#ELGLPopUps land in Charlotte, Dallas, Portland, and Kansas City on September 22. Each event has a school theme which you’ll notice in the agendas. Staying with that theme, we introduce you to those who will be attending a Pop Up event. You can register for one of the events here. Name: Brandi Leos Job Title: Senior … Continued
Kathy Nyland Director of Department of Neighborhoods City of Seattle, WA Bio | LinkedIn Kathy Nyland the Director of the Seattle, WA department of neighborhoods joined GovLove to talk about rethinking neighborhood engagement. With the goal of getting more people involved her department is working to find new ways to engage residents of the city. Kathy … Continued
Marissa Grass (LinkedIn & Twitter) is an ELGL All Star and communicator at the City of Tigard, OR. When I read Kirsten Wyatt’s article, “Glacial Pace: State of Women Managers in Local Government,” I was thrilled someone had drawn attention to the issue. My excitement lead me to read the entire ICMA article, “Women Leading … Continued
Prepare for #ELGL14 by learning about who is attending. Find out if you’ll be surrounded by soft talkers, loud eaters, and finger biters or whether you’ll be surrounded by the best in local government. Lisa Shaw City of Tigard, OR — Business Manager Connect: LinkedIn (Complete the sentence) #ELGL14 is…..the complete package of information and connections. Registration … Continued
Engaging. Collaborative. Accomplished Budgets, beers, CAFRs, and PAFRS – what else could you ask for from the ELGL and OMFOA event this week. Toby LaFrance, Tigard finance director and Casey Camors, Milwaukie finance director came prepared with memes, games, and war stories.
Good Morning Emerging Leaders! Welcome to the second day of guest buzzers! My name is Ben Bryant and I work as a Management Analyst with the City of Tualatin. In my guest buzz (blog), I want to share with you some wisdom from Tualatin’s City Manager, Sherilyn Lombos. Sherilyn has been one of the most incredible city managers to work for … Continued
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdhLJim5JxI&w=560&h=315] The 50th Knope of the Week has been selected after a week long search for the individual who has done the most to advance the mission of ELGL. In case you haven’t yet memorized the ELGL mission statement, here it is in its entirety, THE MISSION of the Oregon Emerging Local Government Leaders Network … Continued
One of our spiritual founders, Craig Prosser is highlighted in today’s feature. (See related link: The Takeaway with Larry Patterson.) Craig was a driving force in encouraging the formation of ELGL and communicating the new venture with the local government community. Simply put, without Craig, ELGL would not exist. Craig had a distinguished career in the public sector … Continued
The votes are in and the results have been tabulated: after a week of nominations and voting by our community, ELGL is thrilled to announce the winner of the Knope of the Week! As a reminder, The Knope of the Week honors individuals or groups who have done the most in the past week to advance … Continued
The votes are in and the results have been tabulated: after a week of nominations and voting by our community, ELGL is thrilled to announce the winner of the Knope of the Week! As a reminder, The Knope of the Week honors individuals or groups who have done the most in the past week to advance … Continued
