Julian W. Adams
New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
Waterford, NY 12203

Julian.Adams@oprhp.state.ny.us
518-237-8643, ext. 3271

Presentation Topic: Preservation Planning Toolkit - CLG program in New York State

Julian Adams is the Community Liaison and Certified Local Government Coordinator for the New York State Historic Preservation Office.  A native of Georgia, he holds a Masters of Historic Preservation from the University of Georgia at Athens.  After a brief time in private consulting, he took a job in the Technical Services Unit of the SHPO in 1988, overseeing rehabilitations and restorations across New York State under federal and state programs.  During a sabbatical from the SHPO in 1995-1996, he worked with the Historic Natchez Foundation in Natchez Mississippi, overseeing low income housing development in historic neighborhoods, working with the local preservation commission and planning department, and assisting in heritage education.  In 2000 he was named head of the Technical Services Unit, overseeing all rehabilitations and restorations across New York State, a position he held until 2004.  In 2005 he took a position as Sr. Architectural Historian/Historic Preservation Specialist with a nation-wide environmental consulting firm out of Dallas, Texas, where he traveled around the US working with military bases in their responsibilities to identify historic resources under Federal Historic Preservation law.  He returned to state service in 2006 as Community Liaison and Certified Local Government Coordinator, assisting communities and municipalities across New York State with their preservation issues.  

The New York State Historic Preservation is the agency charged with overseeing and coordinating all state and federal historic preservation programs in New  York State, including the National Register of Historic Places, the federal and state rehabilitation tax incentives, federal project review and the Certified Local Government program.

George Barden

Canandaigua Lake Watershed Commission

480 North Main Street

Canandaigua, New York 14424

585-396-9716

ontswcd6@rochester.rr.com

Presentation Topic: Local Laws & On-Site Wastewater Treatment

Mr. Barden has been the Watershed inspector for the Canandaigua Lake Watershed Commission for the past 16 years.  Prior to this, he was employed for 16 years by two consulting firms, and spent six years self-employed as a designer/design draftsman and construction inspector for municipal and land development projects, which included water supply (public and private) and on-site wastewater treatment systems and municipal sewer systems.

As the Watershed Inspector, his duties include patrolling and inspecting for sources of point and non-point source pollution, investigating complaints, serving notices of violations and seeking correction and mitigation.  He works directly with property owners, municipalities, and code enforcement officers with the review of plans, and inspection of the installation of all on-site wastewater treatment systems to ensure compliance with current New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) requirements.  He also works with consulting engineers through the design process of innovative designs for systems on difficult sites.  The Watershed Commission's overall responsibility is to preserve and protect the water quality of Canandaigua Lake as a drinking water source for over 65,000 people.

The Watershed Commission’s overall responsibility is to preserve and protect the water quality of Canandaigua Lake as a drinking water source for over 65,000 people.

John A. Bonafide
New York State Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation/Field Services Bureau
PO Box 189
Waterford, NY 12188-0189
john.bonafide@oprhp.state.ny.us
518-237-8643  x3263

Presentation Topic:  New York State Wind Farm Cultural Resource Survey Guidance

John holds a Masters degree in Public History from the New York State University at Albany.  He has been with the State Historic Preservation Office since 1987.  John manages SHPO’s Technical Review and Archaeological Units and oversees the Bureau’s state and federal compliance programs.  He is also responsible for the ongoing development, implementation and oversight of the Bureau’s Information Systems and web site. John represents the SHPO on an ad hoc committee of state agencies involved with Wind Power development and was named to the New York State Building Code Committee.  In the private sector he was recently named to the Thomas Cole National Historic Site Board of Advisors, has served as a town historian, chaired local planning and zoning boards and is currently the president of a local school board.  He is also an adjunct faculty member at SUNY Albany.

Josh Bossard

75 Bender Blvd., P.O. Box 487
Claverack, NY 12513
bossard@nyruralwater.org

518-828-3155 x23

Presentation Topic: Local Laws & On-Site Wastewater Treatment

Josh currently lives in Geneva, New York with his wife-Amy, his four year old son-Parker, and two year old daughter-Emma.  He received a B.S. in Biology and Water Resources at the State University of New York- College at Brockport.  Prior to working with NYRWA, Josh was employed with Cornell University and Ontario County Soil and Water Conservation District.

Josh has been with the New York Rural Water Association since it received the source water protection grant from EPA and NRWA in 2002.  The source water protection program utilizes a five step planning process that moves from delineating the source water protection area, to identifying and involving individuals that can assist in different facets of source water protection, to contingency planning.  The outcome of the planning process is a tailored local protection plan/ program that utilize both non-regulatory and regulatory measures to prevent the contamination of public water supplies. Josh has completed ten source water protection plans that have helped to protect 35 public water supplies serving roughly 53,000 people. 

New York Rural Water Association is a member based non –profit technical assistance agency that serves New York State’s rural water and wastewater needs.  Technical assistance staff is funded through both USDA Rural Development and USEPA.

Art DeGaetano
Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Science Cornell University
1119 Bradfield Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
atd2cornell.edu
(607 255-0385 

Presentation Topic: Climate Change

Art DeGaetano is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell   Art has been at Cornell since 1991 serving as a Research Climatologist until 2001.  Prior to his arrival at Cornell Art was an Assistant Professor with the Meteorology Department at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City.   He received an interdisciplinary Ph.D. focussing on Climatology and Horticulture from Rutgers University in 1989.  Art’s research interests include the development of decision tools that enhance the use of climate information to a wide variety of sectors in the Northeast, as well as analyses of changes in the observed climate record.

The Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) is located jointly within Cornell’s Colleges of Agriculture and  Life Sciences and Engineering.  Given that an understanding of Earth’s systems is essential to the prosperity and future of society, EAS educates students who will become leaders in the application of earth sciences to the betterment of life, in setting public policy, in education of an earth-savvy public and in better scientific understanding of the Earth system.

Colleen Donovan
New York State Department of Environmental Conservatation
6274 East Avon Lima Road
Avon, New York 14414
crdonova@gw.dec.state.ny.us
585-226-5446

Presentation Topic: Floodplain Management in Your Community

Colleen has worked for the NYS DEC for thirty six years in progressively responsible positions in the Region 8 Avon office and in the Albany Central office.  Her current responsibilities in the Avon office include floodplain management coordination, Municipal Separate Storm Sewer (MS4) oversight and program implementation, municipal SPDES program inspector for compliance, and wastewater treatment plant operator certification facilitator.

The NYS DEC is a medium sized regulatory State agency charged with oversight and enforcement of the Environmental Conservation Law.

Linda King is a Land Use Training Specialist with the New York State Department of State's Division of Local Government .  Prior to joining
the Municipal Management Unit, Ms. King did work in the Division of Coastal Resources on the local waterfront revitalization plans,
education and outreach.  Prior to joining the Department of State, Linda was employed by the Troy School District, where she worked as a
Secondary Education Social Studies Teacher.  She has also worked as an Environmental Planner for the Albany County Environmental Management
Council, and was employed by  Champagne Associates Transportation Engineering Firm.  Linda has a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and
Environmental Science from Plattsburgh State University College of New York, a Master of Arts in Planning from Arizona State University, and
Certification as a Secondary Education Social Studies Teacher from Siena College.