William Stannard, PE

William Stannard, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, joined RFC in 2002 after a 27 year consulting career at Black & Veatch where he was head of that firm’s management consulting division.  Mr. Stannard’s career has focused on providing consulting services to investor and municipally owned utilities covering management, operation, economic, and financial matters.  His extensive experience encompasses formulation of financial systems and ordinances for compliance with regulations regarding the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act, comprehensive revenue requirements and cost of service studies, consulting engineers and financial feasibility reports related to the sale of revenue bonds, financial feasibility analyses, organizational and management reviews, and utility competitiveness studies.  He has served as an expert witness in rate litigation matters in federal and state courts and before arbitration panels and state public service commissions.  Mr. Stannard has also served as an arbitrator in resolving water and wastewater rate disputes. Mr. Stannard has been an active member of the Water Environment Federation (“WEF”) and American Water Works Association (“AWWA”).  He served as chair of the WEF task force charged with the development of a manual of practice on financing and charges for wastewater systems.  Currently he is vice chair of the AWWA’s Finance, Accounting, and Management Controls Committee.

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