Municipal Leases - VFD-Funding Group

    The Problems:
    1. Aging municipal infrastructure in critical need of repair and/or replacement, or new equipment is needed immediately.
    2. Increasing costs for materials and labor.
    3. Increasing health care costs for employees.
    4. Reduce tax revenues due to trickle and ripple effects from sub-prime mortgage meltdown.
    5. Investments under performing
    6. Property tax increases are not feasible.
    7. Bond issue referendum doesn't have a chance of passing.
    8. Federal, state, county revenue sharing and grants diminishing.
    9. Limited staff, time, and other resources to research and prepare grant and/or revenue sharing documentation.

    The Solutions:
    1. Low cost tax-exempt lease-purchase programs from Municipal-Funding and our public finance sources.
    2. Special projects assistance in assembling, applying and lobbying for grants for either hourly rates, flat rate, or for a statutory percentage allowed for cost of RFP preparation.
    3. GPR and GPE assistance prior to submission of a grant application or a financing package by our skilled and seasoned professionals with decades of administrative experience.

Contact Us Today to get the funds you need for your special needs and projects.

We offer many public finance and municipal financing solutions to communities of every size and description in the low cost financing or grant application submissions for their public projects. We are both proud and privileged to do so.

We can help you to find and arrange municipal financing for a wide range of community projects, using grants, low interest loans and government leasing from programs for a wide range of projects from youth to the elderly, from water projects to sewage treatment plants, from road construction to road repaving, from economic programs to educational projects, from fire departments, fire trucks, fire stations, to funding for just about any project your community needs to have financing.

Our Customers	Counties, Cities, Towns, Villages Police, Fire, EMS, & 911 Agencies K-12 Public School Districts Public Housing Authorities Special-Purpose Governmental Entities Municipal/Public Hospitals State Governments and State Agencies Public Colleges and Universities 501(c)3 Colleges and Universities Social Service Agencies, and Healthcare Institutions
Assets / Projects Financed	Energy & Utilities Real Property/Facilities (Construction & Renovation) Emergency Services Vehicles and Equipment Infrastructure (Roads, Bridges, Water, Sewer) Telecommunications Equipment/ Technology/ FF&E Public Works Vehicles and Equipment School Buses/ Transit Buses Medical Equipment
Private Placement Financing Structures	Lease Purchase Agreements General Obligation Notes and Bonds Revenue-Secured Notes and Bonds
Basic Financing Terms	Deal sizes $5,000 to $1 billion Financing Commitments of 3 to 25 years Bank-Qualified or Non Bank-Qualified New Money and Refinancing Rated or Unrated Issuers National Scope Tax-Exempt or Taxable