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09 VML Annual Conference

October 18-20
Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center
110 Shenandoah Avenue

Available conference handouts and presentations

Some downloads may take several minutes. Updated 12/3/09
Monday, Oct. 19
Opening Session
Keynote address: Creating Highly Competitive Communities
James H. Johnson Jr., University of North Carolina | PDF
Keynote address - Don’t tax you. Don’t tax me. Tax the man behind the tree 
James Regimbal, Fiscal Analytics, Richmond | PPT
Concurrent Sessions
  • Implementing new tools for dealing with blight | Handout 1 Word | Handout 2 PDF
  • The next frontier of retail
  • Federal legislative update
  • Pandemic flu: Local government response | Handout PPT
  • Where Does The Right of Free Speech End for a Public Employee | Handout PDF
  • Town track: Ingredients of a successful community | Handout PPT
Concurrent Sessions
Tuesday, Oct. 20
General Sessions
Keynote Address - Doing More with Less: Why Social Media Matter to Local Governments and their Elected Leaders
Geoff Livingston, Senior Vice President - Social Media, and Priya Ramesh, Director - Social Media, CRT/tanaka | PPT
Section Meetings
Concurrent Workshops & Local Government Round Tables

Concurrent Sessions
Roundtables
  • Asset management | Handout PDF
  • Be counted: The decennial Census | Handout PDF
  • Bulk fuel purchases | Handout 1 PDF | Handout 2 PDF
  • Citizens academies | Handout Word
  • Creating arts and cultural districts | Handout PPT
  • Go Green Virginia Community Challenge
  • Growing and buying local
  • Infrastructure financing amidst a recession | Handout PDF
  • Interoperability in Virginia: Ensuring local emergency responders can get the message | Handout PPT
  • On-line auctions of surplus property | Handout PPT
  • Streetscape appearance green enhancement
  • Urban wildlife management issues
  • Voice over Internet Protocol | Handout PPT

About the VML Annual Conference

Each fall about 1,000 local government officials, speakers and exhibitors attend the VML Annual Conference. The conference includes:

Upcoming annual conferences

Conference logistics

The VML Annual Conference is typically held in a single "conference" hotel or convention center. Because of the number of sleeping rooms needed, blocks of rooms also are set aside for VML participants at other hotels nearby. Bus or trolley transportation is generally provided between the overflow hotels and the main conference hotel.

Hotel reservation information is available from the league office. Call 804-649-8471.

A conference registration packet will be mailed to local elected officials and clerks. The packets, which include all necessary registration forms, also will be published in the July issue of Virginia Town & City. Information on speakers, workshops and activities at the conference is included in Virginia Town & City, Update and through individual mailings. Check back for more information about registration fees for members and non-members

Please let us know

...any ideas you have on how to improve the annual conference! Maybe you know of a great speaker, or you think we should include a workshop on a particular idea. Please send your ideas to Mary Jo Fields at telephone: 804/649-8471; fax: 804/343-3758.

If you are interested in additional information about exhibiting at the conference, please contact Kimberly Pollard.

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