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New York State Chapter Annual Conference

March 20 – 21, 2025 | Utica, New York

 

 

Join the New York State Chapter of the American Public Works Association for their 2025 Annual Conference on March 20 – 21, 2025 in Utica, New York.  The 2025 Annual Conference will feature expert speakers and opportunities to earn CEU and PDH credits.  Early bird registration is now open through January 31, 2025.  If you need help with registration, please contact Jolie Murray jmurray@mvwa.us for assistance.   The Annual Conference starts on Wednesday night with a Networking Event being held at the Utica University Nexus Center (Utica University Nexus Center | Mohawk Valley’s Premier Sports and Events Complex (nexusutica.com)) from 6 pm – 9 pm.  The next day and a half will feature educational sessions involving public works.  Keep checking back to view the tentative schedule.  Continuing education credits will be available.

Request for Abstracts – Abstracts are no longer being accepted for 2025.

Prospective speakers are invited to submit an abstract outlining the scope of their paper and principal points to the public works community.  Abstract submission deadline is November 8, 2025. The APWA Abstract Review Committee will review the abstracts and notify the speakers of their acceptance in December.  Please be sure the abstracts are educational and have no commercial content.  Please note approved abstracts will also be inserted in the Conference Brochure. If you have an abstract you would like to submit, attached is the Abstract Registration form for you to complete and submit to Todd Gadd at todd.gadd@collierseng.com for review by the Abstract Review Committee.

Conference Schedule

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE – 2025

 

Current Topics/Sessions
Building Envelope Solutions for Municipalities
Building the Pipeline for our Future Transportation Workforce
Class A Biosolids at the City of Geneva and Village of Owego WWTPs
Code of Ethics for Water-Wastewater Professionals
Development of an Inter-Agency Transportation Data Platform to Mitigate Congestion in a Bi-National Region
Financial Impacts of a Water Utility’s Forgotten City
Illuminating your Towns and Villages: A Comprehensive Guide to LED Lighting Specifications
Increasing Efficiency in Winter Maintenance: Weather vs. Road Weather
Just A Stormwater Girl Living In A CSO World – Innovative Approaches to Managing Stormwater Quantity and Quality In Capacity-Restricted Collection Systems
Municipal Fire Hydrant and Gate Valve Technical Presentation
Neighborhood Traffic Calming and the City of Syracuse’s Approach to Connecting Neighborhoods – Effective Tools to Reduce Speeds in Neighborhoods
PFAS – Water, Wastewater, Leachate, and Biosolids. Where are we now and what are the options?
Protecting Buffalo’s Water Plant from Growing Climate Risk
Renewing the Bridge of Stone: Rehabilitating Starrucca Viaduct
Safe Digging Practices
Speed Limit Reduction – How to Establish Safe Speeds in Your Community
Staying on the Straight and Narrow: Low-Cost Highway Safety
The Abstract Challenges Below the Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Top Trends in Modern Snow Fighting
Town of Wawarsing, NY- The Race for Clean Water
Wastewater Pumps with Integrated Intelligence
Addressing Seepage through a Canal Embankment with a One-Pass Trench Cutoff Wall
When Should We Post Weight Limits on Roads

Exhibitor Opportunity

 Register as an exhibitor and showcase your products, services, solutions at the 2025 APWA NYS Chapter Annual Conference!

  • Market your organization and technologies to highly targeted audiences focused on public works.
  • Network and interact one-on-one with colleagues, including Wednesday evening Happy Hour and Networking Event.
  • Highlight your organizations logo in the Conference Program.
  • Attend educational sessions to learn the latest in public works.

Exhibitor Registration Fee:  $800 (Includes one (1) 6” table (electric is included for the first 30 vendors) and one (1) full conference registration.) Exhibitors with door prizes will be given a sheet of raffle tickets to display in their booth.  Attendees will walk around looking to match their raffle tickets.  This is a great way to drive traffic to your booth. Thank you to ALL our Exhibitors:

  • Absolute Auctions & Realty, Inc.
  • Advanced Drainage Systems
  • Advanced One
  • Altec Industries Inc.
  • BETA Group, Inc.
  • C.T. Male Associates
  • Da-Lee Pavement Products
  • Eastcom Associates
  • EJ, USA
  • FASTER Asset Solutions
  • Frost Solutions
  • FMX
  • GA Fleet
  • Garland Co.
  • Highway Rehab Corp
  • John Thomas Inc.
  • Kimco USA Inc.
  • Koester Associates
  • Lane Enterprises, LLC
  • Larson Design Group
  • McWane Ductile
  • OpenGov
  • Pavement Management Group
  • Precision Safe Sidewalk, LLC
  • RM Headless Co., Inc.
  • Samsara
  • Schneider Electric
  • Siewert Equipment
  • Statewide Aquastore Inc.
  • Street Dynamics/Stalker Radar
  • T & M Associates
  • The Precision Group
  • UDig NY
  • UNIQUE Paving Materials Corp.
  • USG Water Solutions
  • Vaisala Xweather
  • Vialytics
  • Vue Robotics
  • Xylem

