Letter from the President By John Davies, AICP, President, Puget Sound Section, Washington APA Fall is in the air, summer is over and the Puget Sound Section is geared up for a fantastic 2010/2011. UPCOMING FOR 2010/2011. Your elected Board members of Puget Sound Section APA have been busy putting together the activities for the upcoming year. This December, we will have our annual Holiday Party - again at Salty's - which will provide a great opportunity to meet with colleagues and to make new connections. Spring 2011 will feature the Planning Law Conference. We are making an effort to make the conference relevant to the wide-variety of planning professionals with something for everyone from the long-range planner to the planner at the counter. It promises to be a great opportunity to network, gain knowledge, and learn from others. I am excited about the conference and hope you will all attend. Throughout 2010 and 2011, we will continue our educational Brown Bag sessions that promise to continue to be thought provoking, relevant, and CM credit-worthy. OUR "NPR" MOMENT. Of course, all of these events require money. The downturn in the economy has also affected the revenue that the Puget Sound Section receives for its programs and we will need to increasingly rely on outside funds to support our programs. We will be making our annual sponsorship drive in the next few months, so I strongly encourage every member to suggest, nudge, push, and cajole your firm or organization to sponsor the Puget Sound Section APA for 2010-2011. We will have a variety of levels to allow your organization to receive "super-positive" exposure and the accolades of all the planning community. Our sponsorship levels will provide opportunities to have your firm or organization listed as an important supporter of our entire 2010-2011 season, with recognition at the 2010 Holiday Party, 2011 Planning Law Conference, at each of our 2011 Brown Bag sessions, and throughout the year in our quarterly newsletter - with special opportunities for exposure for our higher level donors. I believe that our sponsors obtain great value for the money. Feel free to contact Michael Booth or me directly if you would like to sponsor our 2010-2011 season. OPPORTUNITIES TO SHINE. For the first time, we are placing a call for sessions for the Planning Law Conference. We have tracks to recognize the Growth Management Act's 20th Birthday, discussing upcoming legislative and legal issues that face the planning profession, and providing "the at-the-counter" level discussions of the implementation issues facing our communities. See the attached article in this newsletter for details. I know that all of you have great ideas and experiences to share, so get it together and submit your sessions! SEE YOU SOON. I have enjoyed meeting the PSS Section membership. I hope to see all of you at the Holiday Party or at an upcoming Brown Bag session. Be sure to swing by and introduce yourself. A CONVERSATION WITH THE PLANNER OF THE QUARTER Tony Mazzella, Strategic Advisor at the Seattle Department of Transportation What led you to become a planner? As an undergraduate at a small, experimental college in New York City, I studied social sciences and classical literature. A little while after graduating from college, I took a job at a home that provided services for foster children. After being there for a couple of years, I realized that I had an interest in social work, social policy, urban studies and considered getting a graduate degree in either social work or urban studies. At the time, I wanted to look at urban issues in the context of individuals, families, and communities and so I got a Master's in social work. I then worked for a labor union for a number of years providing an array of social services to union members and their families. My work often centered around issues of alcohol and drug abuse, family violence, poverty, and other problems that affect urban working people. In the late 1980s I decided that I wanted to look at the urban environment from a slightly more distant point of view. I remembered that years earlier I had considered the idea of pursuing a degree in urban studies. At the same time, my wife and I were looking at relocating from New York City. So we thought we'd get away for a few years. I'd change careers, go back to school. She'd reconnect with family on the west coast. So we came to Seattle and I went to the U. I got a masters in urban design and planning and I've been doing transportation work almost ever since. What were some of the jobs you've had prior to your current position at SDOT? When I graduated from the University of Washington, my first job was as a technical consultant to a neighborhood planning group in Seattle's central district to develop what ultimately became the City's first neighborhood plan. In the early 1990s, the City of Seattle embarked on a neighborhood planning process and provided each neighborhood with resources to hire a professional planner to develop their plan separate from the advice and support they were getting from City staff. It was a way of creating a certain distance between the neighborhoods and the City in order to foster a greater level of trust on the part of the neighborhood. So I worked with this neighborhood committee but had a lot of interaction with the City. In 1993, a full time permanent job came up with the City of Kirkland Public Works Department to manage the City's first neighborhood traffic control program. While I had only a limited