Thursday, Oct. 24th 8:00 - 9:30 AM
by Steven Montenegro
Seminar Price: $60
CEUs: APLD, IA, ISA, NALP, PGMS, QWEL
Room: TBD
My course will highlight the benefits of a hybrid service model for maintenance front line landscape improvements. Course will cover the following topics:
1. The hybrid service model: Defining internal and external roles.
2. Developing renovation friendly service & purchasing agreements.
3. Cost projections, tracking direct costs, and budgeting for future improvements.
4. Identifying projects: renovation vs. restoration.
5. Water wise sustainable landscape and irrigation design.
6. Trees: preservation vs. replacement.
7. Professional satisfaction and value through maintenance centric landscape improvements.
PROFILE:
My name is Steven and I live and work in northern Los Angeles County, California. I feel truly blessed to have this opportunity to share at The 2019 Landscape Expo. I have spent the last 24 years working as a steward of our Forests, 5 years with the U.S.D.A. Forest Service and 19 years in a municipal setting. I am an I.S.A. Certified Arborist, an I. A. Certified Landscape Irrigation Auditor and a 2019 Municipal Forestry Institute graduate.
Urban Forestry is my passion. As a Municipal Landscape Superintendent, I am proud and fortunate to lead a courageous best in class team with the shared vision of natural resource and interfacing infrastructure sustainability while casting an enlightened understanding of the value and benefits that Urban Forests provide to communities.
A proponent of High Performing Organization concepts, I believe in leadership at all levels and have experienced that inclusion and diversity are conducive to great teams capable of great accomplishments. We should always take inventory of unsustainability and make constant adjustments towards sustainability. If change is recognized as opportunity, public agencies can benefit from the use of contract services while fostering marked staff development and job satisfaction by effectively defining internal and external roles. Determining what specialized services your unit should retain, raising the visibility of staff by highlighting their resulting added value and strategically incorporating contract services in supporting capacities can lead to a collective win-win situation.
Public and Private Sector synergy is conducive to innovative landscape improvements possible at the maintenance front-line level that can capture community improvement opportunities outside of capital improvement efforts. Create a circumstance for everyone involved to make an impactful, positive difference through collaboration that yields tangible aesthetic, environmental and economic dividends resulting from sustainable community landscape improvement projects.
