News & Exclusives

Wojo’s Wandering Wisdom: Storytelling Through Books and Podcasts

Posted on December 10, 2015

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...

December Confidential: New Year’s Eve – Calendar or Fiscal Year

Posted on December 9, 2015

After November comes December, ELGL co-founder Kent Wyatt returns with all the news and happenings that are deemed important in the Wyatt household. December 31 Happy! Happy! It's New Year's Eve! I'll be spending my night with Alvin & the Chipmunks, my two daughters, and a sick wife. Will we make it to East Coast New Year's?...

The Future Is Now with Sonya Batts, City of Dallas, TX

Posted on December 4, 2015

The ELGL and SGR Futures Forum debuts on December 4. Registration is free for ELGL members; $100 for non-members. Leading up to the forum, we’ll highlight the attendees. Here’s the guest list. Sonya Batts is the Service Excellence Coordinator for the City of Dallas Center for Performance Excellence (CPE). (Complete the following sentence) If I had one free...

How Government Leverages Technology to Drive Decisions

Posted on December 1, 2015

Katie Lantukh is the marketing content writer at GovSense, an Georgia-based start-up on a mission to enable local governments to build smarter communities. By Katie Lantukh - LinkedIn and Twitter Government is traditionally very… well, traditional. One side effect of democracy’s system of checks and balances is a slow-moving bureaucratic system. Everything a local government...

The Future Is Now with Litsa Valis, Town of Highland Park, TX

Posted on November 30, 2015

The ELGL and SGR Futures Forum debuts on December 4. Registration is free for ELGL members; $100 for non-members. Leading up to the forum, we’ll highlight the attendees. Here’s the guest list. Litsa Valis (LinkedIn) is the Finance and HR Secretary at Town of Highland Park, TX. She is a graduate of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. If...