background in the field of transportation, the City of Kirkland was primarily looking for someone who had experience working with people (since the City was able to provide the engineering back-up). They were really looking for someone who was comfortable working with communities, especially around some contentious issues. It was a very fruitful marriage. I stayed with City of Kirkland from 1993 to 1999. We got the program up and running and I worked with a host of neighborhoods in Kirkland. We introduced traffic calming devices in the neighborhoods and initiated pedestrian education and capital improvement projects such as in-pavement flashing lights at uncontrolled crossings.. I worked closely with the Police Department and schools and tried to implement all the "Es". I thought we were very successful in actualizing the whole concept of traffic calming in the City of Kirkland, and I believe the program is continuing to work quite well. What are the most exciting issues that you've dealt with? During the time that I've been at SDOT, there's been a real concerted effort to move the department from one that conceptualized urban transportation as primarily vehicle-centric to a system that is people-centric. Our focus has become moving as many people as possible in the most safe and efficient ways possible with less regard for the vehicle mode. Along with the diminution of the vehicle focus, there has been much greater attention directed towards overall urban mobility and sustainability. We have a pedestrian master plan and we are building more sidewalks. We have a bicycle master plan and we are building more bicycle facilities. We are trying to put together the planning and policy sides with the "what are you actually doing" side. The transition of moving a large urban transportation department in a new direction has been the greatest challenge and opportunity that I've experienced being here. What challenges do you see in the coming years? Aside from issues of funding which are chronic and ever with us, and aside from the City's monumental challenges of rebuilding the Alaskan Way Viaduct and the Seawall, and grappling with the future of SR 520, I think the real upcoming challenge is moving the city to be more in alignment with sustainability objectives. This will require a fairly large scale cultural and societal shift on the part of Seattleites as a whole around what are the some of the more tangible consequences of this movement to a more sustainable transportation system. Because it is very easy for someone to say that having additional transit capacity is a wonderful thing. To then get to the step of saying "therefore on these corridors, we are going to remove lanes of general purpose traffic and we are going to segregate those lanes and turn them into at least semi exclusive transit lanes." That's another level of complexity, because now you are not only talking about something that sounds wonderful, but you are now making very hard decisions around allocation of a finite resource, which is what exists curb-to-curb. And even in a city and a region as progressive as ours, the actual decisions and their consequences can sometimes go down hard. I think we're at a stage now where conceptually there's widespread consensus of where we're heading, but now there's the heavy lifting of putting into practice the concepts and visions that drive our work. If you weren't professional planner, what would you do? I would always be involved in studying urban life. I think another way I could have done it was to be more on the academic side, where your job was not necessarily to convince anyone of anything or get something built, but to be more a chronicler and a student of the evolution of the city. Closing thoughts? When I first came to work for SDOT, our average age was middle age and above. Over the past five to six years, I have had the pleasure to see a whole new and diverse generation of planners arrive. People with public health backgrounds, with urban design backgrounds, policy backgrounds. I have been very gratified that SDOT has been a place where people with an interest in city life have been made comfortable, regardless of their academic background. And I have been really pleased at the quality of the people and their work. So as my career begins to sunset, I am really quite hopeful about the next wave of people that will take charge of the profession. STATE CONFERENCE SPOTLIGHT - GREAT PRESENTATIONS FROM AROUND THE SOUND Here are some of the presentations from Puget Sound Section members that were given at the State APA Conference. Seattle's Transit Communities By Kevin McDonald, AICP and Colie Hough-Beck, ASLA, Co-Chairs of the Seattle Planning Commission's Land Use and Transportation Committee In its newest initiative, Seattle's Transit Communities: Integrating Land Use, Public Investments, and Essential Infrastructure Components with Transit, the Seattle Planning Commission (SPC) takes a holistic view of how the City's land use policies can optimize regional transit investments to transform Seattle's neighborhoods and support future growth. This report provides elected officials, decision makers and citizen's strategies for leveraging precious funding dollars and creating safe, diverse, transit-rich spaces throughout the city. Seattle's Transit Communities was conceived anticipating the new transit investment coming to Seattle including Link Light Rail in the summer of 2009. In addition to the new stations and planned route extensions, SPC saw new