Posts By Kent Wyatt

School’s Out for Summer: Reflecting on Year One of MPA

Kittelson’s Corner Warm summer breezes drift through the air, blue skies perfectly complement the green of the Willamette Valley, and bright yellow school buses no longer delay traffic every morning and afternoon. Its official, school is out for the summer to be replaced by long days and countless baseball games. This summer break is uniqueRead… Read more »

ELGL’s Twitter Becomes a Video

Twitter and Vizify recently partnered up to create a feature that Twitter is calling #FollowMe. Essentially Vizify takes the information from your Twitter account and makes a video showing your top tweets, some of the pictures you’ve posted, and the other Twitter accounts that you interact with the most. The feature is used to promoteRead… Read more »

New Sensation with Brian Southey, City of Bloomington, IL

Since ELGL is not a big fan of icebreakers and since we would rather not know what animal you want to be, this blog feature will serve as a means of introducing new members. While you won’t learn about their favorite animal, you will learn about their ideal Sunday morning, which dead people would theyRead… Read more »

Elected with Hillsboro Council President Aron Carleson

We heard from Milwaukie Mayor Jeremy Ferguson in our first edition of the Elected. Mayor Ferguson discussed Milwaukie’s flirtation with the Yakima Bears. Today, we hear from Aron Carleson, Hillsboro Council President who was part of the effort in bringing the Bears to Hillsboro. Tonight is the first home game for the Hillsboro Hops andRead… Read more »

Knope of the Week: Center for Priority Based Budgeting, Chris and Erik Fabian, Jon Johnson, and Don Hudson

What is the Knope of the Week? It’s ELGL’s way of recognizing an individual or group of individuals who have excelled in promoting the public sector. Recipients may come from the public or private sector and are nominated by ELGL members. Recipients receive an incredible amount of recognition and prizes that we are not atRead… Read more »

And Now a Word from Our (Conference) Sponsors

ELGL is hosting its inaugural conference on October 4 at the Kennedy School. In the coming weeks, the conference planning committee will begin rolling out the details. For now, we want to acknowledge Cosgrave Vergeer Kestler and Key Bank for being the first two companies to sign on as conference sponsors. ELGL corporate members areRead… Read more »

Three Day CPBB Conference Sale

The Center for Priority Based Budgeting is extending its social media discount to ELGL members! If you register for their conference “A Summit of Leading Practices” by 2pm on Friday, June 14th you’ll receive a 20% discount on the cost of admission. For more information and to register visit their website. Original post

Can I Bum a Ride to Perspectives on Public Safety Forum?

Interested in joining? Visit Join ELGL. RSVP: Perspectives on Public Safety with Clackamas County, Lake Oswego, and Milwaukie In an effort to encourage to carpooling to ELGL events, we will post a list of attendees to each event. We encourage you to carpool with other attendees. Andy Gale, Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff’s Policy/Accreditation AnalystRead… Read more »