For the second year in a row, ELGL will be co-hosting an event at the ICMA Conference. This year we’re bringing a couple of pianos and booking a much larger room. More than 500 local government professionals from all areas of local government will attend. Registration will continue until we reach maximum capacity. We recommend … Continued
Join us as we bring together Local Government management and HR practitioners for a lively discussion on some of the hot topics in local government Human Resources. We will cover topics such as Outsourcing (gasp! Is that a taboo subject?) as well as Personnel Reviews Scott Lazenby, (LinkedIn) City Manager – Lake Oswego, OR Scott … Continued
Monica Thompson, City of Reno, NV “Not some boring, Jerry Gergich-type government worker. I’m more of a Steve Harvey. I dream big, I shake things up and I always wear dope suits.” In her column, she will share her experiences and advice for a successful communications platform. By Monica Thompson – LinkedIn, Twitter, and Website Tell me … Continued
The Outsider’s View is a column written by Brittany Bennett (LinkedIn & Twitter), Development, Policy and Impact Associate at Self-Help, on community development and other topics she finds relevant and interesting, usually with examples from North Carolina. As a follow-up to this column I wrote for ELGL’s partnership with GOVERNING, I wanted to share an example of … Continued
We’re back with another installment of The Assistant series. Today we hear from Casey Earp, Assistant City Manager for the City of Boulder, Colorado. Background Check Casey Earp Boulder, CO – Assistant City Manager I Connect: LinkedIn & Twitter Casey Earp serves as the Assistant City Manager I in the City of Boulder, Colorado where he works … Continued
For the second year in a row, ELGL will be co-hosting an event at the ICMA Conference. This year we’re bringing a couple of pianos and booking a much larger room. More than 500 local government professionals from all areas of local government will attend. Registration will continue until we reach maximum capacity. We recommend registering … Continued
Link: ELGL Spreads Across the Country “Cross between The Atlantic magazine and Buzzfeed” Welcome to our new member feature. We’ve all heard the excuse “I’m too busy” too many times so we’ve simplified our new member feature to illicit short, meaningful responses. Casey Earp (LinkedIn & Twitter) City of Boulder, CO – Assistant City Manager Casey Earp … Continued
Matt Bronson (LinkedIn and Twitter) is the Assistant City Manager for the City of San Mateo, California. Prior to that, he served as the Assistant to the County Administrator as well as a Administrative Analyst for the County of Marin. He received his Masters of Public Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a graduate … Continued
Few people recognized how a simple ❤️ being sent via pager in the early 90s could take ? ? ? communication like??????. But that is exactly what happen when Docomo, a pager company that was hugely popular with kids in Japan, invented a small 12×12 pixel icon that could be sent to any of its devices. Sending … Continued
Link: Top 5 Issues in Local Government Survey ELGL and Dr. Colleen Casey, Assistant Professor for the School of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Arlington have partnered together for the Fall 2015 semester to bring her students a unique challenge in local government management unlike anything an MPA program has … Continued
