2004 FALL CONFERENCE November 3 rd, 4 th and 5 th, 2004 Fond du Lac

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1 American Public Works Association Wisconsin Chapter 2004 FALL CONFERENCE November 3 rd, 4 th and 5 th, 2004 Fond du Lac Conference Committee Mark Lentz Stephen Kees Lori Agnew Mary Pinnow 1 North Main Street Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

2 October 1, 2004 Greetings from Fond du Lac! Please find enclosed the technical program and registration information for the 2004 APWA Fall Conference. We look forward to having everyone visit Fond du Lac to help us celebrate 50 years of Public Works in Wisconsin. This years Fall Conference will be held at the historic Ramada Plaza Hotel in downtown Fond du Lac. We ll begin the conference on Wednesday with a golf outing at Whispering Springs Golf Course and an afternoon tour of Mercury Marine. To complete the day, we ll have the Get Acquainted Party with a pig roast at Whispering Springs Clubhouse. Shuttles will be available from the Ramada to the pig roast and back again throughout the evening. As always, Thursday and Friday will include many interesting technical sessions and for the guests, some tours and shopping sure to entertain. Thursday evening s banquet will be held in the Crystal Ballroom at the Ramada we ve got some great food and entertainment scheduled. Friday s lunch will complete the conference with the installation of new officers and presentation of door prizes. The Ramada Plaza Hotel has a Starbucks, TruBlu lounge with entertainment, Cibo Restaurant, fitness center, pool and covered parking next to the hotel. Fond du Lac is a wonderful fall destination so mark your calendars and send in your registrations. This will be a conference you won t soon forget so please join us on November 3rd, 4th and 5th. Sincerely, Mark O. Lentz Lori Agnew Stephen Kees Mary Pinnow City of Fond du Lac Department of Public Works

3 Guest Program Thursday Galloway House & Village with Catered Lunch on grounds Kristmas Kringle Shoppe Tour and Shopping Lightsmith Shop Tour and Shopping Friday Little Farmer Orchard Caramel apples, cider, pies and muffins available and if weather permits, hayride through the orchard. Get Acquainted Party Enjoy the traditional Pig Roast at Whispering Springs Clubhouse, 380 Whispering Springs Drive. Transportation will be available from the Ramada and back at the end of the evening. Wednesday Community Tour Mercury Marine Shuttle will be leaving Ramada at 1:15. Please bring steel toed shoes if you have them. No cameras/camera phones allowed. Wednesday Golf Outing 10:00 AM Whispering Springs Golf Course located at 380 Whispering Springs Drive. Contact Whispering Springs at Please visit wisconsin.apwa.net for updates and registration forms! For additional information or questions, please contact Lori Agnew at (920) Hotel Information Ramada Plaza Hotel (920) North Main Street, Fond du Lac WI Room Rate is $57 for One or $67 Two Persons (Rooms are held through Oct. 13) Country Inn & Suites (920) Merwin Way, Fond du Lac WI Room Rate is $69.00 (Rooms are held through Oct. 20) Baymont Inn & Suites (920) Holiday Lane, Fond du Lac WI Room Rate is $60 (Rooms are held through Oct. 20) Please indicate reservation is for American Public Works Association Check in: 3:00 p.m. Check out: 11:00 a.m.

