SLU Public Policy Studies

Join Metropolis on Saturday, November 7th for a tour of the Old North St. Louis Crown Square Development. Home of Crown Candy Kitchen, Old North St. Louis is developing a community of businesses and residences and we want you to see their progress! Sean Thomas, Executive Director of the Old North St. Louis Restoration Group will be providing a guided tour of the Crown Square as well as some of the newer apartments and homes in the area.

Meet us at the Urban Studio Cafe, one of the newer additions to the ONSL neighborhood between 9-9:30 (we will need some coffee or hot chocolate to wake us up and keep us warm!) then head over to the ONSL Restoration offices a little before 10 am for the tour.

If you want to brave Crown Candy Kitchen with us after the tour, we will get in line and wait for St. Louis’ best BLT’s and malts for lunch!

Cost of tour: $5 (all proceeds go to Old North St. Louis Restoration group). Cost of coffee/lunch: $5-10.

Please RSVP to Abby by Friday, November 6 at noon.

If you haven’t already, everyone should sign up to receive the Local Government Briefings Newsletter. This is the best way to get relatively complete listing of jobs, events, and educational opportunity in the region.

Take charge of your future- get involved! Visit the East West Gateway website to sign up

Date & Time: Wednesday, November 18th 2:00—3:00 PM

Location: CH2MHILL Offices—1034 S. Brentwood (right across from the Galleria)

Details: Please RSVP to Glenna Brown or 314-436-7009. The event is limited to 40 people.

This webinar will describe how elected officials, local government staff and independent advocates can work together to change the culture of a community. Each partner in this powerful and stable “three-legged stool” has its natural areas of strength, and these can be effectively leveraged by coordinating activities such as community outreach, media advocacy, government services, public funding, political support, legislation and others. Columbia, Missouri, where this approach is led by five-term mayor Darwin Hindman, the Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services, and the PedNet Coalition, is presented as a case study. Recent successes, such as complete streets legislation, a national model Safe Routes to School program, a $22 million federal Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program grant, and a silver level Bicycle Friendly Communities award, can be attributed to the model.

Visit the Great Rivers Greenway website for more information.

You are invited to attend a FREE audio/web conference training session: PLANNING WITH LARGE INSTITUTIONS, to be held November 18, 2009 from 3:00 – 4:00 PM at the City of Chesterfield City Hall.

Workshop description: Hospitals, universities, and other large institutions have a dramatic impact on their host communities. At times the needs of the institution are in conflict with the community. In other situations, the institutions may be committed to sustaining the surrounding neighborhoods and local planners and officials are challenged to help guide investment and development. Learn how institutions and communities work successfully and the role the planning commission and other officials play. Co-sponsored by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

RSVP to Marty Coad via email or call (636) 537-4746 with your name, phone number and email address.

The APA Metro Section has again purchased a part of the National APA Audio Conference Series for 2009-2010. We will be holding the live conferences at Chesterfield City Hall. Please keep the following dates below in mind for the live conferences. We will also be replaying them at a different dates, times and locations once we receive the recorded CDs of the live conferences. Those dates will be announced later in the year.

Planning with Large Institutions November 18, 2009 — 3:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. CST

Performance Measurement in Transportation Planning January 20, 2010 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. CST

Redevelopment and Revitalization for a New Era March 17, 2010 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. CST

Design Review for Officials May 26, 2010 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. CST

2010 Planning Law Review June 30, 2010 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. CST

Wednesday, November 18th

Saint Louis University: Il Monastero- 3050 Olive Street

11:30—11:45 Social

11:45-12:00 Lunch Served

12:00-1:30 Program

$10 Students (includes lunch)

PANEL

Sarah Coffin (Moderator) Associate Professor of Urban Planning: Saint Louis University

Maggie Hale Executive Director: East-West Gateway Coordinating Council

James Heard St. Louis Field Office Director: Department of Housing and Urban Development

Terry Jones Professor of Political Science: University of Missouri at St. Louis

Jeff Rainford Mayor’s Chief of Staff: City of St. Louis

Sean Thomas Executive Director: Old North St. Louis Restoration Group

Richard Ward Vice President: Zimmer Real Estate Services

Most planners were excited by the election of Barack Obama and the emphasis that he placed on urban and metropolitan issues. However, since the inauguration, many planners have worried that the administration did not place enough emphasis on planning in the Recovery Act and that the President’s long term metropolitan strategy is still not clear. Come join us as James Heard, the St. Louis HUD Field Office Director, explains the administration’s plans for America’s cities and Sarah Coffin leads a distinguished group of local urbanists in assessing the effectiveness of the administration’s programs to-date and what they hope to see from the Obama administration in the future.

Boxed lunches will be provided by the Saint Louis Bread Company

Go to the St Louis APA website for more details and to regsiter for this event.

You must register by November 16th at noon.

Date: November 17, 2009

Time: 4:00 – 6:00pm

Venue: Missouri History Museum

Join ULI as we engage the leadership of four of the region’s universities in responding to Joe Cortright’s presentation on higher education’s role in creating and sustaining thriving communities. Cortright is a noted, sought-after speaker and recognized expert in helping communities capitalize on their strengths and focus on what’s important in driving economic development. Moderated by KMOX’s Charlie Brennan, learn how St. Louis can better leverage these institutions as drivers of real estate and economic development. The conversation will include how the region can better engage human capital, which has often been a problem for St. Louis. How can we retain and attract young professionals and the creative class; how can we benefit from investments made by the universities; how can we help make St. Louis the best place to live? Be with us on November 17 and find out.

Keynote Speaker: Joe Cortright – President and principal economist for Impresa

Local Panel will include: Charlie Brennan (KMOX), Lawrence Biondi (SLU), Thomas F. George (UMSL), Vaughn Vandegrift (SIUE), and Henry S. Webber (Washington University)

All students (with current ID) $5.00

Visit the St Louis ULI website for more information.

The Broward County Office of Management and Budget is currently recruiting for a Budget and Management Analyst. We are a highly professional budget office reporting directly to the Office of the County Administrator.

Visit their website for more details

Call 954-357-6354 or e-mail if you have questions about the position or about future opportunities with the Broward County Office of Management and Budget.