Special Thanks To These Vermont Regional Councils
For Helping to “Green”
The 2006 NEARC Annual Conference Budget

Bennington County Regional Commission – Gregory Burke, Executive Director

Lamoille County Planning Commission – Michele Boomhower, Executive Director

Northwest Regional Planning Commission – Catherine Dimitruk, Executive Director

Rutland Regional Planning Commission – Mark Blucher, Executive Director

Southern Windsor County Regional Planning Commission – Thomas Kennedy, Executive Director

Two Rivers - Ottauquechee Regional Commission – Peter Gregory, Executive Director

Windham Regional Commission – James Matteau, Executive Director

NEARC’s 2006 Annual Gathering is set for November 2-4 at the EQUINOX RESORT in Manchester Village, Vermont

Preparations for this fall’s New England Association of Regional Councils (NEARC) Annual Conference are nearly complete with an excellent line-up of conference sessions, speakers and activities comprising this year’s NEARC agenda.  Consequently, it’s now time for you to act.  In particular, advance hotel reservations are required by October 15th to take advantage of the special conference room rate of $139 per night which is being made available for November 2nd and November 3rd.  To make hotel reservations, you must call the Equinox Hotel directly at Tel. 800/362-4747.  Once again, if you are planning to attend NEARC’s 2006 Annual Conference, please take special note and adhere to the following important deadlines:

HOTEL RESERVATIONS BY
OCTOBER 15TH
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION BY
OCTOBER 15TH
By Sunday, October 15 to secure a room at the special conference room rate of $139 per night.  Call the Equinox Hotel directly at Tel. 800/362-4747 to make room reservations. Rooms are in limited supply, so please act quickly By Friday, October 27 please submit a registration form along with the $195 registration fee.  A conference registration form is attached which should be returned accompanied by your payment.  Please make your check payable to “NEARC”.  Registration fees for one day attendees and/or a guest/spouse are also available.

In order to help finalize your 2006 NEARC conference plans, we’re also providing you, as attachments to this mailing, the following conference-related items:

• 2006 NEARC Conference Registration Form (pdf)

• 2006 NEARC Award Nomination Forms (2 forms, pdf)

If you should have questions or need additional information, please call or e-mail Tim Brennan or Jean Ball at the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission at Tel. 413/781-6045 (tbrennan@pvpc.org) or (jball@pvpc.org).  We look forward to seeing you at our 2006 annual NEARC gathering in Manchester Village!

Click here to see the 2006 Conference agenda (pdf).