Training & Events

Join MARC, regional experts and your peers to learn restoration best practices and the process of implementing multi-year projects. This workshop is designed for local government land management managers and staff including parks, public works and utilities, private landscape and restoration contractor companies, and environmental nonprofit managers & staff.

This event is an annual convening of all the planning directors and administrators in the Greater Kansas City region. Lunch will be provided; registration is required for attendance. 

The event will include presentations on the major planning work that has occurred across the MARC region throughout the previous year, as well as discussion on future events including World Cup planning, future funding opportunities, and major planning efforts to look forward to in 2026. Additionally, there will be time to provide community updates from participants.

The Planners Roundtable is a quarterly gathering of the Kansas City area’s urban planners and those interested in urban planning topics. Each meeting covers topics of interest to planners, and participants can share planning news and activities that are taking place in their localities.

MARC and the Kansas City Chapter of the American Planning Association invite you to Planners Roundtable, a quarterly gathering of the Kansas City area’s urban planners and those interested in urban planning topics.  Each meeting covers topics of interest to planners, and participants can share planning news and activities that are taking place in their localities. 

This event qualifies for 1.5 CM credits for AICP planners and is in-person only. 

The November 2025 presentations include: 

Please join us for a free training opportunity to understand the risks to your facility, learn what makes your facility susceptible to risks and how you can prepare and mitigate the risks.

Regular meeting of the Total Transportation Policy Committee (TTPC). 

Knowing how to stop serious bleeding can save a life. Learn about tourniquet use and wound triage.

Please note that this event is not hosted by MARC. Please contact the host for additional information about this event. 

Participants will learn risk recognition, responder safety, patient care considerations, evidence-based decontamination, and coordination across agencies grounded in real incidents from the KC Metro.

Please join us for a free training opportunity to understand the risks to your facility, learn what makes your facility susceptible to risks and how you can prepare and mitigate the risks.