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ELGL Mountain West Happy Hour

RSVP: ELGL November Happy Hour Date: Thursday, November 16 at 6:30 p.m. Location: Freshcraft,1530 Blake Street A, Denver, CO Join your fellow ELGLers on the 16th for an evening of camaraderie, fellowship, and local government. Invite your coworkers! Your local government friends! Significant others! Grandparents! (although they might get bored and leave to go rage...

Podcast: Peggy Merriss, City Manager of Decatur, GA

Peggy Merriss City Manager Decatur, GA Bio | LinkedIn Get to know the City Manager of Decatur, Georgia. Peggy Merriss joins GovLove to discuss her career in local government, which includes 24 years as City Manager and stints in leadership positions with ICMA. She talked about the projects going on in Decatur, her experience...

Election Day 2017: Greg Clay and Hannah Lebovits

Election Day is here! ELGL member Hannah Lebovits is running for a spot on the city council in University Heights, Ohio. You know Hannah from this GovLove appearance and #13Percent: Defining Miss Frizzle. Here's even more insight into Hannah's campaign. Alum Spotlight: Hannah Lebovits University Heights City Council at Large Hannah Lebovits candidate for University Heights City Council I...

Mt. Rushmore with Michael Rizzitiello, City of College Place, WA

It's Mount Rushmore season for ELGL members. We're asking for your top four list on a variety of topics. Michael Rizzitiello City of College Place, Washington - City Administrator Connect: LinkedIn College Place Attractions Walla Walla University Whitman Monument Up and coming Downtown College Place Andy's Market Movies Blues Brothers Fight Club Pulp Fiction Back...

#13Percent: Defining Miss Frizzle

Elizabeth Vogel, Deputy Supervisor at Charter Township of Clinton, kicked off our series, "Continuing the #13Percent Conversation." Hannah Lebovits, candidate for Uiversity Heights, Ohio, City Council, continues it by sharing her experience. Sign up to be guest writer for this series. By Hannan Lebovits (LinkedIn | Twitter | Website) The other day, my toddler asked me if Miss Frizzle is...

Webinar: Credit Management & the Ratings Process

November 15, 2017 at 1:00 pm ET (12:00 pm CT | 10:00 am PT) Join us for an overview of the public finance credit landscape along with credit management insights and tools, recent rating trends, and a fresh take on municipal credit strategy. Attendee Login: https://www.anymeeting.com/663-991-470 Dial-in Number: 415-200-1362 Attendee Pin: 847 8790# Speakers...

Tweeting the Twits

Are you on Twitter? Why do you tweet and how do you tweet? I activated my Twitter account about eight years ago. It had laid dormant because I am mostly a Facebook guy. It wasn't until fellow Local Gov Peeps started asking to connect with me on Facebook that I realized I had a choice...

This Is Us: Living Room Meetings

After attending the ASAE conference, and then the ICMA conference, it dawned on me that the (short) history of ELGL should be recorded and shared. Why? Mainly to capture the story of ELGL, and also to share how our organization operates and how that's very different than most groups. Previously: Lunch for 16 After the...

Planning Ahead for a Growing Senior Population

AJ Fawver, the Planning Director in Amarillo, Texas shares her perspectives on land use, planning, and community development in this series. Learn more about AJ from her GovLove interview. When we are going about the important work of planning and shaping cities, it is important to not oversimplify the group of people we serve. After all,...

Mt. Rushmore with Lauren Freeman, City of Albion, MI

It's Mount Rushmore season for ELGL members. We're asking for your top four list on a variety of topics. Lauren Freeman AmeriCorps VISTA working in Albion, Michigan Connect: LinkedIn & Twitter Albion attractions: Albion's Historic Bohm Theatre - An amazing example of community collaboration and resilience, received prestigious Governor's Award for Historic Preservation, and has...

Event: Elevating Impact Summit in PDX

For the third consecutive year, we excited to be a community partner for the Elevating Impact Summit. The summit is a must attend for those in the Portland area. Check out interview on the 2016 event – Exploring Social Entrepreneurship with Abby Chroman. Register with our 20% off Community Partner discount code: PARTNER18 Join over 450...

Podcast: Managing Crisis with Cindy Cameron Ogle, City Manager, Gatlinburg, TN

Cindy Cameron Ogle City Manager Gatlinburg, TN Bio Forest fire and emergency response. Cindy Cameron Ogle the City Manager of Gatlinburg, Tennessee joins GovLove to discuss what it was like to manage the city through a forest fire that destroyed 2500 buildings last year. She shared her experience dealing with the crisis and how both...

Neighborhood Stigmas – The Power of Labeling

Hey there. It’s your every-other Friday Morning Buzzmaster, Sarah. If I didn’t introduce myself before, here’s a little about me. I am dedicated local government professional, but where my passion really lies is with people and communities, and in particular at the neighborhood level. Local government is one awesome place to exercise that passion, and...

Financial Communications: Fairfax, VA Transportation Funding Wheel

This is a guest blog by Wendy Sanford the Transportation Director in the city of Fairfax, Virginia Public Works Department. Wendy and the city of Fairfax have received a lot of regional support for their two year transportation funding timeline, so ELGL asked her to write about her success developing this timeline. Have a cool financial...

Day In The Life: An #ELGL18 Experience

This is your chance to spend a "day in the life" of another local government at #ELGL18. We'll match you up with a neighboring local government to spend the day in their organization, learning about their challenges and opportunities, and expanding your local government network. Transportation and lunch are included. Please note that this opportunity...

How Are You? A Health Question

Right Now with Nick Smith (LinkedIn/Twitter) What I’m Reading: The Medicalization of America by Peter Conrad What I’m Listening to: Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust What I’m Watching: Game 7 of the World Series (My first baseball game of the season!) Hey, how have you been? Are you taking care of yourself? I hope so. You look...

App for That! Why Responsive Web Isn't Enough

“There’s an App for That,” by CitySourced. CitySourced (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook) is an enterprise platform that provides governments with a complete native mobile app for residents to communicate with every department of their community: Mobile | Web | 311 | CRM. What do Youtube, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, and LinkedIn have in common? They all have incredible brand awareness, well known web...

The Sound of Finance

Rachel Zinn with the city of Baltimore, MD penned this local gov finance parody song and Phil Smith-Hanes knew it'd be a hit with ELGL. Just when you thought you hadn't heard enough songs about pivot tables, ELGL is here to help: But wait! There's more! Phil took a crack at his own set of...

#AmazonHQ2: How Data Can Help Amazon Find It's Perfect Match

Unless you've been on a social media diet, if you're a place-lover or city-nerd, you knew last week was D-Day for cities vying for some Amazon love...and boy are cities chomping at the bit - 238 to be exact - all over, not only those in the U.S., but also plenty of contenders from our...

Standing in Some Mighty Sensible Peep-Toe Heels

Welcome to the blog series, "The Local Government Nerve Center" -- all about the amazing and important work of clerks and recorders. Want to be a contributor? Learn more here. By Scott Stauffer, CMC, City of Milwaukie, OR, City Recorder We’ve heard the saying, “you have some mighty big shoes to fill…” It’s something you hear when...