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EVENTS
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·
Stormwater
Management Issues and Solutions
·
HR-C
Human Resources Toolkit Workshop
·
Pittsburgh
Community Information System
·
ULI
Workshop: The Practice of Environmentally Sensitive Development
·
Global
Warming 2006: An Activist's Primer
·
Green
Roofs Design 101 Introductory Course
·
6th
Annual Southwestern Pennsylvania Smart Growth Conference
TRANSPORTATION
FOR LIVABLE COMMUNITIES
·
$500,000
completes funding for Pittsburgh trails' linkup
·
Letter
to Governor Rendell about the Public Transportation Funding Crisis
·
Can
biofuels energize Pittsburgh -- and save the world?
·
Traffic
Report Calls For Congestion Ahead
LEGISLATIVE
ALERTS
·
Credit
Reporting/Property Donation Bills Pass the General Assembly
RESOURCES
·
New Predevelopment Loans
Make Preservation Easier
·
Governor delivers $2.7
million to Wilkinsburg for housing, repairs
·
Public-input hearing
deadline notice Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board
·
Notification of request
for 2006 CBO fund letter of intent
·
'Energy Federalism' --
Has Its Time Come?
·
Japan Recycles: Forget
about 3 sorts. How about 10?
·
PA plan calls for big
mercury cuts
·
New in office? Now what?
Take a course
·
New Orleans
Restoration Conference call for presentations
·
Area growth plan: Build
Near Transit
·
Chapman plans massive
development in Findlay
·
A comprehensive guide
to America's first suburbs
Friday,
February 24
8:30
am-12 pm
Cost:
$35
For
registration and more information: Contact: JBarrett@localgovernmentacademy.org
The devastating effects of Hurricane Ivan on our local communities, has
lead to an increased awareness of the importance of stormwater management and
the need for a comprehensive approach to address this issue at the local level.
Sponsored by The
Tuesday,
February 28
9:30
am - 11 am
One
Cost
$50
Contact:
412.350.2594 or nsimpronio@cvvc.org
Ever wonder about all the employment poster solicitations you receive in
the mail? What should be included in
an employee’s personnel file? What
should an employee manual consist of?
The workshop will cover the following topics: employment posting
requirements, how to write job descriptions, good practices for personnel files,
and the do’s & don’ts of employee manuals.
Thursday,
March 2
12 pm –
1:30 pm
Oakmont
Thursday,
March 2
6 pm -7:30
pm
Norwin
Public Library
Irwin
Friday,
March 3
12:30 pm
– 2 pm
University
of Pittsburgh Alumni Hall
4227
http://www.spcregion.org/ECTS/
The Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission, Westmoreland County Transit
Authority and
Tuesday,
March 7
8
am – 4 pm
Cost
$60; $50 for each additional member from your organization
Registration
will begin Monday, January 30
www.pittsburghnonprofitsummit.org
Participate in a 21st Century community decision-making process
that is being used in
Advanced
Registration Only!
Unlike last year, attendees must register for the Non-profit Summit in
advance. We especially encourage
trustees, government officials, and business people to participate in the
America Speaks special segment. Are you one of the 400 people that have already
registered? If not, please do so
today, seating is limited.
Wednesday,
March 15
11:30
am – 1 pm
425
O’Neill
Room, 23rd Floor
Downtown
No
fee to attend
RSVP
info@sustainablepittsburgh.org
subject “RSVP” or 412-258-6642
Developed for the city by an academic and nonprofit partnership, the Community
Information System (CIS) is an easy to use web-based property information
system that connects data related to neighborhoods and individual properties.
Participants will learn how to use the over 50 key indicators in real-time
conditions on any property, related to land use, investment, vacancy, and
disinvestment collected from over 10,000 properties in the City of Pittsburgh.
CIS users can click from a map of the city to a neighborhood, then to one
property. Which ones are vacant? Which are vacant with tax liens? Which are
vacant with liens and condemned? Which have environmental citations plus
building code violations plus liens? Which are owner-occupied? And how does all
this compare with a decade ago?
Bring
your own brown bag lunch, refreshments will be provided.
Great
Decisions Energy Resources
Wednesday,
March 15
5:30
pm Reception
6
pm -8 pm Program
Two
Downtown
$15
per member
$25
per non member
Energy
and Security: Toward a New Foreign Policy Strategy
Thursday,
March 16
Noon
- 1 pm
DoubleTree
Hotel
Downtown
No
Charge to Members
$10
per non-member
No
charge to Students and Teachers
Reservations:
412-281-7972, programs@worldaffairspittsburgh.org,
www.worldaffairspittsburgh.org
The
March
22 - 23
The
http://www.gbapgh.org/EventFlyers/PESD_06.pdf
Over two days, this workshop will track the steps that developers should
follow to plan and deliver an environmentally suitable and economically
successful conservation development. Participants will get "why" and
"how-to" advice on practical;, cost-effective ways to apply principles
and techniques of environmentally sensitive development to the real estate
industry.
