Income Household Water Assistance Program The Department of Community Services and Development (CSD) is moving forward with a program to reimburse wastewater agencies that incurred financial losses due to customer nonpayment during the pandemic. CSD has received final approval of the 2021 Low Income Household Water Assistance Program (LIHWAP) State Plan from the U.S. [...]

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2022 CASA Winter Conference We are happy to announce that our 2022 Winter Conference will be held in-person at the Hilton Palm Springs on January 19-21. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen each other at a CASA Winter Conference, and while some things have changed, the best parts remain the same! We are [...]

House Passes Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act After months of scheduling delays, House Democratic leadership passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (H.R. 3864) on a vote of 228 - 206 last week. The legislation now goes to the President's desk to be signed into law. H.R. 3684 provides a total of $1.2 trillion in [...]

Sign up for CASA’s Regulatory Updates CASA’s Regulatory Workgroup regularly puts together a comprehensive e-newsletter to share all regulatory updates on key issues and workgroup initiatives with the CASA membership. If you are interested in receiving these regulatory updates, please contact Jared Voskuhl. Last month’s edition is available here.   SWB 2020 Volumetric Report– 1M [...]

LVMWD and CASA on Air! CASA’s Jessica Gauger joined the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District (LVMWD) for an interview with KCLU, a local national public radio station for the Central California Coast to talk wipes! Listen to the interview and check out the news article here.   Drought Assistance Available from U.S. EPA If your [...]