FIRST ANNUAL APWA COLORADO

CHAPTER CONFERENCE

OCTOBER 13-14, 2014

INVERNESS HOTEL & CONFERENCE CENTER

200 Inverness Drive WestEnglewood, Colorado 80112

FACING THECHALLENGES TOGETHER

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Reception4:30-6:00pm

Join us for social hour and appetizers

Entertainment6:00-7:00pm

Comedians Brent Gill & Chuck Roy

Session Time

Registration / Breakfast7:30am - 8:00am

StrategicBusiness Planning

Colorado’s FirstDiverging Diamond

Interchange:Collaborating

Innovation

Who’s Next?Public Works

Succession Planning

PavementManagement /Maintenance

Reinventing Public Works with a Public-Private Partnership

Conference Opens

Opening Address: Colorado Chapter President, Pete AdlerAPWA National President, Larry Stevens

Building Relationships Before You Need Them

Break

Building a Better Tomorrow:Progressing Forward After the Floods

Lunch

Break

Break

8:00am - 8:20am

8:20am - 9:10am

9:10am - 10:00am

10:00am - 10:20am

10:20am - 12Noon

12Noon - 12:30pm

12:30pm - 1:00pm

1:00pm - 1:50pm

1:50pm - 2:40pm

2:40pm - 3:05pm

3:05pm - 3:55pm

Monday, October 13, 2014

Management &Leadership Track

Financial &Funding Track

Technical &Maintenance Track

Success Savvy

Advances in PipelineCondition

Assessment andRehabilitation Creating Your Own

Crystal Ball:An Overview of

Scenario Planning

Atkins

CH2M HILL

Copeland Enterprises

Hatch Mott MacDonald

GOLD SPONSORSColorado Asphalt Pavement Association

Concrete Stabilization Technologies, Inc.

Bohannan HustonGround Engineering

Huitt Zollars

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Reception4:30-6:00pm

Join us for social hour and appetizers

Entertainment6:00-7:00pm

Comedians Brent Gill & Chuck Roy

Session Time

Registration / Breakfast7:30am - 8:00am

StrategicBusiness Planning

Colorado’s FirstDiverging Diamond

Interchange:Collaborating

Innovation

Who’s Next?Public Works

Succession Planning

PavementManagement /Maintenance

Reinventing Public Works with a Public-Private Partnership

Conference Opens

Opening Address: Colorado Chapter President, Pete AdlerAPWA National President, Larry Stevens

Building Relationships Before You Need Them

Break

Building a Better Tomorrow:Progressing Forward After the Floods

Lunch

Break

Break

8:00am - 8:20am

8:20am - 9:10am

9:10am - 10:00am

10:00am - 10:20am

10:20am - 12Noon

12Noon - 12:30pm

12:30pm - 1:00pm

1:00pm - 1:50pm

1:50pm - 2:40pm

2:40pm - 3:05pm

3:05pm - 3:55pm

Monday, October 13, 2014

Management &Leadership Track

Financial &Funding Track

Technical &Maintenance Track

Success Savvy

Advances in PipelineCondition

Assessment andRehabilitation Creating Your Own

Crystal Ball:An Overview of

Scenario Planning

Atkins

CH2M HILL

Copeland Enterprises

Hatch Mott MacDonald

GOLD SPONSORSColorado Asphalt Pavement Association

Concrete Stabilization Technologies, Inc.

Bohannan HustonGround Engineering

Huitt Zollars

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Session Time Management &Leadership Track

Technical &Maintenance Track

Financial & FundingTrack

Registration / Breakfast7:30am - 8:00am

Opening Address: APWA Region IX Director, Jill Marilley

A Cool Buzz: Marijuana, Work and Other Smoking Hot Topics

8:00am - 8:20am

8:20am - 9:10am

Wave - No Wave: U.S. and Colorado Election Forecast

Break

In The Dilemma Zone: Transportation Funding 2014

Break

APWA Colorado Annual Awards Luncheon

9:10am - 10:00am

10:00am - 10:25am

10:25am - 11:15am

11:15am - 11:30am

11:30am - 1:30pm

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

AccessiblePedestrian Facilities

in the PublicRight-of-Way

City of AuroraCorrugated Metal Pipe Storm Sewer

Assessment &Rehabilitation Case

Study

Bonding:Lessons Learned

Envision

Summary of theUpcoming Federal & State Regulatory

Issues thatPotentially Affect

MS4s

2:00pm - 2:50pm

2:50pm - 3:40pm

3:40pm - 4:00pm

Preparation for Effects of

Climate Change

Closing Comments

Break1:30pm - 2:00pm

SILVER SPONSORSAyres AssociatesTriton Environmental, LLC

Precision Concrete Cutting SEH Inc.EST, Inc.

