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Rest of the Story: The Portland Blotter War

The #BlotterWar Every Wednesday local reporters for the cities of Lake Oswego, West Linn, and Tigard take to Twitter to compete in an epic showdown of small police calls. This weekly blotter war gives each reporter a chance to show off the silliest police calls from that week. Using the hashtag #BlotterWar each reporter competes...

New Sensation: Robby Hammond, City of Hillsboro, Human Resources Director

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 introduce you...

The University of Lake Oswego: Best Two Years of Your Life

A Non-Traditional MPA ELGL heard a rumor about the City of Lake Oswego creating some sort of local government university and naturally this innovative idea is something that we had to learn more about. It turns out that City Manager, Scott Lazenby, wanted to find a way to provide some additional training and education to...

Josh's Job Search Finds Randy Ealy, Beaverton Chief Administrative Officer and ELGL Advisory Board Member

This is another installment of an ELGL original content series titled “Josh’s Job Search 2.0” by Josh Halladay. Halladay is sharing career advice that he is receiving in informational interviews. Vitals Randy Ealy Chief Administrative Officer, City of Beaverton Education: Willamette University, B.S. Economics; Portland State University, M.P.A. Connect: LinkedIn and Twitter Connect with The City of Beaverton: Twitter,...

New Sensation: Jenna Garcia, City of Omaha, NE, Office of the City Clerk

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 introduce you...

Free Land Use Training in Beaverton, OR

Our organizational member the City of Beaverton would like to invite all interested people to attend a land use training on February 25th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. The training, put on in partnership between the City's Neighborhood Program and the Community Development Department, is an effort to help community members participate more effectively in the...

New Sensation: David Palmer, Michigan Political Leadership Program

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 introduce you...

Local Government’s New Normal with Erik Kvarsten, City Manager of Gresham, Oregon

The Mission: Local Government’s New Normal is an original ELGL blog feature by contributor Dan Englund that provides an educational, supportive lens into the “new normal” of local government by examining local issues, solutions, and stories from compelling government professionals and their cities or counties. For the inaugural episode, we talked to Erik Kvarsten, City...

WI: Andy Pederson, Village of Bayside, Village Manager

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb0eOmX7ZGw 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...

Happy Hour Announcement: Making a Dry Topic Wet - Financial Documents as Communications Tools

Making a Dry Topic Wet Our speakers, Toby LaFrance and Casey Camors had the brilliant idea to turn the next Nitty Gritty session into a happy hour get together. By meeting at a local brew pub they want to take a potentially dry topic and make it wet. So, join us on May 7th at 5:30...

WTS Luncheon with Commissioner Steve Novick

Who: ELGL members are invited to join WTS for a lunch forum with Commissioner Novick What: Luncheon with Commissioner Steve Novick When: Tuesday, Feb 18, 11:30 - 1 PM Why: Commissioner Steve Novick joined the Portland City Council in January of 2013 and was assigned the Transportation Bureau by Mayor Hales. As Transportation Commissioner, Steve...

Knope of the Week: David Austin, Multnomah County, Communications Director

All-Star Communicator. Community Leader. Mentor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng_-HgRfGBY These traits best describe our Knope of the Week, David Austin. David has brought a professional communications approach to Multnomah County which was on full display at our forum this week. Want to thank David for his commitment to public service? Order a subscription to Grant Magazine....

Slightly Edited Mission & Belief Statements

It's awesome to be friends with a communications expert... they make everything that ELGL writes even better! Thanks to Bridget Doyle, Communications Coordinator for the Village of Lombard, IL for putting our draft mission and vision statements into a pithy, AP-style format! ELGL is… Innovative local government leaders with a passion for connecting, communicating and...

02.07.14 Pure Midwest with John McCarter

Topics this week the topics run the gamut from manufacturing to Downtown Development to Zamboni pipe dreams. We get in-depth on the Olympics and, of course the best sport at the Winter Games: curling! One topic not covered: snow. Don't believe me? Read on... 1. It’s as Easy as E-D-C The City of Iowa City is...

AL: Sam Gaston, City of Mountain Brook, City Manager

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 hope...

New Sensation: Evan Groeschel, The Colony (TX), Project Management Analyst

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mR8XtYsYvY 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...

The Nitty Gritty: Complying with Oregon's Veteran Preference Law

A Brand New Speaker Series: The Nitty Gritty ELGL is proud to announce a brand new speaker series format called "The Nitty Gritty". Now what in the world does this mean? It means we want to give our members and opportunity to dive deep into a very detailed local government subject with a practitioner working in that...

The Friendly Accountant: 8 Keys to Financial Health

Here's another post of our semi-regular column, "The Friendly Accountant," written by Handy Reagan LLC Director of Tax Services Nate Reagan. Nate holds his CPA/PFS credentials, and his specialty is multiple related business entities and wealth management planning. In “The Friendly Accountant” column, Nate will share with us information that is relevant to ELGL members. Today, he shares...

Webinar: Solving Local Government Problems with the Internet

Mark your calendars for March 13th at 12:00 pm Pacific time. The Internet is being used to solve complex local government problems, like funding for civic projects or connecting entrepreneurs. And ELGL has a webinar with the people at the forefront of this concept. Here's the blurb on the event: "ELGL is pleased to announce...

Clackamas County Managers Panel

Save the date! Mark your calendars! Another ELGL lunch form has been scheduled for April 24, 2014 at noon. ELGL has invited three Clackamas County managers to speak about their career paths in local government. These three leaders have interesting stories to tell about advancing to a management role by moving up through organizations. Each...