Featured Presentations

Case Law

Katherine Harasz, Deputy County Counsel, Santa Clara County;

Lori A. Mazzella, Deputy County Counsel, Solano County

Hoping for the Best and Being Prepared to Deal with the Worst (Public Works Bonds, Bid Protests and Contract Issues)

Kenneth I. Schumaker, Esq., Partner;

D. Michael Schoenfeld, Esq., Partner;

Murphy Austin Adams Schoenfeld LLP, Sacramento

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about CalRecycle’s CIA Program (But Were Too Afraid That It’s Connected to the Real CIA to Ask)

Steven J. Levine, Esq., Senior Staff Counsel, CalRecycle, Sacramento

Intrastate Restrictions on Solid Waste Flow: Commerce Clause and Other Impacts of Measure E

James W. Laughlin, Deputy County Counsel, Solano County;

Scott W. Gordon, Esq., Law Offices of Scott W. Gordon, Walnut Creek

Lunch:  Keynote Speaker TBD

Hoping for the Best and Being Prepared to Deal with the Worst (Project Completion Agreements, Claims Under New Cases, Termination, Sureties and Mediation)

Kenneth I. Schumaker , Esq., Partner;

D. Michael Schoenfeld, Esq., Partner;

Murphy Austin Adams Schoenfeld LLP, Sacramento

Current Developments at CalRecycle

Eliott W. Block, Esq., Chief Counsel and Deputy Director, CalRecycle, Sacramento

The CUPA Forum Board: Tackling Legislative and Other Statewide Projects in Hazardous Materials Regulation

Randy Sawyer, Director Hazardous Materials Programs, Contra Costa Health Services, Martinez

Owner Controlled Insurance Programs: Panacea or Paradox?

Ron Rakich, CPU, ARM, Ron Rakich & Associates, Inc., Gold River

Play Ball! A Tale of Two Cities and a County Cleaning Up a Little League Field

William D. Brown, Esq., Brown & Winters, Cardiff-by-the-Sea;

James R. O’Day, Senior Deputy County Counsel, San Diego County

Ethics Jeopardy

Stefanie D. Hedlund, Esq., Best, Best & Krieger, Sacramento

Bias is Bad (or is it?)

Jeanine D. DeBacker,Esq; of Counsel, Hoge, Fenton, Jones and Appel, San Jose

CEQA Update

Sarah Ellen Owsowitz, Esq., Cox, Castle and Nicholson, San Francisco

This program information is tentative and subject to change.  To view the most up-to-date program information, visit http://www.coconet.org/conferences, and click on the link to the “Conference Program”.

Registration

Registration Fee.  The registration fee is $285 and includes all conference materials; Thursday morning’s coffee and tea, lunch, and afternoon snacks; and Friday morning’s coffee and tea.