Agenda

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Wyoming Union, University of Wyoming

 

8:00 - 8:45 am Registration - Coffee & Juice

 

8:45 - 9:00 am Welcome & Announcements: Tom Buchanan, UW President & Committee Co-Chairs

 

9:00 - 10:00 am Keynote Speech-- Consumer Housing Issues: Allen Fishbein, Consumer Federation of America, Director of Housing and Credit Policy [Audio]

 

10:00 - 10:15 am Refreshment Break & Exhibits

 

10:15 - 11:10 am Breakout Sessions

Housing Purchase: Allen Fishbein, CFA, “Exotic or Toxic? An Examination of the Non-Traditional Mortgage Market” [Audio]

Housing Rental: Kirk Morgan, Wyoming Legal Services - Tenant Habitability Issues [Audio]

Vulnerable Consumers: Dee Pridgen, UW Law Professor, “Predatory Lending: Hidden Scourge of the Housing Boom” [Open the slides, then from the Edit menu a the top of the screen, click on "edit slides" and then choose view "Note Pages" so that you can see the notes prepared to go with some slides. You can print them in this form.] [Audio]

Public Regulation & Safety: Doug Bryant, Albany County Planning Director, “Home on the Range - Where the Deer and the Antelope Used to Play” [Audio]

 

Housing Rental: Cole Ehmke, UW Ag. Econ., Cooperative Extension Educator, “Landlord/Tenant & Personal Finance Issues” [Audio]

Vulnerable Consumers: William Thomas, M.D., former AARP Visiting Scholar, “The Green House: Long Term Care Options” [Audio]
Public Regulation & Safety: Alan Romero, UW Law Professor, “What Everyone Should Know About Zoning” [Audio]

 

12:15 - 1:15 pm Lunch & Exhibits

 

Keynote Speech-- Eldertopia: William Thomas, M.D., former AARP Visiting Scholar [Audio]

 

1:30 - 2:25 pm Breakout Sessions

Housing Purchase: George Axlund, Executive Director, Wyoming Community Development Authority, “Housing Statistics & Purchase Assistance” [Audio]

Housing Rental: Gay Woodhouse, Private Attorney, “Don’t Mobilize--Utilize Your Rights: Information for Mobile Home Dwellers on Tenants’ Rights” [Audio]

Vulnerable Consumers: Lorinda O'Hashi, Project Director, Second Street Station (Laramie Homeless Shelter), and Pam Nowak, Director, COMEA Shelter, "Housing Issues for the Homeless" [Audio]

Public Regulation & Safety: Matthew Mussetter, Trial Attorney, HUD regional office, Denver, Colorado

 

2:30 - 3:15 pm Small Group Discussions

     Les Engelter, Wyoming AARP President, Moderator 

3:15 - 3:30 pm Refreshment Break & Exhibits

 

3:35 - 5:00 pm Panel Discussion: Wyoming Legislators
     Sen. Cale Case, Lander; Sen. Mike Massie, Laramie; Sen. Rae Lynn Job, Rock Springs;
     Rep. Erin Mercer, Gillette; Les Engelter, Wyoming AARP President, Moderator 
 

 

Friday, September 29, 2006

To Register by Phone, call 877-733-3618, ext. 2 or 307-766-5249.  You must register by requesting to be added to the tour registration list(s).  Limit of 60 people on each tour. 

8:30 - 9:30 am Tour of the Laramie County Community College Campus Building:
          Tim Nyquist, Construction Technology Instructor, 1125 Boulder Drive, Laramie

 

9:45-10:30 am Tour of the new home: Tim Nyquist and Construction Technology students.
          The home that has many energy efficient, green features and even projects near-net-zero  
          energy cost built by Construction Technology students, 2360 Ames Court, Laramie.