investments planned for streetcar, regional bus, commuter and intra-city rail, along with trolley and bus rapid service in the planning queue. With such a rich array of transit options, the Commission sees a unique opportunity to maximize these investments and increase Seattle's livability through future growth. In November of 2008 the Commission convened and facilitated a roundtable discussion with elected officials, key City staff and representatives from other state and regional agencies. The goal of the roundtable was to help the City better integrate land use and public investments with transit, soliciting advice and perspectives from all angles. The information gleaned from the roundtable helped inform the independent and objective recommendations contained in the Seattle Transit Communities report. The Commission developed four Seattle specific typologies for transit communities that have unique characteristics, activities, lands uses and amenities: Mixed-Use Centers, Mixed-Use Neighborhoods, Special Districts and Industrial Job Centers. A Mixed Use Center is the most densely developed of all the transit community typologies, making breathing room key for all the residents and employees who live and work in these communities. Mixed Use Neighborhoods are active residential and small-scale commercial areas where a wide variety of community facilities create a rich, livable environment. A Special District might contain a sports stadium, hospital, convention center or some other venue that draws people from the region who use the sidewalks and plazas and rely on wayfinding to navigate the area. An Industrial Jobs Center contains no housing, but rather is focused around jobs. Nonetheless, it is an area that requires pedestrian and bicycle facilities as well as environmental enhancements. In addition to defining these four typologies, the Commission used a set of guidelines to help prioritize near-term investments in either planning or infrastructure. These guidelines consider such factors as land-use readiness, transit readiness, and other considerations such as funding availability, community support, leveraging concurrent development and social and geographic equity. Once framework was in place, the Commission held work sessions with selected City departments, Design Commission members, Council staff and the Mayor's office to apply the guidelines, confirm and assign typologies to transit communities, and finally to prioritize the most urgent and important opportunities for planning and implementation in Seattle. Forty-nine transit connections were assigned a typology and reviewed for land use and transit readiness. Of these, fourteen transit communities were identified as having the most urgent near term planning or infrastructure needs and put forth for consideration along with key actions for moving forward. The final report will be released by the end of this year, 2010. The Seattle Planning Commission, comprised of 16 volunteer members appointed by the Mayor and the City Council, is the steward of the Seattle Comprehensive Plan. In this role, the Commission advises the Mayor, City Council and City Departments on broad planning goals, policies and plans for the physical development of the City. Biodiversity Planning: Using Maps of Nature as the Baseline for Open Space Planning By Karen Dvornich, NatureMapping Director, University of Washington Biodiversity planning is a method used to identify land areas that provide for a biologically diverse representation of species. This planning method considers long-term ecosystem health and establishes a goal of maintaining adequate habitat to ensure the continued viability of a diversity of species within an ecoregion. The remaining high-quality land cover is sometimes those areas that would be protected through Critical Area Regulations and sometimes not. However, the focus is on all species, not just those that are state or federally listed. This proactive approach helps implement the Growth Management Act requirements for Fish and Wildlife Habitat Conservation Areas and open space planning. A review of the protection status (i.e., wildlife refuges, national and state parks, etc.) in Spokane County showed the amount of protection for wildlife was 4% before biodiversity planning and 38% afterwards. The process includes the development of a map delineating the Biodiversity Management Network and a list of what native and non-native species (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects and plants) a county has and the diverse habitats that support these species. This map and list establishes a benchmark of information to use in long-term monitoring efforts and helps answer the question is species diversity declining or increasing? Planners can consider potential risks to these areas, their conservation status, and apply the best tools to address conservation. For example, the Biodiversity Management Network can be integrated into counties' Open Space element of their Comprehensive Plans and incentive-based programs such as Conservations Futures Program, Current Use Assessment Program. Implementation of these programs are augmented through the development of stewardship plans to identify the conservation targets (e.g., river, forest, wetlands, etc.), threats within those areas, and actions to abate threats or restore degraded areas. The community within the Crescent Valley Biodiversity Management Area (BMA), one of 16 BMA's within the Pierce County Network developed a stewardship plan to address