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NLC University- People's Choice Seminars
*You help us select the sessions that matter to you.*
NLCU will select three of the following seminars based on your feedback. Please complete this form by August 15th:
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Disaster Planning, Response and Recovery: Lessons from the Ground
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All cities have responsibility to plan for both natural and man-made disasters, to implement that plan during an actual emergency, and to guide a recovery effort in the aftermath of a disaster.
The level of sophistication of local emergency planning has increased over time as has the diversity of disasters potentially confronting city leaders. Likewise, the recovery process involves the complex management of money and tasks involving federal agencies, municipal service providers, and private sector vendors. The task is daunting.
Even with the best plans in place, nothing can fully prepare city officials for the work of disaster recovery. The best learning exercise comes from actually managing the results of a disaster. This session features on the ground providers of services in such diverse cities as New York, New Orleans, Galveston and Minot, North Dakota and focus on six key areas in disaster management. These areas are:
1. Preparedness
2. Immediate response
3. Coordination and communication
4. Contractual details
5. Rebuilding
6. Leadership and Policy
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Resiliency Planning and Leadership
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“Resilience is bigger than disaster management,” said Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker, president of the National League of Cities and co-chair of the Resilient Cities Summit hosted last week at the Aspen Institute in Aspen, CO. “It’s about preserving and improving quality of life for our citizens every single day.” For federal grant makers, philanthropic organizations, and many private sector industries, resilience has become the next big thing. But it can be difficult to talk about with citizens and implement in local policies.
The NLC, in partnership with the US Green Building Council and the Urban Land Institute, has created a new Community Resilience Guide for local governments. Using this guide as a starting point, this session will help city leaders and practitioners understand the complexity of resilience, and demonstrate how to integrate resilience concepts into land use, building codes, infrastructure management, economic development and more.
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Responding to Dementia: America’s home town, public health crisis
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Families and communities in every city, town, and rural area in the U.S. are feeling the impact of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias (dementia). Over five million Americans--one in eight age 65 and older and one in three age 85 and older--is living with dementia and they are supported by 15.5 million family members and friends. Despite the fact that the disease is found everywhere across our country, we are fundamentally unprepared to meet the challenges of dementia. Dementia impacts everyone in communities in the following ways:
This training session will help prepare communities to respond to the crisis by providing in- depth guidance and connection to resources that can help communities work towards becoming dementia friendly. Session objectives will include the following:
1) Convey key components of dementia friendly communities and the foundation on which it is based;
2) Review supportive resources, a research-informed toolkit for engaging community, and the steps to move forward at the local level to foster dementia friendliness;
3) Provide case studies/community experiences and progress to date;
4) Explain how the model is being replicated across the U.S.;
5) Outline evaluation plans and progress to date.
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Performance Excellence: The 7 Areas that Any City Can Focus on to Enhance Service, Improve Morale and Cut Costs
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This session will review the criteria used in the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award program and demonstrate how to use those criteria to drive performance and outcomes in city services and administration.
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Becoming a Smart AND Green City
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Cities face two major pressures - Becoming "smart" and becoming "green". The push for cities to become "Smart Cities" emphasizes the objective of making city services more digitally interconnected. The emphasis on being "green" focuses on sustainability, energy efficiency and moving toward clean energy solutions. This workshop will explore how these two seemly different objectives can be combined into a Smart Green City initiative. After all, being "smart" digitally depends on electric reliability and resiliency. DNV GL will bring a team of experts on Smart Green City initiatives (energy efficiency, renewable energy, storage, micro-grids) and work with participants to how to develop a business case through an integrated planning process with utility and city department leadership. This is relevant for both investor owned utility-provided power and cities served by their own municipal electric utility department. We will include a couple of case studies (hopefully with city speakers) to be part of the workshop. Presenters/facilitators will include Luisa Freeman and Betty Seto, DNV GL Energy, Sustainable Energy Use and representatives from a case study city.
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Building Strong Council-City Manager Relations
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Cultivating and maintaining an effective working relationship between elected officials and the city manager is both a challenging and essential undertaking. The fluctuating state of personal, political and organizational dynamics is difficult terrain to navigate for even the most seasoned local leader. Managers must have effective systems in place in order create an environment that is conducive to open dialogue and leadership team cohesiveness. Explore potential challenges facing local government leadership teams and learn how to use various governance models, address dysfunction, and clearly define roles.
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Public-Private Partnerships Bootcamp
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This focused, introductory-level workshop would be for public and private sector representatives who are interested in P3s but may be unfamiliar with how they work. Workshop presenters would include public and private sector experts. Topics would include: understanding how P3s differ from traditional privatization and procurement; alternative P3 structures and their respective advantages and issues; use of P3 structures for financing projects and activities; identification and allocation of risks in structuring and negotiating P3 transactions; understanding what P3s can and cannot help communities accomplish; initial steps in the process, including how to structure and implement the RFQ/RFP process; how to adapt best practices into your project; and how to develop and maintain a productive partnership.
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