nineteenth annual public works conference...

Nineteenth Annual

November 18 & 19, 2015 (Wednesday & Thursday) City of Richmond Memorial Auditorium 450 Civic Center Plaza, Richmond, CA

Public Works Conference 2015

A career development opportunity for public works and industry personnel performing maintenance, operations, engineering and management on street, sewer, water, flood control, and general

infrastructure projects.

Conference Co-Chairs

Frank Kennedy Kennedy & Associates

David Ferguson City of Tracy

Committee:

Conference Planning Committee

PRESENTATION TOPICS:

WHO SHOULD

ATTEND?

Maintenance Personnel

Operations Personnel

Planners

Engineers

Technicians

Inspectors

Supervisors

Superintendents

Managers

Public Works Directors

April Malvino BKF Engineers

Art Lake Lake Traffic Solutions

Brian Balbas Contra Costa County

Cheryl Childs Inspection Services

Ed Slintak CSG Consulting

Edric Kwan Town of Moraga

Gigi MacTaggart APWA Administrative

Jane Caffey Safework, Inc

Jerry Bradshaw SCI

Joubin Pakpour Pakpour Consulting Group

Milt Rayford City of Richmond

Pattie McNamee Quincy Engineers Inc

Raewyn Butcher Ghirardelli Associates

Russ Eberwein Marin County

Scott Alman Harris and Associates

Scott Dmytrow Telfer Highway Tech

Tracy Bartlett NCE

Victor Venuta Basalite Engineered Prod.

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Time

2:00-2:30

1:00-2:00

10:45-11:45

10:30-10:45

2:30-3:30 “DIRECTORS ROUND TABLE” -

Engineering/Management

Street/Road Stormwater/Water/Sewers

Maintenance/Safety

Environmental/ Sustainability

Creek/Flood Surveying

11:45-1:00

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WELCOME AND HOUSEKEEPING, FRANK KENNEDY

9:00-9:30

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION

9:30-10:30

8:00-9:00

7:00 - 8:00

7:45 - 8:00

Wednesday, November 18th

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Spend an hour with 10 public works directors in a casual roundtable discussion

regarding upcoming projects and purchases. Open to all conference attendees!

Superpave Section39 and Local Agencies:

What’s Next?

James M. Signore

How To Do More With Less: Pavement

Preservation

Cesar Lara

Jerry Dankbar

An Introduction to the Envision

Sustainability Rating System

Russell Moore Richard Gomez

Community Support for Flood Assessments

in Delta Islands

John Bliss Jeff Butzlaff

Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO)

Operations and Spill Volume Estimation

Dan Stevenson

Trends and Developments in Law

and Practice

Ron Bernal

Arne B. Sandberg

Streamline Data Collection of your Stormwater Assets

Marcy Kamerath

Dave Rios

A City’s Sidewalk Trip-Hazard Repair Program to Reduce

Liability

Joseph Ortega Dan Takasugi

Stormwater Trash Capture Device

Operation & Maintenance

Dan Stevenson

Public Contracts Overview & Update

On Recent Legislation

Benjamin T. Reyes II Richard Pio Roda

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GENERAL SESSION (EXHIBIT HALL)

APWA and You! - Brad Peterson &

Maximizing Your Memory in a Safety Environment - Michael Green

How Best to Protect Asphalt Overlays with

Interlayers

Nicholas Reck

Integrating Restoration into

Infrastructure Repair Projects

Jason Drew

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Maintenance/Safety



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A Mentoring Success Story

Carrie Ricci Warren Lai

9:00-9:30

2:00-2:30

1:00-2:00

10:45-11:45

10:30-10:45

9:30-10:30

8:00-9:00

7:00 - 8:00

7:45 - 8:00

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RAFFLE PRIZES AND CLOSING

WELCOME AND HOUSEKEEPING, FRANK KENNEDY

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION

Thursday, November 19th

2:30-3:30

11:45-1:00

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Best Practices in Fleet Management

David Renschler

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Mobile Laser Scanning for Roadway Surveying & Mapping

Jeremy Evans

David Paul Johnson

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The Three I’s, Defining Poor

Employee Performance

Greg Meyer

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Improving Capital Improvement

Program Reporting

Doug De Vries Bill Levesque

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Creating a Culture of Service

Andrew Clough

Are Complete Streets for Everyone?

Karl Bjarke Julie Chiu

Building Your Own Media: Managing the

Mainstream Media during a Crisis

Laura Cole

Sustainable Pavement Approach for Los Angeles County

Roads

Marco Estrada Greg Kelly

Capital Budgets Can Solve All Public

Works’ Problems!

