If you cannot personally attend your pre-hearing conference, you may ask the Board to allow you to appear by telephone. It is your responsibility to provide a reliable telephone number where you can be reached.

In cases were a child is alleged to be Delinquent, Unruly, Dependent, Neglected or Abused, the Court schedules these matters for initial hearing within ten days following the filing of a complaint. If a child is alleged to be Dependent, Neglected or Abused, a preliminary conference is scheduled before a Magistrate.

A pre-hearing conference is the first step in your appeal process. You and your attorney (if you have retained one), the attorney for the Agency, and the Hearing Officer will be present at your pre-hearing conference. The issues in your appeal will be discussed, as well as any other procedural steps. Please be advised that no testimony is taken at a pre-hearing conference; therefore, you do not need to bring any witnesses.

The conference schedule will be available in early 2008 and will be posted on the website at that time. No, except for the Wednesday workshops, it is not necessary to register for any specific session. Each session will be placed in a room that should accommodate the interest in the topic. If you are interested in more than one session in a given time slot, keep in mind that your Conference Proceedings will include handouts from most of the sessions in the general conference.

The pre-bid/pre-proposal conference is a meeting held prior to the bid/proposal due date to discuss the specific Invitation for Bid (IFB) or Request for Proposal (RFP) document. This meeting gives vendors the opportunity to ask questions and to request clarifications prior to submitting their bid/proposal. While pre-bid/pre-proposal conferences are not usually mandatory, vendors are strongly urged to attend.

No testimony is taken at a pre-hearing conference; therefore, there is no need for you to bring witnesses. The purpose of the pre-hearing conference is to discuss the issue(s) of the case and to discuss procedures of the Personnel Board. Agencies will sometimes challenge the Personnel Board's jurisdiction to consider an appeal by filing a Motion to Dismiss. This does not mean your appeal has been dismissed, and you will be given a chance to respond in writing to this motion.

This hearing type is the first setting of an infraction citation when the defendant has requested court. The officer and/or witnesses will not be present. A hearing officer presides over the court and based on the defendants driving record may offer the defendant the opportunity to plead no contest or nolo contendere and receive a reduced penalty.

A Pre-Hearing Conference is a telephone meeting with the Presiding Officer (Judge) and all the parties (and their attorneys if they have attorneys) to discuss the case, set the hearing schedule, and determine the issues raised by the appeal. The Pre-Hearing Conference is also a good time to discuss possible settlement options and for you to ask the Presiding Officer any questions about the appeal process. Usually, the Presiding Officer will call you and the other parties.

The assignment of the date, time and location of the hearing is strictly under the control of the Office of Administrative Hearings(OAH) and any requests to consolidate cases, change dates, times or locations must be directed to OAH.

Page Becky Tasker at 4-1854. Becky will help you select a room, find an available date, and choose a room setup that best meets your needs.

Tentative schedules for all conferences are in the works and should be ready for an initial release in early January. Please keep in mind that the schedules will not be finalized until just before the conference. And even then, minor changes have been known to happen on the fly during the conference itself! But as soon as we have the basics figured out, we'll post them. Just remember they're TENTATIVE.

If you have a conflict on the date or time of the Pre-Hearing Conference, you should contact the other parties to see if they will agree to reschedule it. If they agree, you should then contact the Board?s Hearing Coordinator by telephone to request the Presiding Officer to change the Pre-Hearing Conference date. Usually, the Presiding Officer will agree, and a new date for the conference will be established. The parties will then receive a letter confirming the new date.

If you have not had a facial in the last 6 months, 90 minutes would be a good length of time to cover the analysis, perform a deep cleansing, and begin any treatments we've decided upon to meet your skin care goals. If you have rosacea or sensitive skin, we would not want to over stimulate the tissues, and a 60 minutes session is recommended. If you have maintained your skin or have received regular facials, 60 minutes is the usual session length.

After you have decided to schedule you will usually be able to get a surgical date within 4 to 8 weeks.

Administrative hearings are scheduled after both parties to the support action are served with a proposed administrative order and one or both parties request a hearing.

designed to allow you to meet face to face with your insurer in the presence of an arbitrator, prior to the actual arbitration hearing. This hearing is an opportunity to discuss what concerns the insurer may have with your file and allows the parties to sometime engage in meaningful settlement discussions. If you and your insurer are not able to come to a settlement, a date will be selected to hear the arbitration.

The main courts that use this option are: Seattle Municipal, Des Moines Municipal, Kent Municipal, and Kent District Court. These are the pre-dates before the contested date. They are scheduled to allow the Court and Prosecutor to minimize the cases that go to trial by resolving them early at the pre-hearing. The usual resolution is mitigation or deferral, which is why we waive this hearing and set the matters for contested hearings.

A pre-trial conference is a meeting with the prosecutor to discuss your case. The prosecutor has authority to ask the court to modify or dismiss the charges. After listening to the particular facts and circumstances of any given case, the prosecutor sometimes makes a Plea Bargain with the defendant. In other words, the defendant pleads guilty to an agreed charge, and the prosecutor either moves to dismiss other charges, or makes some agreement limiting the fine or other punishment.