LOC 97th Annual Conference

A note about registration types:
Member Registration
This rate is a benefit of your city's current LOC membership.  This includes all city officials for Oregon cities (elected and staff).

LOC Business Partner/Associate Member Registration 
This rate is a benefit of being an LOC Business Partner or Association Member. For a list of LOC Business Partners, click here

Non-Member Government Registration 
If you are not with an Oregon city, but are an elected official or staff person for another government agency you should choose this option.

Non-Member Corporate Registration 
If you are not with an Oregon city or other government agency, please choose this option.  Alternatively, you may be interested in opportunities to participate through our Sponsorship or Trade Show options.  Please contact Kevin Toon ([email protected]) to learn more about sponsor and vendor opportunities at the LOC conference.


Registration and Cancellation Information:
Registration Dates
Conference registration will be open between the dates of Wednesday, July 13 thru Wednesday, September 21, two weeks prior to the start of the conference. The early registration rate will be available until Monday, September 12, after which the cost will increase $50. Those wishing to register after September 21 will need to do so on-site at an additional fee and on a space-available basis.

Cancellations
If you are unable to attend, we encourage you to send a substitute. If you cannot send a substitute, the LOC will refund 100% of your registration fee, less a $75 cancellation fee if written notice is received between July 14 - August 17, 2022; the cancellation fee will increase to $150 if written cancellation is received between August 18 - September 14, 2022. You will receive a refund if your registration was paid, less the cancellation fee. You will be billed for the appropriate cancellation fee if your registration is unpaid. Refunds cannot be issued after September 14, 2022. If your registration was not paid and you cancel after September 14, 2022, you will be billed for the full registration amount. Cancellations are not accepted by phone. Please send cancellations and substitution notices to [email protected]. For the full cancellation policy CLICK HERE.  

Changes
Our system is set to allow some types of registration changes to be made by individuals prior to September 21.  You may do so by accessing the event registration page and logging into the system.  Allowable changes include additions or deletions of free events and additions only of paid events.  Deletion of paid events through the online system will not issue a refund or lower the amount due appropriately.  Any changes which reduce conference fees must be done through the LOC team by emailing [email protected].

What's Included
The registration fee includes all break-out sessions, Wednesday's networking reception and Thursday and Friday conference meals for registered attendees (except for Thursday Awards Dinner). Spouses and guests who wish to attend the conference sessions and/or additional meals must register as a guest.  Please be sure to select the meal options that you wish to attend to reserve your space.  Kindly update your registration should your plans change so that we may offer that space to another registrant.

Hotel Accommodations
NEW THIS YEAR, hotel reservations for the Riverhouse will  be made online using a unique URL. To receive the unique URL, you will first need to register for the conference. Once your registration is complete, you will receive an email confirmation with the unique URL as well as further instructions on how to reserve your room. We will also have two satellite hotels available for those who cannot get a room at the Riverhouse. The information to reserve rooms at the satellite hotels will also be included in the confirmation email. 

PLEASE NOTE: this email confirmation with the unique URL will automatically be sent to the email address of the person who is being registered. You can send the email confirmation to additional recipients. At the bottom of the Order Confirmation page, you will see the option to send the confirmation email to another person. If you are registering on behalf of someone else and would like a copy of the confirmation and the unique URL, be sure to send yourself a copy of the confirmation. If you are registering multiple people, only one confirmation is needed.



How to Register
If you have not used the LOC registration system, read the How to Register for LOC Events. Please log in below using the full, primary email address on file with LOC.  If you receive a response that you do not have an account, please contact the LOC office and request one created for you.  You can reach LOC staff by email at [email protected] or by phone at 503-588-6550, Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm.  If you do not know your password, you may request a password reset directly through the login page.
Helpful tip:  An individual may create registrations for any other individual within the same organization using just one login. 

