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Podcast: Reason for Running with Sara Eskrich & Hannah Lebovits

Sara Eskrich Alder, Common Council City of Madison, WI LinkedIn | Twitter | Website Hannah Lebovits City Council Candidate City of University Heights, OH LinkedIn | Twitter | Website We talk running for City Council with Sara Eskrich, Alder for District 13 of Madison, WI, and Hannah Lebovits, candidate for University Heights, OH City...

The Best Ever with Sam Janson, City of North Muskegon, MI

We hope you can deal with change because we're changing up new member introductions. ELGL has grown tired of everyone and everything being proclaimed as "the best ever." From now on, we'll only believe it if our members dub it so. Hold onto your keyboard and mouse. Our new members are here to inform you about the...

Are Your Public Spaces Deterring Community Engagement?

In this post, Bang the Table's Engagement Specialist, Jeremy Shackett, pulls back the curtain on City Council Chamber design and how it affects community engagement. As an urban planner, I have been exposed to ways that design of public space affects human behavior. This extends to community engagement: how we design our processes affects the...

Podcast: Car-Free Planning in DC & Key West

Chris Hamilton Bicycle/Pedestrian/Transport Coordinator City of Key West, FL Bio | LinkedIn | Twitter . Chris Hamilton joins GovLove to talk all about car-free transportation, planning and paradise. Chris is the Car-Free Key West program manager and former Transportation Bureau Chief for Commuter Services in Arlington County, VA. He shares how small investments in marketing can...

New Blog Series: Local Government Nerve Center

We're launching a new blog series to learn about the topics and trends in work of local government clerks and recorders. Encourage your coworkers and friends to sign up to participate in this series! More about this series: The role of a clerk/recorder is at the epicenter of all local government activity. From council agendas,...

UNC Engaging Women Conference: Reflections & Registration

This guest post is by Sarah Henricks. Two years ago, she attended the UNC Engaging Women Conference, and now she's reflecting on that experience as we gear up for this year's Engaging Women event. About UNC Engaging Women: This one-day event is designed for women interested in strengthening both their leadership skills and professional trajectory...

Weekly Update: Vids, VCs, & Elections

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dear ELGL members, What a week! This week we held our first ever membership meeting and board election, tentatively firmed up details for #ELGL18 (announcement coming soon), and moved our communications and planning platforms over to Slack and Trello, exclusively. It definitely feels like ELGL is growing up, from a small start-up to a more...

Creative Use of Video for the Franklin, TN State of the City

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] This guest post is by Milissa Reierson, the communications manager for Franklin, Tennessee. [/vc_column_text][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR8x1Iz9DvE" el_width="80" align="center"][vc_column_text]The City of Franklin, Tennessee, population 76,000, recently held their annual state of the City event, but it wasn't a boring facts and figures presentation. Each year the Mayor, Dr. Ken Moore, works with his Communications team to make this presentation...

Playing "Moneyball" With Your City: An Appeal to City Managers (and Other Strong Citizens)

This guest post is by Fate, TX city manager Michael Kovacs. H/T to ELGL member Justin Weiss for connecting ELGL with this interesting blog by Michael! If you’re a sports fan, especially a baseball fan, you’ve probably seen the movie Moneyball with Brad Pitt. It's the true-to-life story of the Oakland A’s and how manager Billy...

06/24/17: Laugh, Cry, Think

ELGL co-founder Kent Wyatt (LinkedIn & Twitter) is bloggin' about those things that make you Laugh, Cry, and Think. Saturday, June 24 It's a great day to be alive. The sun is out in Portland. Temps are creeping near 100 degrees. The base tan is building. Michael Jordan is hot for a beer. If you...

Kittelson's Corner: Climate Cities & Diversity in Planning

This is Kittelson’s Corner my weekly musings on things I think are interesting or important, especially in local government nerd-dom. Alright, let's go... What I Read Elephant in the Planning Room by Giovania Tiarachristie Even though it might spoil an upcoming GovLove episode I have to share this report from Giovania Tiarachristie, who is a neighborhood planner at...

How a Bench Can Help Cities Measure the Impact of Community Events

This is a guest blog post by ELGL member Ed Krafcik with Soofa. In this post, he writes about how Soofa helped measure the crowd attendance during the 2017 Boston Marathon. “If we want to make agile cities, we need to know what works and what doesn’t. Data collection allows us to reflect in real-time...

Podcast: Shifting to a Next Generation Workplace in Aurora, CO

Michael Lawson Special Projects Manager City of Aurora, CO LinkedIn . The Intern Files is back, this time Madison Thesing interviews Michael Lawson from the City of Aurora, Colorado. Michael leads the city's special projects office and he discussed how Aurora is taking a new approach to hiring, on-boarding and culture. The "Shift" program...

The Best Ever with Bobby Albrecht, City of Wauwatosa, WI

We hope you can deal with change because we're changing up new member introductions. ELGL has grown tired of everyone and everything being proclaimed as "the best ever." From now on, we'll only believe it if our members dub it so. Hold onto your keyboard and mouse. Our new members are here to inform you about the...

Organization Bylaws

Bylaws - Adopted Amendments - May 2017 ARTICLE 1 Name The name of this organization shall be Engaging Local Government Leaders (ELGL). ARTICLE 2 Network Area The area of this organization shall be international. ARTICLE 3 Purpose The purpose of ELGL is to connect, communicate, and educate about local government. The organization, being organized and operated exclusively...

Six Pack of Engagement Case Studies

#ELGL17 sponsor and all-in member Bang the Table provides the latest resources on citizen engagement. Learn more by contacting Matt Crozier - matt@bangthetable.com or Casey Earp - casey@bangthetable.com. Case Studies Resilient Together: As part of the 100 Resilient Cities network, the City of Boulder uses EngagementHQ to educate citizens on resiliency and gather ideas on how...

Call for Writers: I Have to Ask You....

We want you to write for ELGL! We're looking for guest columnists for the new series, "I Have to Ask You." Here's how it works. Choose a date to be the featured guest columnist - Sign up a Guest Columnist ELGL co-founder Kent Wyatt will send you a choice of three local government topics to write...

Writing With Russ: Breaking It Down

This is part of the periodic series, "Writing With Russ," where Russell Terry shares with us his expertise and mastery of clear writing and communications. In her book, Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott writes that “The Short Assignment” is one of the keys to writing. In fact, the book title comes from when her brother...

Kittelson's Corner: Beaches & Budgets

This is Kittelson’s Corner my weekly musings on things I think are interesting or important, especially in local government nerd-dom. This week I hate pie charts, if I never see another pie chart it'll be too soon. Just use bar charts, pie charts make nothing easier to understand. Now I would eat a pie... Alright, let's go......

The Best Ever with Cindy Light, City of Orlando, FL

We hope you can deal with change because we're changing up new member introductions. ELGL has grown tired of everyone and everything being proclaimed as "the best ever." From now on, we'll only believe it if our members dub it so. Hold onto your keyboard and mouse. Our new members are here to inform you about the...