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LEADING THROUGH AN ECONOMIC STORM:
Navigating The New Normal in Local Government
Innisbrook Hotel, North Palm Harbor, Florida
co-sponsored by the City of Tarpon Springs, FL and the Florida League of Cities
January 28-30, 2010
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» Room reservations at the Innisbrook Hotel ($127)
The long term impacts of the current economic storm are difficult to forecast. Yet, we know that local governments are struggling to keep budgets balanced and that the fiscal constraints they are facing will be even tighter tomorrow as the impacts of falling tax revenues and needs for public and social services become more prevalent.
Now more than ever, city officials must know how to govern and lead in a ‘new normal’ that is emerging following the recent economic turmoil. Effective governance amid a crisis is one of the primary responsibilities of the local governing body. City officials are regularly called upon to make decisions on highly complex issues that have crucial short and long range effects in their community.
Seminar Agenda
A preliminary schedule of events (subject to change)…
Thursday, January 28, 2010
9:00 am — 5:00 pm Registration
1:00 pm — 5:00 pm OPENING SESSION: The Rising Tide of Challenges in Local Government
Moderator - Chris Hoene, Director, Research and Innovation, NLC
Edward “Ned” Hill, Dean of the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
at Cleveland State University
Michael A. Pagano, Dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs,
University of Illinois at Chicago
5:00 pm Session Ends
6:00 pm — 7:30 pm Reception
Mayor Beverley Billiris, Tarpon Springs, FL
The Honorable Janet C. Long, Florida State Representative,
District 51, State of Florida
Friday, January 29, 2010
7:30 am — 8:30 am Continental Breakfast
8:30 am — 12:00 pm SECOND SESSION: The New Normal: Fiscal Implications, Structural Changes,
and Local Consequences
Hannah McKinney, Professor Kalamazoo College, and Vice Mayor of Kalamazoo, MI
Kiran Cunningham, Professor Kalamazoo College
Roland Anglin, Director, Initiative for Regional and Community Transformation,
Rutgers University
12:00 pm — 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm — 5:00 pm THIRD SESSION: Navigating the Way toward Prosperity in the New Normal
Hannah McKinney, Professor Kalamazoo College, and Vice Mayor of Kalamazoo, MI
Kiran Cunningham, Professor Kalamazoo College
Roland Anglin, Director, Initiative for Regional and Community Transformation,
Rutgers University
5:00 pm Session Ends
Saturday, January 30, 2010
7:30 am — 8:30 am Continental Breakfast –
8:30 am — 12:00 pm CLOSING SESSION: Public Choices and Decisions: Policy Leadership
Phil Boyle, President, Leading and Governing Associates
12:00 pm Session Ends
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The Impact on Local Government:
Governance is clearly changing, as city officials are continually called upon to develop new policies, set long range plans, and resolve a wide array of local issues. No one can definitively answer the question, ‘When will the economy rebound?’ But, city officials will be strained to balance budgets and forced to make tradeoffs within the cities they govern.
Times such as these provide opportunities for creative thinking and transformative change. Cities must find solutions for looming cutbacks in essential city services, public works projects, libraries, parks, and recreation programs that are certain to arise.
Embracing Challenges in the ‘New Normal’
City officials across the country are essentially dealing with unscripted challenges, as successful solutions will require fundamental shifts in ways of thinking and operating. Holding on to old assumptions about economic growth, relationships between different levels of government and revenue streams will obstruct our ability to forge new paths toward prosperity.
Take advantage of this time of crisis and become part of a process designed using the theory and methods of transformative learning that begins to define the work of local government in the new normal and the kinds of innovative practices, policies, programs and partnerships that pave the way for prosperity.
Building Stronger Communities
The kind of new thinking required to prosper in the ‘new normal’ will emerge as local officials share their knowledge and experience of the economic downturn, their policy and programmatic reactions to it. Understanding and thinking about these issues together will help create the kinds of innovative economic and community development policies and programs that will position our cities to prosper in the future.
Join leading scholars, experts and trainers as they guide you through an engaging program that will examine workable solutions. Broaden your ability to resolve the greatest challenges facing our communities today. Learn new information and gain knowledge to uncover new resources to help your community respond to the rising tide of challenges facing communities across the nation. Find practical solutions to the issues and challenges facing your community.
Core Competency:
Competent Practitioner/Catalyst… 8 Credits in the Certificate of Achievement in Leadership program
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Registration fees (check appropriate box below)
Advance Registration (received by December 15, 2009)
_____ $295 NLC member city
_____ $395 non-member city
_____ $ Complimentary Group Rate (see details below)
Late Registration (received after December 15, 2009)
_____ $395 NLC member city
_____ $495 non-member city
_____ $ Complimentary Group Rate (see details below)
_____Scholarship Application Attached (No Payment Submitted)
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In an effort to assist cities during this difficult economic time, we would like to extend a Group Registration rate.
The Group Registration rate: For every two paid seminar registrations from the same city, receive one complimentary seminar registration for a third person to attend.
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