Exclusive Content: City Clerks & Recorders

Orienting New Elected Officials

Posted on April 11, 2022

Today's Morning Buzz is by Melissa Cantarero Weiss, Deputy City Administrator, for Wauwatosa, WI. Connect on LinkedIn and Twitter. What I'm Reading: The Flip Side What I'm Watching: Lord of the Rings - we are introducing the kids to this series What I'm Listening to: Brene Brown on various podcasts In Wauwatosa, we have 16...

Four Tips to Make Meeting Minutes Less of a Time Drain

Posted on April 23, 2021

This article was written by Dana Healy, Executive Director of NineNorth. Connect with Dana by email or LinkedIn. I was speaking to a client yesterday about increasing communications for his city. “It’s difficult,” he said, “My City Clerk is also the Head of Communications.” Oh dear. Once again, the City Clerk gets more responsibilities attached...

Archiving Public Sector E-Communications

Posted on August 2, 2018

This guest post is by ELGL member Don DeLoach. Don has more than 32 years of state and local government involvement. He was the former Chief Information Systems Officer for the City of Tallahassee, and was responsible for all of the city’s technology needs. He is also a former president of the Florida Local Government Information Systems...

My Love Letter to City Recorders

Posted on August 2, 2018

Welcome to a new blog series, "The Local Government Nerve Center" -- all about the amazing and important work of clerks and recorders. Want to be a contributor? Learn more here. By Kirsten Wyatt Twitter| LinkedIn | Email Early in my career, the city recorder quit and the organization was suddenly without recorder services and...

What is a Special District Clerk?

Posted on August 2, 2018

Welcome to a new blog series, "The Local Government Nerve Center" -- all about the amazing and important work of clerks and recorders. Want to be a contributor? Learn more here. By Laura Savage, Pueblo West Metropolitan Administrative Clerk For two years I have served the Pueblo West community as the “City Clerk”, a position...

Public Sector Compliance Policies

Posted on August 2, 2018

A City Clerk is Not Just a Secretary

Posted on August 2, 2018

Welcome to a new blog series, "The Local Government Nerve Center" -- all about the amazing and important work of clerks and recorders. Want to be a contributor? Learn more here. By Amber Mathiesen, City of Mt. Angel Oregon City Manager You can imagine the conversation that must go on in the head of new local government...

Efficiency and Innovation in the City Clerk’s Office

Posted on August 2, 2018

Welcome to a new blog series, "The Local Government Nerve Center" -- all about the amazing and important work of clerks and recorders. Want to be a contributor? Learn more here. By Jesse Raymundo, City of Fontana, CA Administrative Clerk Connect: LinkedIn Still a youngin' in the City Clerk's Office, there are two elements that stand...

Chickens – The New Threshold

Posted on August 2, 2018

Welcome to a new blog series, "The Local Government Nerve Center" -- all about the amazing and important work of clerks and recorders. Want to be a contributor? Learn more here. By Mary Dibble, City of Albany City Clerk Being a City Clerk means that the general public often assumes you know all sorts of things and...

Town Clerk to City Clerk – A Conversation About the Transition

Posted on August 2, 2018

Welcome to a new blog series, "The Local Government Nerve Center" -- all about the amazing and important work of clerks and recorders. Want to be a contributor? Learn more here. By Abby J. Fitch, City of Aurora, Mayor/Council Management Analyst I am not a City Clerk, nor do I work for the City Clerk’s office. When...

What is a City Clerk’s Office?

Posted on August 2, 2018

Welcome to a new blog series, "The Local Government Nerve Center" -- all about the amazing and important work of clerks and recorders. Want to be a contributor? Learn more here. By Emily Chen, City of Walnut Creek, CA, Assistant to City Clerk Connect: Linkedin, Email Friend: “What do you do?” Me: “Oh I work in the...

This Isn’t My Temporary Home

Posted on August 2, 2018

Welcome to the blog series, "The Local Government Nerve Center" -- all about the amazing and important work of clerks and recorders. Want to be a contributor? Learn more here. By Shauna Kaczynski, City of Kettering, Ohio, Clerk of the Council I am a young African American woman. I live and work for a community that...

To Certify or Not to Certify! That is the Question

Posted on August 2, 2018

Welcome to a new blog series, "The Local Government Nerve Center" -- all about the amazing and important work of clerks and recorders. Want to be a contributor? Learn more here. By Kathy Payne, CMC, City of St. Helens, OR, City Recorder “What does the CMC behind your name stand for?” That’s the real question I get....

Standing in Some Mighty Sensible Peep-Toe Heels

Posted on August 2, 2018

Welcome to the blog series, "The Local Government Nerve Center" -- all about the amazing and important work of clerks and recorders. Want to be a contributor? Learn more here. By Scott Stauffer, CMC, City of Milwaukie, OR, City Recorder We’ve heard the saying, “you have some mighty big shoes to fill…” It’s something you hear when...

