Welcome to the new and (somewhat) improved version of our member introductions. If you are puzzled by the column name, take a minute to watch the above scene from Austin Powers. Background Check ELGL is expanding into undergraduate colleges and universities throughout this great land of ours. Our first partnership is with Washington State-Vancouver. Ashlyn … Continued
ELGL organizational member SAFEbuilt begins a new column highlighting the latest trends in community development and building codes. First up: regulations surrounding the beer industry. Fermentation Regulation by Maxwell Dillivan and Kyle Steitz, SAFEbuilt With football season and Oktoberfest just around the corner, we have turned our attention to beer. The beer industry is a $246.5 … Continued
Thanks to our friends at Strategic Government Resources we can record our webinars and offer them to our members to rewatch them or to take a first look if you missed it. SeeClickFix’s Ryan Mannion chatted with us all about their public sector app that allows citizens to report and track issues in their neighborhood. … Continued
Register for #ELGL14 Prepare for #ELGL14 by learning about who is attending. Find out if you’ll be surrounded by soft talkers, loud eaters, and finger biters or whether you’ll be surrounded by the best in local government. Caroline Zavitkovski Performance Auditor at Oregon Secretary of State Audits Division Connect: LinkedIn and Twitter (Complete the sentence) #ELGL14 is…… … Continued
Midwest ELGL’s first Evening Buzz was a success—so we’re bringing another night of networking, idea sharing and libations to the greater Chicago area. Join us for our next evening of local government networking on Thursday, Oct. 23 at Hofbrauhaus in Rosemont, 5500 Park Place. Who: Midwest ELGL members and any local government or public service … Continued
By: Bridget Doyle Kozlowski We answer to many bosses in local government, but at the core of it all, the taxpayers and community are the people we serve. The best way to gain support and aid in transparency is to share the reasoning and hard work behind municipal decision making with the public. As a government … Continued
Register for #ELGL14 Prepare for #ELGL14 by learning about who is attending. Find out if you’ll be surrounded by soft talkers, loud eaters, and finger biters or whether you’ll be surrounded by the best in local government. Anthony Hooper City of Lake Oswego, OR — Support Services Supervisor Connect: LinkedIn (Complete the sentence) #ELGL14 is………..going to … Continued
Lake Isabella manager gets national planning award Welcome to the new and (somewhat) improved version of our member introductions. If you are puzzled by the column name, take a minute to watch the above scene from Austin Powers. Background Check Tim Wolff (LinkedIn andTwitter) was hired as the Village’s third Village Manager in January of 2004. He holds a … Continued
We recently spotted an absolutely brilliant piece of guerilla marketing for the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s new exhibit on rocker/legend David Bowie.
Kent Wyatt is a senior management analyst with the City of Tigard, OR and the co-founder of ELGL. He writes the Local Government Confidential and This Week in Local Government columns. In my last article, I outlined more than 80 ways for strengthening local government. (Please tell me that you read it and memorized each of the 80 ways.) This … Continued
