Each year the Annual Neighborhood Conference allows residents the opportunity to learn about key issues impacting their neighborhoods and identify best practices to help improve their neighborhoods. This year's theme was "Together Building Stronger Communities". Classes offered at the conference are structured to address the needs of both our traditional neighborhoods, as well as those communities supported by a homeowner's or condominium association. Workshops address challenges and opportunities that impact all different kinds of neighborhoods throughout Prince William County.
Download the 2024 presentations below.
Are you new to serving your community or simply trying to learn more about the structure of your Homeowner’s Association or Condominium Owners’ Association Board? This session will highlight the role of your Association Attorney and how the Board is best served by your legal counsel. (Session 1)
Are broken streetlights, neighborhood speeding, or new road construction impacting your community? This session will highlight how the County’s Department of Transportation community programs can potentially help mitigate neighborhood safety concerns. (Session 1)
Calling all Homeowners Association Board Members and Property Owners! Come learn the latest updates to the Property Owners Association Act and how the changes may impact your community. (Session 2)
Frustrated by seeing litter in your neighborhoods and or in the streams and waterways around your property, or even on the County roadways? Sign up for this session to learn more about how the County is working collaboratively with partner agencies to help remedy this ongoing community nuisance. (Session 2)
Are you struggling to find cohesion within your community? Discover ways Homeowners Association Boards and their homeowners can collaboratively and harmoniously approach disputes within their community. (Session 3)
Are your community homeowners responding promptly to their courtesy property maintenance notices or are they being ignored? Sign up for this session to learn best practices on how to effectively manage Covenant Enforcement in your community. (Session 3)
Have you always wondered about that house on the corner of the block with the broken window and overgrown vegetation. Join our Neighborhood Services Property Code Enforcement Inspectors as they cover the basics of enforcing the Virginia Maintenance and Building Maintenance Code, the PWC Zoning Ordinance and how to report concerns in your neighborhood. (Session 4)
Are you curious about seeing an influx of wildlife in your neighborhood and not sure where these critters are coming from? Join Olivia LoBalbo, CEO & Founder of Animal Education & Rescue to learn the “Do’s and Don’ts” of navigating wildlife in your community. (Session 4)
Attendees had the opportunity to network with several Prince William County staff members, as well as, neighborhood leaders, and industry experts and advocates. Scroll through our 2024 guest presenters below.
Since 2009, Chris has represented community associations as both board counsel and as litigation counsel. He has served and continues to serve as counsel to community associations in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Chris prides himself on his ability to advise associations on complex legal issues. Chris is available to provide legal counsel to your community association.
Heather Steele handles many types of civil matters, including landlord-tenant cases, homeowners association and condominium associations, business law, civil lawsuits, contracts, and preparation of limited liability company and other corporate documents. She regularly teaches seminars on landlord-tenant law, community association law and important legal concepts for small businesses.
Rico Fleshman was appointed Executive Director of Keep Prince William Beautiful in September of 2021. This Virginia native has a rich professional history in business development serving nonprofits and has worked on programs at the federal, state and local levels that provided employment to persons with disabilities and established congestion mitigation and air quality improvement programs.
Sheyna Nicole Burt focuses her practice on the representation of condominiums, cooperatives, homeowners' associations, charitable nonprofits, and families located in Virginia and Washington, D.C. She provides her clients with a full battery of legal services including negotiations, litigation, document drafting and review, covenant enforcement, assessment recovery, and counseling related to governance.
Victoria Garner has nearly 20 years of community management experience including multi-family rentals and community associations. She has experience in managing communities both large and small, homeowner associations and condominium associations. She is a member of Community Association Institute, a contributing author to Quorum Magazine and regularly participates in industry seminars.
Ashley Gonzalez has more than 20 years of community management experience including multi-family rentals and community associations. She has experience in multi-million-dollar renovations, financial management, covenants enforcement, developer controlled and transitioning communities and nearly all aspects of community management. She is a member of Community Association Institute.
Olivia LoBalbo founded A.E.R.O. in 2013 to help rescue, rehabilitate, and release native wildlife who were sick, injured, or orphaned. Her efforts are driven by a lifetime love of wildlife and a dream of creating her own wildlife rescue group. It is her goal to create an understanding of nature, and how we as humans play role and what we all can do to better coexist and help better support our earth.