For an additional list of FAQs, please click here


When
10/5/2022 7:00 AM - 10/7/2022 12:00 PM
Pacific Daylight Time
Where
Riverhouse on the Deschutes 3075 N. Business 97 Bend 97703

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Wednesday, 05 October 2022

Description
Guests may register to attend the conference events by selecting this option.   Any guest who wishes to attend any educational sessions, tours or meals must register using this fee.  Guests may not be city officials themselves to use this option.  All city officials must register individually using the member registration fee above.   Guests may attend the Awards Dinner only by purchasing a dinner ticket; you do not need to register as a guest if you are attending only the dinner portion of the conference.
When
10/5/2022 - 10/7/2022
Check into the conference and, greet and thank our conference exhibitors with breakfast in the trade show.  This event is included in your registration fee, however, providing an RSVP is greatly appreciated as it assists with our planning and helps avoid unnecessary food waste.
Time
7:00 AM - 9:00 AM
7:00 AM
Time
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
8:30 AM
Time
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
8:30 AM
Tools and tips for a public engagement process that builds community while at the same time addressing a challenge faced by your city.  This interactive workshop will give participants the opportunity to put the concepts into practice by solving a real problem that every city in Oregon faces. Facilitated by members of the Center for Public Service at Portland State University who have both professional and academic backgrounds in community engagement.
Time
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
9:00 AM
Visit St. Vincent de Paul, a 10-unit village for homes people in need of temporary shelter, and Veterans Village, a community of transitional shelter designed to provide shelter and services for homeless veterans.
Time
12:45 PM - 2:45 PM
12:45 PM
Over the next 30 years, Oregon State University’s Bend, Oregon branch (OSU-Cascades) will create a 128-acre campus accommodating 5,000 students through the innovative reuse of a former pumice mine and former demolition landfill. The approach to remediating the landfill aligns with this goal through reusing excavated and cleaned material from the landfill to then grade and fill the pumice mine to the desired level, eliminating the need to import any backfill material which would take nearly 30,000 truck trips. OSU-Cascades intends to expand slowly but thoughtfully—at the rate of about one building every two years—in order to minimize impact on the surrounding community. Meet with project leaders at the OSU-Cascades site to learn about the approach to this innovative project, the significance for higher education in Central Oregon, and benefits to the neighboring community.
Time
12:45 PM - 2:45 PM
12:45 PM
This event is included in your registration fee, however, providing an RSVP is greatly appreciated as it assists with our planning and helps avoid unnecessary food waste.
Time
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
4:45 PM

Thursday, 06 October 2022

Description
Join us as we meet, greet and thank our conference exhibitors with breakfast in the trade show.  This event is included in your registration fee, however, providing an RSVP is greatly appreciated as it assists with our planning and helps avoid unnecessary food waste.
Time
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
7:30 AM
Hosted by the POC Caucus, the Women's Caucus, and the DEI Committee, the DEI Workshop is free to conference attendees, but pre-registration is required. All attendees must attend the first session of the DEI Workshop.
Time
8:10 AM - 4:05 PM
8:10 AM
The City of Prineville’s successful Crooked River Wetland Complex is now complete and providing remarkable social, economic and environmental benefits to the community.  Through this 120-acre, multipurpose project, the City is responsibly expanding its wastewater capacity, lowering residential and business System Development Charges, stabilizing monthly wastewater rates, created a new public hiking trail system with numerous educational opportunities and improving riparian and instream conditions in the Crooked River.
Time
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
9:00 AM
Bend has been a leader amongst medium size cities in producing affordable housing in a variety of formats. This tour will visit a handful of sites including some under development to showcase some of the innovative approached Bend has taken to produce this product type.
Time
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
9:00 AM
Join us as we meet, greet and thank our conference exhibitors with lunch in the trade show.  This event is included in your registration fee, however, providing an RSVP is greatly appreciated as it assists with our planning and helps avoid unnecessary food waste.
Time
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
12:00 PM
Tour Redmonds thirty-acre campus on the northern section of the Redmond Airport where smokejumpers, hotshots, air tankers, and other equipment deploy for fires. The dispatch center is also based out of this location.
Time
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
1:00 PM
Come and hear how the City of Bend is finding innovative solutions to building the “Green Infrastructure” the community desires and the challenges and lessons learned of constructing in a 100-year-old densely populated neighborhood with 50 to 70-year-old aging infrastructure.  Just walking distance from beautiful downtown Bend, Newport Avenue is home to an eclectic array of restaurants, bakeries, and one of our most popular neighborhood grocery stores.  The community values the winding sidewalks and tree lined streets and doesn’t want that to change with the improvements. The City had to balance the goals of the project with the sensitivities of the community.
Time
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
1:00 PM
Join us as we celebrate excellence!  This event includes a sit down dinner and presentation of the 2021 individual and city awards.  Following the dinner is our ever popular dessert reception where attendees can mix, mingle and congratulate the 2021 award winners.  Space limits this event to 350 attendees.
Time
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
6:00 PM

Friday, 07 October 2022

Description
This event is included in your registration fee, however, RSVPs are required.
Time
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
7:30 AM