Objectives »» Manage your workforce without fear of litigation »»Identify opportunities for savings in capital projects »»Identify grant opportunities to offset capital expenses »»Use intergovernmental cooperation to reduce capital expenditures and share scarce human and capital resources Description This multi-disciplinary seminar will present ideas, from the perspectives of lawyers, managers an...

Alliance South Alliance Small Business Procurement Fair returns to Jacksonville, FL. ShoWorks Inc, the organizers of these MatchMaking events all over the country, know that regional small businesses will profit by meeting with the 40 plus agencies and prime contractors in attendance. The networking at this event cannot be compared to any other single marketing medium. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE OPPORTUNITIES! We have added a construction/AE segme...

Uncertain how public records and open meetings laws apply to you? Find out what New Jersey law has to say about balancing the public's right to information with the individual's right to privacy. If you're involved with a public entity or if you represent the media, or if you seek to obtain any government records, you need to know the ins and outs of state public records and open meetings laws. Join us for this seminar and you will get a pract...

This live audio conference will describe Section 6409(a) of the 2012 Middle Class Tax Relief Act, 47 U.S.C. § 1455(a), which relaxes state and local approvals for cell tower collocations and other wireless tower modifications. It will describe the many legal and technical issues under this new statute, including what towers are covered, what modifications are covered and which of the many state and local laws (zoning, codes, environmental...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) will kick-off First Thursday Seminars with the live webcast Combined Heat and Power: An Integrated Approach to Energy Resources on February 7, 2013. Experts Patricia Welesko Garland and Bob Slattery of Oak Ridge National Laboratory will offer training about technologies, applications, and successful examples to optimize heat and power resources at your site. Specifica...

Please see the web site: www.peoriaaz.gov/pace for full information. Consider these findings from the 2011 Arizona Civic Health Index 9.4 percent of Arizonans attend local meetings about local issues 10 percent of us contact or visit a public official 58.3 percent of Arizonans talk with family, friends online frequently Why the silence? Why the inaction of Arizonans? Let’s learn how to break the sound of silence and get involved in a way...

An online event on February 7, 2013 from 10:00am-12:00 EST NEWS: Adam Arthur, Virtual Platform Initiative Lead, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just added to the speaker roster. The conduct of vitally important government conferences has come under increasing fire in the past couple of years due to a need to shrink government spending, aggravated by the malfeasance by a small minority of government employees. While conference...

IDIQ Contracts: The Life Cycle of Task and Delivery Orders in Today's Procurement Environment Multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts, or IDIQs, are now the primary federal purchasing method for technology and are increasingly central to professional services, construction, transportation and other categories. The proliferation of IDIQ contract vehicles in recent years has made it difficult for: a) acquisition profes...

CYBERSPACE 2013 Symposium Please join us in beautiful Colorado Springs, February 5-7 2013, for CYBERSPACE 2013. This is our fifteenth symposium year and we are privileged once again to host some of America's most brilliant strategic thinkers and policy makers, as well as world class Industry partners and private organizations. Our dedicated volunteer staff is working hard to ensure you will enjoy our entire 2013 program. This year we will feat...

Discover how to navigate the minefields of public contracting and procurement code with ease. Do you want to know how to minimize the looming pitfalls inherent in public contracting? Now you can - attend this seminar and enhance your knowledge of the complex and always changing system of laws and regulations involved in public contracting and procurement. You'll find out not only how to effectively coordinate the public procurement process, bu...