GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE BUYERS GUIDE 2012

In AWWA's best-selling seminar, attendees learn how to be precise and correct when setting rates. In today's ecnomic climate, financial management, capital finance planning, and rate setting have become critical tasks that demand reliable, trusty financial tools.

Learning Objectives:

• Evaluate financial policies and rate impacts
• Develop defendable policies that are fair, equitable, and objective
• Recover the full cost of service with your rate, promote community objectives, and get the rate your company needs to be successful
• Avoid rate shock by using proven techniques for capital budgeting and analysis
• Establish cost-of-service rates by applying fundamental methodologies
• Set fair revenue requirements
• Classify and allocate costs equitably

Participants will receive:

• The AWWA Manuel, Principles of Water Rates, Fees, and Charges
• An extensive course book with all of the material covered in the seminar

Register online before February 5, 2012 to receive a discount

3^rd Biennial CLEAN PACFIC Conference & Exhibition

The CLEAN PACIFIC conference and expo hosts companies from the oil and chemical spill industry, maritime security industry and the marine salvage industry to find real solutions for current oil spill response, hazmat cleanup and environmental realities.

Important personnel from regulatory agencies, the federal and state/provincial government and private industry will address the importance of cooperation, regulation, preparedness, prevention and response.

CLEAN PACIFIC remains focused on real issues affecting the energy industry, regulatory community, and responders. This focus is apparent in the open discussion from both a regulatory and industry perspective. Important issues addressed include:

• Drilling and production
• Pipeline
• Refining and Petrochemical
• Shipping and Transport
• Storage and Terminals

For more information contact Kayla Appelt at 713-343-1869

Environmental disputes involve multiple interests and groups along with complex, complicated issues. To navigate these murky waters, participants must have the ability to enter into, build and support collaborative relationships to successfully conclude the dispute. These relationships take time, patience, and know-how to cultivate.

This highly interactive workshop develops the confidence and skills needed to successfully negotiate the context of multiple-party disputes by building a practical set of skills and tools that personnel can use to increase impact in interagency settings, with stakeholders and the with the public.

Here is a taste of what you’ll learn and be able to apply in negotiations:

• Increase self-awareness of strengths and improvement areas in communication to build relationships  and improve multi-party negotiation.
• Distinguish the complexities of two-party and multi-party interest-based negotiation.
• Improve communication survival skills to establish enduring work relationships
• Build a practical set of skills and tools to work more effectively in complex interagency settings with a variety of governmental and non-governmental stakeholders.

Pre-requisite Courses: 101, 110, 301

Pre-course reading pdf available on event site.

The 2012 National Training Conference on The Toxics Release Inventory and Environmental Conditions in Communities includes sessions on pollution prevention, sustainability, and the Toxics Release Inventory along with sessions on environmental data, conditions and trends in ecological and human health.

The 2012 conference provides a wonderful opportunity to present, network, and hear the latest information from a diverse audience.

To ensure your attendance and participation, check out www.chemicalright2know.org for more information on the conference, including theme, call for papers, agenda and registration information.

The 2012 HR & EEO in the Federal Workplace Conference offers many opportunities for professionals who are looking to:

• Develop fundamental EEO skills
• Discuss high-level EEO strategies
• Fullfill initial or follow up supervisory training
• Gain in-depth leadership training
• Learn the 'business impact' of tech for HR
• Master HR-related compliance issues
• Take part in the EEO annual refresher for counselors/ investigators

The summit will cover various issues:

• Disability/diversity training
• Discrimination
• EEO case law
• EEO counselor/investigator training
• Excessive employee leave and absence
• HR and social media
• Onboarding practices
• Probationary periods
• And many others...

Walk away with best practices, comprehensive education, compliance-driven guidance, insight on technology for HR, practical techniques and tools and strategic thinking.

Lucas Group  is the largest Military Transition Search firm in the nation. Lucas will be hosting one-on-one interviews for opportunities in Maintenance Operations, Engineering, Manufacturing, Technical Management and Field Service.

For more information or updates contact Richard Vidoli at rvidoli@lucasgroup.com or by phone at 404-239-5640, ext. 169 or fax at 404-260-7292.

For the eighth year, the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality will hold the Idaho Water Reuse Conference. This annual conference allows representatives of city, county, state and federal agencies, consultants, developers, industry experts, operators and other professionals to network and discuss key issues related to water reuse in Idaho and the west.