Colorado Asphalt & Concrete/EZ StreetWHPacific, Inc.

Fuelmaster/Syn-Tech Systems, Inc.

LMK Technologies

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Conference Registration Fee:$250 Before October 1$275 After October 1

Want to Bring a Guest to the Monday Re-ception & Entertainment?You can choose that option for an additional $35 when you register

Conferenece Opening Address8:20am - 9:10am

The State of APWA and the Public Works Profession Now and Into the Future - Our Strategic Priorities

Larry Stevens, National APWA President

Larry Stevens enjoyed a long and distinguished career in Municipal Engineering. He served as Director of the Iowa Statewide Urban Design and Specification (SUDAS) Program at Iowa State University. Prior to that, he worked for the City of Oskaloosa, Iowa for 22 years as City Engineer and Public Works Director and at the City of Grin-nell, Iowa as the Assistant City Engineer. He has been at HR Green’s Des Moines, Iowa office since 2009, where he provides municipal engineering services to some of the firm’s key clients.

Building Relationships Before You Need Them9:10am - 10:00am

John D. Burke

When you’re in the middle of an emergency, time is of the essence and trust is the key element that can’t be cre-ated on the fly. John will be discussing how critical it is to buildthose relationships within your organization and other agencies across the state before an actual emergency.John has been with the City of Westminster for 10 years and is a Se-nior Projects Engineer. Right now John is managing over 50 million dollars of infrastructure projects for the City in preparation for the Westminster Station Commuter Rail Station. John is also the author the recently published R.F.P. - Request for Personality; Win People, Win Projects.

CONFERENCE SESSIONS

Building a Better TomorrowProgressing Forward afterthe FloodsPresentations & Panel Discussion10:20am - 12noon

Johnny Olson, George Gerstle, David J. Skuo-das

Johnny Olson is the CDOT Region 4 Regional Transportation Director for the Northern Colorado area. In September 2013, when historic floods hit northern Colorado hard, Johnny was asked to step into the Incident Commander position for CDOT. Johnny led his team on an aggressive campaign to reopen roadways and bridges ahead of schedule, reconnecting communities, businesses and lives. Johnny is proud to lead the flood recovery efforts for CDOT and to help build back better and stronger than before.

Building a Better TomorrowProgressing forward after the FloodsPresentations & Panel Discussion

George Gerstle has been Transportation Director at Boulder County for seven years. Prior to Boulder County, George has worked at vari-ous times for CDOT, EPA, as a policy advisor to Governor Roy Romer, the Colorado Air Pollution Control Divison, the Association of Mon-terey Bay Area Governments, and a small, rural transit agency in North Carolina. He graduated from CU with a degree in Geography and Anthropology and has a Masters in Urban and Regional Plan-ning from the University of North Carolina.

Dave Skuodas is a Project Manager at the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District, where he has worked for the past four years in the Design, Construction, and Maintenance Program. Prior to that he worked as an engineering consultant for nine years in Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado.

Success Savvy1:00pm - 1:50pm Leadership & Management Track

Billi Lee

It takes more than hard work and talent to succeed. you also need to be workplace savvy!Billi Lee, founder of The Savvy Institute, is an international speaker, author, radio commentator, coach and the creator of The Get Savvy Seminars. Companies across the U.S., Australia, Europe and even Siberia use Billi to equip their people with insights and strategies to navigate the economic, cultural and political realities of their orga-nizations.

Advances in Pipeline ConditionAssessment and Rehabilitation1:00pm - 1:50pm Technical & Maintenance Track

Mike Middleton, p.e.

