Fall Training Session Agenda and Program Schedule
9:15AM – 9:55AM – Campus Arrival
9:30AM – 10:30AM - Continental Breakfast
10:00AM – 11:00AM – Robert Blaisdell, Risk Management Director and Mike Kenneally, Executive Director for NYSCMA member sponsor Comp Alliance, will present on Drug Testing and Employee Discipline within the regulatory framework of the newly enacted Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act.
11:00AM – 12:30PM - Ed Eisenstein will present on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in local government. Mr. Eisenstein is an IT professional having worked in the public sector, as CIO for Nassau County on Long Island. He currently consults in the public and private sectors.
12:30PM - Lunch
1:00PM – 2:00PM - Bryan Goldberger, an Albany based municipal attorney with labor law and collective bargaining experience, will discuss current collective bargaining negotiating strategies while providing updates on important recently enacted and/or pending PERB decisions.
2:15PM – 3:30PM - Campus Tours: Main Campus & Pine Lake Environmental Campus (Pine Lake Campus is a few miles from the main campus, requiring a short drive).
3:30PM – Training Seminar organized schedule complete.