| # | Name | Comments |
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| 201 | Chrisitna Robertson-Gardiner | |
| 202 | Stephanie L. Siciliano | |
| 203 | Joshua King | |
| 204 | Craig M. Harmon | |
| 205 | John Marshall | |
| 206 | Gary Ferguson | I have and continue to have extremely difficulty in my efforts to learn and be exposed to CM credits in my local area. Although I am willing to travel to attend conferences few if any are eligible for CM credits in Eastern North Carolina. I am seriously considering simply allowing my cerification to lapse. |
| 207 | Stephen Estes-Smargiassi | |
| 208 | Donald Hubbard, PE, AICP | APA has really put its credibility as risk with its mishandling of the continuing education issue. Rightly or wrongly, a large portion of the membership believe that the AICP Commission is trying to restrict competition in planning eduction in order to inflate prices and protect the market for favored providers. When others (developers, utilities, etc.) act this way APA rightly condemns it; why then aren't we practicing what we preach? |
| 209 | June Cowles | |
| 210 | June Cowles | |
| 211 | Hanna Cockburn, AICP | |
| 212 | Anonymous | The high costs imposed on providers is evident in the limited number of courses that we now have available to us. |
| 213 | Elizabeth Lewis | I work in the private sector. My need for continuing education are somewhat different from the planner working for a governmental agency. I take advantage of the national and local ULI programs, but in a local ULI program I may be one of the only planners in the room. The Triangle chapter of ULI hosts roundtables for which they charge no fee, except ULI membership. The chapter, however, will not register the course and pay the fee to offer a program at no charge. And these roundtables are invaluable. But I receive no CM credit for them. I must say that what I take away as a planner from a ULI roundtable is at least as educational for me in my position as some of the speakers at the NCAPA conference. This is not to say that the speakers at the APA conferences aren't educational, but I find more use from other sources, since I work in the private world. The licensing requirements are onerous on the providers of educational programs and further seem to tell me that in the eyes of the APA, only planners in governmental positions are "real" planners. The rest of us are not nearly as important. |
| 214 | Mike Gritz | As the immediate past chair of the APA Technology division, I support this petition. I haev stepped away from the APA due to these kinds of practices. I believe that APA staff needs to practice the ethics which APA preaches. |
| 215 | Thomas J. Wiggins, Jr. | |
| 216 | Anonymous | The CM program, as it is working right now, limits locally-sponsored educational opportunities in favor of national, APA-sponsored events, such as the APA audio conference series. Costs are prohibitive for local, non-profit groups to develop and certify events, and the timeframes to receive approval are also restrictive. However, not providing CE credits at an event means that no AICP planners attend.
Events developed at the local level are more likely to have locally relevant content, supported by and in support of the local community, something a CE course that is biased to APA-approved and -developed content can't do. |
| 217 | Anonymous | |
| 218 | Wayne T. Hurley, AICP | |
| 219 | Natasha Longpine | This is especially cumbersome to those of us who live in smaller towns away from large metropolitan areas. We receive a lot of training through many sections of other organizations such as ITE. Short of the state conference and APA web conferences, the closest location for other APA/AICP provided courses is 8 hours away. |
| 220 | Sara Hage | |
| 221 | Brian F. O'Connell | |
| 222 | Tom Murphy, AICP | ITE, NTI, TRB, etc courses should be automatically eligible. Those trainings are much more indepth than any presentation at an APA national conference. Serious professionals should be more concerned about increasing their knowledge rather than satisfying some arbitrary requirement. |
| 223 | Roxanne Tanemori | Thank you for raising this issue; it's an important one that many of my fellow AICP members have discussed. |
| 224 | Josh DeBruyn | |
| 225 | Scott Dellett, AICP | |
| 226 | Alison H. MIller | I have attended valuable seminars which cannot be counted as continuing education, although they are, because of the expensive and labyrinthine procedures required. Continuing education should be convenient and inexpensive for the practitioner; not all of us are rich. The AIA system seems more equitable and workable. |
| 227 | Iris Starr, AICP | Adopt the AIA approach, and simplify the system for registering credit activities. We need less bureaucracy, not more! |
| 228 | Dan Ross | APA has been good to me, but not that good. APA/AICP has created a racket for itself. If it does not kindly amend its practices, it will lose A LOT of members. Your function is to abet the upkeep of professional standards, not to single handedly define them for profit. |
| 229 | H. Pike Oliver, AICP | |
| 230 | Steve Costello | I am President of the Massachusetts Association of Planning Directors (MAPD Inc.), an affiliate of the Ma. Chapter - APA. Over time, I think planners will only attend courses that are CM approved. This is due to time and budget constraints. MAPD offers monthly luncheons and an annual conference to its members and these sessions have generally been approved for CM credit, which is a good thing. However, I would hate to see conference and luncheon sessions become the only training grounds for planners. From the Planetizen op-ed piece I have learned about the many other educational opportunities (including distance learning) that are being "squeezed out of the picture" due to the high cost of gaining CM approval. I would much prefer to see the "AIA-type" approach implemented because it'll offer more opportunities for planners to earn their credits and not shut out capable educational providers. |
| 231 | Kate Ervin | |
| 232 | Lee Nellis | I have the same observations and complaints as others. We need an entirely new board and senior staff for APA. |
| 233 | Elizabeth Stamoulis Via | I support mandatory CM but I do not support how it is being administered and in particular, how it is charged, per the the text. |
| 234 | Leslie Toombs | |
| 235 | Michele Hane | I have considered letting my AICP lapse because the classes they offer tend to be so general that they are worthless to those with experience. I'd rather spend my time for training on something that is going to provide true value to my professional expertise. |
| 236 | Cynthia Gerson Szwarckop | |
| 237 | Glenn W Berman | |
| 238 | Philip Sartorio | |
| 239 | Justin Hollander | |
| 240 | Marlon G. Boarnet | Professor of Planning, Policy, and Design, UC Irvine |
| 241 | Katrin B. Anacker, Ph.D. | |
| 242 | Richard Martinez | |
| 243 | Mary Edwards | |
| 244 | Gerson M. Garcia, AICP | |
| 245 | G Engstrom, AICP | I cannot attend every national conference, and missing that, I cannot see how I will meet the requirements without considerable expense, which I cannot afford with my student loan load. Please reconsider your position APA/AICP. |
| 246 | David M Gulden, AICP | |
| 247 | Rolf Pendall | |
| 248 | Kevin Anderson, AICP | |
| 249 | jAMES fOERSTER | |
| 250 | Tim Lampkin | |