The presentation focuses on the technology currently used to collect field data and assess the condition of water con-veyance pipelines including everything from man-entry to multi-sensor platform robotics; then discusses the many pipeline rehabilitation technologies available such as cured-in-place-pipe and close fitting liners. The presentation con-cludes with information on the most recent industry advanc-es in spin-casting 100% solids epoxies, which, when properly designed, can provide complete structural repair of severely deteriorated pipelines.Mike Middleton is the CEO and Director of Engineering of Denver based TW Summit Corporation. Mike has 25 years of consulting engineering experience and is a leading expert in municipal water conveyance system condition assessment and rehabilitation; his consulting engineering expertise also includes all facets of municipal water and wastewater system planning, design, and construction.

Monday, October 13 Sessions

EVENT SPONSORS

Creating Your Own Crystal Ball:An Overview of Scenario Planning1:00pm - 2:40pm Financial & Funding Track

Rod C. Hoffman & Barb A. Smith

You can’t predict the future but you can prepare for it! In this session participants will:• Learn about a powerful process used by executive lead-

ers to imagine alternative futures and the best responses to those futures.

• Experience how to expand strategic thinking in their or-ganization.

• Consider the impact of emerging trends on our industry and on participant’s organizations.

• Identify possible strategic actions that would have a pos-itive impact regardless of what the future holds.

Rod Hoffman is co-founder and CEO of S & H Consulting, a manage-ment consulting firm located in Evergreen, Colorado. Rod has more than 30 years of experience as a consulting engineer and previously served as Senior Vice President and National Director of Strategic Planning and Acquisitions with the global A/E/C firm HDR. He cur-rently serves on the faculty of the American Council of Engineering Companies’ (ACEC) prestigious Senior Executive Institute.

Barb Smith is co-founder and President of S & H Consulting. Barb has over 26 years of experience designing and presenting hundreds of training programs, meetings, conferences, and human resources related programs. Previously she served as a Human Resources and Training manager, as well as an executive in Texaco and Shell. She currently serves on the national board for the Association for Talent Development.

CONFERENCE SESSIONSColorado’s First Diverging DiamondInterchange: CollaboratingInnovation1:50pm - 2:40pm Technical & Maintenance Track

Trent Prall, Paul Jagim, Rob Beck

Colorado’s first diverging diamond interchange (DDI) opened this spring in Grand Junction. The presentation will not only cover how and why a DDI configuration was selected but also the unique partnership between CDOT, the City of Grand Junction and the private sector.Trent Prall has been with the City of Grand Junction for 19 years and currently serves as Engineering Manager overseeing the City’s capital improvement program.

Paul Jagim has been with the City of Grand Junction for 10 years and is the City’s Transportation Engineer. Throughout his career he has worked on high profile projects such as the Riverside Parkway, 29 Road and I-70B Interchange and more recently the DDI at Exit 26.

Rob Beck is the Region 3 Resident Engineer for the Grand Junction district and oversaw the construction of the DDI

Strategic Business PlanningGetting It Right the 2nd Time Around1:50pm - 2:40pm Leadership & Management Track

Jim Sullivan & Kelley Hartman

In 2013, the Arvada Utilities Department made major revi-sions to its strategic business plan, restructuring the orga-nization and establishing new performance measures. Nine months later it was obvious that we had gotten it wrong. The presentation covers the inital intentions, the dawning real-ization that it wasn’t working, and the effort to recover and get back on track.Jim Sullivan has been with the city of Arvada for 34 years, the past 17 as the head of the City’s Utiltiies Divisons. He is a registered pro-fessional engineer with an MBA.

Kelley Hartman has experience working in healthcare and higher education, worked for the State of Colorado as the CFO and Deputy Director for a Division of Human Services, and is currently the Perfor-mance Budget Manager for the City of Arvada.

Who’s Next?Public Works Succession Planning3:05pm - 3:55pm Management & Leadership Track

Harry Brull

Long neglected in the public sector, the need for orderly suc-cession is becoming more and more evident as our leaders retire. This session will explore the challenges and practical solutions to ensure that key leadership positions are filled from within with confidence.Harry Brull has spent 36 years helping local, state, and federal agen-cies select, promote, and develop leadership talent. He is, by train-ing, an industrial/organizational psychologist and past president of the International Personnel Assessment Council (IPAC).