Wednesday
March 22
Radisson
Hotel
12:30
– 4 pm
Cost:
$25 ($20 for members of PSAT)
Contact:
(717)763-0930
This workshop will explain the fundamentals of the Transit Revitalization
Investment District Program to assist municipalities, counties and public
transportation agencies to work cooperatively to establish Transit
Revitalization Investment Districts.
Thursday,
March 23
6
pm- 8 pm
Turtle
Creek
No
Fee to Attend
Register:
info@sustainablepittsburgh.org
subject “Regional Forums” or phone 412-258-6644
Building toward the May 19, 2006 Smart Growth Conference, a series of
regional forums will be held to identify a focused set of broadly supported
policies to revitalize the region's core communities as regional economic
assets.
The are designed to do the following:
·
Serve as an opportunity for public input
to the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission's updating of the long range
transportation and development plan "Project Region."
·
Consider community needs and identify
common barriers as well as opportunities for sustainable redevelopment.
·
Build on existing efforts to provide
technical assistance to develop a resource network for sustainable
redevelopment. Attending each
forum will be resource/technical assistance partners who will be ready to
follow-up.
·
Review a set of currently emerging state
and regional policy options and assess their match to local needs.
·
Enhance understanding of our
communities’ interdependence.
·
Demonstrate that the needs of individual
communities are often mutually shared across the region.
·
Grow consensus on a focused set of public
policy solutions and collaborations for their implementation to renew SWPA.
Hosted by
To register for this and/or other upcoming forums, either email info@sustainablepittsburgh.org
or telephone 412-258-6644.
Please continue to check your 3E Weekly e-newsletter for forums scheduled
in your region.
Saturday, March 25
10 am – 3 pm
Our Lady of Sacred Heart Convent Auditorium
Coraopolis (
RSVP before March 22: 800-321-7775 www.pennfuture.org
Free, lunch included
Free tabling space available to organizations
Participants will learn the latest on global warming science, hear from
experts on federal and state policy and network with other activists from across
the state and region. Discussion
about what
Thursday,
April 6
8:30
am – 5 pm
Omni
William Penn Hotel (Frick Room)
Cost:
$345
Register:
www.greenroofs.org use code
pittsburghost
At this one-day intensive introductory course, attendees will learn how to
determine major functions and components of a green roof, identify the factors
which influence costs, how to utilize an integrated design process in your
project for maximum benefit and much more.
Coming Together to Revitalize Our Communities:
RenewSWPA Cross-Community and
Friday, May 19
7:30 am – 4:30 pm
Omni William Penn Hotel,
Keynote: David
Soule, Associate Director
Center for
Urban & Regional Policy, Northeastern University
Cost: Early
Registration: $30. Registration
after May 12: $40 (free to elected officials)
Call (412)
258-6642 for early registration
The 2006 SWPA Smart Growth Conference will address
strategies to revitalize the region's core communities and seek to identify a
set of policy opportunities around which there is consensus for collaboration.
Leading up to the conference, a series of
community forums will be orchestrated around the region to identify common barriers
and opportunities to redevelopment. Common needs and policy options identified
through the forums will be presented at the annual conference toward
developing consensus on policies to renew
Please mark your calendars for May 19 and
register early.
The annual Smart Growth conference and regional
forums are hosted by, Pennsylvania Department of County and Economic
Development, Regional Coalition of Community Builders, Southwestern
Pennsylvania Commission,
TRANSPORTATION FOR LIVABLE
COMMUNITIES
Allegheny County Chief
Executive Dan Onorato called it part of an effort to turn what was steel
industry infrastructure into an improved transportation system. "These
bridges, which were just liabilities for 20 years, are now becoming the major
links between all the arteries -- universities, high-tech community,
entertainment," he said.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06052/658605.stm
Representing PAPTA,
http://www.sustainablepittsburgh.org/TLC/microsoftworddocuments/LettertoGovRBudget2_06.htm
…vegetable oil and
other “biofuels” are becoming an increasingly viable – and visible -- fuel
source. In
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/archive.cfm?type=Main%20Feature&action=getComplete&ref=5707
Some economists already predict that without a
major investment in transportation and infrastructure needs, the nation's
economic growth will be stifled...Many transportation experts are begging for a
plan that connects various modes of transportation into a network that is a
seamless web of mass transit and highways and rail and waterways that would
actually reduce the nation's "addiction to oil."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06050/657308.stm
HB 459 and SB 640 have
passed both the House and the Senate and are on the Governor’s desk. Both of
these bills require counties to maintain lists of the names and last known
addresses of property tax delinquent owners so that credit reporting bureaus can
access the information. We expect to see an increase in real estate tax
collections once the delinquency shows up n credit reports. For owners who wish
to donate their properties in exchange for tax forgiveness, the bills establish
a procedure for taxing authorities to accept the donations.
SB 640 amends the
Municipal Claim and Tax Lien Law, which applies to