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A Black Female Perspective of Management and Leadership Training – Why Leadership Trainings and Career Coaches Can Fail You

There are many resources available to develop staff and grow leaders, including books, classes, assessments, seminars, mentors, coaches, and much more. Most of the principles they teach are based on…

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APWA’s Fleet Management Workshop Part 2 – Finance and Purchasing

Planned and presented by APWA’s Fleet Management Committee. Fleet Managers are responsible for the selection, procurement, use and care, and remarketing of their organizations fleet assets. A successful fleet manager…

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Advanced Liquids (Part 4 of a series of 4 sessions on the use of liquids)

Some agencies have been using liquids for a number of years and are now implementing various advanced techniques. Among the new techniques being tried are liquid blends; using two different chlorides and adding carbohydrate liquids to brines; using advanced systems to ensure trucks are loaded correctly with the right materials and the right quantities; and using liquids to create slurries at high pre-wetting rates.

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Developing and Using Equipment Utilization Standards

Explore how to develop and use equipment utilization measures as key performance indicators (KPI) for fleet and winter maintenance equipment. Examples will come from a project conducted for the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) that examined utilization patterns over a variety of seasonal and non-seasonable equipment types.

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Urban Forests/City Trees Webinar

Peg Staeheli, who has 40 years of experience in public realm infrastructure  provides an overview of our urban canopy infrastructure; the tools and best practices. Peg’s webinar provides a practical voice to restoring, retrofitting our urban trees within the public right of way.

 

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Talking Top Tech: Smart Cities Edition

Join us for a look at Smart Cities through the perspective of different lenses such as Public Works, Consultants, Industry, and International.  Leaders in each field will participate in a panel discussion and answer APWA member questions.  Each "Talking Top Tech" webinar is in a panel discussion format and will focus on looking at one of the identified 2019 Top Tech – through different lenses.

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Creating a Circular Economy Beginning With Waste and Energy

Land, water, power and people: these are among Spokane’s greatest assets. While leading the Intermountain West in these primary resources, the City recognizes that the future lies in the ability…

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Do Robots Read Signs? Technology Impacts on Roadway Maintenance and Operations

Maintenance and Operations are the cornerstones of keeping transportation systems safe and efficient. As technologies are introduced on a near-daily basis, it’s vital that public works departments discuss the benefits…

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PWX 2019 Opening General Session: “Facing Homelessness” with Rex Hohlbein

Rex Hohlbein Founder and Creative Director, Facing Homelessness Facing Homelessness At the 2019 PWX, homelessness and its impact on public works services will be given special focus. To begin framing the discussion, Seattle native, Founder and Creative Director of Facing Homelessness, Rex Hohlbein, has accepted APWA’s invitation to bring his unique perspective and insight to PWX by putting a face on the homeless issue. Rex believes that “the power of humanizing homelessness is that it allows us to see the beauty of each person living on our streets, rather than being overwhelmed by the complexity of the issue.” This realization became evident when he began inviting folks living homeless into his architectural office for conversation. He shares that, “The negative stereotype against the homeless was not matching up to the beauty of those I was meeting.”  From those encounters Rex began the Facing Homelessness Facebook page, sharing black and white photos with the stories of the people he was meeting. What began as a photo-journal project on Facebook, Facing Homelessness now has more than 50,000 social media followers and has become a non-profit organization, powered by five staff and the compassion of community. In 2017, Rex and his daughter, Jenn LaFreniere, started the social justice architecture firm BLOCK Architects. They have designed the ‘Block Project’ which is managed by Facing Homelessness as a community building solution though which homeowners agree to put off-grid 125 square foot homes into residential backyards for those experiencing homelessness. Please join us for this inspiring keynote presentation that will you will remember for a long time.
 
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Quantifying Pavement Rehabilitation Impacts to Improve Work Zone Planning

Roadway maintenance and rehabilitation are critical tasks to sustain our transportation system. However, these activities often generate delays to road users, which can result in road user costs, work zone…

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