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1984 with Polly Hulsey, College of Southern Idaho

More than 215 professionals have registered for the upcoming Webinar: Women in Local Government. Based on the registration numbers, it’s clear that the issue is not only a female issue, but an issue of how local government can and should better represent the community’s demographic. We asked those who registered for the webinar to respond to four...

Save the Date: Balancing Act Lunch and Learn

Please join us Feb. 11 at noon in Portland, OR for a lunch and learn all about balancing life and a public sector career. We'll hear from Marissa Madrigal, Eric King, Leah Treat, Kent Wyatt and Amy Wang on how they've been successful at balancing careers in local government with their personal lives.

Report: Male City Managers Serve Longer Tenures Than Females

Webinar: Breaking Down the Glass Ceiling - February 19, 2015 Report: Abysmal Percentage of Women Managers Exists in Local Government Hot off the press! GrassrootsLab has issued a report on the disparity of women leaders in local government. Not only are there less women in leadership, but the women in these roles have shorter tenures than their male...

Interview Insider: The Separation is in the Preparation

Catherine Tuck Parrish (LinkedIn and Twitter), Executive Search Practice Leader for The Novak Consulting Group, is our new career insider. Catherine has 20 years of management experience working with local governments, non-profit organizations, and associations. Her work as a consultant includes executive recruitment, project management, and consulting on projects including process improvement, departmental assessments, development review, policy review, and...

SE ELGL Mixer Sponsors

A round of high fives and thank yous to our sponsors for the Feb 5th NCCCMA Dessert Mixer! Have you signed up yet? If not, register here!

ELGL's SGR Prezi-tation

Did you miss ELGL's presentation at the Strategic Government Resources conference last week? Never fear! We've got the presentation available now for ELGL members.

1984 with Benjamin DeClue, City of Lebanon, MO

More than 120 professionals have registered for the upcoming Webinar: Women in Local Government. Based on the responses, it’s clear that the issue is not only a female issue but an issue of how local government can and should better represent the community’s demographic. We asked those who registered for the webinar to respond to four...

Josh's Job Search Becomes Chris' Job Search

After the wildly popular Josh's Job Search and Josh's Job Search 2.0 we looked around for another Josh who wanted to work in local government and do informational interviews but we came up empty. However, fear not! We found a Portland State MPA Student who is willing to continue the Josh legacy, his name is...

Save the Date: PSU Celebration of Pubic Service

Our friends over at Portland State University want to extend and invitation to ELGL members in the area for a dinner reunion celebrating public service. Join them on Saturday April 18th, 2015 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. Celebration of Public Service Hosted by the PSU Mark O. Hatfield School of Government's Center for Public Service,...

Survey Says... State of Local Government Workforce

Two weeks ago we asked you about the State of the Local Government Workforce and this week we're back with the results of what you said. Download the complete answers to each open-ended question below. We'll be following up on the survey with a blog post highlighting the most common answers to each question. Download the...

Michigan: Al Vanderberg, Ottawa County, County Administrator

Time Out for Mentoring with Al Vanderberg Fifty Nifty Takeaways What do we hope to learn from this series? We hope you will gain a better understanding of the unique characteristics of local government in each state, we hope you will learn that there are others like you who are motivated to make a difference...

My Story with Matt Monedero, City of Garland, TX

ELGL’s mission is to connect, communicate, and educate. In this ongoing series, ELGL members tell their story including how they got into local government. Matt Monedero (LinkedIn) has a served as Budget Analyst with the City of Garland, TX for the past two years. Previously, Matt has served as Budget & Management in Analyst in El...

Trending Now: Oregon Tech Brigade with ELGL and TAO

It's time for local government to acknowledge that technology exists and, in fact, it may be able to help us. To do so, ELGL is partnering with the Technology Association of Oregon (TAO) to offer the Oregon Tech Brigade. In the last couple of months, ELGL has been meeting with Skip Newberry, TAO President and...

Wireframe & Site Map

ELGL's web redesign process continues! We met last week with Sarah and Jen for a detailed two-hour meeting where we talked about the awesome survey data we received from our members, our goals for ELGL.org, and next steps going forward. Sarah and Jen are great listeners, which is probably the top skill you should look...

From My Perspective: #13Percent by Bonnie Svrcek

We're committed to keeping the #13Percent issue at the forefront of local government discussions. Periodically, we'll post "From My Perspective" blog posts from ELGL members on the topic of women in local government leadership. Here's a post from SE ELGL Advisory Board member Bonnie Svrcek. Bonnie is a former ICMA president and the Deputy City...

Where The Boys At?!

http://youtu.be/xb81_vJWMc0 We're getting amazing RSVP response for our upcoming webinar featuring Heidi Voorhees and Rachel Lange-Skaggs. But we've noticed one critical thing - most everyone who is participating is a woman. And as we talked about in our "Glacial Pace" article, and as we learned in this great article from Forbes: "Most people spend their careers in...

Lessons on Building Community from Ron Carlee, City of Charlotte

The Outsider’s View is a monthly column written by Brittany Bennett (LinkedIn & Twitter) on community and economic development issues and examples in North Carolina. In December, ELGL hosted a second Twittersation on the events in Ferguson, MO that left me feeling optimistic about the future of local government leadership because of the enthusiastic...

Case Study: Digital Agenda Creation with Granicus

In the waning days of 2014, the manager’s office at the Village of Oak Park quietly implemented a new digital agenda creation system from San Francisco-based Granicus. This new initiative was the culmination of at least two years of movement toward paperless agendas and digital meeting packets, and its roll-out required an all-hands-on-deck approach from...

1984 with Whitney Rhodes, Pierce County, WA

We've had a HUGE response for the upcoming Webinar: Women in Local Government. Based on the responses, it's clear that the issue is not only a female issue but an issue of how local government can and should better represent the community's demographic. We asked those who registered for the webinar to response to four...

My Story with Justin Tramble, State Bar of Georgia

ELGL’s mission is to connect, communicate, and educate. In this ongoing series, ELGL members tell their story including how they got into local government. Today we hear from Justin Tramble (LinkedIn and Twitter), Administrator of Membership, State Bar of Georgia.