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Examine the City of Baltimore’s Integrated Planning Framework (IPF), which is based on a triple bottom line approach where all projects are evaluated against economic, environmental, and social criteria.
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Sponsored by APWA’s Government Affairs Committee Summer 2013 will mark the one-year anniversary of MAP-21. Part One of this session will review the initial year implementation of the bill’s project delivery streamlining provisions. Part Two will look forward, as MAP-21 is only a two-year bill. Panelists will discuss the framework for the successor legislation to MAP-21.
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Learn how Cupertino, California, incorporated innovative and practical applications of GIS, QR code and smartphone technologies to identify and protect street trees while also educating and engaging the community. Inventorying Cupertino’s nearly 14,000 trees was both a beginning and catalyst to improvement of their urban forest.
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Learn about the Prince William Environmental Mitigation Bank. Through the sale of stream credits on the open market, the county can restore miles of local, degraded and impacted stream corridors at no expense to the Prince William County taxpayer
Read MoreDiscover what two public agencies did to optimize limited resources while improving customer service by using available features of current software and employing new technologies, including web requests and mobile apps, that link to their maintenance management systems.
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Every Public Works agency has to deal with damage to their community’s infrastructure in the pursuit of 21st Century conveniences. Ideally steps are taken to minimize damage to existing infrastructure but that’s not always the case.
The Common Ground Alliance (CGA ) was formed to in an effort to promote effective damage prevention through shared stakeholder responsibility. The Common Ground Alliance (CGA) is a member-driven association dedicated to ensuring public safety, environmental protection, and the integrity of services by promoting effective damage prevention practices, recommendations for future use, Best Practices identification & promotion, and damage information reporting.
Read MoreSponsored by APWA’s Fleet Services Committee Get a better understanding of what the requirements are and could be in the future for smaller diesel engine emissions, how your organization will be affected, and what your next course of action should be.
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Sponsored by APWA’s Diversity Committee Young professionals, who are making their way through their public works careers, will describe their own personal examples of success and failure. You will be asked for your opinion and commentary too – so be prepared to be part of this discussion.
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A non-profit group, Public Art Saint Paul, and the City of Saint Paul Public Works Department are 8 years into an innovative partnership that integrates artists into daily public works operations. The bold, central concept behind this program is that city art is made from and within the life-sustaining systems of the city.
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Using fleet management information systems (FMIS), fleet managers can make quick decisions based on real-time data. Examine the benefits of FMIS for life cycle cost analysis, shop staffing, vehicle equivalency (VEs) ratios, fuel trend analysis, vehicle replacement, and parts acquisition.
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