the specific needs of their BMA. Using the same template, the Lower White River Stewardship Plan has been developed with chapters for King County and the cities of Buckley, Auburn, Pacific, and Sumner that border the BMA. The NatureMapping Program was created in 1992 with the goal to "keep common species common" by involving the public to collect and use biological data. It was used as a tool to assess biodiversity maps created by the Washington Gap Analysis Project at the University of Washington and has continued gathering biodiversity data after the project was completed. NatureMapping works with counties to apply these data in their planning efforts and works with informal education organizations (e.g., nature centers, zoos and aquariums, etc.) training citizens to participate in Bioblitz (24-hour rapid assessment) and NatureMapping events. This process is now referred to as "Citizen Science". Citizen scientists have inventoried and monitored areas within the Biodiversity Management Networks. Therefore, biodiversity planning not only benefits wildlife in open space planning, meets the Growth Management Act requirements, and involves the community as long-term stewards. If each county develops a Biodiversity Management Network, Washington State would have a map showing the "best of the best" of what is left, comprehensive planning by each county to protect it, and biodiversity inventories and long-term monitoring by citizen scientists within each community. It is a win-win situation. Building a High Performing Team: Staff, Commission, Council Relations By Deborah Munkberg, Principal, inova Is it possible for staff, commissions and councils to develop trusted and productive relationships, where members are able to share freely, think creatively and make good decisions for your community? For about 50 participants at a recent Washington Chapter APA Conference session, the answer was a resounding yes! Session participants shared stories of their successes and challenges, helped problem solve and left with some practical tools to help build relationships in their agency. Presenters Carol Moser, Melinda Posner and Deborah Munkberg, AICP, shared the results of interviews with jurisdictions from throughout the state, describing their successes, challenges and best practices. An overriding theme was the importance of trust as a foundation of any successful team. In this context, trust is defined as confidence that your peers' intentions are good, regardless of whether you agree with their position. Trusting teams put the team's interest ahead of individual interests, engage in healthy conflict, are open and honest, and willing to make difficult decisions. Recognizing that trust is fragile, actions that destroy trust, such as sharing confidential information, withholding information, offering vague feedback, and using anger and fear to intimidate were also discussed. Building trust and learning to work effectively together takes deliberate intention and, importantly, time. Some of the tips and ideas discussed at the workshop included: Get to know who is on the team. Staff, commissioners and elected officials frequently act as separate, and sometimes competing, teams. Knowing each others' experience and background helps develop trust and respect. It also can assist the team in identifying what roles each should play and how to best achieve their community's shared future. Discuss how you want to operate as a team. Take time to discuss why individuals became members of the team, what they hope to achieve, lessons learned from the past, and expectations of each other. Make this discussion a regular part of the work program and provide a neutral facilitator as needed. Share information on a regular basis through weekly emails, news updates, phone calls, and in-person meetings. One planning director noted that he sends out emails two to three times a week, updating commissioners on local issues and pertinent news stories from around the region. Look for opportunities to get together as a team outside of regular meetings, such as field trips, pre-meeting dinners, training sessions, and other informal activities. One jurisdiction holds chats in local coffee shops on a regular basis, attended by a rotating group of staff and commissioners. Develop a process to help integrate new members. Pair up experienced and new members, develop a schedule for informal and formal training opportunities and expectations for new members. Becoming a high functioning team doesn't happen without intention. Agencies that take time to discuss team relations and schedule regular opportunities to improve team function develop strong relationships, report more satisfaction, and help communities realize their goals. Measuring Connectivity as a Part of your Smart Growth By Dan Penrose, Project Manager - OEA Grants, City of Lakewood As part of the 2010 Washington APA Panel session Measuring Connectivity a part of your Smart Growth Lakewood presented their recent history in the development of the Non-Motorized Transportation Plan. Lakewood adopted the NMTP in 2009, which included a fairly robust GIS measurement of pedestrian and bicycle accessibility to major activity centers, including the newly-constructed Sounder Station with future commuter rail operations expected in 2012. Findings of the NMTP accessibility measures yielded only a partial priority for rail station access improvements. Included in the plan is a new grade-separated crossing of the Sounder rail line linking the station