How to Engage Residents in Sustainability Initiatives



Do you have great sustainability initiatives, but low participation in them? Join this interactive forum for strategies on engaging your residents and businesses in sustainability efforts. Discussions will also address ensuring that your zoning codes and ordinances encourage residential and commercial participation while reducing barriers for those efforts. Join this forum to learn how to encourage behavior changes through updating zoning codes, model codes, benefits of code unification, and how you can leverage your zoning code or ordinances to further your sustainability efforts. 2, 9

MODERATORS & SPEAKERS
Speaker: Marta Goldsmith, Executive Director of the Form Based Codes Institute at Smart Growth America, Smart Growth America, Washington, DC
Speaker: Susanne Rasmussen, Director of Environmental and Transportation Planning, City of Cambridge, Cambridge, MA
Speaker: Melissa Valadez-Cummings, Deputy City Manager, City of Cedar Hill, Cedar Hill, TX

What We Have Is a Failure to Deliberate: Reframing Local Government Management as Deliberative Practice



Forum participants will develop awareness of deliberative practice as an alternative form of communication and participation within organizations and whole communities to address concerns including interpersonal conflict, citizen opposition, and discovery of solutions to public problems that range from mundane to wickedly complex. You will experience deliberative process through interactive exercises to name and frame issues and identify tensions and tradeoffs while considering solutions. Professional managers and students alike will access tools for supporting deliberative practice in their communities. 2, 9 

MODERATORS & SPEAKERS
Speaker: Thomas Bryer, Professor, University of Central Florida, Davenport, FL
Speaker: Martin Carcasson, Professor, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Speaker: Bryna Helfer, Assistant County Manager & Director of Communications, County of Arlington, Arlington, VA
Speaker: Cheryl Hilvert, Montgomery, OH
Speaker: Valerie Lemmie, Director of Exploratory Research , The Kettering Foundation, Dayton, OH
Speaker: Doug Linkhart, President, National Civic League, Denver, CO
Speaker: Timothy Shaffer, Ph.D., Assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies and the assistant director of the Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy at Kansas, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

City Management, Performance Evidence, and the “New Will”: Reducing Poverty, Inequality, and Racial Injustice Fifty Years after the Kerner Commission



In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson’s National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known as the Kerner Commission, concluded that urban America had made little progress in reducing poverty, inequality, and racial injustice. In its Fifty-Year Update of the Kerner Commission report, published in 2018, the Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation concluded that the nation still had made little progress but had at least learned a great deal about what works and what doesn’t work. In this forum, the foundation will review the evidence on urban economic, education, criminal justice, housing, and neighborhood policies that work. Local government managers will be challenged to identify evidence-based programs in their localities and to create what the Kerner Commission called the “new will” necessary to scale up success. One goal will be to begin to overcome the present deep divisions in American society. 3.

MODERATORS & SPEAKERS
Speaker: Alan Curtis, President and CEO , Eisenhower Foundation , Washington, DC
Speaker: Gregory Squires, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Public Policy & Public Administration, George Washington University, Washington, DC