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When budgets tighten and technology fails, how do you keep your agency moving forward? It might be time to look outside of conventional methods.This session is a case study of…
Arapahoe County recognized that the true value and strength of the public works department was its employees and their commitment to the community. To support employees, they embarked on a multi-prong approach to further empower employees, improve employee engagement, brand the public works image, embrace new technologies, and advance leadership and employee growth through training.Learning Objectives: Demonstrate various methods for creating strong employee engagement and performance.Discuss the types of soft skill development needed by management and supervisors to better interact with and motivate employees.Explore how challenges can, in the end, make their organizations excel and incorporate changes.
FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) program is focused on funding projects that support risk reduction due to natural and man-made disasters. HMA has been expanded to meet the goals of long-term climate resilience, and funding now supports cost-effective project grants that incorporate flood risk reduction and drought mitigation. This presentation will summarize the FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant program, review the Climate Resilient Mitigation Actions (CRMA) now eligible for funding, list the benefit-cost analysis for CRMA projects, and provide tips for preparing a grant application.Learning Objectives: Prepare hazard mitigation grant applications that focus on resiliency.Incorporate climate resilience into hazard mitigation planning.Obtain information about FEMA's grant programs.
Speaker: Bob Allen, Founder and Chief Storytelling Officer, IDEAS; former Disney ImagineerIn Tuesday morning's General Session, Bob Allen explained the components of a powerful story and the mechanisms of good storytelling. Now, let's practice with some of your public works stories! Public works needs to know how to better tell its story – whether it is to gain community support for capital improvement projects, communicate with residents during times of emergency, report on successes and future needs to the city council, or advocate for increased investment in infrastructure and public works services.People respond to good storytelling. This workshop is your opportunity to practice creating the kind of story that you want told about public works.
Put this session on your schedule! Join us for a completely interactive, compelling, and relevant exploration of the challenges and solutions public works directors encounter every day. Who will pick the topics to be discussed? YOU! Who will be the speakers? YOU! Be inspired to share your story and learn from the mastery achieved by some of North America's best and brightest public works leaders. You are going to be so enthused about what you are learning-you'll be tweeting out your insights to your colleagues who can't join us!Learning Objectives:Advocate for the public works profession and public infrastructure and services.Collaborate with fellow public works directors from across North America in pursuit of solutions to public works challenges.Realize the huge impact your leadership and creativity can have on your departments and communities.
Lakeland, Florida, has adopted a leading pedestrian interval (LPI) phase at 25 of its signalized intersections in the Central Business District. This consists of providing the pedestrian with a five-second ""head start"" compared to motorists. The pedestrian should be in a better position to finish crossing the intersection more safely. To assess LPI's effectiveness, a before and after study is being conducted. Preliminary results support that LPI-treated intersections do result in a reduction of crashes without adversely affecting intersection levels of service. They appear to work best in pre-timed signal locations. Two pedestrian-activated push button locations showed no significant reductions in crashes.Learning Objectives: Evaluate the benefits of installing LPI at intersections.Examine the process the City of Lakeland used to install LPIs at its intersections.Review Lakeland's data regarding the number of crash reductions occurring at LPI intersections.
The mission of the National Weather Service is, "the protection of life and property and the enhancement of the national economy". In order to meet this mission, the NWS focuses…
The GIS-IT team at Wyoming DOT worked in conjunction with NeoTreks and CompassCom to design, develop and deploy an Android tablet application for use with the 600+ plows operating within…
One of the challenges for an agency is ensuring that you have a comprehensive, appropriate, and up-to-date snow plan. The comprehensive nature of such plans means that there is so…
Does your agency want to install a brine system but you don't know where to start? This session discusses all of the aspects of a brine system. We discuss what…