Ask Ellie & Jill: Working with the City Council

Posted on August 2, 2018

In the series, ELGL members can anonymously send their questions, difficulties or scenarios to answers@elgl.org and receive a response from the ghost writing response team. Your name, organization and other details will not be shared in the posting or subsequent response. Dear Ellie & Jill, I am getting very frustrated with one of the City Council members where I...

Public Meetings are Boring

Posted on August 2, 2018

Welcome to the blog series, "The Local Government Nerve Center" about the important work of clerks and recorders. Want to be a contributor? Learn more here. By Megan Asikainen, CivicClerk You are likely thrilled to see residents filing into your meeting room to observe and take part in public discussions on topics that will impact...

What is a City Clerk’s Office?

Posted on July 25, 2018

AUGUST 23, 2017 BY LINDSAY LARA Welcome to a new blog series, “The Local Government Nerve Center” — all about the amazing and important work of clerks and recorders. Want to be a contributor? Learn more here. By Emily Chen, City of Walnut Creek, CA, Assistant to City Clerk Connect: Linkedin, Email Friend: “What do you do?” Me: “Oh I work in the...

Public Meetings are Boring

Posted on July 12, 2018

#clerklife: From Cradle to Grave

Posted on May 4, 2018

Welcome to the blog series, "The Local Government Nerve Center" -- all about the amazing and important work of clerks and recorders. Want to be a contributor? Learn more here. By Lindsay Lara, City Clerk City of San Rafael, California Twitter | LinkedIn Being a City Clerk has been the most rewarding opportunity I have...

10 Best Practices for Managing Volunteer Boards & Commissions

Posted on April 18, 2018

Welcome to the blog series, "The Local Government Nerve Center" -- all about the amazing and important work of clerks and recorders. By Megan Asikainen, Solution Architect, CivicPlus | LinkedIn Your role as a clerk makes you a vital component of the success of your municipal boards and commissions. You may be finding, however, that learning...

City Clerk Elevator Speech

Posted on April 4, 2018

Welcome to the blog series, "The Local Government Nerve Center" -- all about the amazing and important work of clerks and recorders. Want to be a contributor? Learn more here. By Brenda Haggard, CMC, Assistant City Clerk, City of Elk Grove, CA, LinkedIn| Email As a municipal clerk, I’ve experienced the “Oh, that’s interesting” response from...

The City Clerk Ain’t Just a Secretary

Posted on March 29, 2018

Welcome to the blog series, "The Local Government Nerve Center" -- all about the amazing and important work of clerks and recorders. Want to be a contributor? Learn more here. By Lucinda Williams, MMC, City Clerk, City of Fullerton, CA, Twitter | Email Wikipedia says “The duties of a municipal clerk vary even more than their titles. Particularly in...

Don’t Dump Trash on Your Attitude

Posted on December 13, 2017

Welcome to the blog series, "The Local Government Nerve Center" -- all about the amazing and important work of clerks and recorders. Want to be a contributor? Learn more here. By Shauna Kaczynski, City of Kettering, Ohio, Clerk of Council Do you ever wake up dreading the workday because of the work facing you that...

Standing in Some Mighty Sensible Peep-Toe Heels

Posted on November 1, 2017

To Certify or Not to Certify! That is the Question

Posted on October 25, 2017

Welcome to a new blog series, "The Local Government Nerve Center" -- all about the amazing and important work of clerks and recorders. Want to be a contributor? Learn more here. By Kathy Payne, CMC, City of St. Helens, OR, City Recorder “What does the CMC behind your name stand for?” That’s the real question I get....

This Isn’t My Temporary Home

Posted on September 13, 2017

What is a City Clerk’s Office?

Posted on August 23, 2017

Town Clerk to City Clerk – A Conversation About the Transition

Posted on August 2, 2017

Welcome to a new blog series, "The Local Government Nerve Center" -- all about the amazing and important work of clerks and recorders. Want to be a contributor? Learn more here. By Abby J. Fitch, City of Aurora, Mayor/Council Management Analyst I am not a City Clerk, nor do I work for the City Clerk’s office. When...

Chickens – The New Threshold

Posted on July 26, 2017

Efficiency and Innovation in the City Clerk’s Office

Posted on July 19, 2017

A City Clerk is Not Just a Secretary

Posted on July 12, 2017

Public Sector Compliance Policies

Posted on July 10, 2017

What is a Special District Clerk?

Posted on July 5, 2017

My Love Letter to City Recorders

Posted on June 29, 2017

Archiving Public Sector E-Communications

Posted on June 12, 2017

New Blog Series: Local Government Nerve Center

Posted on June 5, 2017

We're launching a new blog series to learn about the topics and trends in work of local government clerks and recorders. Encourage your coworkers and friends to sign up to participate in this series! More about this series: The role of a clerk/recorder is at the epicenter of all local government activity. From council agendas,...