We are highlighting the work of the five groups that participated in the ELGL & UTA Challenge. Teams were tasked with developing community engagement solutions for one of the following areas: budget, infrastructure investment, planning and zoning, and emergency preparedness. (Full details of the challenge can be found here.) Final Report: ELGL/UTA Local Government Challenge Safe Seniors … Continued
We are highlighting the work of the five groups that participated in the ELGL & UTA Challenge. Teams were tasked with developing community engagement solutions for one of the following areas: budget, infrastructure investment, planning and zoning, and emergency preparedness. (Full details of the challenge can be found here.) Final Report: ELGL/UTA Local Government Challenge It’s a … Continued
The ELGL/UTA Challenge has fostered a whirlwind of new ideas to combat a key challenge in local government management- #CommunityEngagement. This challenge was a novel undertaking generated out of the collaboration between ELGL and UTA with an underlining mission of thinking bold and outside of the box. ELGL issued the Local Government Challenge to Dr. Colleen Casey’s class of Ph.D candidates in … Continued
CRM / 311 United June 7- 9, 2016 Fort Lauderdale, FL Cities from around the country are coming together to share their successes ELGL organizational member, QScend Technologies (LinkedIn and Twitter) is hosting a conference where City leaders and staff representing 10 municipalities will come together and share their citizen request management/311 success stories in this … Continued
As part of his Wojo’s Wandering Wisdom series, Matt Wojnowski, Assistant City Manager for the City of Altus, OK identifies #localgov stories in books and podcasts. ELGL is committed to using stories to strengthen the local government community. Everyone loves a great story. We share them at conferences. We call our colleagues to hear their stories from similar … Continued
Welcome to our newest organizational member – Association of Public Management Professionals (APMP) in Minnesota. APMP is a professional organization consisting of assistants and deputies at all levels of local government, as well as students. Most of the members are assistant city or county managers, or work within administration departments. However, a growing number of … Continued
ELGL asked for righteous jams. The following awesome jams found their way to this post. Please consider the following for your road trip playlist, in reverse alphabetical order: Young Fathers by Typhoon (Ben Kittelson) Working 9-5 by Millencolin (Pete Olson) Woman by Wolfmother (Glen Ocsko) Welcome to the Jungle by Guns & Roses (Sam Anselm) We … Continued
This installment of On Campus comes to you from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Hat tip to Jason Jones, Guilford County, NC for coordinating the visit. Background Check The mission of NC State’s MPA program is “is to develop principled and skilled public service professionals who fulfill leadership roles within governmental and … Continued
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN WHO: The Honorable Steven W. Rhodes, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Michigan WHAT: A conversation with Bankruptcy Judge Steven W. Rhodes: Detroit’s reorganization under Bankruptcy Code Chapter 9 and implications for municipalities elsewhere. WHEN: October 13, 2015, 4 – 6 p.m. Registration includes hors d’oeuvres. Beer and wine courtesy of Stoel … Continued
This post originally appeared on the UNC School of Government’s Community Economic Development blog on July 16, 2015. It was written by Natalie Patterson, a Fellow with the School of Government’s Development Finance Initiative and a Master’s candidate in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UNC-Chapel Hill. See the original post here. In the … Continued