Liam Garland

Hot-in-Place Recycling: A Real

No-Brainer

Pat Faster

Cold In-Place Recycling - Expanded

Asphalt Method (CIR-EAM)

Mike McElroy Anthony Allopenna

Concrete Overlays: Increased Durability

at a Lower Price

Victor Cervantes Clay Slocum

Grazing vs. Herbicide, Vegetation Treatments at Walnut Creek: An Experimental Study

Cece Sellgren Linda Aberbom

Water Metering Projects - Challenges

and Opportunities

Troy Schiess Neil Anderson

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Standing out in the Hiring Process

Maria Blue Edric Kwan

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WEDNESDAY - DAY ONE

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Superpave Section 39 and Local Agencies, What’s next?

James M. Signore NCE

How to do more with less: Pavement Preservation

Cesar Lara Jerry Dankbar

Telfer Highway Technologies City of Roseville Public Works

How Best to Protect Asphalt Overlays with Interlayers

Nicholas Reck Tensar International Corporation

A City’s Sidewalk Trip-Hazard Repair Program to Reduce Liability

Joseph Ortega Dan Takasugi

Precision Concrete Cutting City of Sonoma

Trends and Developments in Law and Practice (in Public Contracting law)

Ron Bernal Arne B. Sandberg

City of Antioch Lozano Smith

Public Contracts Overview & Update On Recent Legislation and Case Law

Benjamin T. Reyes II Richard Pio Roda

Meyers Nave Meyers Nave

Community Support for Flood Assessments in Delta Islands

John Bliss Jeff Butzlaff

SCI BIMID

An Introduction to the Envision Sustainability Rating System

Russell Moore, Rossana G. D’Antonio

Vali Cooper & Associates Los Angeles County Department of PW

Integrating Restoration into Infrastructure Repair Projects

Jason Drew NCE

Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO) Operations and Spill Volume Estimation

Dan Stevenson City of Emeryville

Streamline Data Collection of your Stormwater Assets

Marcy Kamerath Dave Rios

NCE

Stormwater Trash Capture Device Operation & Maintenance

Dan Stevenson City of Emeryville

APWA and YOU!!

Maximizing Your Memory in a Safety Environment

Brad Peterson

Michael Green

APWA

Memory Spring

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MAIN EXHIBIT ROOM

Caltrans new Section 39 (Superpave) presents a dramatic change to the way AC mixes are going to be designed and specified statewide. Over time, these changes will trickle down to affect local agencies, as the AC mixes agencies have been using and specifying will no longer be available. For local agencies, what does this mean and how can they adapt?

Pavement Preservation is “a program employing a network level, long-term strategy that enhances pavement performance by using an integrat-ed, cost-effective set of practices that extend pavement life, improve safety and meet motorist expectations.” The class will cover preservation theory, applications, strategies and examples of agencies that have benefitted from it.

This presentation will help you select the best asphalt interlayer to protect your asphalt overlays, for your unique traffic and pavement distresses. You will be introduced to the full interlayer product range properties, whether it be tensile strength, or product geometry, understanding their impact on performance. This presentation will cover boundary conditions and installation do’s and don’ts by reviewing examples.

A review of sidewalk management best practices, methods available to partner with adjacent property owners to pay for sidewalk and other

repairs, adjacent property owner’s duty to repair city sidewalks according to the Streets and Highway Code and applicable local ordinances, and

legal effect of subsequent repairs on the entity’s potential liability. An update on the “Gonzales v. City of San Jose” case discussing liability.

This presentation by a public works director/city engineer and an attorney will trends in the industry and change in law so that attendees will learn how to maximize efficiency on their projects and avoid or minimize claims. By providing “front line” and legal perspectives, this presenta-tion will entertain and instruct.

Public contracting rules related to preparing bid documents, managing bid protests, and complying with prevailing wage law are complicated! Being knowledgeable and savvy about the legal issues in public contracting will help you manage your public works contracts. This session is a real-world, practical overview of public contracting, along with practice tips to keep your projects on schedule and on-budget.

Learn how a small Delta community met the challenge of dwindling revenues, which threatened to block access to invaluable State funding grants intended for critical levee repairs. Choosing the benefit assessment process, improvement district staff had to work with engineers and community members to find ways that were both acceptable to property owners as well as compliant with Prop 218

Learn about the Envision Sustainability Rating System and how to apply it to your project- LA County will be presenting a real world example with their Platinum awarded Sun Valley Watershed project. Learn also how to become an Envision Sustainability Professional so that you can lead your team and community in promoting a more sustainable world.