4 Wednesday, November 3, :00 pm-5:00 pm Registration: Ramada Plaza Hotel - Lobby 1:15 pm-3:30 pm Mercury Marine Tour Leave from Ramada Plaza Hotel Shuttle provided 4:00 pm-5:00 pm Executive Committee Meeting Regency Room 5:30 pm-9:00 pm Get Acquainted Party: Whispering Springs Clubhouse Pig Roast Shuttle provided throughout evening to and from Ramada 7:30 am-12:00 pm Registration: Ramada Plaza Hotel - Lobby 7:00 am-8:00 am Breakfast Buffet Crystal Ballroom Thursday, November 4, :00 am-8:30 am Conference Kick-Off Mark Lentz, Director of Public Works Crystal Ballroom Community Welcome Tom Ahrens, Acting City Manager and Steve Michels, City Council President 8:30 am-9:45 am General Session Crystal Ballroom Dreaming Big: Public Works in Wisconsin, Past, Present Future? David Schulz, Director Infrastructure Technology Institute Northwestern University 9:45 am-10:15 am Morning Break End of Promenade 10:15 am-11:30 am Concurrent Sessions Session A Trends in Public Works Construction Contracting Crystal Ballroom Hugh Anderson, Atty. Wickwire, Gavin Madison Example Fond du Lac s Sidewalk Replacement Program Mark Lentz, City of Fond du Lac Jason Weis, Omnni Associates, Inc. Session B Renaissance Room What You Need to Know: Recent Trends & New Developments in Water-Rights Legislation and Regulation Jim Christman, Atty. Richmond Virginia Paul Kent, Atty. - Wisconsin 12:00 pm-1:30 pm Lunch Anniversary Recognition of Past Chapter Presidents Crystal Ballroom Bill Kappel, Wisconsin Chapter President 1:45 pm-2:45 pm General Session Crystal Ballroom Managing in a Data Rich Environment Charles Hansen, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hansen Information Technologies Example Kevin Freber, Network Administrator, Watertown 2:45 pm-3:15 pm Afternoon Break End of Promenade 3:15 pm-4:00 pm General Session Crystal Ballroom The Inevitable Future of Wisconsin Terry Ludeman, Council of Economic Advisors, Department of Workforce Development 4:00 pm-4:15 pm General Session Renaissance Room Chapter Business Meeting 4:15 pm-5:00 pm Chapter Committee Meeting Regency Room 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Social Hour Renaissance/Prefunction Room 6:30 pm-9:00 pm Chapter Banquet & Awards Crystal Ballroom Entertainment RSVP Friday, November 5, :30 am-9:15 am Registration at Ramada Plaza Hotel - Lobby 7:00 am-8:00 am Breakfast Buffet Crystal Ballroom

5 8:00 am-9:00 am General Session Crystal Ballroom History Matters: What Can We Learn From Public Works in the Past Martin Molosi, Professor, University of Houston 9:00 am-9:15 am Morning Break End of Promenade 9:15 am-10:15 am Concurrent Session Session A Future of Transportation Funding Crystal Ballroom Kevin Soucie, Soucie & Associates Session B Renaissance Room The Role of Public Works in Community Redevelopment Mike Lemens, Bob Warren 10:15 am-11:30 am General Session Crystal Ballroom Workforce Development Joe Toole, Office of Professional Development, FHWA Washington, DC Example, Fond du Lac School to Work Program, Carrie Simon and Laura Parr, Fond du Lac Association of Commerce 11:30 am- Noon Room Checkout Noon - 1:30 pm Lunch Crystal Ballroom Installation of New Officers for 2005 Door Prizes Speaker Information David Schulz is the first Director of the Infrastructure Technology Institute and Adjunct Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University. A transportation engineer and planner, he came to Northwestern in 1992 after a quarter-century career in the public sector including Deputy Public Works Commissioner and Budget Director of the City of Chicago and Budget Director, Parks Director, and elected County Executive of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, as well as transportation planning agencies in southeastern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois. His professional interests include public infrastructure management, land use and infrastructure, and infrastructure project implementation. Hugh N. Anderson is an attorney with Wickwire Gavin of Madison and his practice areas include construction, surety and fidelity, insurance and environmental law. Some of his client experience includes defending project owners against claims involving misrepresentation of existing site conditions, delays and failure to adequately administer the project. Mr. Anderson received his B.A. and M.S. from the University of Wisconsin- Madison, and his J.D. from Stanford Law School. His publications include State Public Construction Law Source Book and Fifty State Public Construction Contracting. Mr. Anderson educates members of various professional and trade organizations on legal issues through his speaking engagements. James N. Christman is a nationally recognized attorney, having practiced public utility, environmental and water rights law for 28 years. He maintains detailed knowledge of current water rights legislation and regulation. He has extensive experience writing and lecturing on water rights issues. Mr. Christman earned a B.S. in Physics from the University of Illinois before receiving his law degree from the University of Michigan and is a lecturer at the College of William & Mary. He is a partner in the firm of Hunton & Williams in Richmond, VA. Charles A. Hansen is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hansen Information Technologies. He has been with the company since 1986 and has been a member of the Board of Directors since Chuck began his career with Arthur Andersen & Co. and later served as Vice President, Finance for a Texas-based New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) bank holding company. After returning to California, Chuck worked with Menlo Ventures and became Vice President of a computer graphics company, later sold to E.I. DuPont. Chuck has been a visiting course lecturer at the Department of Engineering Professional Development, University of Wisconsin, Madison, for over ten years. Chuck received his B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley (1978) and his M.B.A. from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA (1982). Terry F. Ludeman is Chief of the Office of Economic Advisors in the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development. He also served as Chief of the Local Workforce Planning Section and as the Department's Labor Market Analyst for the Waukesha, Ozaukee, Washington county area. Mr. Ludeman has been developing and providing labor market information for Wisconsin since Mr. Ludeman received two Bachelor degrees from the University of Wisconsin - Parkside and a Masters degree in Economics from Mankato State University. Martin V. Melosi is Professor of History at the University of Houston. He is internationally acknowledged to be a leading figure in the history and policy of public works. The author of nine influential books in urban history, environmental history, and diplomatic history, Professor Melosi is an international authority on pollution and urban technology, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Southern Denmark, the University of Paris and the University of Helsinki. His books include Effluent America, Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America, Coping with Abundance, Garbage in the Cities, and Pollution and Reform in American Cities. Professor Melosi, Past President of the National Council on Public History and the American Society of Environmental History, is director of the Institute for Public History. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded him a major grant resulting in the award-winning book entitled The Sanitary City. Kevin Soucie is a consultant on transportation policy and government affairs with Soucie & Associates, based in Milwaukee. He received his B.A. in economics and political science from McGill and his M.A. in urban planning from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He was elected to three terms in the Wisconsin Assembly from 1974 through 1980 and chaired its transportation committee during his third term. He served as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs for Milwaukee County from 1989 through His transportation consulting work has encompassed freight rail, highways, and urban transit issues. He has chaired the Milwaukee City Transportation Commission and has been a member of the Milwaukee City Plan Commission. Joe Toole joined the Federal Highway Administration in 1975 and has held various positions both in the field and in Headquarters offices. Joe is FHWA's Director of Professional Development and a member of the Agency's Leadership Team. In addition to directing the NHI, LTAP and University programs, the office also sets the strategic direction for all internal and external training and development activities.