Pavement Management / Maintenance3:05pm - 3:55pm Technical & Maintenance Track

Ted A. Borstad, p.e.

Are you happy with your pavement condition? Would you like to learn how to cost-effectively maintain your pavement network? Learn how to “Tell Your Story” regarding pave-ment costs and results using a proven system.Ted Borstad is a Civil Engineer and the owner of Borstad Consult-ing Services in Fort Collins, Colorado. He has been working in the pavement management field for over 25 years. Ted was the APWA Colorado Chapter President in 1992.

EVENT SPONSORS

CONFERENCE SESSIONS

BRONZE SPONSORS

Reinventing Public Works with aPublic-Private Partnership3:05pm - 3:55pm Financial & Funding Track

John Danielson & Dave Zelenok

Explore this case study that features how one city manages contracts to deliver public works operations and services such as snow removal. Learn about structuring the contract for cost controls, risk management, anticipating volatile fuel and materials costs while managing a fixed budget.John Danielson is the City Manager for the City of Centennial. Span-ning a 25 year career in municipal management, Danielson has served as City Manager in a wide variety of cities and special dis-tricts. During that time, John has had the opportunity to create two new cities from their inception based on the public/private partner-ship model, played an instrumental role in developing the infrastruc-ture and municipal management models of three other new cities and consulted with municipalities affected by complex financial and structural issues in need of critical resolution.

Dave Zelenok is the Chief Innovation Officer for the City of Centenni-al. He has served as Public Works Director in both Colorado Springs and Centennial. In the latter capacity, he led an effort to transition the Public Works Department to the private sector in a move which is widely understood to be the largest public-to-private conversion of its kind in the nation.

Tuesday, October 14 Sessions

Re-Open ConferenceOpening Address8:00am - 8:20am

Jill Marilley, Region IX Director

A Cool Buzz: Marijuana, Work and Other Smoking Hot Topics8:20am - 9:10am

Chuck Passaglia

This lively presentation will discuss how to handle emerging workplace trends, including medical and recreational mari-juana use by applicants and employees.Chuck Passaglia is an employment attorney in Denver and founder of Employment Law Solutions, Inc.

Wave - No Wave: U.S. and Colorado Elec-tion Forecast9:10am - 10:00am

Floyd Ciruli

Forecast of the trends and issues driving the 2014 mid-term election nationally and in Colorado.Ciruli is Colorado’s foremost political analyst and pollster. He is fea-tured regularly on 9KUSA, KOA, NBC, FOX News, Politico and other media outlets.

In the Dilemma Zone:Transportation Funding 201410:25am - 11:15am

Jeff Kullman

Discuss the status and future of transportation funding dur-ing this era of political chaos.Jeff Kullman, a Vice President with Atkins, is focused on client service and regional business strategy. Jeff is also the current President of MoveColorado, an organization focused on maintaining a sustain-able transportation funding future.

APWA ColoradoAwards Luncheon

Accessible Pedestrian Facilities in the Public Right-of-Way2:00pm - 2:50pm Management & Leadership Track

Jeff Werner, p.e.

Planning and designing for pedestrian facilities in the public right-of-way is an ongoing challenge for all agencies. This in-teractive session will highlight real life steps to ensure design and construction of curb ramps, pedestrian access routes, on-street parking, accessible pedestrian signals and other related elements meet ADA compliance. Jeff Werner is a civil engineer and accessibility specialist for WHPa-cific. He has 14 years of transportation accessibility expertise on federal aid projects for the Idaho Transportation Department, New Mexico Department of Transportation, local highway districts and cities. He is experienced in providing ADA compliance survey as-sessments, design and specification development for accessible fa-cilities, standard drawing development and construction engineer-ing for accessible facilities. Jeff is also well versed in the current practices for multi-lane roundabouts under the proposed PROWAG guidelines.

Reception4:30pm-6:00pm

Entertainment Comedians Brent Gill & Chuck Roy6:00pm-7:00pm

LS Gallegos

Aggregate Industries - WCR, Inc.

