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2010 Programs: 

Sustainable Communities Regional Grant Planning Program: A Roundtable Discussion

Financial Monitoring for Finance Professionals: Using Fiscal Indicators to Project & Protect Your Community's Financial Stability

Before You Budget: Tools Elected Officials Can Rely on to Project & Protect Their Community's Financial Stability

Shared Municipal Services Roundtable with PA State Legislators

Transparency in PA Local Government: What the Law Requires

2010 Grant Writing Workshop

2010 Road to Excellence Conference

Public Sector Human Resources: Collective Bargaining

Public Sector Human Resources: Employee Relations

Purchasing Power!

Course in Community Planning

Course In Zoning

Sustainable Development Academy: 'Putting Your Energy Savings to Work in Your Municipality'

Know Your Codes: Boroughs

Know Your Codes: 1st Class Townships

Know Your Codes: 3rd Class Cities

Know Your Codes: 2nd Class Townships

 

2009 Programs: 

3 Rivers Wet Weather 11th Annual Sewer Conference

Sustainable Development Academy: 'The Cranberry Plan'

Multi-Municipal Planning Basics - 2-Part Session

2009 Recognition Luncheon

Pension Accounting & Financial Reporting Roundtable

GASB 54: The New Fund Balance Reporting Requirements

Achieving Interoperability Through the State Radio System

Act 32 Earned Income Tax Collection: Is Your School District or Municipality Ready?

2009 Grant Writing Workshops

Sustainable Community Development Essentials: Tools, Strategies & Case Studies

9th Annual Smart Growth Conference

Connect 09: Port Authority Service Development Plan Update

The Economic Stimulus Package and Your Community: Opportunites and Responsibilities

Protecting Public Drinking Water: Source Water Protection Solutions

Implementation Agreements for Multi-Municipal Planning Basics Roundtable

Multi-Municipal Planning Basics - Spring 2009

Pre-Employment Background Screening

Plan Regionally, Implement Locally Roundtable

Countywide Consolidated Earned Income Tax Collection: Transition & Implementation (2 locations)

The New Right to Know Law: Legal Implications for Your Municipality

Exploring Suburbia: Regional Trends, Cultural Forces, and Changing Economics - Worlds Away Exhibit

2009 Contemplating Governing

2008 Programs:

Fight Blight

Countywide Consolidated Earned Income Tax Collection: Transition & Implementation (3 locations)

6th Annual Public Officials Design Charrette (PODC)

Smart Transportation Roundtable

Reducing Ethical Risks & Renewing Public Confidence: Role of the Local Government Employee

Multi-Municipal Planning Basics - Fall 2008

3 Rivers Wet Weather 10th Anniversary Sewer Conference

2008 Road to Excellence Conference   sponsored by Comcast

Regional Policing

Before the Storms: 2nd Annual Stormwater Conference

2008 Recognition Luncheon

Shared Municipal Services Roundtable

Redirecting Growth: Transfer of Development Rights Workshop

Competitive Grantseeking Roundtable with DCED

Transportation Funding Roundtable

Everything Old is New Again: Recycling in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Ethics Commission: An Update on Recent Cases and Rulings - Read an article on the event

2008 Grant Writing Workshop

Five-Year Capital Improvement Programming: A Primer for Government Entities of All Sizes - Read an article on the event

Practicing Sustainable Community Development: Tools, Strategies, Case Studies - Read an article on the event

Improving Clarity and Consistency of Fund Balance Presentations: Roundtable Discussion - Read the letter submitted to GASB

Communicating With Your Community: Municipal Website Workshop

Community Report Card: Evaluating Your Financial Condition

2008 Michael P. Lynch Sholarship Fund Golf Outing

Understanding Your Audit Report and Using It for Decision Making - Read an article on the event

Preparing for Act 111 Interest Arbitration

Internal Controls: What Every Elected Official Should Know

Multi-Municipal Planning Basics - Spring 2008 (2-part)

Designing and Implementing Compensation Plans for Non-Uniform Employees

Discipline and Discharge

Course In Zoning (3-part)

Know Your Codes: Authorities

Know Your Codes: 1st Class Townships

Self-Assessment: A Process for Improving Your Public Works Department

Know Your Codes: 2nd Class Townships

Know Your Codes: Boroughs

Know Your Codes: 3rd Class Cities

Know Your Codes: Home Rule

Know Your Codes: PA School Code

Rethinking Regionalism Roundtable 

Risk Assessment


2007 Programs:

Relevant Recommendations: PA State Planning Board Report Roundtable - Read an article on the event

2007 Taxation Update - Read an article on the event

Good Government Award Ethics Symposium: Strategic Approaches to Accountability & Ethics- Read an article on the event

3 Rivers Wet Weather Ninth Annual Sewer Conference

Multi-Municipal Planning Basics - Fall 2007

After the Storms: Introduction to Stormwater Management- Read an article on the event

