Chinook Institute for Civic Leadership presents the 2nd annual public employer update on labor relations issues. July 15, 2016 – 9:00 to 4:00 – Registration at 8:30 Keizer Fire District Headquarters Training Room – Keizer, Oregon Link: Event Registration Topics Abuse of sick leave ~ What can you do? Oregon sick leave legislation ~ Are you … Continued
ELGL is testing out some new real time polling software that we’ll incorporate into our presentations this summer and fall. We need to test it out, so please humor us with this lazy Sunday test poll. If you’d like to participate, please vote via text: Text KIRSTENWYATT910 once to 22333 to join the session. Then respond with A, B, … Continued
Here are some opportunities to support the members of the Dallas Police Department and the Dallas Area Rapid Transit agency: Send a letter of support to the Dallas Police Department: Dallas Police Department, 1400 South Lamar Street, Dallas Texas 75215 About the DPD: Since its creation more than 120 years ago, the Dallas Police Department has created … Continued
This is the first post in a new ELGL blog series by Ashley Jacobs (LinkedIn). I was honored to speak on a panel with two other women entitled, “You Have What It Takes to be a Resilient Leader” at the ICMA Regional Summit in Savannah this spring. When we arrived at the session, we were … Continued
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ELGL wants to recognize our members’ sadness, anger, frustration and other emotions in response to the officer-involved shooting deaths of Mr. Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, LA and Mr. Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, MN. We will do this by swiftly providing a forum in which to discuss these emotions, and also by developing an actionable and … Continued
In the Confidential, ELGL co-founder Kent Wyatt brings you all the news and happenings that you probably shouldn’t know about. Relive June here. August 1 Who knew there was an extra day in July? Since we’ll be getting a late start on the August Confidential because of the CPBB Conference, we just update this post … Continued
What was your local government moment? What keeps you in local government? Who have been the influences in your career? We take a deep dive into these questions by asking you (the practitioner) to tell your local government story. You can sign up to participate in the bi-monthly feature at Finding Local Government. Thanks to Matt Wojnowski, City … Continued
At the recent Illinois and Wisconsin city management conference, we connected with Jim Hurley, Assistant to the McHenry County Administrator and ELGL member. Jim mentioned that McHenry County, IL had started a podcast with the first episode featuring Peter Austin, McHenry County Administrator. You’ll learn more about Jim and the McHenry County podcast in a future GovLove episode … Continued
Update: Check out Michael’s podcast. Guests include: Rochester, NY Council Vice President Dana Miller, Bangor, ME Councilor Joe Baldacci, and Former San Francisco, CA Board of Supervisors President David Chiu. Michael will be appearing at #ELGL16 Denver. City Council Chronicles (Facebook, Twitter, World Wide Web) is sweeping the (local government) nation. We interviewed Michael Karlik, comedian, creator of City … Continued
