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Solar Strategies for Public Works

This program will explore different financing, procurement, and management strategies for making solar power work for small communities. It will alos focus on the design of solar photovoltaic installations on existing roofs and new roofs.

Clients and Consultants – How to Work

This program offers basic advice on consultant selection and management, from the client’s perspective. In addition, the consultant’s viewpoint on the expectations of a client will be shared.

Utility Coordination for Municipal Capital

This program will discuss coordinating utilities using current methods as well as new research under way to develop new technologies to leverage recent advancements in data management and visualization, and communication.

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.

A New Vision for Public Works Management

This program provides an overview of the APWA Center for Sustainability, Framework for Vibrant & Healthy Communities, and the Center Leadership created to assist public works professionals in taking an integrated, whole systems approach to public works management.

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.

Green Pavement Alternatives

This program discuss eight green construction alternatives through construction methodologies and material selection that will help you save energy, reduce emissions, reduce extraction of natural resources, save time and money, and provide a better life-cycle project.

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.

MUTCD Changes Every Local Agency Needs To Know

This program will familiarize you with the format, applicability and compliance aspects of the significant revisions to the MUTCD that have been incorporated into the 2009 Edition. The program will also address the Manual's format and introduction, and then touch on the nine Parts of the Manual and the significant changes in each.

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.