2007 Recognition Luncheon

LGA/GFOA-PA West Roundtable: Structuring Healthy Communities Report - Read an article on the event

Corridor Planning: Lessons from the Route 30 Master Plan - Read an article on the event

Essentials of Wage & Hour Law for Public Employers 

2007 Grant Writing Workshop - Read an article on the event

2007 Funders' Conference - Read an article on the event

Reasonable Expectations: Candidates Contemplating Governing

2007 Michael P. Lynch Scholarship Fund Golf Outing

2007 Road to Excellence Conference - Going with the Flow: Governance Options for Clean Water Act Compliance - Read an article on the event - View some photos from the event

Public Officials Emergency Resource Guide Training

Records Management

Financing for Recreation & Parks

Recreation & Parks Boards

Multi-Municipal Planning Basics

Preparing for Commercial & Industrial Development 2007

Civil Service Commissions

Looking for a Way to Make Fund Balance More Useful  - Read an article on the event


2006 Programs:

Municipal Stormwater Issues & Solutions

Municipal Stormwater Issues & Solutions: Best Management Practices for Stormwater Management & Watershed Quality

2006 Michael P. Lynch Scholarship Fund Golf Outing

2006 Grant Writing Workshop. 

Understanding Act 47 Financial Recovery Plans

Assessing Public Works Operations Program and a program on NIMS Training at the Western Pennsylvania Chapter - American Public Works Association 27th Annual Vendors Show and Seminar.

Collecting Difficult Money: Protecting the Public Interest in Bankruptcy, Liens and Foreclosures.

Policy & Practice: Developing and Implementing Practical Environmental BMP's for Your Community.

Becoming a Transit Oriented Community: A Toolbox Approach.

2006 Recognition Luncheon.

Eighth Annual Three River Wet Weather Sewer Conference.

Multi-Municipal Planning Basics.

Overcoming Everyday Ethical Dilemmas: 2006 League of Women Voters Greater Pittsburgh Good Government Award Synposium.

Impact Fees Forum: Smart Growth Brown Bag Luncheon

Urban and Regional Renewal in Western Pennsylvania

What Every Employer Needs to Know: Employment Law Developments in 2006


2005 Programs:

Understanding GASB 45: Accounting and Financial Reporting for Employers for Postemployment other than Pensions

Stormwater Management:  Complying with State and Federal Guidelines (Allegheny County)

FREE Training: Multi-Municipal Comprehensive Planning Grant

Personnel LawTips and Techniques that Protect Municipal Interests

Preparing to Bargain

The Impact of Residential Development

Understanding Tax Increment Financing:  Is it Right for Your Community?

Water Supply and Wastewater Infrastructure Program (PennWorks):  Act 218 of 2004.  Presented by Houston Harbaugh Legislative Services

Festival and Event Planning:  A Guide for Local Communities 

Preparing for Commercial and Industrial Development

2005 Multi-Municipal Comprehensive Planning Grant FREE Training Program

The Course in Community Planning.

Old Buildings in the New Economy: Rehabilitation for Renewed Reuse.

2005 Recognition Luncheon

Budgeting Basics and Beyond:  Using the Municipal Budgeting Process to Implement Your Community's Vision.

Ethical Leadership:  Protecting the Public Interest and Reducing Personal Risk

2005 Road to Excellence Conference: Form Follows Function.

2005 - 2006 Newly Elected Officials Course. 

NEOC Alumni Association Happy Hour Reunion


2004 Programs:

Appointed Officials Series

Attaining a Wise Outcome

Been There

Collecting Difficult Money

Community Development Strategies

Developing and Managing a Quality Budget

Festival and Event Planning

Financial Competency

Grant Writing Workshop

Growing Smarter

Intergovernmental Relations

Keeping Out of Trouble

Multi-Municipal Planning Grant

PA Uniform Construction Code Opt In-Out

PA Uniform Construction Code

Police Management Training

Recognition Luncheon

Riverfront Opportunities 3 sessions

Riverfront Opportunities

Road to Excellence Conference

Road to Excellence

Saving on Personnel Expenses

Series Capital Improvements Planning

SWAPS

Tax Base Sharing

The Business of Brownfields

The Pa Uniform Construction Code

The Value of Library Sciences Revealed

Tour of the ALCOSAN Plant

 


2003 Programs:

 

Basic Course for Planning Commissioners

Earning and Keeping the Public Trust

Emerging Leaders in Public Affairs

Employers Responsibilities to Military Reservists

GASB 34

Grant Writing Workshop

Health Insurance Cost Containment

Health Insurance Portability

Implementing GASB 34

LGA 20th Anniversary Program

Local Emergency Operations

Local Taxation Seminar

Making the Most of Your Historical Assets

Multi-Municipal Grant

PA Uniform Construction Code

The Basic Course for Zoning Officials

Using Community Indicators

Year-End Federal Employment Tax Update

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