Municipal Managers from Throughout Michigan Meet in Port Huron for Winter Institute February 2016
Under the theme "Bridging Your Opportunities" members of the Michigan Local Government Management Association had the organization's annual Winter Institute in Port Huron Feb. 2-5, 2016. The theme of the event was especially fitting as the conference took place in Port Huron at the base of the Blue Water Bridge to Canada. It was an amazing setting for an excellent conference. Seminar session topics included marketing your community, making clean energy work, regional collaboration, the pursuit of ethical organizational culture, essential coaching skills and tools, project management, executive level stress management and wellness in the workplace, being the change in civic engagement, municipal financing and bonding, and placemaking partnerships. Keynote speakers were Dave Lorenz of Pure Michigan; Daryl Delabbio, Kent County Administrator; Surry Scheerer, executive coach and leadership trainer; Ali Payne, area vice president and wellness practice leader for Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.; Josh McManus of Rock Ventures; and Samantha Harkins, Chris Hackbarth and John LaMacchia III of the Michigan Municipal League.Event sponsors were Baird, ICMA-RC, Hutchinson Shockey Erley Co., American Fidelity Assurance Co.; Cornerstone Municipal, Fletcher Fealko Shoudy and Francis, Bloom Sluggert and MOrgan, FRC&H, AEW, Bendzinski and Co., DTE Energy, SEMCO Energy Gas Co., Miller Canfield law firm and Rizzo Environmental Services. In addition, there was also a special tribute, including a bagpipe-led color guard, at the start of the Conference for Rockford City Manager Michael Young, who passed away suddenly the week before the conference. Young was the current MLGMA President and this would have been his final week as the leader of the association as his one-year term was coming to an end. A scholarship for Young, 48, has been established and donations can be made to www.gvsu.edu/giving/michaelyoung. Learn more about MLGMA at MLGMA.org.
View an article from the Port Huron Times about the conference and its positive impact on the local economy and community.
Municipal Managers from Throughout Michigan Meet in Port Huron for Winter Institute February 2016
Under the theme "Bridging Your Opportunities" members of the Michigan Local Government Management Association had the organization's annual Winter Institute in Port Huron Feb. 2-5, 2016. The theme of the event was especially fitting as the conference took place in Port Huron at the base of the Blue Water Bridge to Canada. It was an amazing setting for an excellent conference. Seminar session topics included marketing your community, making clean energy work, regional collaboration, the pursuit of ethical organizational culture, essential coaching skills and tools, project management, executive level stress management and wellness in the workplace, being the change in civic engagement, municipal financing and bonding, and placemaking partnerships. Keynote speakers were Dave Lorenz of Pure Michigan; Daryl Delabbio, Kent County Administrator; Surry Scheerer, executive coach and leadership trainer; Ali Payne, area vice president and wellness practice leader for Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.; Josh McManus of Rock Ventures; and Samantha Harkins, Chris Hackbarth and John LaMacchia III of the Michigan Municipal League.Event sponsors were Baird, ICMA-RC, Hutchinson Shockey Erley Co., American Fidelity Assurance Co.; Cornerstone Municipal, Fletcher Fealko Shoudy and Francis, Bloom Sluggert and MOrgan, FRC&H, AEW, Bendzinski and Co., DTE Energy, SEMCO Energy Gas Co., Miller Canfield law firm and Rizzo Environmental Services. In addition, there was also a special tribute, including a bagpipe-led color guard, at the start of the Conference for Rockford City Manager Michael Young, who passed away suddenly the week before the conference. Young was the current MLGMA President and this would have been his final week as the leader of the association as his one-year term was coming to an end. A scholarship for Young, 48, has been established and donations can be made to www.gvsu.edu/giving/michaelyoung. Learn more about MLGMA at MLGMA.org.
View an article from the Port Huron Times about the conference and its positive impact on the local economy and community.