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The Importance of Communicating Your Story

According to Terry Tempest Williams, “Storytelling is the oldest form of education” and at the City of Des Moines, Iowa, we pride ourselves on humanizing government by telling our story…

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Strategic Strategic Planning: Planning to Plan

Strategic planning projects often fail because, ironically, they failed to plan their own project. This occurs due to several factors. Often the organization’s leaders are unaware of the general steps…

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Learning Leadership: APWA’s Leadership Framework

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

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Public Works from Home

Presented by the Emerging Leaders Academy 2020-2021 Class Study remote work policies, procedures, and experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic to develop best practices which help organizations optimize their telework process.

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The Big Dig: Using Underground Infrastructure to Benefit a Community

Over the last five years, the City of Spokane has installed 16 million gallons of underground storage to prevent overflows of combined wastewater and stormwater from reaching the Spokane River.…

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Thinking Outside the Box – How Adoption of a New Technology in Excavation Shoring Systems Allowed a Contractor to Safely and Efficiently Rehabilitate a 23’ Deep Sewer System In a Congested Urban Area

Rehabilitation of sewer systems under existing roadways and near existing buildings is a challenge. Some projects cannot be done in a trenchless fashion. When open excavation access is required, just…

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Operational Impacts – Capturing the Cost of Poorly Located and Failing Facilities on Field Crews and Service Delivery

Are you wasting hours making trips between facilities to find widgets? Is your crew spending more time in traffic than on work orders? Public works and utilities are often forced…

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Putting the 800 Gorilla Back In Its Cage

In 2018, the City of Arvada had a strategic goal to meet the Better Building Challenge for 2020, which was to show a 20% reduction in energy usage for all…

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Prince William County Building and Facility Capital Program – CIP Cyclic Replacement

Following an impactful presentation at the 2012 APWA Congress from the City of Milwaukee, the speaker returned to his department to develop their own Building and Facility Capital Program. This…

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Utilizing Machine Vision and Artificial Intelligence to Improve Safety and Efficiency

Despite less miles being logged in 2020 than years past, roadway fatalities are higher than they have ever been on a per million miles per fatality rate. The statistics are…

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