6 Conference Activity Site Map Directions to the Ramada from Milwaukee Take 41 North to Highway 175 (Main Street). Stay on Main Street for about two miles. The Ramada is on the corner of Main and Division Streets. Directions to the Ramada from Madison Take Highway 151 North into Fond Du Lac, stay on Highway 151 to third stop light, turn right on Western Avenue. Go to second stop light (this should be Main Street) and turn left on Main Street. Go approximately five blocks and the Ramada is on Main and Division Streets. Directions to the Ramada from Appleton Take 41 South to Highway 23 Exit. Go East (turn left off of exit) on Highway 23. Stay right on Highway 23 until Main Street (you will be going through five stop lights). On the sixth light turn right on Main Street. Stay on Main Street for three blocks. The Ramada is located on Main and Division Streets. Thursday November 4, 2004 Friday, November 5, 2004 APWA Fall Conference Guest Tour 8:30 AM Meet in Lobby of the Ramada Plaza Depart for Tour of Galloway House & Village 11:30 AM Lunch in the Blakely Museum at Galloway House & Village 1:00 PM Kristmas Kringle Shoppe Tour & Shopping 3:00 PM Lightsmith Shop Tour, Demonstration & Shopping 4:00 PM Return to the Ramada Plaza 8:30 AM Meet in Lobby of the Ramada Plaza Depart for the Little Farmer Orchard 11:00 AM Return to the Ramada Plaza

7 Wisconsin Chapter 2004 Fall Conference City of Fond du Lac Registration Form Fee Schedule Member Registration Before 10/22 After 10/22 Fees Registration Information Full Conference (includes all activities) $150 $170 APWA Membership ID# Guest with Member (Thursday/Friday tours Yes No ) Name One Day with Lunch (Thursday Friday ) Guest Name Student Registration Organization Thursday with Lunch $20 $25 Friday with Lunch Mailing Address Non-Member Registration City, State/Zip Full Conference (includes all activities) $200 $210 Telephone Guest with Non-Member Fax One Day with Lunch (Thursday Friday ) A la carte Activity Fees (if not a full conference registrant) Get Acquainted Party $25 $30 Banquet Meal Choice: Registrant Thursday Lunch Guest Broiled Walleye Pike Sliced Roast Tenderloin Broiled Walleye Pike Sliced Roast Tenderloin Social Hour/Banquet Thursday Evening Friday Lunch Total: First APWA-Wisconsin Conference? Yes No Mercury Marine Tour? Yes No Name required if attending: Wednesday golf outing at Whispering Springs 10:00 AM - Call Whispering Springs Golf Club for tee time Make checks payable to: APWA Wisconsin Chapter Return completed forms/check to: Lori Agnew City of Fond du Lac APWA Wisconsin Chapter Website: wisconsin.apwa.net PO Box 150 Fond du Lac WI