We are highlighting the work of the five groups that participated in the ELGL & UTA Challenge. Teams were tasked with developing community engagement solutions for one of the following areas: budget, infrastructure investment, planning and zoning, and emergency preparedness. (Full details of the challenge can be found here.) Final Report: ELGL/UTA Local Government Challenge Hear Ye, … Continued
Who doesn’t love a good ol’ fashioned performance review? ELGL loves them so much that we’re embarking on a “360 Review of Local Government.” We’re going to evaluate every single inch of the local government arena by talking to ourselves (a.k.a: other local government professionals), tech companies, journalists, professors, and anyone else who hasn’t blocked our … Continued
“Priority-driven-budgeting is a common sense, strategic alternative to budgeting.” – South Jordan City Mayor David Alvord On January 13 at 3 p.m EST/12:00 p.m PST, South Jordan City Executive Leadership, including City Manager Gary Whatcott, CFO Sunil Naidu and Budget Director Don Tingey will discuss Priority Based Budgeting including: How to implement PBB, advanced implementation (Online Priority … Continued
Tech Talk with Dana Barrett Show Listen for the ELGL mention at 1 hour 45 minute mark. ELGL organizational member GovSense was featured on Tech Tuesday: Giving Back, Brand Building & The Gov. Our favorite quote from Gary, “Business in the front, Star Wars in the back…” “Gary McTall, Co-Founder of GovSense, started the company in … Continued
As part of the grueling ELGL initiation process, new members are asked to complete our version of the Wonderlic test. It’s an open book test and participants do not have to use a dull number 2 pencil to fill in tiny circles. Kathryn Shackelford (LinkedIn and Twitter) is the Project Manager for the City of Peoria (IL) Mayor’s … Continued
We are highlighting the work of the five groups that participated in the ELGL & UTA Challenge. Teams were tasked with developing community engagement solutions for one of the following areas: budget, infrastructure investment, planning and zoning, and emergency preparedness. (Full details of the challenge can be found here.) Final Report: ELGL/UTA Local Government Challenge Safe Seniors … Continued
We are highlighting the work of the five groups that participated in the ELGL & UTA Challenge. Teams were tasked with developing community engagement solutions for one of the following areas: budget, infrastructure investment, planning and zoning, and emergency preparedness. (Full details of the challenge can be found here.) Final Report: ELGL/UTA Local Government Challenge It’s a … Continued
The ELGL/UTA Challenge has fostered a whirlwind of new ideas to combat a key challenge in local government management- #CommunityEngagement. This challenge was a novel undertaking generated out of the collaboration between ELGL and UTA with an underlining mission of thinking bold and outside of the box. ELGL issued the Local Government Challenge to Dr. Colleen Casey’s class of Ph.D candidates in … Continued
Cindy Mitchell is a recognized leadership coach for county clerks across the country. If you’re interested in connecting with Cindy, you can learn more about her online or on Twitter. Cindy presented at the 2015 Futures Forum and she wrote to ELGL: “I recently presented at the Futures Forum… I was so stoked today with the … Continued
CRM / 311 United June 7- 9, 2016 Fort Lauderdale, FL Cities from around the country are coming together to share their successes ELGL organizational member, QScend Technologies (LinkedIn and Twitter) is hosting a conference where City leaders and staff representing 10 municipalities will come together and share their citizen request management/311 success stories in this … Continued
