Today’s Morning Buzz is brought to you by Maggie Jones – connect on LinkedIn & Twitter! *** What I’m Listening to: Lush Lofi playlist on Spotify What I’m Watching: my youngest deliberately turn on the garden hose when I asked him not to What I’m Reading: Matt Andrews’ wonderful blog series on Public Leadership Through … Continued
Meetings and Public Hearings Under the Coronavirus State of Emergency Frayda Bluestein, UNC School of Government (Note from ELGL: Most of this is specific to North Carolina’s authorizing statutes; however, much of it will be very similar across states and the big questions – about remote meetings, quora, and voting – are valid regardless of … Continued
This post is shared with ELGL by members George Hawkins & Andy Kricun. Originally published in WaterWorld. A public health expert told us to take precautionary measures that seem more protective than needed. Once an elevated level of protection is clearly necessary, it may well be too late. For most of us that means some … Continued
This guest blog about working from home is by ELGL member Laura Chandler with ClearPoint Strategy. Join Laura and ELGL tomorrow on the 9:00 a.m. PT virtual hangout to discuss #WFH strategies. Working from home is not new to me, but I imagine it is new to many who are reading this. Even for those … Continued
UNC School of Government Zoom Call on Water/Wastewater Utilities Operations During COVID-19 When: Monday, March 23, 2020 at 11:00am Cost: FREE Details: Local government utilities are facing difficult decisions about how to maintain operations and ensure financial sustainability, while providing essential services to the public and limiting personal interactions during the COVID-19 outbreak. … Continued
As your local government is working on making important information and resources accessible to your community, check out this how-to video from ELGL member Patrick McDonnell (LinkedIn, Twitter, GovLove) about how to extract audio from video to provide transcriptions. This is important so your information is accessible to all people.
ELGL has partnered with the Northwest Women’s Leadership Academy, Oregon to support and promote their 2019 cohort! To support the program and efforts, ELGL has extended complimentary membership to the women participating in the NWWLA 2019 cohort. ELGL is profiling the NWWLA participants to grow their local government network, and showcase their resumes, work experiences, and perspectives. Marcie … Continued
Today’s Buzz is brought to you by Jennifer Casey, Public Information Officer for the Town of Collierville, TN. @ me: Twitter & LinkedIn. What I’m Reading: Bill Morris, a Legendary Life (a big name in Memphis politics for many years) What I’m Listening to: my 2019 Rewind playlist on Spotify What I’m Watching: just introduced the kids to … Continued
This information is included on ELGL’s crowdsourced local government resources page for COVID-19/Coronavirus information. Submitted by ELGL member Rafael Baptista: Resources from the City of Raleigh, NC: City of Raleigh Q&A for small businesses (updated daily) City of Raleigh change in policy to reserve curbside pickup parking in front of restaurants. Downtown Raleigh Alliance webpage … Continued
This information is included on ELGL’s crowdsourced local government resources page for COVID-19/Coronavirus information. Submitted by ELGL member Amanda Paez. This is the link to our Coronavirus/COVID-19 information page. Due to the rapidly changing nature of the situation, we chose to link directly to the CDC and the Virginia Department of Health for the most accurate … Continued
