The ICMA Host Committee invites you to visit the Greater Kansas City Region, for the 102nd Annual Conference, September 25-28, 2016. Why Kansas City? Because Kansas City Barbecue is Smokin’!!! Legend has it that Kansas City barbecue began in the early 1900s in an old trolley barn at 19th and Highland. A fellow named Henry…
By Lynn Tipton, FCCMA Executive Director We often say in the association world that members are the lifeblood. Can’t really have an association without them! Your association is celebrating 70 years this year, having been founded in 1946. (Interesting note: we found minutes from some type of meeting in 1942, but it appears to have…
Applications are now being accepted for the $100,000 Innovations in American Government Awards. Offered by Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, the Innovations Award is the nation’s premier award for the public sector. It recognizes programs that demonstrate creative and effective government at its best. All units of government — federal,…
The Florida Benchmarking Consortium’s Annual Spring Conference will be held in the City of Oviedo, April 20-22, 2016. The theme is From Data in Action to “Data IN Action” and will provide attendees with information on how data collected is related to performance measures tracked, and how they are using data to improve internal processes, mine best practices…
By Randall H. Reid, Southeast Regional Director/Director of Performance Analytics, ICMA “Originally published in Government Finance Review, February 2016, www.gfoa.org.” In this article, ICMA Director of Performance Initiatives Randall Reid reinforces the importance of partnership between local government chief administrators and chief financial officers to lead a renewed, systematic focus on organizational performance. Comparison and…
By Matthew Campbell, Town Manager, Town of Kenneth City Over the past two years, the Town of Kenneth City has experienced tremendous revitalization and re-birth as a desirable, thriving community in the Tampa Bay area. Following the passage of a 2013 charter modification from a strong mayor to a council-manager form of government, the Town hired…
