November 15, 2006
Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay
Cambridge, Maryland
Program & Presentations
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Morning Session
State of the Small Town
Greetings
Honorable Donald W. Bradley, Mayor
Town of Hurlock, Maryland
R. Kevin Brooks, Executive Director
Maryland Rural Development Corporation
Presentation: Reality Check: Growth Pressures on Small Town Maryland
Stephanie Martins, AICP
Land Use Planning & Analysis
Maryland Department of Planning
Roundtable
Marlene Elliott, State Director
USDA Rural Development – Maryland/Delaware
Elise Butler, Assistant Secretary
Division of Neighborhood Revitalization
Maryland Department of Housing & Community Development
Brian McLaughlin, Director
Baltimore Community Business Center
Federal National Mortgage Association - Fannie Mae
John Cooper, Ph.D., Coordinator
Emergency Demonstration Program
MDC, Inc.
Afternoon Sessions
Afternoon Track 1:
State of Affordable Housing
Introductions and Facilitation
Joyce DeLaurentis, Community Development Director
MRDC
State of Affordable Housing on the Shore
Dinah DeMoss, League of Women Voters
Mickey Elsberg & Airlee Johnson,
Kent County Workforce Housing Task Force
Maintaining Viable Units – Identifying and Preserving Them
Joe Mangini, Town Manager of Ridgely
Cary Malkus, Code Enforcement
Officer,
Town of Ridgely
Ray Clarke, Engineer,
Talbot County
Financial Tools for Affordability
Pete Scanlon, Director, Anne’s County Department
of Housing and Community Development
Clyde Tables, Coordinator, Loan Fund Training and Development Program
Austin Webster, Coordinator, Talbot County Housing
Maximizing Opportunities
Lynn Thomas, AICP, Long Range Planner, Town of Easton
Mike Burlbaugh, Project Manager,
Elm Street Development, Inc.
Design Tools - Creating New Opportunities
Jay Corvan, Architect, AIA
Jennifer Shull, Director,
Housing & Community Development, Town of Denton
Afternoon Track 2:
Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Financial Management
Introductions
Michael Murray, MRDC Environmental Technical Assistance Provider II
Presenter
Jean Holloway, Training and Education Manager
Environmental Finance Center for Region 3
The University System of Maryland
For more information, Ms. Holloway suggests you follow this link to the interactive "25 Questions for Assessing Your
Water System’s Financial Health" tool.
This course is designed to outline the principles of sound financial capacity for small utilities. Steps to evaluate and measure financial capacity will be outlined, along with a review of a new website that helps systems gauge their own financial capability by answering 25 yes or no questions and then analyzing the results of individual answers.
Although most of the discussion pertains to water utilities, the majority of the methods and evaluations can be applied to wastewater utilities as well.
The day's activities were made possible by these partnership sponsors and contributors:
Partnership Sponsors
- The Chaney Foundation
- Maryland Department of Housing & Community Development
- Rural Maryland Foundation
- Southeast Rural Community Assistance Project
- USDA Rural Development
Contributors
- Commissioners of Dorchester County
- Ministers & Citizens of Dorchester County
- Town of East New Market
- Town of Hurlock
- Town of Secretary
- Warwick Center
This Symposium was sponsored
by the
Maryland Rural Community Assistance Project and the Maryland Rural Development Corporation. |
