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Description: Comprehensive stormwater management planning can play a pivotal role in enabling communities to address stormwater management challenges and goals strategically, leveraging staff time and budgets to achieve the biggest impact in protecting the health and safety of residents, properties, and public assets. Community engagement is a critical component of this process, enabling utilities to tap into local knowledge around stormwater management issues, align this process with other priorities or complementary initiatives, and create a foundation for long-term, robust community engagement effort around stormwater. This webinar will share resources and highlight the experience of communities in incorporating community engagement throughout the planning process.

Learning Objectives:

• Highlight the value and role of community engagement in stormwater planning efforts.
• Share pathways, resources, and examples of how to effectively incorporate community engagement into stormwater planning efforts.
• Highlight funding, financing and technical assistance available to support stormwater planning processes in small communities.

Panelists:

• Barbara Hopkins, Executive Director, Green Infrastructure Leadership Exchange
• Claire Maulhardt, Stormwater Utility Director, Capital Region Water
• Amy Weinfurter, Director of Strategic Projects, WaterNow Alliance (Moderator)

Certificate: This training has NOT been submitted for approval of continuing education credit. We will provide a certificate of attendance to eligible attendees, but cannot guarantee it will meet your PDH or CEU requirements. 

Who Should Attend:

• Local decision-makers (mayors, city councilors, governing board members) for wastewater system serving populations of 10,000 or fewer
• Wastewater system executive management and staff
• Community-based organizations and/or watershed groups partnering, or interested in partnering, with local wastewater systems
• Anyone interested in community engagement in stormwater management and planning