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Knope of the Week: Leah Treat, Portland Bureau of Transportation Director

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Nqzx4Z1FA And the winner is.... Leah Treat Director of the Portland Bureau of Transportation ELGL joined forces with Oregon ITE to co-host a lunch this week with Leah and it was fantastic! Leah talked about her background, working with Commissioner Steve Novick, and the move from Chicago to the West Coast. To thank her...

ELGL Joins Forces With IL Association of Municipal Management Assistants

18th Annual IAMMA Conference From Hopes to Habits – Utilizing Innovative Tools to Grow and Develop Your Workforce ELGL is pleased to announced its participation in the 18th Annual IAMMA Conference, "From Hopes to Habits – Utilizing Innovative Tools to Grow and Develop Your Workforce." ELGL will present the following session: Next Generation Managers: This session will...

Evening Buzz: Midwest ELGL Hosting Inaugural Networking Event

Midwest ELGL is off and running. After hosting a great webinar and announcing our new Advisory Board last week, we're feeling pretty unstoppable. Thus, we're elated to announce our first in-person networking event the spring: (Click here for MidwestELGLmeetup event poster) Midwest ELGL presents... the Local Government "Evening Buzz" Join the newly formed Midwest arm of Emerging...

Strategic Direction: ELGL Strategic Planning Phase 3

ELGL staffer Dan Englund returns to bring you transparent information and witty commentary regarding the ELGL Strategic Planning process. This week, we’re talking Strategic Direction. http://youtu.be/ptAoJedxFzU Our environment is ever-changing and the future is unwritten, but we will be ready for it with an innovative strategic plan. Good things don’t come to those who wait;...

New Sensation: Charlotte Colley, City of New Albany (OH), Senior Projects Manager

Why ELGL? We’re back with the new “New Sensation” feature. We’ve updated the questions based on your feedback. You’ll now learn about the best YouTube videos on the web, read about gift ideas for the holiday season, and learn about the career accomplishments of our new members. As a reminder, we developed this feature to...

Introducing the Midwest Advisory Board

What ELGL Means to Me: Ben McCready, City of Rock Island (IL) ELGL Midwest is pleased to announce the creation of our advisory board. The advisory board consists of aspiring professionals who represent the Midwest and have demonstrated an interest in taking on a leadership role with our local chapter. The advisory board will work...

New Sensation: Dustin Yater, City of Coppell (TX), Sr. Human Resource Advisor

Why ELGL? We’re back with the new “New Sensation” feature. We’ve updated the questions based on your feedback. You’ll now learn about the best YouTube videos on the web, read about gift ideas for the holiday season, and learn about the career accomplishments of our new members. As a reminder, we developed this feature to...

03.14.14 Pure Midwest with John McCarter

Greetings from Michigan; where two days after 6 inches of snow you can wake up to the sound of birds outside your window. This week we're taking a look at tax breaks and economic development in the Midwest. The Book Review makes its triumphant with a look at Malcom Gladwell's Outliers. It's Pi Day, everyone. Even...

A New Era for ELGL: Webinar Library

ELGL is excited to announce that we have started recording our webinars and they will be available to our members for free! In order to continue providing a high quality service to our members we wanted to make it easier to use our events as a resource. By recording our webinars and making them available...

Knopes of the Week: Julie Lein, Tumml and Jase Wilson, Neighbor.ly

Fascinating. Awesome. Perfect Timing http://youtu.be/Ng_-HgRfGBY Thanks to our generous partner Strategic Government Resources, ELGL members were able to enjoy an upgraded webinar experience with Julie Lein, Tumml and Jase Wilson, Neighbor.ly. Tumml (a Yiddish word meaning shakeup or disruption) empowers entrepreneurs to solve urban problems. A nonprofit, Tumml's goal is to support the next generation of Zipcars...

Attend the 2014 OEDA Spring Conference!

ELGL is very proud of our relationship with the Oregon Economic Development Association (OEDA). Over the years, we've watched OEDA present some of the best conference agendas we've seen in the local government sector. That why we're proud to announce that this year, ELGL is underwriting the cost for 15 of our members to attend...

Growing Up in City Hall: Life as a City Manager's Child with Kent Wyatt

This is the first post in a new series about growing up with a parent who is also a City Manager. Connect: LinkedIn and Twitter Kent is a senior management analyst for the City of Tigard, OR and co-founder of ELGL. His duties for Tigard include risk management, franchise management, state and federal affairs, and...

ELGL March Madness: 3rd Annual Battle of the Bureaucracies

http://youtu.be/_shxzlTRK44 March Madness is nearly upon us, and ELGL is ready with its 1st annual ELGL Bracket Challenge. Whether you’re a major hoops junkie or not, it’s an opportunity to add even more excitement to March Madness. Complete your bracket (beginning Sunday, March 16) by selecting the winner in each of the games in the NCAA tournament....

OH: Jim Lenner, Village of Johnstown, Village Manager

http://youtu.be/7LmGYjJzzcY 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 through the public sector, and we...

Welcome, Village of Oak Park!

ELGL would like to welcome the newest organizational member, Oak Park, Illinois! Oak Park is a town of 51,878 people, to the immediate west of Chicago. The Village was incorporated in 1902 and operates under the Council-Manager form of government. Oak Park has a long history of alcohol prohibition only allowing restaurants to sell the...

Defining Sustainability: The Portland Way

This is another installment of an ELGL original content series titled “Defining Sustainability” by Beth Otto. Beth is sharing her perspective on the varying definitions of sustainability and her experiences in implementing sustainability strategies. In this article, Beth interviews Michelle Kunec-North about the Portland Way with regard to sustainability. Background Check Connect: LinkedIn Michelle Kunec-North received...

For Me, It's a Calling by Becky King, City of Garland (TX)

Becky King, Garland (TX), Director of Organizational Development, wrote this article in response to why she was attracted to a career in public service. The article originally appeared on the City of Garland's intranet page. This is exact type of communication that we need to promote our profession. Who's next? For Me, It's a Calling...

New Sensation: Becky King, City of Garland (TX), Director of Organizational Development

Why ELGL? We’re back with the new “New Sensation” feature. We’ve updated the questions based on your feedback. You’ll now learn about the best YouTube videos on the web, read about gift ideas for the holiday season, and learn about the career accomplishments of our new members. As a reminder, we developed this feature to...

On Campus with the Oakland University MPA Program

Master of Public Administration - Oakland University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppedi_m7weA What do we know about the Oakland University Golden Grizzles. We know ELGL leader John McCarter is in the MPA program at Oakland. We know that the Oakland basketball team made the NCAA tournament in 2005 where they had the priviledge of losing to eventual national champion UNC....

03.07.14 Pure Midwest with John McCarter

A Quickly Expanding Midwest ELGL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBocQkz0wQs Apply for Midwest ELGL Advisory Board by Monday After a week off celebrating Spring Break '14 grad school style (in the library) we're back with another installment of Pure Midwest. This week we talk zoning violations, City Council rules and get real about what internships mean to young...