APA New York Metro Chapter Long Island Section

The APA Long Island Section is pleased to announce the recipients of the Arthur Kunz Memorial Scholarship for 2012.

Congratulations to this year’s recipients:

Tiffany-Ann Taylor, Lee Wellington and Michelle Young.

Tiffany-Ann is from Bay Shore and is currently a graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in City & Regional Planning from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, and is passionate about transportation and emergency management planning.

Lee is from Setauket, pursuing a joint-degree in law and urban planning from Pratt Institute and Brooklyn Law School, while actively participating and developing programs through the Pratt’s Center for Community Development.

Michelle is a graduate student in urban planning at Columbia University, holds a B.A. from Harvard in the History of Art & Architecture, and is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music. Michelle is a founder of  Untapped Cities website, envisioned to bridge the gap between academic practice and popular consumption of urbanism and architecture.

The scholarship provides $1,500 for each recipient to cover the cost of attending the APA National Conference.  The recipients will be formally announced at Annual Kunz Memorial   Scholarship Breakfast on March 23.

The APA Long Island Section Steering Committee would like to use this opportunity to thank all applicants for their interest in the Arthur Kunz Memorial Scholarship and to encourage them to submit an application next year.

Once again, congratulations to all recipients!

Registration form and details are provided HERE

Keynote Speaker

• Senior Official, US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Washington, D.C.

Confirmed Speakers and Panelists

• NYS Deputy Secretary of State George Stafford
• Eugene Leff, Deputy Commissioner, Office of Remediation & Materials Management, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
• Sean Fitzgerald, Assistant Commissioner, Multifamily Capital, NYS Homes and Community Renewal
• Dan Walsh, Director, NYC Office of Environmental Remediation
• Vanessa Pugh, Town of Babylon
• Christian J. Mercurio, City of Rome
• Jeff Nixon, Wells Fargo Community Lending and Investment Group
• Darlene DeVoe, Town of Fort Edward
• David Button and Linda McQuinn, Town of Canton
• Howard Tollin, Aon Risk Solutions
• Dale Desnoyers
• Elizabeth Yeampierre/Sabrina Terry, UPROSE, Brooklyn
• Val Washington, Attorney
• Jim Tripp, Environmental Defense Fund
• Jody Kass, New Partners for Community Revitalization

Additional panelists and speakers from the public, private and nonprofit sectors to be announced soon.

New Partners for Community Revitalization’s Award for Excellence in Public Service 2012 Award Recipient, Steve Bellone, Suffolk County Executive

Who can participate?

Professional planners of all experience levels are encouraged to participate.  Interested mentors should have five or more years of professional planning experience while interested mentees should have less than four years of professional planning experience.  This round of the program is open solely to professional planners who have already completed graduate school. 

What are the program benefits?

Mentors gain the opportunity to:

• give back to the profession by supporting new planners
• expand their professional networks
• connect with the experiences of younger professionals
• hone their leadership skills
• increase their involvement in the APA New York Metro Chapter

 Mentees gain the opportunity to:

• discuss career goals with experienced professionals
• confer on professional development and long- and short-term professional goals
• discover what experienced and senior-level planners deal with on a day-to-day basis
• understand different subfields within the planning profession
• expand their professional networks

What is the time commitment?

• The program will kickoff at a meet-and-greet in early February 2012 (date/time TBD)
• We request that participants commit to the program for five months.  
• Participants have the option of corresponding via phone, email, or in person, but we recommend meeting at least once a month for the duration of the program.

 Who will I be mentoring? Who will be my mentor?

• The YPG developed a brief survey that will help us form mentoring partnerships based on mutual interests and communication preferences.  (If you are prompted with “Safe Mode Preference,” click “Do Not Use Safe Mode” to access the survey.)
  • Mentor Survey: www.misterpoll.com/polls/543688
  • Mentee Survey: www.misterpoll.com/polls/543689

• We also require that you send a copy of your updated resume to ypgmentorship@gmail.com to aid with placement.
• The surveys will be available online through January 20, 2012, and we will notify participants of their pairings in late January in advance of our kick-off event.

Please feel free to contact the Mentorship Subcommittee at ypgmentorship@gmail.com with any questions about the program or the application process. The success of last year’s program was due in large part to the dedication and energy of the participants, and we look forward to working with you to ensure another productive and enjoyable mentoring program for New York area planners.

 The Certification Maintenance Credits opportunities of upcoming webinars, and instructions for claiming credits for sessions organized by APA Long Island Section- 2010-2011 have been posted  HERE.

In addition, for all of those in need of  Ethics in Planning and Planning Law Review credits: Long Island Section of the APA NY Metro Chapter will be hosting  planning sessions (CD sessions), eligible for 1.5 credits of AICP continuing education credits and will satisfy the ethics and law requirements. Please RSVP.

