Past Conferences
Presentations, handouts and other material relevant to past NADO-sponsored conferences can be found here.
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The Alabama Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy
The final presenter on the second panel was Jeff Pruitt from the Top of Alabama Regional Council of Governments. Pruitt spoke about preparing Alabama’s statewide Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and its relationship to transportation planning. The 12 regional councils...
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The Northern Maine Rail Initiative
The next presenter was Alain Ouellette from the Northern Maine Development Commission (NMDC), who spoke about saving a significant 233-mile rail corridor in his region. Aroostook County has an extensive history of industrial rail, dating back to 1891. Today, large...
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Sustainable Eastern Connecticut
...The second panel, focused on integrating transportation planning and economic development, began with a presentation by Ken Livingston, of Fitzgerald & Halliday, and Mark Paquette, of the Windham Regional Council of Governments, on creating a regional sustainability plan for eastern
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Highway Department Timesheet Program
The final speaker on the first panel was Rita Seto from the Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Planning Commission in Vermont. She developed a highway department timesheet program to help oversee the way that road foremen manage their daily activities and provide...
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RPC Involvement in the Recovery of Vermont’s Transportation Network After Tropical Storm Irene
The next presenter was Katharine Otto from the Southern Windsor County Regional Planning Commission in Vermont who spoke about recovery of the state’s transportation network after Hurricane Irene in August 2011. She first detailed the damage caused by the storm,...
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Wind Turbines and the Transportation Network
The first panel began with a presentation by Annette Bair from the Southwest Regional Development Commission, a nine-county organization in Minnesota. Bair also serves as the Southwest Clean Energy Resource Team Coordinator and is involved with the 19-county Rural Minnesota...
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2011 Know Your Region Training
Conferences 2011 NADO Annual Training Conference Regional CEDS and EDD Innovation Learning Lab (Part 1) Americana Salon 1 Growing Regional Innovation-Based Economies: The Kansas Opportunity Innovation Network This special workshop will explore an innovative partnership focused on increasing the number...
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Nuts and Bolts: Peer Exchange on Management and Operations Challenges
In this session at the 2012 Executive Directors Leadership Forum, NADO Executive Director Matthew Chase shared lessons learned from statewide assessments. View the slides below or click here... to see the forum agenda. Assessment (http://www NULL.slideshare NULL.net/nado-web/assessment-13338876) View more presentations
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Leveraging Your CEDS for Statewide and Regional Initiatives
Speakers at this session of the 2012 Executive Directors Leadership Forum included Jim Haguewood, Senior Partner at One Group Consulting; Scott Koons, Executive Director of the North Central Florida RPC; and Jeff Pruitt, Planning Director at the Top of Alabama...
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Positioning RDOs for the Future: TED Style Talks About Industry Innovations
Speakers at this session of the 2012 Executive Directors Leadership Forum included Sandy Chancey, Executive Director of the Eastern Plains Council of Governments (NM); Jim Haguewood, Senior Partner at One Group Consulting; Jeff Kiely, Executive Director of the Northwest New...