Facilities and Grounds

Welcome to the APWA Facilities and Grounds Committee web page. The committee's objective is to serve as an information link and to facilitate the sharing of knowledge, experience and expertise regarding construction, maintenance and renovations of buildings and facilities in addition to the upkeep and management of parks, urban forestry and other public lands between our APWA colleagues. The committee wants to work with the membership to build a closer relationship with the Center for Sustainability and would like to highlight our ties to the other Technical Committees as well as Standing Committees.

For 2011-12 the Facilities and Grounds Committee is committed to achieving superior performance in areas identified in our GAP analysis including:

• Soliciting bold and innovative thinking in facilities and grounds management from the APWA membership and highlighting the same to others in our organization.
• Persuasively emphasizing sustainable aspects of facilities and grounds.  Recognizing new renovation and system replacement designs, maintenance practices and operational parameters.
• Improving educational and outreach opportunities with the members.
• Continue actions to create an interactive relationship between the committee and APWA chapters. We are investigating moving our spring meeting to Florida.
• Actively seeking information from APWA members on "Best Practices" in our area of facilities and grounds using infoNOW, We Are Public Works and other survey tools with a goal of spreading this information in future articles and presentations.
• Reaching out to establish a releationship with other professional organizations having similar audiences. Identifying at least one in which we might be successful in nurturing a partnership of sharing.
• Complete work to publishing a pocket guide on urban forestry.  Release the guide with a technical session during the 2012 Congress.

Please review our Business Plan including Strategies for 2011-2012. If you have any thoughts on articles of interest for the Reporter, educational sessions for the APWA Congress or other ideas or suggestions, please contact APWA or one of the committee members. Participate in one of our monthly committee conference call meetings or attend our meeting in Florida or at next year’s Congress.  Finally, please review the Opportunities to Participate, and Meeting Summaries or more information about APWA and our committee.