Integrating Restoration into Infrastructure Repair Project. Ways to think about restoration as a part of infrastructure repair. *Potential to stream-line permitting *New funding source *Make projects more competitive for federal funding The types of projects where we can typically look at integrating restoration is repair of channels, ditches, culverts, bridges, utility upgrades – overhead or subsurface, bike and pedestrian trails.

This workshop provides an overview of sanitary sewer collection systems operations, maintenance, and regulatory compliance issues with an emphasis on Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO) spill volume estimation for regulatory reporting. The program content focuses on the five most common methods used for SSO spill volume estimating. The content is delivered from a practical real-life field response perspective.

Stormwater assets often exist in hard to reach areas. This makes stormwater asset data collection difficult to automate. We present a digital data collection method using ArcGIS and mobile phones that streamlines data collection and improves your asset management. The method quickly establishes your spatial location, sends real-time updates, and links to online maps for tracking and presenting results.

This workshop provides an overview of maintenance, operations, and regulatory compliance issues related with storm water conveyance sys-tems with an emphasis on trash capture device maintenance and operations for NPDES permit regulatory compliance in California. The content is focused trash capture device technology maintenance programs considerations. The content is delivered from a practical real-life field response

WEDNESDAY - DAY ONE

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Learn what the National and Local APWA chapters have to offer YOU! This presentation will focus on educational and other opportunities. There will also be a discussion of web based training methods and programs available.

Overwhelmed with remembering what it takes to keep it all together in today’s safety environment? Are you finding yourself a little forgetful? Attend Maximizing Your Memory in a Safety Environment! 1. Test your current memory 2. Learn vital memory influencers 3. Learn keys to making things memorable 4. Learn a memory technique to improve memorization of procedures 5. Have fun!



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SESSION TOPIC SPEAKER AGENCY

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Concrete Overlays – Increased Durability at a Lower Price

Victor Cervantes Clay Slocum

CEMEX California Nevada Cement Association

CCIR Preserves Your Agency’s Assets Mike McElroy Anthony Allopenna

Graniterock

Hot-in-Place Recycling - A Real No-Brainer Pat Faster

Gallagher Asphalt

Sustainable Pavement Approach for Los Angeles County Roads

Marco Estrada Greg Kelly

Pavement Recycling Systems Inc. Los Angeles County

Water Metering Projects - Challenges and Opportunities

Troy Schiess Neil Anderson

Terracon

Are Complete Streets for Everyone? Karl Bjarke Julie Chiu

City of Morgan Hill Harris & Associates

Capital Budgets Can Solve All Public Works’ Problems!

Liam Garland City of Alameda

Grazing vs. Herbicide, Vegetation Treatments at Walnut Creek: An Experimental Study

Cece Sellgren Linda Aberbom

CCC Flood Control and Water Conservation LSA Associates, Inc.

The Three I’s, Defining Poor Employee Performance

Greg Meyer City of Woodland

Creating a Culture of Service Andrew Clough AB Clough Consulting

A Mentoring Success Story

Carrie Ricci Warren Lai

Contra Costa County Public Works

Standing out in the Hiring Process Edric Kwan Maria Blue

Town of Moraga City of Richmond

Best Practices in Fleet Management David Renschler City of Fairfield

Improving CIP Reporting Doug De Vries Bill Levesque

City of Seattle City of San Ramon

Managing Mainstream Media During a Crisis Laura Cole Cole Pro Media

Mobile Laser Scanning for Roadway Surveying and Mapping

Jeremy Evans David Paul Johnson

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DESCRIPTIONS

THURSDAY - DAY TWO

Innovative developments in concrete pavement technologies have made paving rigid pavements more cost competitive at the first cost basis. Con-crete Overlays can be placed over an existing pavement which utilizes materials agencies have already purchased saving tax payer dollars. This session will cover how concrete overlays can be an alternative strategy in the rehabilitation of transportation projects creating a more competitive paving market.

Cold-In-Place Recycling (CIR) Graniterock’s FMG Division has recycled more than 15 million square feet of Bay Area roads using this green technology. We use a state-of-the-art single unit train, called the Wirtgen 3800CR, a highly trained crew and Caltrans certified mobile laboratory and technicians to recycle the top 3-6 inches of existing road. CIR saves agencies time and money.

Gallagher Asphalt helped pioneer Hot-in-Place Recycling (HIR) over 65 years ago. Today, we’ve refined it to an art. HIR is an in-place road surface rehabilitation process that restores cracked, brittle and irregular, worn asphalt pavement. HIR is a proven solution, having been used by towns, cities, counties and DOTs across the nation for decades.

