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Workshops

All workshops on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are at the
Yakima Convention Center and Red Lion Hotel Yakima Center.

Leadership

  • Communicating with Your Citizens – It’s a Two-Way Street (pre-conference)
  • Courageous Leadership
  • Communicating Across the Generations
  • Getting Everyone on the Same Page: Situational Leadership for Councils (pre-conference)
  • Sustainable Workforce – What is it and How to Get One
  • The Rogue Councilmember
  • Value Based Decision Making in the Public Sector

The Essentials

  • Basics of Budgeting
  • Budgeting for Capital Projects
  • Doing the Right Thing Part 1: Auditing Standards
  • Doing the Right Thing Part 2: Open Public Meetings/Public Records
  • Jurassic Parliament: Running Great Meetings Using Parliamentary Procedure (pre-conference)
  • Land Use Short Course

Strong Community

  • A Look at the Future: Where Are the People Going?
  • Charting Your Fiscal Future
  • Civic Ecology: Practical Solutions for Real Communities
  • Clusters as a Downtown Strategy
  • Infill Development and Downtown Housing
  • Going Green Strategies
  • You Can Make It Happen: Infrastructure Financing
  • Meeting Housing Challenges in a Changing Market
  • Puget Sound Partnership (Roundtable)
  • Responding to Natural Disaster: How Did We Do It?

Toolbox

  • A Conversation with Legislators and City Lobbyists
  • Beyond Branding: Not Just a Logo and Slogan
  • Can We Do More with Less? (Roundtable)
  • Getting the Most for Your Small City $$$ – Managing Consultants
  • Long-Term Planning: Capitol Projects, Funding & Community Involvement
  • Setting Municipal Utility Rates – The Do's and Don'ts
  • Finance 101 for Smaller Cities
  • New Tools for Help with Gangs: Suppression, Intervention, Prevention (Roundtable)
  • Small Cities (Roundtable)
  • Streamlined Sales Tax – Update on Implementation & Mitigation
  • Step out of the Box Funding Mobile Tour
  • Tribal Relations (Roundtable)
  • Working with Your Court: New Resources, Mandates and Appropriate Limits