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The Decider Guide: How and When to Use Cooperative Purchasing Contracts to Add to Your Public Dollar

You put a lot of time and energy into your operations to make them run smoothly. Purchasing puts a lot of time and energy into solicitations to be compliant and…

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How to Make Better Decisions Using Weather Radar

By far, radar is the most used weather tool by nearly any professional making decisions about weather. Radar seems like a simple concept—the colored pixels represent precipitation, and if you…

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How to Relieve Pressure from Winter Maintenance

Chloride is a growing pollutant of concern across the swbelt near the Great Lakes. This permanent pollutant contaminates drinking water, remains toxic to aquatic life, and harms vegetation. In Minnesota,…

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In the Kw for Sidewalk Sw

Maintaining sidewalks during and after sw in your community may seem like a cumbersome task. Therefore many communities don’t plow their sidewalks, leaving them to take a back seat to…

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IoT (Internet of Things) and Their Impact on Winter Operations

In 2022, the Village of Buffalo Grove started its IoT journey. At the 2022 Sw Conference in Pittsburgh, the team looked at various IoT techlogies that could be deployed for…

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Learning Leadership

Is leadership an art or a science? This is a debate that’s raged across the centuries. Turns out, it’s neither. Instead, leadership is a process that occurs when shared values…

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Learnings from the First Season of Implementing an Updated Winter Maintenance Policy

The City of Regina, Saskatchewan, updated its Winter Maintenance Policy based on a thorough review involving stakeholder engagement and research of best practices. The new policy introduced several enhancements in…

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Lessons Learned from Placer County Response to the Record-Setting 2021–22 Sierra Storms

A record-setting winter storm resulted in unprecedented amounts of sw in the upper elevations of Placer County. Heavy sw and downed trees and utilities caused extensive road closures, travel complications,…

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Liquids in a Small Community

The presenters will focus on implementing a successful liquid program in a community with a population of less than 20,000. Different products and equipment will be discussed for the practical…

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Making Sense of the Weather Headlines

The weather and the climate seem to be the lead stories each night on the news. Disasters, extremes, and climate seem to be all anyone is talking about these days.…

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