In a state very conscious of day-to-day environmental impacts, it stands to reason that sustainable objectives have quickly moved from case-based applications to overarching operational concepts. With 7,400 lane-miles to keep watch over, L.A. County operators look to have no shortage of places to apply their sustainable methods, both in the immediate future and, perhaps, indefinitely.

This presentation will provide you with ideas you can use to manage your water-metering project in a timely and cost effective manner. Whether you are installing a new water metering system, upgrading an older system to SMART meters or replacing old water main lines, there are a myriad of challenges and opportunities for managing these projects successfully while minimizing negative impacts to residential and commercial properties.

In 2015, the City of Morgan Hill embarked on an ambitious community outreach pilot program, converting Monterey Road into a temporary com-plete street for a safer, less noisy, more bike-and-pedestrian-friendly downtown. The presentation will discuss benefits from the pilot program, and additional insights into complete streets programs in communities.

Come learn how to develop and, more importantly, communicate your capital budget. The right capital budget can solve many of your agency’s challenges, protect it from claims of mismanagement, and win more money to maintain public infrastructure.

Contra Costa County Flood Control implemented a three-year study at Walnut Creek to determine whether it is more effective to have ungulates or herbicide control vegetation. The study reviewed the characteristics of the vegetation prior to and after treatments. Our presentation reveals how these treatments affect vegetation species height and species composition, water quality, erosion, and overall vegetation control.

This session your will learn simple but effective techniques to help you determine which of the three basic employee behaviors you are experiencing and what to do about it. This technique is called the Three I’s (i.e. Incompetence, Inefficient, and Insubordinate). The Three-I’s are easy to use and helpful in differentiating training issues or coaching opportunities from potential disciplinary priorities.

Create a Culture of Service and improve the quality of your Agency's Customer Service delivery. This session will look at the barriers that get in the way of good customer service and use the experiences and lessons learned from the City of Berkeley Public Works Department's on-going efforts to develop “an atmosphere where excellent customer service thrives".

Recognizing the need to continue developing staff at all levels within the organization, Contra Costa County Public Works Department developed a Mentor Program that is available to all employees. Attendees will learn about the CCCPWD’s success story, what a mentor is and is not, and what skills mentors should have. Attendees will also leave the session with strategies of how to set up a mentor program within their own organization.

“In It to Win It”: Come learn from Human Resources and Public Works professionals’ ways to stand out in the application/interview process in order to advance in your field.

Do you know if your fleet program is providing the most efficient service to their customers? This presentation will provide industry standards for running an efficient fleet operation including fleet metrics, service level agreements and sample business plans to take your fleet to the next level.

Producing organizational Capital Improvement Program Annual and Progress Reports is a process that involves many hours of planning and coordi-nation between nearly every city department, the public and city leadership. Converting the Capital Improvement Program Excel spreadsheets to Microsoft Access can greatly streamline the process and lead to a more efficient, reliable and informative product

Tired of Inaccurate Stories? Frustrated with media reports that only make you look bad? Want to see some good news? Then this is the session for you. Learn how to manage the mainstream media and how to tell your own news stories using social media. It’s all about getting your positive mes-sages out to the public.

This Mobile Mapping “LiDAR” laser scanning system is capable of collecting over one million survey-grade points per second, while traveling at traffic speeds up to 65 miles per hour. When this laser scanning technology is coupled with the appropriate project planning, and the right expertise; Mobile Mapping will improve project roadway safety, and also generate accurate, cost-effective survey deliverables.



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Booth # 2015 Conference Exhibitors

Booth # 2015 Conference Exhibitors

1 Tensar

18 NCE

2 Swinerton

19 Ghirardelli Associates

3 American Pavement Systems, Inc

20 GeoStablization

4 EZ Street

21 Graniterock

5 Beehive

22 CSG

6 Western Emulsions

23 Owen Equipment Sales

7 Inspection Services Inc.

24 Lake Traffic Solutions

8 Ennis Flint

25 Basalite

9 Crafco

26 Telfer Highway Technologies

10 Alliance Geosynthetics

27 Anchor Engineering

11 Precision Concrete Cutting

28 Intermountain Slurry

12 Tricor

29 Terracon Consultants, Inc

13 Contech

30 AMS

14 Gallagher Asphalt

31 Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc.

15 Meyers Nave

32 BKF Engineers

16 Reed & Graham

33 3M

17 Maxwell Products

34 Quincy Engineering Inc

A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THE

CITY OF RICHMOND

AND ALL OUR WONDERFUL VOLUNTEERS!!

2015 APWA Public Works Conference November 18th and 19th, 2015 On-line registration: https://northernca.apwa.net/Registration/Event/5039

nineteenth annual public works conference...

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