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Hosting an Illegal Dumping Class in Your Community  

Hosting or "sponsoring" an eight-hour Illegal Dumping Enforcement Training class in your community is very easy. It's also a great way to stretch your training and travel budgets. Instead of moving your people to the class, you bring the class to your town. Your code officers receive DSHS credits and your police receive T.C.L.E.O.S.E. hours. 

The host community (1) provides a suitable classroom facility; (2) helps get the word out in the law enforcement and code enforcement communities; and, (3) arranges for morning coffee and break refreshments. No money outlay is required. TIDRC does the rest, from registration to final certification, and everything in between. 

These classes are community events. Local Keep Texas Beautiful affiliates often cooperate by providing refreshments at morning and afternoon breaks. Local waste hauling companies often participate by providing lunch. 

Participants who successfully complete these classes receive eight hours continuing education credit as law enforcement (TCLEOSE) or code enforcement officers.  Department of State Health Services approves the class for code enforcement credit.

As an additional inducement to bringing this training to your community, participants from your city or county receive a 20% discount in participant fees. So the normal $75 participant fee paid by others becomes $60 for participants from your community. Low tuition cost plus no travel expenses results in the least expensive way to get your people trained. 

And these are very popular, well-attended and well-regarded classes. Many think that these classes are the best continuing education events they have ever attended. For a list of recent classes and participant evaluations, click here

If you would like to bring this training to your community, just send an email to me at the below address or give me a call. We can go over the entire process with you and put you in contacts with other communities who have sponsored this event in the past.

It really is that easy. 

John Ockels
ockels@tidrc.org
903/891-3632 


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