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Podcast: Equity & Innovation in Parks & Recreation

Kylie Bayer-Fertterer Equity Coordinator Tualatin Hills Parks & Rec Twitter | LinkedIn Justin Cutler Recreation Services Manager Westminster, CO Twitter | LinkedIn Peter Cosmiano Parks & Rec Director Jasper, AL LinkedIn | Twitter Three Parks and Recreation professionals from across the country joined GovLove to talk about their work. They talked about how they are working...

Ask Ellie & Jill: Working with Unions for the First Time

In the series, ELGL members can anonymously send their questions, difficulties or scenarios to answers@elgl.org and receive a response from the ghost writing response team. Your name, organization and other details will not be shared in the posting or subsequent response. Dear Ellie & Jill, What advice do you have for someone who is interviewing for a job that...

Sharpening Your Saw

What I’m listening to – @SparkleStories with my kids at bedtime What I’m watching – #sportsmanship What I’m doing – planning some summer camping trips Managing in a smaller, more remote area I have found that high-quality training is a luxury. It is a personal value – one I am sure I share with ELGL...

Exclusive: Paving for Pizza in Bartonville, Texas

This post is by ELGL member Michael Montgomery, aka Pizza Mike. Link: Domino's Pizza unveils U.S. infrastructure project filling potholes For the last year and a half, I have served as the Town Administrator for the Town of Bartonville, Texas. Bartonville (pop. 1,680) is a small, rural community in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. In my...

Father's Day: Rock and Remember

We're celebrating Father's Day with our members sharing the song that reminds them of their dad. Bonus: listen to the GovLove podcast episode - Podcast: Dad Talk – Balancing Budgets and Diapers. Submissions Sam Taylor Advice: Recognize your talents and embrace them. Song: “All The Young Dudes” - Mott the Hoople Nyssa Rivera, City of Beaverton, Oregon,...

Ask Me! Elected Officials’ Social Media Responses

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. Question: Should city officials respond to others’ social media pages if info is inaccurate? Whoa!...

Meet Emily Edmonds: ELGL's Membership Services Coordinator

This blog is by ELGL's new employee - Emily Edmonds, the Membership Services Coordinator! Hello, ELGL! I’m so excited to be the new Membership Services Coordinator here at ELGL. Seriously, you should have seen Kirsten and I sharing jazz hands across thousands of miles and three time zones... You know those moments in life when...

ELGL Born and Bred

ELGL continues to build a partnership with the League of Oregon Cities (LOC). Executive Director Mike Cully is committed to strengthening local government in Oregon and partnering with ELGL. He remarked about ELGL, Another example of collaboration is really a grassroots alignment with an organization founded on the principal of recognizing, promoting and helping the...

Podcast: Empowering the Use of Data in San Francisco with Joy Bonaguro

Joy Bonaguro Chief Data Officer City and County of San Francisco, CA Bio | LinkedIn Building capacity and empowering employees through the use of data. Joy Bonaguro, the Chief Data Officer for the City and County of San Francisco, California discusses her path to local government, her approach to data and scaling solution. She...

How to Make Your Out Of Office Message Count

Right Now with Nick Smith (Linkedin/Twitter) What I'm reading: The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies What I'm watching: the trees, from a hammock What I'm listening to: the sweet sounds rolling banjos and mandolins at the 45th annual Festival of the Bluegrass (related ELGL article, believe it or not) Well,...

Call for Writers: Above the Fold

In this new column, ELGL members share their take on a pressing local government issue. Contributors will be expected to submit their article (500 to 1,000 words) in July or August. We will work with you on a date that fits your schedule. Bonus: Guest writers receive an exclusive pair of ELGL socks. Topics include: Apps: If...

Engaging Women in Public Service: Building Your Leadership Muscle

via GIPHY Hey hey ELGL fam! Today's a big day for me... not only am I publishing my very first ELGL blog post, but I just landed in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to attend the Engaging Women in Public Service conference put on by the UNC School of Government. Yes, I am currently listening to Beyoncé's...

Benefits of Internal Cross-Departmental Training

By Bridget Kozlowski, City of Sterling Heights, MI Have you ever wanted to shoot a fire hose? See the inside of a jail cell? Drive a front-end loader? Yes? Follow me. This spring, our city launched a new internal cross-departmental training program we called "Sterling U," short for Sterling University. Think of it like a...

Crybaby

Morning Buzz by Kirsten Wyatt What I'm Reading: The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer What I'm Watching: The Bachelorette What I'm Listening To: The Strumbellas What I'm Obsessed With: BBQing and smoking meats - it's summer! [polldaddy poll=10024345] Full admission that I'm a crier. Kent once accused me of ruining an entire ACC basketball tournament...

Part 2: Employment & Homelessness

According to the 2017 Homeless Point-in-Time Count, of the 1,100 people experiencing homelessness in Marin, only 15% were employed. Despite this low rate of employment, of the people who were unemployed, only 23% reported being unable to work. Therefore, there is a tremendous opportunity to help people experiencing homelessness in Marin reenter the workforce. To that...

I Can't Do This But I'm Doing It Anyway #CfA2018

ELGL at Code for America Summit 2018 Recap In late April, WhatWorksCities announced they were giving away five spots to attend the Code for America Summit in Oakland. The challenge was simple: submit an idea that you (as a city staffer) would like to tackle with the civic tech community. The five most inspiring ideas...

Buzzin - Let the Special Events Season Begin!

What I'm Reading: MLB Draft Previews (yep, its a thing) What I'm Listening To: Ray Lamontagne: Part of the Light What I'm Watching: Lost in Space - My wife and I have been trying to finish this series for over a month now. As the parents of a 16 month old, here is my...

President's Blocking of Twitter Users Found Unconstitutional

This post is by ELGL member Julie Tappendorf. Reprinted with permission. Last summer, we reported on the federal lawsuit filed against President Trump by individuals who had been blocked from the President's @realDonaldTrump Twitter account. You can read our post here. Last week, the federal district court issued a ruling in this case declaring that the blocking...

Podcast: The Color of Law with Richard Rothstein

Richard Rothstein Author and Fellow at the Economic Policy Institute The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Bio Talking housing segregation and public policy. Richard Rothstein is the author of "The Color of Law," a book about a forgotten history of how the government segregated America. Rothstein discussed his book and...

Golden Rule of Local Government Communications

For anyone who is the local government communications, your golden rule should be: DON’T SHOW UP YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS! “Among the responsibilities of a professional local government manager is the role of maintaining a positive relationship with the governing body and working with them to enhance their work. I would argue that this is the most...