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Electric Vehicles and Plug-In Networks – Are You Ready?

Electric Vehicles (EVs) are about to hit the market. Coordination across stakeholders could determine whether they are successful in your area. What can you do to get ready? Broaden your understanding of plug-in readiness and hear what other communities are doing to prepare their infrastructure now.

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Lessons Learned From Extreme Winter Events

Extreme winter events can wreak havoc on planned winter operations, budgets and public perception. This program will detail how agencies in Washington DC, Denver CO and Seattle WA have dealt with major winter events and what they changed because of it.

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Weather Reports – Where to Get Them & How To Use Them

This program provides you with information on where you can go to get real-time weather and road information, weather forecasts, and river flow information — and how it can be of use to your agency.

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Urban Street Trees

This program highlights how your city's street trees when properly selected, placed and spaced provides many benefits to residents and businesses

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Gray Water Reuse and Rainwater Harvesting

This program reviews two sustainable water management practices – gray water reuse and rainwater harvesting. You will discover how you can realize both water conservation and potential energy savings by reducing the amount of water and wastewater that requires treatment.

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Complete Streets – Designing Streets to Accommodate All User Part-2

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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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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