[ApaMissouri] Registrations Filling Up!---Join the RebuildingAmerica Regional Field Hearing: Lincoln, NE - March 20

[Longpine, Natasha]

Missouri Chapter APA Membership:

Please see the e-mail below regarding the Midwest regional field hearing for the APA National Infrastructure Investment Task Force.  This is most likely the closest field hearing that Missouri will have.  The registration for this event is free.  At the field hearing there will be presentations and an opportunity to ask questions.  There is capacity for about 200 people, so if you can go, please register quickly.  If anyone is interested in going, please let me know.  Also, if there are any more specific questions, I can help answer those.  The agenda is attached.

Thank you,

Natasha L. Longpine
President
Missouri American Planning Association
117 Park Central Square, Suite 107
Springfield, MO  65806
(417) 836-5545 Office
(417) 862-6013 Fax
info at mo-apa.org



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Join Rebuilding America: APA National Infrastructure Investment Task Force

Field Hearing: Lincoln, Nebraska

March 20, 2009 * 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

The Ross Media Arts Center
The University of Nebraska - Lincoln
313 N. 13th St.
Lincoln, NE

Rebuilding America is an initiative working to engage planners, transportation experts, policy makers and engaged citizens in a national conversation about how to address our infrastructure crisis and increase investment in building communities of lasting value.

Register Online<https://myapa.planning.org/ecommerce/conference/viewConferenceDetails.aspx?conferenceId=96>

If you were not able to attend or would like to leave additional comments, please join the discussion at http://apa-rebuildingamerica.ning.com<http://apa-rebuildingamerica.ning.com/>

About Rebuilding America
Mission

Led by President Robert Hunter, FACIP, President-Elect Bruce Knight, FAICP, and Immediate Past- President David Siegel, FAICP, the task force will evaluate current conditions and challenges affecting the nation's vital infrastructure, develop a new vision for the nation's infrastructure, and identify specific recommendations for changes in public policy, funding, and planning practice needed to meet the infrastructure needs of the 21st century. This work will lay out a blueprint for action needed to increase and improve performance, competitiveness, community quality of life, citizen choice, equity, and efficiency.

Reports from the Field

Rebuilding America was launched at the National Design Professionals Infrastructure Summit in Washington, D.C., on October 20, 2008, when planners, architects, landscape architects, and engineers began a discussion of the state of the nation's infrastructure and heard from experts about options for federal policy and investment. Now the task force will be conducting a series of regional field hearings throughout the U. S. convening regional leaders, planners, issue experts, academics, allied professionals, and engaged citizens. These events will focus on identifying major issues of local regional concern related to infrastructure policy and investment.

A Plan for Progress

Watch the APA website for new regional meeting locations and dates. These hearings will culminate in the proposal of policy and practice recommendations to be presented at the National Planning Conference in Minneapolis, April 28-29, 2009.

To learn more about Rebuilding America, visit: http://www.planning.org/policy/infrastructure/

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