Follow the Yellow Brick Road: #KCCM18

Posted on April 26, 2018

This post is by Kirsten Wyatt who is visiting Lawrence, Kansas for the 2018 Kansas City/County Managers conference. She'll be updating this post throughout the conference and tweeting using #KCCM18. Thursday, April 26 @ 3:00 Another portion of the afternoon session was the story of Garden City, KS. Here's a video about the community and...

ELGL Memo to ICMA on Executive Board Diversity

Posted on April 24, 2018

Recently, ELGL was invited by ICMA to submit a white paper/memo on how ICMA can improve diversity on its Executive Board. Here's the document that ELGL submitted: To: ICMA Executive Board From: Kirsten Wyatt, ELGL Executive Director cc: ELGL Executive Board Date: April 20, 2017 Re: ICMA Board Diversity Initiatives Thank you for the opportunity...

Chinook Program Scholarship

Posted on April 23, 2018

ELGL member John Morgan is gifting a scholarship to the 2018 Chinook Program! Apply today for this local gov leadership training. The Chinook Program is the premier development program for leadership in the public interest in western North America. Based on a tradition started in 1989 at the University of Oregon, the Chinook Program brings...

Sustainability Series: Hidden Habitat Implications of California’s Dry Weather

Posted on April 17, 2018

ELGL presents a new series focused on natural resources and land use management. Dudek, a California-based environmental firm with 400+ planners, scientists, civil engineers, and contractors, will author the series which is creatively titled the Sustainability Series (until someone comes up with something more clever)! Dudek assists private and public clients on a broad range of...

Ask Me: Managing Online Response Time Expectations

Posted on April 6, 2018

Ask Me! Communication Conversations with Claire is a new recurring blog series with Claire Bouchard, a seasoned local government communications professional located in Fort Collins, Colorado. Send your local government communications questions to Claire via email and she’ll answer in a future blog post. Have you ever had this happen? You post a City event on Facebook on...
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