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Organics Recycling: Going Beyond Yard Waste

This program examines the merits of organic recycling and explores ways that source-separated organic discards are being recycled or composted by some communities who are striving to achieve their goals of waste reduction and diversion through curbside organics recycling programs.

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Succession Planning – Growing Your Own Director

This program addresses steps to develop a succession program, issues cities and agencies have with the process, and examples of how identified candidates were moved through the development process.

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ADA: Project Civic Access – It May Be Headed Your Way

Disability Act (ADA). This program will help you understand what to expect if your municipality is selected for a review. Representatives from the Department of Justice will provide an overview of the program and explain the goals of Project Civic Access.

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How To Write a Sustainable Action Plan

This program provides an overview of the process two cities – one US and one Canadian – used to develop and write Sustainability Action Plans for their communities.

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If Only I’d Known – Developing Disaster Recovery ExercisesIf Only I d Known – Developing Disaster Recovery ExercisesIf Only I d Known – Developing Disaster Recovery Exercises

This program takes a look at a tabletop exercise that is a popular and fairly uncomplicated method of testing a disaster recovery plan while providing a practical gut check of procedures to follow should a particular event occur.

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LED Technology

This program explains LED technologies currently available for city/public use and present case studies on street lighting and traffic lighting pilot programs currently underway in North America.

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Complete Streets – Designing Streets to Accommodate All User Part-1

This program will cover the components within the complete street concept and design; evaluate the status of current legislation on complete streets and recognize concepts of a new and retrofit complete streets.

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Developing and Utilizing a Strategic Plan

This program Identifies strategic thinking and planning processes for a public works department. It presents a specific vision of what your firm will look like in the future and will show you how to design a step-by-step process for writing a strategic plan.

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Understanding Your Agencys Carbon Footprint

This program presents an overview of the tools available to calculate carbon footprint, an explanation of trading carbon credits, and discussion of pending governmental regulations regarding emission of greenhouse gases.

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How to Initiate and Implement a Right-of-Way Program

This program investigates how to manage the three basic components of any good Right-of-Way (ROW) Program – Regulation, Inspection and Enforcement by utilizing software tools.

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