NLC President Ted Ellis, mayor, Bluffton, IN, has appointed a 15-member Nominating Committee that will be responsible for recommending a slate of Officers and Board members to lead NLC in 2013.
The executive directors of the Big Seven state and local associations today released draft “Pension Funding Policy Guidelines” for state and local governments.
NLC’s Institute for Youth, Education and Families has published a new municipal action guide that highlights potential strategies and promising city approaches for reducing the persistent disparities between black males and their peers in the areas of education, work and family.
In rural areas, rugged terrain and vast distances complicate the already challenging process of housing veterans. Understanding the need, identifying service gaps and overlaps, coordinating communication between various stakeholders, using technology as possible and recognizing the need to deliver services to veterans rather than exclusively working to bring veterans to services are tangible steps that can help ensure that all veterans in rural communities have safe, accessible and affordable places to call home.
NLC members have the option of participating on any of five member councils within NLC that offer city representatives a gathering place to share and discuss ideas and solutions in a more intimate environment focused on specific types of communities.
As NLC has traveled to many state municipal league conventions throughout the year, we’ve enjoyed seeing our members and meeting potential new members. Our 2012 tour continues with a few stops around the country in October and November.
A proposal being considered in San Bernadino, CA, to use eminent domain to help struggling homeowners could have unintended consequences for the existing rights of cities and counties to use eminent domain. NLC has submitted comments to the Federal Housing Finance Agency warning that any federal legislative or regulatory action that could impact use of eminent domain by local governments is a cause for concern.
As cities look for new ways to cut costs and streamline government operations, a new payment solution, the NLC Procurement Card Program (P-Card), brings both cost savings and efficiencies to city purchasing.
Boston's comprehensive food policy - a city-wide food strategy in the area of economic development, healthier eating and an improved quality of life - will be on display in a mobile workshop at the Congress of Cities, November 28-December 1.
Neal Peirce discusses the rising concern in the world's major urban centers over the coexistence of motor vehicles and humans, using Naples, Italy, as a good example of mayoral leadership in an international city.
