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Development of an effective winter operations plan can be a good start before proposing operational changes. Not only can it help guide many of your decisions, but since the document will ideally be based upon the expectations of your elected body and the public, it should help support any goals you are striving to achieve.
Having a complete Winter Operations Plan and Manual provides for consistency, continuity, increased operational efficiency and effectiveness, and better environmental practices. This presentation will feature an outline that agencies can use to develop or update their Winter Weather Operations Plans.
It is no longer enough to have just mechanical experience if your ambition is to become a fleet manager. Today's fleet professionals must have skills and knowledge in business management, human resources, information technology, risk management, finance, and asset management. This program was brought to you by the APWA Fleet Committee, to provide the latest information about the importance of training and pay scale development, as well as details regarding APWA’s CPFP certification program.
This program has been approved for .2 CEUs or 2 PDHs. Please note there is a $7 fee per non-member individual requesting CEUs (there is no fee for members).
After viewing this program, participants will be better able to:
– Discover what it takes to become a top candidate for a fleet management position.
– Prepare a comprehensive succession plan and make the transition seamless.
– Determine what consultant and contract employee contract agreements should include.
Resilient infrastructure depends upon its ability to anticipate, absorb, adapt to, and/or rapidly recover disruptive events. A learning organization empowers its people to guide, influence and manage transformations and adapt its capacity to the changing environment. Can you have infrastructure resilience without being a learning organization?
Permeable Paver Streets Are Not Parking Lots – Successes and Challenges with Permeable Paver Streets
Here’s a case study focusing on the performance of two different permeable paver streets. We’ll discuss the design elements of each, good and bad maintenance experiences and the performance documented thus far. Attempted remedial measures will be described in detail including the costs and effectiveness of each.
In working with neighboring communities to establish a regional bicycle master plan, the City of Redondo Beach set out to create a sense of welcome at the city’s boundary, improve the visitor experience, attract customers to the pier, and improve the driver and pedestrian experience. The scope included signalized intersections to regulate bicycle traffic, specialized marking and pavement treatments.
Sponsored by APWA’s Small Cities Rural Communities Committee Bring your questions and benefit from the lessons-learned by other public works professionals who have been through the process of choosing funding options for a stormwater management program. Figure out if establishing a stormwater utility would work for your agency.
The three pillars for sustainable management of infrastructure include: stewardship, asset management, and financial planning. In Australia, local governments account for their infrastructure in their financial statements. It is about balancing priorities, risks, levels of service and available funding to move beyond technical management assets to incorporate stewardship and long-term financial planning.
Leduc County’s Nisku Spine Road project is its first attempt at implementing a value-based project delivery system developed by researchers at Arizona State University. Using the process, proposal evaluation time was reduced by 75%. The main advantage of the process was its ability to simplify contractor selection through the alignment of project expertise.