Description: With limited revenues, aging infrastructure, and regulatory obligations to meet, a comprehensive approach to managing your wastewater system is vital. What information will be useful to you? How should you track your system assets? How does your aging infrastructure impact your service and expenses? Which asset(s) should you replace given limited funds, and how should you prioritize replacement? How do you know how much money you might need? Asset management provides a framework to help you solve these problems and more.

This training begins by covering Asset Management’s core components and the overall Asset Management thought-process, before focusing more specifically on the practical application of asset management concepts for data-informed decision-making using real-world examples.

Learning Objectives:

• Understanding how the practical implementation of asset management core components benefits wastewater systems dealing with aging infrastructure
• Understand how data can be used to define and track a utility’s mission and goals
• Discuss techniques, tools, and examples for developing asset inventories and what information should be included in them for robust decision making
• Know how to develop condition assessment scales and calculate asset criticality
• Understand how to effectively manage assets by tracking associated costs and activities

Trainers: Shannon Pepper, Research Scientist and James Markham, Research Engineer, Southwest Environmental Finance Center

Cost: Free

Please Note: Lunch will not be provided and is the responsibility of attendees.

CECs: This training is approved for 5.5 hours of continuing education credits for Municipal Waterworks and Wastewater by the WI Department of Natural Resources. 

Who Should Attend:

• Managers, owners, and operators of water systems serving less than 10,000 people, or wastewater systems with an average daily flow of less than 1 million gallons
• Decision-makers for water and wastewater utilities, including mayors, finance officers, utility managers, public works directors, city councilors, board members, tribal council members, and clerks
• Consultants and technical assistance providers serving water and wastewater systems

Partners:

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Description: With limited revenues, aging infrastructure, and regulatory obligations to meet, a comprehensive approach to managing your wastewater system is vital. What information will be useful to you? How should you track your system assets? How does your aging infrastructure impact your service and expenses? Which asset(s) should you replace given limited funds, and how should you prioritize replacement? How do you know how much money you might need? Asset management provides a framework to help you solve these problems and more.

This training begins by covering Asset Management’s core components and the overall Asset Management thought-process, before focusing more specifically on the practical application of asset management concepts for data-informed decision-making using real-world examples.

Learning Objectives:

• Understanding how the practical implementation of asset management core components benefits wastewater systems dealing with aging infrastructure
• Understand how data can be used to define and track a utility’s mission and goals
• Discuss techniques, tools, and examples for developing asset inventories and what information should be included in them for robust decision making
• Know how to develop condition assessment scales and calculate asset criticality
• Understand how to effectively manage assets by tracking associated costs and activities

Trainers: Shannon Pepper, Research Scientist and James Markham, Research Engineer, Southwest Environmental Finance Center

Cost: Free

Please Note: Lunch will not be provided and is the responsibility of attendees.

CECS: This training is approved for 5.5 hours of continuing education credits for Municipal Waterworks and Wastewater by the WI Department of Natural Resources. 

Who Should Attend:

• Managers, owners, and operators of water systems serving less than 10,000 people, or wastewater systems with an average daily flow of less than 1 million gallons
• Decision-makers for water and wastewater utilities, including mayors, finance officers, utility managers, public works directors, city councilors, board members, tribal council members, and clerks
• Consultants and technical assistance providers serving water and wastewater systems

Partners:

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Description: Small water and wastewater systems have a tough time recruiting and retaining experienced staff. What happens when your current operator or manager retires, or moves to a larger system? Who knows what they know? Who can replace them? Workforce planning strategies help ensure you attract and retain a strong team, and provide a basis for utility management and planning. Join us for this workshop to talk about succession planning, recruitment, and staff retention.

Learning Objectives:

• Analyze gaps in your current workforce
• Retain talent long-term, and prepare them for shifting skillsets and needs
• Recruit and work with newer generations of water managers
• Prepare for retirements with succession planning and knowledge transfer tips
• Trouble-shoot current challenges and opportunities to build out your team

Trainer: Patrick Lynch, Project Manager, Syracuse University Environmental Finance Center

Certificate: This workshop has NOT been submitted for continuing education credit approval. We will provide a certificate of attendance to eligible attendees but cannot guarantee it will meet your PDH or CEU requirements.

