REGISTRATION COMING SOON

$150 Million in Restore New York Grants

VIEW UPDATE (added 11/2/22)

VIEW RESOURCES (Updated 11-14-21)

• Thursday, December 1st (10:00-11:00 a.m.)
  Planning and Zoning Fundamentals as Highlighted by Recent Court Cases 
  Speaker: Wade Beltramo, NYCOM General Counsel

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• Thursday, December 8th (10:00-11:00 a.m.) 
  Dealing with Airbnb: Permissible and Impermissible Local Government Regulation of Short-Term Rentals
  Speaker: Wade Beltramo, NYCOM General Counsel
  

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• Thursday, December 15th (10:00-11:00 a.m.)
   An Update on Cannabis Legalization
  Speaker: Wade Beltramo, NYCOM General Counsel

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Federal Infrastructure Funding Opportunities

VIEW UPDATE (added 10/31/22)

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November 30th and December 7th (10:0 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.)
NYCOM's two-part Village Elections Webinar series will provide a thorough overview of the village elections process in an interactive format.

• Part I will address ballot access, voter registration, absentee ballot applications, ballot preparation, and election inspector appointment and training.
  

• Part II will address poll watchers, election day procedures, dealing with voters not on the registration list, canvassing the vote, the clerk's post-election responsibilities, and the availability of election records.

Speaker: Rebecca Ruscito, NYCOM Counsel

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VIEW SUMMARY (updated 11-28-22)

RESOURCES

November 30, 2022 (11:00 a.m.)

Social engineering is the biggest cybersecurity threat, and involves the human factor. Your municipality should view Cyber Awareness training seriously and encourage participation. There's a common misconception that only non-technical or naïve individuals would fall victim to social engineering and phishing scams.

CYBER awareness training educates employees on how to identify the various tactics and signs of social engineering. Since the attacks continue to evolve, ongoing training for your employees is crucial to keep them aware of the latest social engineering ploys. Keeping ahead of holiday phishing threats makes this webinar a must!

Training will review:

• A variety of social engineering techniques
• Recent scams
• How to spot telltale signs of phishing attacks
• How to evaluate if a web address is legitimate
• MFA Scams
• NYMIR Cyber Resources available

End users must be taught how to recognize signs of social engineering, how to mitigate the attacks, and how to appropriately report so the threats can be better mitigated and tracked.

 If social engineering is the biggest cybersecurity threat, and it is, should it not be treated and mitigated as such? Make sure your municipality takes Cyber Awareness seriously and does the appropriate training to significantly reduce risk

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For detailed information on the program and requirements, visit https://esd.ny.gov/restore-new-york. The RFP and full guidelines will be available on July 11.  

SNEAK PEAK

NYCOM's municipal matters quarterly magazine (Vol. 5, No. 2) is available to download in full for NYCOM Members only. 

If you would like to view a sneak peak of articles included in this issue of the Municipal Matters, please click on one of the highlighted articles listed here:

• Shurtleff v. City of Boston: Clarifying Government Speech v. Creating a Public Forum
• Cyber Attacks: They're Not Going Away
• Show Me the Money: Employee Compensation Issues

Newly Elected & Appointed Justices
December 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 

Held at the Third District Administrative Office, 2500 Pond View (1^st floor Conference Room), Castleton-on-Hudson, NY (9:00-am - 5:00 p.m.)

The classes are required for non-attorney justices prior to taking the bench, but new attorney judges are encouraged to attend as well.  Registration must be done online. Registration will close on December 2, 2022 at 12:00 pm. 

REGISTRATION AND COURSE DETAILS

Updated September 19, 2022

NYCOM GUIDANCE (UPDATED 9-19-22)
COMMITTEE ON OPEN GOVERNMENT Q & A (ADDED 4-15-22)

• OMNIA PARTNERS COVID-19 EMAIL
• OMNIA PARTNERS LANDING PAGE
• OMNIA PARTNERS SUPPLIER CONTRACTS

FREE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR COMMUNITIES

Click HERE for details on how to assist municipalities with assessing and supporting drinking water source protection programs. The Drinking Water Source Protection Program (DWSP2) is a state-run program created to assist municipalities with proactively protecting their drinking water sources. The goal is to help municipalities develop and implement their own unique drinking water source protection plan for the source(s) of their drinking water.

VIEW HERE (updated 10-5-22)