• WHEN: Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 4-7:30 PM
• WHERE: at Cameron Engineering, 100 Sunnyside Boulevard, Suite 100, Woodbury, NY

 The NY-CT Sustainable Communities Steering Committee Meeting

10am-1pm

 on Friday, December 9,  2011 

A steering committee meeting of the New York-Connecticut
Sustainable Communities Consortium will be held at the:

Auditorium of the Nassau County Police Department
1490 Franklin Avenue, Mineola, NY 11501

This is an opportunity to let your voice be heard.

The meeting will include a presentation on the work being done by the New York-Connecticut Sustainable Communities Consortium, a collaboration of local governments and regional planning organizations. This partnership is working with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and other federal agencies to create economic opportunity, housing options, transportation choices, and a better quality of life for you and your community.

This meeting is one of several public forums that will be scheduled throughout Downstate New York and Southern Connecticut to obtain input on programs goals and actions. For more information, contact Satish Sood, Deputy Commissioner, Nassau County Department of Public Works at ssood@nassaucountyny.gov, (516) 571-9344 or Brian Dennis at bdennis@rpa.org, (917) 546.4316.

You can also visit www.sustainableNYCT.org or www.facebook.com/SustainableNYCT.

Learn How…

•  the partners are working to expand job and housing opportunities
• Nassau and Suffolk Counties are participating as part of this effort
• to take advantage of preferences for federal grant applications
• you can get involved

Tell Us…

• your priorities for your community or organization
• how we should measure our success

The Long Island Section of the APA NY Metro Chapter will be hosting 2 planning sessions (CD sessions); one will be hosted in Suffolk and one in Nassau, both offering  Ethics in Planning and 2011 Planning Law Review sessions. Each session is eligible for 1.5 credits of AICP continuing education credits and will satisfy the ethics and law requirements.

Event 1:

• WHEN: Thursday, December 1^st at 3:30-7PM
• WHERE: The Town of Southampton, 116 Hampton Road, Southampton NY (to be held in the Town Board Room). 

Event 2:

• WHEN: Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 4-7:30 PM
• WHERE: at Cameron Engineering, 100 Sunnyside Boulevard, Suite 100, Woodbury, NY

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE SUBMISSION HAS BEEN EXTENDED  TO DECEMBER 2^nd at 5 pm.

The Long Island Section of American Planning Association’s (APA) NY Metro Chapter is pleased to announce that we will be awarding three Arthur Kunz Memorial Scholarships this year.  The scholarships will enable awardees to attend the 2012 APA National Planning Conference, April 14^th – 17^th in Los Angeles, California.

Download the Scholarship announcement here.

Arthur H. Kunz was a Long Island planner who was deeply committed to preserving and enhancing Suffolk County by balancing its growth and development with environmental protection and played an integral part in Suffolk County’s development for almost 30 years.  He worked for the Nassau County Planning Commission from 1958 to 1969.  In 1969, he became Assistant Planning Director for the Suffolk County Department of Planning and Director in 1989.  Arthur Kunz was a straightforward and highly regarded man whose planning knowledge, commitment to public service, and professionalism improved the quality of life in Suffolk County.  Since 1994, the Long Island Section has been awarding planning scholarships in his memory.

Eligible applicants include Long Island entry-level planners (five or less years out of college or five years or less in a professional planning position) or graduate students in a planning-related major.

The $1,500 scholarship will cover the majority of expenses related to the conference registration, APA membership for one year for non-members, and some additional expenses.  Mr. Kunz spent most APA conferences attending as many mobile workshops as possible and believed in the value of seeing planning in action in other parts of the country.  Therefore, a portion of the scholarship is to be used to pay for participation in least one mobile workshop.

If you are an entry level planner working on Long Island or a graduate student of planning or a related field from Long Island and wish to apply for a scholarship to attend the 2012 APA Los Angeles conference, please send a letter of interest and your resume to APALongIsland@gmail.com.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE SUBMISSION HAS BEEN EXTENDED  TO DECEMBER 2^nd at 5 pm.

The One Region Funders’ Group and Tri-State Transportation Campaign
released the RFP for a second round of community assistance grants to
promote equitable transit oriented development in downstate New York,
northern New Jersey, and southwestern Connecticut.

Competitive grants between $10,000 and $50,000 are available for up to
ten communities to support initiatives that envision, plan, or design
local transit oriented development projects. Municipalities must apply
but grants can go directly to non-profit or private consultants. Initial
letters of interest are due December 16. The RFP is available at- www.tstc.org.

Senator Schumer announced as featured luncheon speaker; Keynote presentation: CNU President John Norquist; Introductory remarks: Suffolk County  Executive-Elect Steve Bellone

Friday, November 18th, 2011, 8:00am-4:00pm, Melville Marriott

AICP and CNU-A credits are available