Who Should Attend:

• Managers, owners, and operators of water systems serving less than 10,000 people, or wastewater systems with an average daily flow of less than 1 million gallons
• Decision-makers for water and wastewater utilities, including mayors, finance officers, utility managers, public works directors, city councilors, board members, tribal council members, and clerks
• Consultants and technical assistance providers serving water and wastewater systems

Partners:

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Description: Small water and wastewater systems have a tough time recruiting and retaining experienced staff. What happens when your current operator or manager retires, or moves to a larger system? Who knows what they know? Who can replace them? Workforce planning strategies help ensure you attract and retain a strong team, and provide a basis for utility management and planning. Join us for this workshop to talk about succession planning, recruitment, and staff retention.

Learning Objectives:

• Analyze gaps in your current workforce
• Retain talent long-term, and prepare them for shifting skillsets and needs
• Recruit and work with newer generations of water managers
• Prepare for retirements with succession planning and knowledge transfer tips
• Trouble-shoot current challenges and opportunities to build out your team

Trainer: Patrick Lynch, Project Manager, Syracuse University Environmental Finance Center

CECs: This training is approved for 2.0 hours of continuing education credits for Municipal Waterworks and Wastewater by the WI Department of Natural Resources. 

Who Should Attend:

• Managers, owners, and operators of water systems serving less than 10,000 people, or wastewater systems with an average daily flow of less than 1 million gallons
• Decision-makers for water and wastewater utilities, including mayors, finance officers, utility managers, public works directors, city councilors, board members, tribal council members, and clerks
• Consultants and technical assistance providers serving water and wastewater systems

Partners:

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Description: In this webinar, we will explore the current, proposed, and future regulations surrounding PFAS in the water and wastewater industries, focusing on impacts to small water and wastewater systems. We will explore what steps to take to determine if, and how, PFAS has impacted your water and wastewater systems and discuss established and up-and-coming treatment and destruction technologies that can be leveraged to address PFAS impacts.  Lastly, we will touch on potential funding opportunities and strategies to plan, fund, and implement PFAS treatment systems.

Presenter: Will Shaffer, PE, Project Engineer, EEC Environmental 

Certificate: This webinar has NOT been submitted for continuing education credit approval. We can provide a certificate of attendance to eligible attendees but cannot guarantee it will meet your PDH or CEU requirements.

Who Should Attend:

• Managers, owners, and operators of water systems serving less than 10,000 people, or wastewater systems with an average daily flow of less than 1 million gallons
• Decision-makers for water and wastewater utilities, including mayors, finance officers, utility managers, public works directors, city councilors, board members, tribal council members, and clerks
• Consultants and technical assistance providers serving water and wastewater systems

Partners: 

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Location: Howard G Sackett Technical Center, Conference Rooms A and B in the back building; Glenfield campus of Jefferson-Lewis BOCES, 5836 State Highway 12, Glenfield, NY 13343

Note: Please check your spam folder if you have not received registration confirmation in a timely manner. If you have issues registering, please contact the event organizers listed below.

Description: Are you interested in learning more about funding and financing municipal infrastructure in your town or village? Join the Syracuse University Environmental Finance Center (SU-EFC), the NYS Tug Hill Commission, Lewis County, and the River Area Council of Governments (RACOG) to learn about funding opportunities for safe and clean water management and other community investments from state and federal agency representatives. Lunch will be provided.

Presenters will include representatives from:

• New York State Homes and Community Renewal
• New York State Departments of State, Health, & Environmental Conservation
• New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation
• US Department of Agriculture, Rural Development

Following lunch, individual consultations with funders will be available to address your specific project funding questions and needs. Additionally, attendees will get a first look at a new quick guide for town boards on special district formation developed in partnership with the NYS Tug Hill Commission. We hope to see you there!

Who Should Attend:

Consulting engineers
Fiscal advisors
Water utility managers
Municipal board members
Elected officials
And others interested in clean and safe water for New York communities!

Please Note: CEUs will NOT be offered, but those who attend for the entire session will receive a certificate of attendance for their personal record.

Partners: 

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Learning Objectives:

• Develop rate-setting objectives
• Determine the cost of providing water service
• Anticipate changes in revenues year-to-year by changes in use
• Measure the affordability of rates for all of your customers
• Create rate structures that reflect your rate-setting objectives
• Understand how to calculate and use financial benchmarks to assess the fiscal health of your system

Trainer: Anna Patterson, Project Director; and Alicea Easthope-Frazer, Project Director, Environmental Finance Center, UNC-Chapel Hill

Cost: Complimentary.

Continuing Education Units: This course has been pre-approved for 6.0 TCHs for Water and Wastewater Operators by Vermont DEC. 

