APWA Nevada eNewsletter - September 2013 

Southern Branch

September Luncheon Meet and Greet
Prior to our September Luncheon, the Southern Branch Board invited leaders from our local public entities to attend a “meet and greet” in order to promote the benefits of APWA programs to their respective agency and to garner ideas to increase public participation from the entity leaders.  This event was highly successful and we look forward to implementing some of the ideas that were provided.   The Southern Branch would like to thank the attendees for taking the time out of their busy schedules to support the organization and provide such valuable input.

• Dr. Qiong Liu, P.E. PTOE – City of North Las Vegas Public Works Director
• Randy DeVaul, P.E. – City of North Las Vegas Deputy Public Works Director
• Reed Scheppmann – City of North Las Vegas Utilities Director
• Jorge Cervantes, P.E. PTOE – City of Las Vegas Public Works Director
• Doa Meade, P.E. – Las Vegas Valley Water District Engineering Services Manager
• Greg Kodweis, P.E. – Las Vegas Valley Water District Distribution Systems Manager
• Gale Fraser, P.E. – Clark County Regional Flood Control District General Manager
• Randy Tarr, P.E. – Clark County Assistant County Manager
• David Swallow, P.E. – Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada Director of Engineering Services – Capital Projects
• Tracy Larkin Thomason, P.E. PTOE CPM – Nevada Department of Transportation Deputy Director for Southern Nevada
• Mark Hobaica, AIA – City of Henderson Public Works City Architect
• Robert Herr, P.E. – City of Henderson Assistant Public Works Director

September Luncheon
The September 5th luncheon hosted Fire Chief Fernandez Leary from Clark County Fire Department along  with Captain Brett Zimmerman and Nicole Hart from Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and Jennifer Ramieh from the Red Cross, who spoke on the historic Carpenter 1 fire emergency, evacuation and containment.    The luncheon was sponsored by Atkins and had 99 members attend, including many of our meet and greet attendees!

October Luncheon
The October 3rd luncheon will have Al Jackowiak from the City of Henderson discussing the new Parking Lot and Detention Basin guidelines that have been recently included in the Clark County Regional Flood Control District’s Hydrologic Criteria and Drainage Design Manual.

October Family Picnic
Mark your calendars to Annual Family Picnic Sunday October 6th at Mt. Crest Park from 12:00PM to 4:00PM.  The APWA Southern Branch is joining forces with ASCE to provide a fun-filled event for members and families.  Famous Dave's is catering.  DJ Mike Pacini will be spinning the tracks.  The Young Professionals will take on the Senior Members in another exciting game of kickball. There are several activities are planned to keep you and your family entertained throughout the afternoon.

Northern Branch
The 6th Annual “End of Summer BBQ” for APWA Nevada Northern Branch was once again a great success. The event was held on August 15th and was sponsored by Harris & Associates and Terracon, who have proudly sponsored the event every year since its inception in 2008. Branches very own “Chef Extraordinaire” Ed Cook, provided an exceptional Tri-Tip BBQ with all the trimmings again this year. He finds a way to make it better every year!

Register Now for the 2013 APWA Nevada Fall Conference
This years’ conference will be held at Harrahs Lake Tahoe on Sept. 25th – 27th.  Our theme is Public Works: Undercover Heroes.  The keynote speaker will be Chris Baum, director of the RSCVA and Thursday’s lunch speaker is Pickles cartoonist, Brian Crane.

We still have room for a couple more speakers.  Visit Nevada.APWA.net to download the call for papers.  Online registration is available at www.RegOnline.com/1244260.  Call or email Deanna Gray with any questions: dgray@cfareno.com or 775.856.1150.

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