- Date: November 13, 2013 - November 16, 2013
- Location: Washington State Convention Center - Seattle, WA
- Category: Annual Conference
Schedule
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
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9:30 amMobile Workshop: The Power of Community Engagement: Revitalizing a Neighborhood, Maintaining Its Character (Show details)
Join Seattle Department of Neighborhoods staff and community leaders as they showcase the revitalization of a neighborhood with help from the departments’ community engagement programs. You’ll visit the Columbia City Landmark District which includes a thriving business district and residential properties and where several capital projects were conceptualized and completed by community members with the help of the city’s popular Neighborhood Matching Fund. Learn from community leaders how they used city resources and developed partnerships to make a difference in their neighborhoods. We’ll also stop by a community garden located in a low-income housing development that is managed by the department’s P-Patch Community Gardening Program to showcase the power of community engagement.
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9:30 amMobile Workshop: Making Your Community Digitally Inclusive: Strategies for Bringing Technology to Neighborhood (Show details)
The National Broadband Plan contains strategies for greater broadband adoption in local communities. Learn how local governments and communities are working to ensure that local residents have the access and skills to use government and essential service online.
Take a tour of Seattle’s neighborhoods, visiting community technology learning centers to explore how they are partnering with the City of Seattle to help disadvantaged residents effectively use the Internet for education, job training, and civic engagement. This workshop will present an introduction to the national Digital Inclusion Framework and share policies and strategies for building public, private, and non-profit partnerships to provide programs to residents. Participants will also learn how to do local assessments of technology access and use. -
9:30 amMobile Workshop: Community Emergency Hubs: Supporting the Community in their Resiliency (Show details)
In this workshop we will explore additional ways that community members can work together to respond after an emergency. The Community Emergency Hub Program supports engaged residents to take action in a new way. The program expands the traditional concept of individual preparedness to include a greater community response. The main concept of Community Emergency Hubs is that in geographic communities throughout the city, the community determines a location to meet after a large-scale emergency to share information, resources, problem-solve and support one another. As a part of the workshop, you will visit the City’s Emergency Operations Center and an identified Community Hub.
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1:00 pmMobile Workshop: City of Seattle’s Zero Waste Strategy: Tour of Republic Services Recycling Facility (Show details)
In 2007, Seattle passed a Zero Waste strategy to increase recycling and reduce trash. Learn how the city is working with Republic Services to reach these goals. Using leading-edge technology, Republic ‘s facility processes 750 tons of material per day, nearly all of which goes back to domestic and international markets within days of processing.
During this workshop, you will take a tour of Republic Services' state-of-the-art recycling facility, located at the heart of Seattle's SODO neighborhood. You will hear from representatives of Republic and Seattle Public Utilities about our partnership to meet these goals and how your community can reduce waste and save your citizens money.
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1:00 pmMobile Workshop: Microsoft Campus Tour – Insight into Making Your City Safer Using the Power of Big Data (Show details)
Visit the Microsoft campus in Redmond to see firsthand how to leverage the power of business intelligence and analytics to increase public safety. Tour the Microsoft Global Security & Operations Center and see a demo of the intelligence and communications cities are using today to improve security and sustain operations during emergencies. Includes a visit to the Microsoft Visitor Center and Company Store.
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1:00 pmMobile Workshop: Community Schools Collaborative (Show details)
Community Schools Collaboration (CSC) was established as a public/private partnership in Tukwila, Washington in 1998. The objective was to provide a safe place afterschool for students in the Tukwila School District to receive academic support and enrichment. CSC had great success, improving graduation rates and school attendance, and decreasing mobility rates and high school drop-outs. Today, CSC has extended their full-service community school model to 20 elementary, middle and high school campuses throughout the region. This mobile workshop will include an insider look at some of the neighborhoods served by CSC, a first-hand visit to an afterschool CSC activity at the elementary, middle or high school, and will end with opportunities for open dialogue and questions/answers. Don’t miss this opportunity to visit the single most diverse school district in the nation located in Tukwila, Washington, were 62% of the population is minority and more than 49% speak a language other than English at home.
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2:30 pmMobile Workshop: LED Street Lighting Conversion: Saving Your Community Money, While Improving Public Safety (Show details)
Join representatives from Seattle City Light and the director of the Municipal Solid State Street Lighting Consortium (MSSLC) as they highlight how converting your city’s streetlights to LEDs can save your community money while improving public safety in your neighborhoods. Participants will travel to Seattle’s Lighting Design Lab to look at lighting option and learn how you can collaborate with your local utility, neighborhoods, law enforcement and other entities to transform your neighborhood through better street lighting. To date, the LED conversion program has saved the City of Seattle millions of dollars in energy and maintenance costs. Attendees will also learn about the activities of the Consortium and how Consortium tools and resources can be utilized to advance their own LED street lighting programs. From there, attendees will travel to see firsthand how LED street lighting can transform a streetscape.
Registration
- NLC Direct Member $670.00
- State League Member $790.00
- State League Member $595.00
- Student $175.00
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