Would you like make planning in Pennsylvania better? One way is by becoming a PMPEI instructor and sharing your knowledge with local planning and zoning officials. The Pennsylvania Municipal Planning Education Institute invites you to become an instructor in its growing Planning and Zoning Course Program that annually reaches over 600 students across the Commonwealth.

Two “Train-the-Trainer” classes are scheduled for new instructors to teach The Course in Community Planning and The Course in Subdivision and Land Development Review. Training for the Community Planning course will be Friday and Saturday, April 8-9, 2016, and Saturday, June 4, 2016. Training for the Subdivision and Land Development Review course will be Friday and Saturday, May 20 and 21, 2016, and Saturday, June 4, 2016. The June 4 session is a combined class.

Training will be held at the State College Borough Municipal Building in State College, PA. Registration for each course is $150 and covers instruction, materials, all breaks, lunches, and Friday night meals. Trainees are responsible for their transportation, lodging, and parking costs. PMPEI instructors receive compensation for teaching, travel, and meal expenses, and teaching assignments are made so instructors will be teaching close to where they live.

Citizen and professional planners, and allied professionals, with a minimum of five years’ experience in planning in Pennsylvania are eligible to become PMPEI Certified Instructors. The deadline for applying for The Course in Community Planning is March 25, 2016; the deadline for The Course in Subdivision and Land Development Review applications is May 6, 2016.

For an application, or more information about PMPEI and the training, contact Stanford Lembeck, AICP, (814) 237-2382, or email slembeck34@gmail.com. For more information about PMPEI visit the website: www.pmpei.org.

Certification Maintenance (CM) credit for AICP members attending the training is pending.