This full-day virtual seminar is designed to meet the educational interests and busy schedules of consulting engineers by providing a focused overview of important issues of interest to municipal engineers and their local government clients. In addition to the opportunity to learn from and engage in dialogue with highly regarded faculty members, attendees will receive handout materials and certificate of attendance.

Engineers and township supervisors and employees are encouraged to join us for this new, half-day virtual class hosted by the PSATS Township Engineers Association that will highlight specific ways in which off-the-shelf technology can be used to improve your township's public works, parks and recreation, and emergency management operations. Topics will include the benefits of GPS tracking of your vehicles (such as snowplows) to enhance record-keeping and increase responsiveness to reported problems, using drones for emergency management purposes as well as to reduce the cost of performing infrastructure inspections, how to improve communications during disasters, and more. Each presentation will provide details on how your township can immediately put these products to work for meet your specific needs.

This virtual workshop will review CMV/CDL employee and vehicle paperwork, including pre-employment inquiries regarding a CDL applicant's past drug and alcohol test results and driving safety reports; requests for CMV driver's license information; annually reviewing each CMV driver's qualification to continue driving; CMV daily vehicle inspection, maintenance, and repair reports; the employer's required policy on CDL drug and alcohol testing; and a general overview of all the CDL regulations.

State and federal regulations require every employer who has CDL employees driving vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating or operating weight of more than 26,001 pounds used on public roads to participate in a drug and alcohol testing program. These same regulations also require that such employers train all personnel who supervisor employees with commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) in handling suspected on-the-job drug or alcohol use. This virtual class addresses these federal requirements by providing supervisory personnel with a working understanding of the federal CDL regulations, including on-the-job probable cause procedures.

Join master trainer, Chad Barger, for a workshop covering administrative and managerial staffing in today's challenging environment. The session will provide tips for structuring positions in a way that's most likely to attract top talent in today's challenging job market. Finally, we'll focus on what you can do as a manager to keep your staff happy and serving your municipality for the long term.

In this virtual class, we will cover a series of common, but challenging, issues that township administrators face when working with and responding to members of the public and media and highlight ways to effectively address them.