8:00 AM – Registration 

8:30 AM – Bluegrass Greensource Welcome

8:35 AM – Toyota Tsusho Welcome 

Jody Shoup

8:45 AM – Keynote – Cultivating Hope and Strength in the Face of Change

Nina McCoy and Mary Cromer, Appalachian Citizens’s Law Center

9:15 AM – Panel – Recycling for the Future: Innovative ways to Expand Community Recycling

Julie Hatter, Lexington Municipal Recycling Facility, Jeff Snyder, Rumpke, Jessica Fink, Recycwell, Hailey Lyons & Bailey Rogers, Smurfit Westrock

10:30 AM – Break 

11:00 AM –  Small Changes, Big Impact: Speed Networking

Melanie Arnold, KY Division of Water, David Long, Morehead State University, Ally Hall, Franklin County, Jamie Miller & Vanessa Logan, City of Paris, Brian Storz, KY Division of Water, Chrissie Balding, City of Lexington, Cathy Clement, Climate Resilience, Victoria Klaus, UK’s Jim Beam Institute, Clive Pohl, Pohl Rosa Pohl Architects

12:00 PM – Lunch, Welcome by Silicon Ranch

12:45 PM – Lexington LEED Silver recognition 

David Abell  and Mayor Linda Gorton

1:00 PM – Student Panel

Ines Agbekpenou, HCHS ’25, Campbell Fann, HCHS ’26, Morgan Hooper, University of Kentucky ‘25, Emily Simon, University of Kentucky ‘26

1:15 PM – Panel – Complete Streets: Designing Safer, More Inclusive Pedestrian and Cycling Networks

Scott Thompson, City of Lexington, Steven Vogel, Strand Assoc., Stephen De Witte, Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, Rick Skinner, Mayor of Williamstown

2:30 PM – Break

3:00 PM – Small Changes, Big Impact: Speed Networking

Melanie Arnold, KY Division of Water, David Long, Morehead State University, Ally Hall, Franklin County, Jamie Miller & Vanessa Logan, City of Paris, Brian Storz, KY Division of Water, Chrissie Balding, City of Lexington, Cathy Clement, Climate Resilience, Victoria Klaus, UK’s Jim Beam Institute, Clive Pohl, Pohl Rosa Pohl Architects

4:00 PM – Reception

*Continuing Education Credit will be available.

5.5 Hours from the Department of Local Government for Fiscal Court members.

Kentucky League of Cities’ City Officials Training Center is able to give 3 hours of outside training credit for Bluegrass Greensource’s 5th Annual Sustainability Summit.