On November 18, 2021 ELGL members discussed “Permission to Screw Up” by Kristen Hadeed for the ELGL Book Club. We gave away six signed copies of the book to our members and asked them to write reflections on the book. Here’s the reflection post by Karen Tapahe, City Council Community Relations Coordinator for Provo, Utah. … Continued
Join us in January 2022 as we start a 6-week guided course for staff and officials that are integral in helping build their cities Race and Equity efforts! By the year 2045, the United States will be a majority of people of color in society. 43% of US millennials are people of color and 47% … Continued
ELGL and the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) created the PAFR Fellowship Program to connect graduate students with local governments looking to create a Popular Annual Financial Report (PAFR) for submission to the GFOA award program. This program connects graduate students with local governments that wish to develop a PAFR for submission to the GFOA … Continued
Today’s Morning Buzz is by Erin Krause Riley, the Adult Services Coordinator for Scottsdale Public Library in Arizona. You can connect with ekr on LinkedIn What I’m reading: about six books right now, including Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit, Palaces for the People by Eric Klineberg and Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by … Continued
In this series, guest columnists reflect on one of three prompts provided by ELGL Co-Founder Kent Wyatt. This week, Cassie Johnson Strategic Initiatives Director for the Scottsdale Police Department. Cassie can be reached on Twitter and LinkedIn. Sign up to be the next guest columnist for the ‘I Have to Ask’ column. With so much employee turnover … Continued
Today’s Morning Buzz is by Emily E. Kidd, Internal Auditor for the City of Reno, Nevada. Connect with her on LinkedIn and Twitter @emilyekidd Reading: No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear by Kate Bowler Watching: Holiday Baking Championship Listening to: The Drop Out: Elizabeth Holmes on Trial As the … Continued
Join us as we start a free, six-month guided program for local government leaders to find affordable and innovative solutions to their top Transportation & Mobility challenges! The program is divided up into three months of challenge-development and three months of a pilot program. The program itself consists of a series of regular, one-on-one, hands-on … Continued
Join us in January 2022 as we start a 6-week guided course for newly elected officials! Our first cohort offering for elected officials! This cohort will take place over six weeks, with two live one-hour sessions (January 21st and February 11th) while the other weeks you will be provided prerecorded lessons and ELGL’s membership platform … Continued
On 20 September 2021, the Geneva is launched the Mayors’ Action Platform (MAP). Created under the auspices of UNECE and UN-HABITAT, this initiative was created to follow-up on the Geneva Declaration of Mayors. The objectives of the platform are twofold: to showcase concrete actions and solutions devised by cities to address the issues covered by the Declaration of Mayors … Continued
Originally aired November 10, 2021. Governments have discovered just how much they can digitize in the wake of COVID-19 out of necessity. Moving forward, why not explore digitizing the most staid of local government departments? Whether preserving local history or providing a better care experience for community members, moving records online might be the logical … Continued