with Lakewood's city center and nearby St. Clare hospital and plans for higher-density, transit-oriented residential and employment lands. Following the NMTP adoption Lakewood examined and applied a new measure using ViaCity to calculate a Route Directness Index (RDI) that places greater emphasis on creating and improving the accessibility and connectivity to the Sounder Station. The RDI measure provides quantitative analysis and mapping to directly assess improved connectivity in the station area, comparing Lakewood's existing system with the planned, non-motorized rail crossing. The RDI connectivity tool measures the relationship of the straight-line distance (crow's flight) to the actual route distance for surrounding lands to the Sounder Station. Mapping the connectivity scores helps quantify the benefit of Lakewood's plan. Improving non-motorized access to the Sounder Station helps implement the city's Smart Growth policy contained in the NMTP. The following thematic maps were used in the APA panel session. Lakewood is including the additional connectivity measures, maps and analyses to support applications for state and federal funding assistance. Charging Up for Electric Vehicles By Carol Naito, Puget Sound Regional Council Residents of the central Puget Sound region will soon be among the first in the nation to drive a new generation of mainstream electric vehicles (EVs) that will become available on the market. Models include the all-electric Nissan Leaf (starting price $32,780) and plug-in hybrid electric Chevrolet Volt (starting price $41,000)1. The Puget Sound is one of a small number of metropolitan regions selected to participate in a federally-funded demonstration project to support domestic deployment of electric vehicles and related infrastructure, including a public network of charging stations. Over $20 million in U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funds is being invested in our region toward this end. A regional partnership of DOE-sponsored electric vehicle infrastructure projects-including The EV Project, ChargeNW, Clean Cities Coalition, and local governments-approached the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) to assist with data and analysis to help determine the best places to site publicly available charging stations. As the designated metropolitan planning organization for the central Puget Sound, PSRC maintains a number of rich and unique data resources in support of its long-range regional transportation planning mandates. These datasets proved useful in exploring the following questions posed by the partnership: Where should publicly available charging stations be located to best serve the needs of EV owners? What are the travel patterns and characteristics of the likely EV market? Are these patterns different from the population at large? Where are the region's major travel destinations? How far do people travel to reach these destinations? Would they stay/park at these destinations for enough time to sufficiently recharge a battery? What additional travel characteristics and factors are important to consider in making siting decisions? Among the key findings from PSRC's regional station siting analysis: The likely EV market (identified using hybrid vehicle ownership as a proxy) and its auto travel patterns are geographically concentrated in the urban core of the region. The typical auto tour, which averages less than 20 miles, is easily supported on a single battery charge. Most public charging will consist of "topping off," rather than fully recharging, a battery. Such charging can occur at common destinations with a minimum 30 minute dwell time such as shopping, recreation and entertainment venues. To support non-typical long-distance travel, EV owners will need access to a network of "safety net" charging stations. Safety net sites should be available in both heavily and lightly traveled areas. The findings and data resources generated from PSRC's siting analysis are being used by the partnership projects to select sites for the first wave of publicly available charging stations. For more details about the methodology and results of the regional station siting analysis, go to www.psrc.org/transportation/ev/. For questions, contact Carol Naito at (206) 464-7535 or cnaito@psrc.org. Electric vehicles purchased in or after 2010 may be eligible for a federal income tax credit of up to $7,500. Some state and local governments also provide incentives for electric and other alternative fuel vehicles. CALL FOR SESSIONS The Puget Sound Section of the Washington State Chapter of the American Planning Association invites you to submit a session or speaker proposal for the 2011 Planning Law Conference, scheduled for this April. This year's theme is: "Building the Planner's Toolbox": Planning and Legal Tools at the Level Where you Work. The Puget Sound Section Board is planning for three tracks that provide planning expertise at several levels of the profession; from long range regional planning to permit review at the counter. The three tracks will be 1) GMA at 20 years; 2) Legal and legislative issues; and 3) "at the counter". Proposals for sessions may be on any topic relevant to these themes or others. Proposals should be linked in some way to legal or legislative issues planners deal with on a daily basis. The PSS board would like to organize the most relevant and complete conference possible. We know there is a lot going on in the planning profession in our region. We encourage you to submit