Planning for a Referendum: Available Options, Key Points, and Milestones

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Online (Zoom)

Planning for a successful referendum involves multiple steps that include legal considerations, strategy development and engagement with local voters.

This interactive webinar will cover the reasons behind going to referendum, available referendum options, required steps, factors to consider when developing a referendum strategy and what public officials and government employees can and cannot do regarding referendum related activities.

The speakers are industry professionals with a history of assisting governmental entities with successful referenda.

All ILA Noon Network webinars are free. The webinar recordings are available to ILA personal members shortly after the webinars. Registration for all live webinars is limited to Illinois libraries.

About the Speakers

Kyle Harding is a partner and the Co-Practice Group Leader of Chapman and Cutler LLP’s Illinois Public Finance Department. Kyle serves as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, and underwriter’s counsel on governmental use bond financings throughout Illinois. He routinely advises issuers, investment banks, commercial banks, and financial advisors on state and federal tax law matters related to the structure and sale of governmental obligations and provides counsel on various disclosure and securities law matters.

Dalena Welkomer has been a member of Baird’s public finance team since 2004. She has served many Illinois local governments across the State on debt transactions serving as underwriter, municipal advisor or placement agent. Her experience cuts across many types of financings including general obligation, special revenue, special district, tax increment, and pension bonds.

She serves on the Women in Public Finance Chicago Chapter Board of Directors, as Chair of the IGFOA Partner’s Forum and as a Regional Coordinator for the Downstate IGFOA Central Region.

Dalena graduated magna cum laude from Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois where she received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance with a minor in International Business and Economics.

Planning for a Referendum: Available Options, Key Points, and Milestones