#ELGL15 Working With Local Government & Growing Local Businesses Local governments everywhere are figuring out the best way to work with and grow local businesses. The CEO of Dutch Bros. Coffee will start the day with a conversation on the company’s story and how they grew into the company they are today. Link: #ELGL15 What You Need … Continued
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] So you heard that registration for the #ELGL15 Conference is open and you have either already registered and are super excited about the best local government conference anywhere in the world. Or you just don’t have enough information. Well we’ve got you covered, below is everything you need to know about #ELGL15. Getting Started … Continued
Kent Wyatt is back with the Local Government Confidential. This members-only post discusses all things that non-members shouldn’t know. Saturday, February 28 Missing Zoe Barnes The days of binge watching are over in the Wyatt household unless watching two episodes of House of Cards – Season 3 counts. We plowed through the first two episodes after … Continued
Check out the great panel we have for our session on Managing a College Town and the relationship between a city and an educational institution! Jon Ruiz, City Manager, Eugene, OR Bio: CEO of 1500 person organization, professional adviser to mayor and 8 elected council members, ambassador in the community First paying job: Cook at seafood … Continued
The countdown is on: registration for #ELGL14 opens at 7:00 a.m. on Friday, September 5. Here’s the full conference agenda so you can get early approval to spend October 17 with ELGL at the Kennedy School. You’ll notice one very important thing: this conference agenda is chock full o’ relevant local government information that will … Continued
Last week, you learned that Emily Badger from the Washington Post will headline #ELGL14. This week, we release the next exciting panel that you’ll experience at our annual conference: Managing College Towns.
First off, we must thank Randy Ealy, Beaverton’s Chief Administrative Officer for arranging ELGL’s visit to the Beaverton Building. If you missed the event, you missed why it is being called the Beaverton Building instead of city hall. Here is recap of what else we learned. Picture Show: ELGL Visits the Beaverton Building Meeting Agenda … Continued
Beaverton’s City Hall Plan Is On the Move Most of us have experienced the unpleasant task of moving. The packing, the boxes, the breaking stuff, and the unpacking. Magnify your most difficult move by 1,000 and you will begin to understand what the City of Beaverton is facing in moving most of their city offices to … Continued
The End Josh’s Job Search 2.0 has come to an end. I am happy to report that I have found a temp job working as the Development & Special Events Associate for Camp Fire Columbia. Camp Fire is a community based nonprofit in Portland Oregon with a mission to build caring confident youth and future … Continued
In order for ELGL members who weren’t at the conference to get a glimpse of what they missed and so attendees can go back and relive the glory whenever they want, we have accumulated all of the power point presentations from #ELGL13. Now not every speaker had a power point presentation (notably the Mayors, the … Continued
