Tom Muehlenbeck on Leadership and Lessons Learned ELGL is excited to announce the first Southwest lunch forum! Tom Muehlenbeck has 40 years of experience working in the public sector and spent 23 years as the City Manager of Plano, Texas. Tom has to be the only ELGL speaker who has a water park named after … Continued
Governing: OR’s Complicated Property Tax Rates Favor Higher-Valued Houses ELGL is excited to announce a lunch forum in partnership with the League of Oregon Cities. As anyone familiar with Oregon property taxes knows there is a lot of pressure on local governments and confusion for citizens in the current system. The LOC is working actively to … Continued
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 … Continued
RSVP to the Jeff Mapes forum The first ELGL lunch forum of 2014 is rapidly approaching and if you don’t register soon you might miss out! Jeff Mapes, the esteemed political writer for the Oregonian, will be speaking to ELGL on January 16 at the City of Milwaukie City Hall. Check out more information on … Continued
ELGL and the Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA) are co-sponsoring a forum with Steve Hoyt-McBeth, Portland Bike Share program manager on April 16. Learn about the history and formation of bike sharing in the United States and how the program is being implemented in Portland. Called a “Very Portland Project” in the Portland Tribune, … Continued
Ben Petrick to Speak with ELGL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99cyiDGHHOo Another great speaker has been lined up to speak to ELGL in 2014! Ben Petrick of Hillsboro, Oregon will be speaking at a lunch forum on April 10, 2014. Ben, a native of Hillsboro, Oregon, was a professional baseball player for the Colorado Rockies and Detroit Tigers. His … Continued
Multnomah County Communications Director to Talk with ELGL David Austin will be joining ELGL for a lunch forum on February 5th at noon. His presentation topic is sure to be interesting to anyone who wants to learn more about communicating in the public sector. His team at Multnomah County is filled with former journalists and their … Continued
The Oregonian’s Jeff Mapes to Present at #ELGL14 Forum Jeff Mapes the Oregonian political writer, author of the “Jeff Mapes on Politics” blog, and the book “Pedaling Revolution” has signed on to speak at the first ELGL lunch forum of 2014. So mark your calendars for January 16th, 2014 at noon and be on the look … Continued
