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Watersheds Know No Political Boundaries: A Look Into the Benefits and Challenges of Watershed Permit
The Menomonee River Watershed includes a variety of agricultural, suburban sprawl, and heavily urbanized land uses. Attend this overview of the process used by several governmental and nongovernmental organizations to jointly obtain watershed permits.
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Kansas City, Missouri, is using an innovative design-build approach to address arterial roadway reconstruction. Learn about the RFP evaluation and best value selection process, including technical scoring and cost evaluation.
Read MoreGet clarification about misunderstood sign retroreflectivity, new research findings on the safety benefits of wider-edged pavement markings, the current status of federal requirements, and make better decisions regarding signing and marking maintenance practices.
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Evaluate the benefits, challenges, and lessons learned by the City of Oakland’s street lighting conversion project. We’ll take you through the RFP, street light audit, public education process, implementation activities, project monitoring, data collection and budget/financial planning.
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Sponsored by APWA’s Water Resources Committee Metering technology is advancing rapidly. Discover how new metering technology can be a positive tool for budget tracking, assessment of operational effectiveness and access to real-time customer consumption data to improve customer service procedures.
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Does your State, County or government agency have a Mutual Aid Agreement? If not – Why?
As the demand for responding to disasters and emergencies of all types across the nation have increased and become more complex, emergency management agencies at all levels of government are turning increasingly to the use of mutual aid as a means for providing the resources and capabilities on both inter- and intra-state events to augment disaster response capabilities of state and local governments.
Read MoreSponsored by APWA's Facilities and Grounds Committee Total resource management is knowing the quantity and condition of all of your physical assets for parks, buildings and grounds and the maintenance requirements for keeping them in optimal condition. Examine how to identify maintenance resources needed within budget constraints.
Read MoreState-of-the-art parking control technologies are essential for the modern community. This is your chance to learn about multiple parking technologies, including: electronic chalking (License Plate Recognition), electronic handheld ticket writers, multi-space and single-space smart meters, parking payment via smartphone systems, and wireless parking space monitoring.
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Sponsored by APWA’s Diversity Committee Lessons learned – from those who have made it to the top. That is what you can expect from this extraordinary panel of women in the public works profession. They will discuss the thinking behind their career decisions, the importance of finding the right mentor, plus stories about challenges met and resolved. Show up and get your questions answered.
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Sponsored by APWA's Facilities and Grounds Committee It is estimated that 16 million green tons of wood is removed from urban areas as a result of pests, wind storms, construction, hazard trees and other factors. Unfortunately, most of this wood ends up in landfills. This dynamic panel presentation will demonstrate successful urban wood waste utilization programs that are feasible and doable in your local community.
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