Who Should Attend:

• Managers, owners, and operators of water systems serving less than 10,000 people, or wastewater systems with an average daily flow of less than 1 million gallons
• Decision-makers for water and wastewater utilities, including mayors, finance officers, utility managers, public works directors, city councilors, board members, tribal council members, and clerks
• Consultants and technical assistance providers serving water and wastewater systems

Partners:

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Description: You work hard to provide safe, quality drinking water to your customers at fair rates. But how are your finances? In this training, we will discuss the importance of strategies for full-cost recovery in the context of long-term planning. You will learn about the importance of a realistic revenue requirement, different approaches to pay for capital improvements, how to track and benchmark financial performance, rate design, and additional management and communication considerations for financial sustainability. This workshop will provide you with the tools to improve the fiscal health of your utility without compromising service or deferring maintenance. You will learn how to:

• Understand the importance of a realistic revenue requirement and different rate design considerations
• Plan for future capital costs and consider different funding strategies (e.g., pay-as-you-go, save-in-advance, borrow and pay later, grants)
• Calculate key financial performance benchmarks
• Design appropriate rate structures
• And more!

Presenter: Dr. Kristen Downs, Project Director, Environmental Finance Center at UNC

Certificate: This webinar has NOT been submitted for continuing education credit approval. We can provide a certificate of attendance to eligible attendees but cannot guarantee it will meet your PDH or CEU requirements.

Who Should Attend:

• Managers, owners, and operators of water systems serving less than 10,000 people, or wastewater systems with an average daily flow of less than 1 million gallons
• Decision-makers for water and wastewater utilities, including mayors, finance officers, utility managers, public works directors, city councilors, board members, tribal council members, and clerks
• Consultants and technical assistance providers serving water and wastewater systems

Partners: 

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CECs: This training is approved for 4.0 Hours for municipal waterworks and wastewater credits by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. 

Description: With limited revenues, aging infrastructure, and regulatory obligations to meet, a comprehensive approach to managing your wastewater system is vital. What information will be useful to you? How should you track your system assets? How does your aging infrastructure impact your service and expenses? Which asset(s) should you replace given limited funds, and how should you prioritize replacement? How do you know how much money you might need? Asset management provides a framework to help you solve these problems and more.

This training begins by covering Asset Management’s core components and the overall Asset Management thought-process, before focusing more specifically on the practical application of asset management concepts for data-informed decision-making using real-world examples.

Learning Objectives:

• Understanding how the practical implementation of asset management core components benefits wastewater systems dealing with aging infrastructure
• Understand how data can be used to define and track a utility’s mission and goals
• Discuss techniques, tools, and examples for developing asset inventories and what information should be included in them for robust decision making
• Know how to develop condition assessment scales and calculate asset criticality
• Understand how to effectively manage assets by tracking associated costs and activities

Trainer: Hayley Hajic, Project Director, Southwest Environmental Finance Center

Cost: Free

Please Note: Lunch will not be provided and is the responsibility of attendees.

Who Should Attend:

• Managers, owners, and operators of water systems serving less than 10,000 people, or wastewater systems with an average daily flow of less than 1 million gallons
• Decision-makers for water and wastewater utilities, including mayors, finance officers, utility managers, public works directors, city councilors, board members, tribal council members, and clerks
• Consultants and technical assistance providers serving water and wastewater systems

Partners:

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Description: Many small utilities are faced with challenges, such as limited revenue and aging infrastructure, as they strive to meet the needs of their communities. Attendees will learn about the benefits and core components of asset management and how they can begin creating an asset inventory and an actionable plan to improve the capacity and sustainability of their utility.

Leaning Objectives:

• Identify the 5 core components of asset management
• Develop an inventory of utility components
• Identify critical assets for sustained operations
• Make decisions about how to operate, maintain, repair, and replace those assets
• Set goals for level of service at a sustainable cost

Trainer: Brian Bohnsack, Program Manager; and John Colclazier, Program Manager, Wichita State University Environmental Finance Center

Cost: Free

Continuing Education Units: This training is approved for 5.0 core hours in any area for Wyoming operators (2023.0181).

Please Note: Lunch will not be provided and is the responsibility of attendees.

Who Should Attend:

• Managers, owners, and operators of water systems serving less than 10,000 people, or wastewater systems with an average daily flow of less than 1 million gallons
• Decision-makers for water and wastewater utilities, including mayors, finance officers, utility managers, public works directors, city councilors, board members, tribal council members, and clerks
• Consultants and technical assistance providers serving water and wastewater systems

Partners:

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