Virginia Chapter APCO ●
Virginia Chapter NENA
2012 APCO/NENA Winter Session
A One-Day Educational and Informational
Conference
on the Latest Issues Affecting Virginia’s
Public Safety Communications
and the Virginia Chapters of APCO and NENA
Chesterfield County Eanes-Pittman
Public Safety Training Center
6610 Public Safety Way, Chesterfield,
Virginia
Monday, February 6, 2012
9:15 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
On-site Registration and Check-in/Light
Breakfast/Networking Opens at 8 a.m.
AGENDA
0800 – 0915
Registration, Networking and Light Breakfast
sponsored by Sytech
0915 – 0930 Welcome
and Opening Remarks
Ø Julie McKercher and Allan Weese
Virginia Chapter Presidents of APCO and NENA
Moment of Silence Followed by the
Pledge of Allegiance
Update on the NG-911 Initiative
Action Team
Leadership and Ethics
EMD Across
Virginia
VA APCO
Taskforce Roundtable
Events to be Calendared
in 2012
0930 – 1030
Update
– NG911 IAT
Ø Dorothy Spears-Dean, Public Safety
Communications Coordinator, VITA
1030 – 1100
Overview on CIT– Handling Calls Involving the Mentally Ill
Ø Lisa Fitzgerald, Albemarle/UVA/Charlottesville
1100 – 1200
EMD in the Commonwealth – Funding, Accreditation, Myths and
Misunderstanding
Ø Office of OEMS
1200 – 1300
Lunch
– sponsored by Motorola
1300 – 1400
Leadership & Ethics in the 9-1-1 Public Safety Profession…Everyone’s Job
24/7/365
Ø Assistant Supervisor Lorraine Fells-Danzer and Director Steve Souder, Fairfax Co.
1400 – 1415
Mid-Afternoon Break – sponsored by Motorola
1415 – 1530
Virginia Chapter Taskforce Roundtable, All Attendees
Ø A roundtable discussion regarding the
concentrated efforts of the Virginia Taskforce
1530 – 1600
Closing Remarks, Julie McKercher & Allan Weese
Ø Executive Council Update
o
Bill
Agee, Executive Council Representative
Ø VA APCO
Awards Program
o
Kathy
Richardson, Director at Large
Ø VA NENA/APCO Spring Conference May 16-18, 2012 Virginia Beach
o
Allan
Weese, VA NENA President
Ø VA APCO/NENA/Interoperability Fall Conference
o
Bill
Agee, Executive Council Representative & Rodney Gentry, Vice President
$20.00 Registration (Lunch
Provided)
Late registrations subject to confirmation of lunch availability.
Please register in advance; however, the registration fee can be
paid on site.
Registration
Form (MS Word Fillable)
For Registration and Sponsorship Payments
For More Information
If you need further information on a particular aspect of the
conference, please contact President
Julie McKercher.
Plan Now To Attend The
2012
Virginia NENA / APCO Spring
Conference
Holiday
Inn® & Suites - North
Beach
3900
Atlantic Avenue
Virginia Beach, Virginia
May 16 - 18, 2012
Lodging is Now Open
Room rates at the Holiday
Inn® & Suites - North Beach are $89.00 per night (plus tax) (state per diem
rate). In order to receive the conference rates, you
must reserve your room not later than April 15, 2012. To reserve your room at the Holiday Inn® & Suites - North Beach go to the Hotel's Event Webpage at Make a Reservation or calling the hotel at 1-757-428-1711. When calling, provide the Group Code, "NAP" to obtain
our group rate.
Each individual (or PSAP if you choose to book all at once) will book your own
room(s) which will need to be secured with a credit card. As a reminder, the PSAP Scholarship program ended with the Spring
2011 NENA/APCO Conference.
You are now under the Virginia E911 Services Board's PSAP
Educational Grant program. In order to have received grant funds for the Spring 2012 conference, your PSAP
had to have applied and been approved for a grant in the FY12 grant cycle. If
you are using this program, your PSAP will pay for
your hotel accommodations and conference registration up front. Within 30 days of the closing of the
conference, your PSAP will submit receipts to VITA
for reimbursement to the PSAP for approved expenses. If the receipts are not submitted within those 30 days, by state travel
regulations, your PSAP will not be reimbursed!!
Please, if you
need to cancel any rooms at the Holiday
Inn® & Suites - North Beach, call Denice Marrs at (804) 469-5395 and let her cancel the rooms for
you. She may be able to offer your canceled room(s) to another person or
agency needing a room(s). If
you need rooms after the cutoff date, again, call Denice to see if she has any
cancellations before making reservations at another hotel or paying the
higher non-conference rate.
Call
for Presentations
The
Conference Committee for the 2012 Virginia NENA/APCO Spring Conference has issued a call for
presentations for the conference being held May 16 – 18, 2012, at the Holiday
Inn & Suites North Beach, Virginia Beach, VA. Interested presenters are
encouraged to complete the Call for Presentations form and return it to Richard
Troshak at TroshakR@Chesterfield.Gov.
For additional information, please contact Richard Troshak at (804) 706-2595 or
one of the Executive Board members. Please
submit your Call for Presentations form as soon as possible but not later than January
31, 2012.
Sponsorships
We
are again looking for sponsors and cosponsors for the various food and
activities planned for this year's conference. There are sponsorship
opportunities available for pre-conference classes, breakfasts, breaks,
luncheon, evening events and give-a-ways.
A $500 to $999 donation will provide you with sponsorship or cosponsorship of a pre-conference class, meal or break
which includes signage and advertisement in the program guide. A Sponsorship of
$1,000 or more will provide you with a sponsorship or cosponsorship
of awards luncheon, keynote speaker/breakfast, or evening events, and will
provide 2 comp registrations, advertisement in the program guide, and a
banner/signage in or at the venue. However, any level of sponsorship will be
greatly appreciated.
We
thank you for your past support and ask that you help us to make this the best
conference ever.
To
indicate your interest in a sponsorship opportunity, e-mail Sponsorship Chair Athena M. Plummer, or call her at
(757) 385-8089, or 385-4232.
KEEPING OUR MEMBERS EDUCATED AND INFORMED!
Fall and Winter
Conferences are coordinated by the Virginia Chapter of APCO.
APCO, NENA, and
the Virginia Office of Veteran Affairs and Homeland Security share program responsibilities
for the Fall Conference.
Spring Conference
is coordinated by the Virginia Chapter of NENA.