 Sponsorship Opportunities 

We very much appreciate our sponsors.  If you would like to register to be a sponsor scroll down to the registration portion to see what sponsorships are available. Sponsors receive a full-page ad in the Conference Program. Thank you to our current Sponsors:

  • Appetizer Station at Cocktail Reception – GHD
  • Audio/Video – AECOM
  • Awards Banquet – LaBella Associates
  • Awards Banquet Table Gift – Koester Associates
  • Breakfast Buffet – Lane Enterprises, LLC
  • Coffee/Snack Breaks – Siewert Equipment
  • Conference Program Reproduction – Colliers Engineering
  • Know Before You Go – C.T. Male Associates
  • Lanyards – GA Fleet
  • Logo on Registration Gift – Vialytics
  • Luncheon (Thursday) – Koester Associates
  • Networking Event – Barton & Loguidice
  • Open Bar (1-Hour) Cocktail Hour – Koester Associates

 Book Your Lodging 

Delta by Marriott Utica, 200 Genesee Street Utica NY 13502 (315) 797-8010 Book your group rate for 2025 APWA NYS Chapter Conference

  • Room Rate:  $139 night
  • Room Block Last day to book: February 21, 2025
  • Check-in/Out Time:  Check-in time is 3 PM, Check-out time is Noon

Phone Reservation:  315-266-1461, mention APWA NYS Chapter Annual Conference For more hotel information click on the following link:  Delta Hotel Property Overview

If you did not make the deadline, and there are not any rooms left at the Delta, there are several hotels a short distance from the Delta with the closest (two blocks away) being The Hotel Utica.

Registration 

Bookings are closed for this event.

 Conference Attendees – Things You May Want to “Know Before You Go”

The main entrance to the hotel is located adjacent to the parking garage. As you arrive you can park in the loading/10-minute area, help yourselves to a luggage cart if needed.

On site parking is available at the Washington Street parking garage, adjacent to the Delta Hotel. The 3 level, city owned garage has a 7-foot clearance and holds 525 spaces.  Hotel guests will receive a discounted rate of $10.00 per day for overnight stays. Parking charges for hotel guests will be processed by the hotel and require ticket validation at hotel concierge. These charges will appear on your bill upon departure.  Non-hotel guests may park at a rate of $2.00 per hour, $18.00 max per day. Parking charges for non-hotel guests will be processed through the Washington Street parking garage kiosk. Please note, cash is not accepted at kiosk (debit or credit card only).

The hotel does have complimentary wi-fi in both the lobby and event spaces. The hotel also offers an enhanced private network for a fee.  See details below:

Registration will be in the hotel lobby.  Early registration begins at 2 PM until 3:30 PM on Wednesday, and again Thursday morning beginning at 7 AM.

IMPORTANT

The Networking Event is Wednesday, March 19th from 6 PM – 9 PM at the Nexus Center (www.nexusutica.com) only a few blocks from the Delta by Marriott Hotel.  I highly recommend you attend.  Not only is it a lot of fun and a great way to start off the conference, but there is free food, free drinks, and a cornhole competition.  Attendance to the Networking Event is NOT included in the conference registration fee.  If you would like to join us, go back to the registration site by clicking on the link below and register for the networking event.  Parking is in the back.  Enter in the Toyota Entrance.  Proceed up the stairs to the second level.

I cannot stress enough how important it is that you find the time to check out each of the exhibit booths.  Be sure to get your tickets when you register to match up to see if you win a prize.  I have seen Yetti coolers given away in the past.

The Awards Banquet is Thursday evening starting promptly at 6 PM with a cocktail hour prior beginning at 5 PM.  Please don’t only come to the cocktail hour and skip the awards banquet.  These projects deserve to be recognized, and it is important that you are there.

Be sure to thank our sponsors and exhibitors.  They are a very important part in making this event a success.

If you have any further questions, shoot me a text.

See you soon.

Jolie Murray

APWA NYS Chapter Administrator

315.368.7769

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THIS “KNOW BEFORE YOUR GO” EMAIL WAS SPONSORED BY C.T. MALES ASSOCIATES.

 

C.T. Male Associates Engineering, Surveying, Architecture, Landscape Architecture & Geology, D.P.C. (C.T. Male) is a full-service engineering, environmental, architecture, landscape architecture, and surveying firm headquartered at Latham in New York’s Capital District, with regional offices covering New York State at Johnstown, Glens Falls, Poughkeepsie and Syracuse.  C.T. Male will be exhibiting at the APWA NYS Annual Conference.  Please stop by and meet their team.