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Detailed Agenda SATURDAY « FEBRUARY 20, 2016 Julia Walsh Former Village Trustee, New Paltz, NY Julia Walsh served as an elected official on the Village Board of New Paltz, NY from 2003-2007, where she passed key environmental legislation and organized New Paltz’s groundbreaking same-sex marriages that received national media coverage. For over 10 years, she served as an NGO representative to the United Nations for children’s rights, environmental, and indigenous rights organizations. In 2010, she founded Frack Action and helped initiate Elected Officials to Protect New York, organizations that played a pivotal role in the statewide ban on fracking announced by Governor Cuomo in December 2014. 9:15 AM – 10:45 AM SMART URBAN GROWTH MODELS OF SUSTAINABILITY Cities and metros are leading the way in sustainability, becoming laboratories of efficiency and innovation. This panel will highlight examples of model urban systems and infrastructure, from municipal utilities to cutting-edge transit to revitalized downtown commons. Panelists will discuss strategies for funding and implementing smart urban development. BREAKOUTS BY LEVEL OF OFFICE Heather Bailey City of Boulder Clean Energy & Environmental Justice Policy Academy | 2016 Heather Bailey was hired in 2012 to help manage Boulder’s Energy Future project by providing direction in the creation of both short- and long-term energy strategies and leading the city’s municipalization exploration project. She has nearly 37 years of experience in the utility industry, and has served as a regulator, utility executive, and consultant. The majority of her career has been in public power, with positions including controller, treasurer, deputy chief financial officer, executive director of corporate services, and executive director of transmission business services and asset development. As a consultant she advised independent transmission developers and power producers, as well as cities, on various utility strategic and regulatory issues. Bailey is a C.P.A. and has an M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, a bachelor’s degree from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, and has received numerous appointments from the American Public Power Association (APPA), including chair of the APPA Business and Finance Section. 15

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