any session ideas that you are interested in or that will be beneficial to your colleagues. We may adjust the themes of the three tracks based on the responses to this invitation, so please do not limit yourself. Deadline for submissions is November 19, 2010. We hope to create a program with a variety of topics and speakers, while maintaining a focus on the legal issues of planning and providing attendees with tools they can take back to their everyday work. Organizers of sessions chosen will be contacted by the Board to discuss session details. The section expects to offer AICP CM credits for all sessions, so organizers should structure their session(s) to be consistent with the Criteria for Certification Maintenance. The CM Data Collection Template and Criteria are attached. Session organizers will be responsible for providing all information necessary to complete the Data Collection Template. Session Formats Formats other than traditional presentations are encouraged, including: Panel Discussions, Single Speaker, Moderated Debate, or others. The number of presenters in each session is limited to 3 plus moderator (75-90-minute session). Audio/visual equipment (including laptops and LCD projectors) and a technician will be provided for each session. By November 19, 2010, please e-mail session proposals with the following information: Session name (brief, catchy, yet fully descriptive of topic preferred). Paragraph describing the topic and what track you think it may fit into. Provide enough detail in description so that the committee can make a great selection (500-word maximum). Organizer's name, e-mail and telephone number. Proposed speaker(s) (additional speakers may be added later). Submittal Instructions and Questions Please e-mail your proposal submittals and any questions regarding proposals to Alex Cohen at acohen@esassoc.com, 206-789-9658. AICP CM Credit questions may be directed to the Stan May at stan.may@bhcconsultants.com, 206-505-3400. SAVE THE DATE The APA PSS Section invites you to join us to celebrate with colleagues and friends the achievements of this past year as planning professionals. Please join us on Thursday, December 2, 2010 at 6pm at Salty's Restaurant in Alki (West Seattle) for Cocktails and Hors d'oeuvres. Feel free to bring your significant other or partner. Admission is $10.00 per person. Payable at the door. For head count purposes please email Salina Lyons, King County Rep at slyons@gmail.com if you plan to attend. Reservations are not required. WHERE IN THE WORLD? Craig P. Chambers, PE becomes president of BHC Consultants SEATTLE - Craig Chambers, PE, has become president of BHC Consultants LLC in Seattle. One of the founding members of the firm, Chambers takes over the day-to-day operations from Gary Bourne, PE. Bourne remains a member of the Executive Committee until later next year and plans on continuing his municipal consulting practice. "Craig has remarkable ability to continue the growth and prosperity of our firm," said Bourne. Chambers has more than three decades of experience in design, construction and management of public works projects. He earned his bachelor of science in Civil Engineering from Oregon State University and his Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington. He has served on the company board for four years and was director of engineering for the company. He is a member of the Water Environment Federation, American Council of Engineering Companies where he is the City of Seattle Liaison Committee Chair, and the Washington Association of Sewer & Water Districts. Ron Dorn, PE who joined the firm as a principal engineer in 2006 is the new director of engineering.

IN THIS ISSUE LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT A CONVERSATION WITH THE PLANNER OF THE QUARTER STATE CONFERENCE SPOTLIGHT - GREAT PRESENTATIONS FROM AROUND THE SOUND CALL FOR SESSIONS SAVE THE DATE WHERE IN THE WORLD? PLEASE UPDATE YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS ON NATIONAL APA SITE Update your e-mail address on the national APA site to ensure that you receive information about future elections. PSS NEWS FEATURED SPONSORS YOUR ADVERTISEMENT COULD BE HERE! Reach over 900 practicing planners four times a year. Please e-mail Jim Colburn for more information. PSS OFFICERS President: John Davies john.davies.seattle@gmail.com President Elect: Michael Booth Mkbooth@tecinc.com Past President: Julia Park julia77park@gmail.com Secretary: Alex Cohen acohen@esassoc.com Treasurer: Jim Colburn, 253-591-5221 jcolburn@cityoftacoma.org Snohomish Co. Rep: Stan Kosick stan.kosick@ci.bothell.wa.us Pierce Co. Rep: Emily Terrell eterrell@pmcworld.com King Co. Rep: Salina Lyons slyons@ci.covington.wa.us UW Student Rep: Jason Woycke jwoycke@u.washington.edu Newsletter Editor: Kendra Breiland k.breiland@fehrandpeers.com Brown Bag Coordinator: Stan May (206) 505-3400 stan.may@bhcconsultants.com PSS APA EDITORIAL INFORMATION The PSS APA newsletter is published quarterly electronically. If you would like to receive the newsletter in hard copy format, please contact us at 206-682-7436. The newsletter is also posted on our website at www.washington-apa.org. For story ideas or suggestions please contact Kendra Breiland at k.breiland@fehrandpeers.com. Article Submittal Deadlines are March 15, June 15, September 15, and December 15. Employment ads from governments, non-profits or private consultants, who place business card ads in our newsletters, are encouraged and are at no cost, as long as space permits.