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May 29, 2013

Agenda

Wednesday May 29

Time Session
8:30 - 9:00AM

Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 9:15AM

Welcome


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9:15 - 10:15AM

Shared Fortunes - Building a Better Georgia

The state's governor, a Republican, and the mayor of its largest city, a Democrat, discuss how they are working together to advance a common agenda.... more


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10:15 - 11:15AM

Shared Fortunes - Sorting Things Out

The twin forces of permanent fiscal scarcity and tectonic demographic shifts will greatly alter the relationships among the levels of government. Sooner or later, there... more


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11:15 - 11:30AM

Break

11:30 - 12:30PM

Concurrent Sessions

 

Management - Staffing to Win in a Post-Recession World

Attracting, training and retaining highly talented and motivated staff is critical to achieving high-performance government, and it has never been more difficult. Layoffs, furloughs, pay... more


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Regional Collaboration - Economic Development

In "Collaborate or Perish! Reaching Across Boundaries in a Networked World," Zachary Tumin of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and William Bratton, former police... more


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12:30 - 1:00PM

Lunch

1:00 - 2:00PM

Luncheon Keynote - Thomas Jefferson and the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Few economic-development endeavors have been as ambitious and perilous as Thomas Jefferson's decision to purchase the Louisiana Territory from France and then to send Meriwether... more


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2:00 - 2:15PM

Break

2:15 - 3:15PM

Concurrent Sessions

 

Management - Pension and Other Post-Employment Benefit Costs

According to the National Association of State Retirement Administrators, pensions account for about 3 percent of all state and local government spending, which is down... more


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Regional Collaboration - Meeting the Infrastructure Challenge

For decades, the research evidence has been clear that successful regions are those with well-functioning infrastructure systems. In transportation, water, wastewater treatment, energy and other... more


Presented by:
  • (Moderator) Jonathan Walters, Executive Editor, GOVERNING
  • Bob Hartnett, President and CEO, Transportation & Expressway Authority Membership of Florida
  • Steve Allred, Former Director of the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality and former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior
 

Management - Balancing Risk and Innovation

Can governments learn? There is no learning without mistakes, and yet governments historically have had an extremely low tolerance for errors. For that reason, the... more


Presented by:
  • (Moderator) Jonathan Walters, Executive Editor, GOVERNING
  • James R. Meynard, Executive Director, Georgia Firefighters' Pension Fund
  • Kevin Coughlin, Policy Initiative Advisor - Executive, Division of Long Term Care, Department of Health Services, State of Wisconsin
  • Rosa Waymon, Director, Office of Human Resource Management, Georgia Department of Human Services
3:15 - 4:15PM

Concurrent Sessions

 

Regional Collaboration - Functional Consolidation and Shared Services

Regional Collaboration - Functional Consolidation and Shared Services It is the paradox of region and place. To achieve efficiency in service delivery, we need the economies... more


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4:15 - 5:00PM

Reception

Join the GOVERNING staff, our sponsors, our speakers and your colleagues as we rehash the highlights of the day over drinks and appetizers.... more

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