Great Lakes Metros and the New Opportunity

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DAY 1 – June 18, 2009

11:00 – Registration

11:30 – Conference Welcome from Bruce Fisher

11:45 – Metropolitan Action for a Metropolitan Nation, Brookings Report from Jennifer Bradley

12:15 – ARRA Overview and Framing Questions to Provide Feedback on Federal Programs with Barbara Burnham (P)

12:40 – Response Panel, with moderator Sam Magavern and panelists Allison Duwe, William Johnson, Michael Skrebutenas, and Michael Weber

1:30 – Green Jobs with Miquela Craytor

2:15 – Concurrent Sessions on:

• Building Energy Efficiency Funding with moderator Sam Magavern and panelists Sheryl Duderwick, Lori Harris, and Satya Rhodes-Conway
• Community Development and the Stimulus: CDBG/HOME and other funds with moderator Diane DeVaul and panelists Steve Banko, Jean Lowe, and Leonard Skrill
• Neighborhood Stabilization Program: Innovative Uses with moderator Anthony Armstrong and panelists Aaron Bartley, Phil Kidd, Joan Roby-Davison, and Brian Segel

3:45 – Concurrent Sessions on:

• Green Jobs and Workforce Investment Board Funding with moderator Eric Walker and panelists Cesar Cabrera, Michael Gainer, Emmaia Gelman, and Jeff Jones (P)
• Complete Streets & Alternative Transit with moderator-panelist Todd Scott and panelists Justin Booth, Rory Neuner, and Dom Nozzi
  
• Responding to the Foreclosure Crisis with moderator Michael Clarke and panelists Arlo Chase (P), Jordan Estevao, and Mark Seifert

5:00 – Reception at JP Bullfeathers (1010 Elmwood Ave.)

DAY 2 – June 19, 2009

9:00 – High-speed Rail and the Potential in the Great Lakes Region with NY Assemblymember Sam Hoyt

9:30 – Reinventing Distressed Neighborhoods with Joe Schilling

10:00 – Encouraging Regional/Metropolitan Governance with moderator Bruce Fisher and panelists the Hon. William Hudnut, the Hon. William Johnson, and Darin Schulz

11:30 – Concurrent Sessions on:

• Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants with moderator Ibrahim Abdul-Matin and panelists David Dix and Luke Forrest
• Models for Regional Governance with moderator Bruce Fisher and panelists Kathryn Foster, George Grasser and Maria Whyte
• Green Jobs in Infrastructure Improvements with moderator Walter Burlack and panelists Blaine Bonham, Chris Koch, and Diane Picard
  

1:00 – Restoring the Great Lakes: Infrastructure, Pollution Prevention, Mitigation, Economic Development with moderator-panelist Charlie Bartsch and panelists David Cowgill (P) and Julie Barrett O’Neill

2:15 – Regional Governance: A State Perspective with John Maggiore

3:00 – Waterfront and Neighborhood Tour on Buffalo’s West Side