CGR was engaged by the City Manager of Elmira NY to work with the city’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Fiscal Stability. CGR analyzed all city operations, reviewed city finances, and helped the commission craft recommendations to improve fiscal stability. CGR evaluated strategies to restructure city operations, and developed cross-government regional approaches for providing fire, police and public works services.

In a 5 year engagement with the New York Power Authority (NYPA), CGR planned and facilitated NYPA’s annual 4 day Strategic Planning Conferences. Topics addressed by conference participants included the role of public power in a deregulated energy marketplace, the economics of merchant power development, the benefits and costs of new energy technology, and the NYPA’s role in economic development. CGR compiled the agenda through interviews with New York’s key energy industry stakeholders and invited many speakers to participate in the CGR-led events.