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AMWA’s 2007 Annual Meeting
October 21-24
Fairmont Olympic Hotel • Seattle

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21

10:00 - 4:00
Assembly Row Foyer
Registration

10:30 - 1:00
Council Room
Executive Committee Meeting (officers)

10:30 - 11:30
Senate Room
Resolutions Committee Meeting (all welcome)

1:30 - 2:00
Congress Room
Board of Directors Meeting (executive session)

2:00 - 5:30
Congress Room
Board of Directors Meeting (all welcome)

6:00 - 7:00
Metropole Room
Welcome Reception
Fairmont Olympic Hotel

MONDAY, OCTOBER 22

7:00 - 4:00
Spanish Foyer
Registration

7:00 - 8:00
Spanish Foyer
Continental Breakfast

8:00 - 12:00
Spanish Ballroom
General Session I

Call to Order
Mark Premo
President, Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies
General Manager, Anchorage Water & Wastewater Utility

Welcome to Seattle
The Honorable Greg Nickels
Mayor of Seattle
 
President's Report

Treasurer's Report

Election of Directors

Performance Measurement by Water Utilities
Mark Graham Brown
Management Consultant
Mark Graham Brown and Associates

Stan Williams
General Manager
Santa Clara Valley Water District

Doug Harp, CEO and President
Doug Spiers, Vice President
Westin Engineering, Inc.
12:00 - 1:45
Metropole Room
Luncheon

Performance Measurement Panel

1:45 - 2:00
Council Room
Board of Directors Meeting (members only)

2:00 - 5:00
Spanish Ballroom











General Session II

Presiding:
Mark Premo
President, Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies

I
mpacts of Climate Change on Water Systems:
An International Panel Discussion


Panelists:
Susan Leal
General Manager
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

Shaun Cox
Director
Gold Cost Water
Queensland, Australia

Patricia Mulroy
General Manager
Las Vegas Valley Water District

Angela Licata
Deputy Commissioner
New York City Department of Environmental Protection

Dr. Wim van Vierssen
Director
Kiwa Water Research
Nieuwegein, The Netherlands

Jim Gill
CEO
Water Corporation of Western Australia

6:00 - 7:30
Meet in the hotel lobby at 5:45.
Reception
The Space Needle

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23

7:00 - 12:00
Metropole Foyer
Registration

7:00 - 8:00
Metropole Foyer
Continental Breakfast

8:00 - 12:00
Metropole Room
General Session III

Presiding:
Kristen Lentz
Director of Utilities
Norfolk, Va.

Preparing for Crisis Communications
Dr. Vincent Covello
Director
Center for Risk Communication

12:00 - 2:00
Garden Room
Luncheon

Award Presentations

New Directions for AMWA Awards
David Rager
Director
Greater Cincinnati Water Works

2:00 - 5:00
Metropole Room
General Session IV

Presiding:
Mac Underwood
General Manager
Birmingham Water Works & Sewer Board

EDCs and Pharmaceuticals:  Facts & Fiction

Dr. Shane Snyder
R&D Project Manager
Southern Nevada Water Authority

Customer Satisfaction:  The European Perspective
Jennifer Rietfeld
Director of Customer Relations
Vitens Water Utility
Arnhem, The Netherlands

3:00 - 3:15
Coffee Break


Are Your Revenues as Predictable as the Weather?
Peggy Howe
Vice President
Enterprise Management Solutions
Black & Veatch

Ian Carroll
Director
Credit Market Services
Standard & Poor's

Applying What We've Learned
Chuck Clarke
Director
Seattle Public Utilities
6:00 - 7:00
Garden Room
Reception
Fairmont Olympic Hotel

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24

7:30 - 8:30
Metropole Room
Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 10:30
Metropole Room
Climate Change Committee Meeting (all registrants welcome)

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8:00 - 10:30
Meet in the hotel lobby at 7:30.
Tour of Landsburg Division Dam and Fish Ladder (all registrants welcome)

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2007 AMWA Annual Meeting

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