Colorado Contractors AssociationHartwig & AssociatesArapahoe County

QBS Colorado

CONFERENCE SESSIONS

Thanks For Attending TheFirst Annual Colorado Chapter Conference!

City of Aurora Corrugated Metal Pipe (CMP) Storm Sewer Assessment and Reha-bilitation Case Study2:00pm - 2:50pm Technical & Maintenance Track

Steve Salazar, p.e., Charles Loughman, e.i.

The primary goal of the 2013 Stormwater Corrugated Metal Pipe (CMP) Condition Assessment was to provide the City with a comprehensive condition assessment of their CMP stormwater pipelines.Steve Salazar has more than 17 years of experience in stormwater related planning and design projects, project management and water resource engineering, which provides him with a broad un-derstanding of the varied requirements in serving the engineering needs of clients.

Charles Loughman has experience in the development and inspec-tions of Condition Assessment projects. In addition, he has been involved in the development of the framework for condition rating, prioritization ranking, and rehabilitation costs of storm related in-frastructure.

Bonding: Lessons Learned2:00pm - 2:50pm Financial & Funding Track

Dan Hartman, Lesley Thomas, Maria D’Andrea

The experiences of the presenters organizations.Dan Hartman has been Director of Public Works in Golden, Colorado for the past 26 years. Dan has served on the Board of Directors for APWA Colorado and was Chapter President in 2004. Dan is current-ly serving on the APWA Leadership and Management Commiteee, is the Colorado Chapter Delegate to APWA’s Council of Chapters and serves as chariman of the Donald C. Stone Quality Council.

Lesley Thomas began her career with the City & County of Denver in 1990 as a senior engineer with the Department of Public Works. In 2002, Lesley was promoted to the position of City Engineer and Deputy Manager of Public Works. As City Engineer, Lesley has man-aged the construction of Denver’s $378 million Justice Center com-plex, overseen the organization and execution of the multi-faceted $550 million bond package passed in 2007, and developed Denver’s Strategic Transportation Plan.

Maria D’Andrea is currently the Director of Public Works for the City of Commerce City overseeing the Engineering, Streets & Traffic, Fa-cilities and Fleet Divisions for the City. She is a professional engineer and is leading efforts to design and construct more than $130 mil-lion in infrastructure improvements in the City in the next five years

Envision2:50pm - 3:40pm Management & Leadership Track

Art Hirsch

The presentation will provide an overview of the Envision Sustainability Program and Rating System. Actual municipal-ity case studies will be presented that will demonstrate sus-tainablity concepts and practices.Art Hirsch is the principal owner of TerraLogic Sustainable Solutions located in Boulder, Colorado. Art’s expertise is in the area of en-vironmental-transportation consulting with an emphasis on infra-structure sustainability integration throughout the transportation project cycle.

Summary of the Upcoming Federal and State Regulatory Issues thatPotentially Affect MS4s2:50pm - 3:40pm Technical & Maintenance Track

Wanda DeVargas, Pam Acre, Tom Repp, Lisa Knerr

Wanda DeVargas is a Project Manager for the City of Greenwood Village and chair of the Colorado Stormwater Council

Pam Acre is the Stormwater Coordinator and Floodplain Administra-tor for the City of Northglenn. She is a past chair for the Colorado Stormwater Council and is currently the chair for the Legislative Committee of the CSC.

Tom Repp is a Stormwater Management Engineer for Douglas Coun-ty, active member of the Colorado Stormwater Council and conducts operations for the Colorado Clean Water Coalition.

Lisa Knerr works for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and is program coordinator for the state’s Municipal Separate Stormwater System and Industrial Pretreatment Programs.

Preparation for Effects of Climate Change2:50pm - 3:40pm Financial & Funding Track

James C. Pequette, Ph.D &Gregg S. Eells, p.e.

Preparation for the damage and cost of extreme weather conditions now and in the future.Both Jim Pequette and Gregg Eells have been studying and present-ing information regarding the causes of climate change for several years and have studied and presented information about several clean forms of energy production to civic groups and governmental agencies.

Closing Comments

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