Network with colleagues, discuss ICMA issues and programs, and provide feedback to the ICMA Executive Board and staff. ICMA Executive Director Bob O'Neill will lead a workshop with Felicia Logan, director of Leadership Development. This year's topic from ICMA's Leading Ideas Series: Community: The Structure of Belonging.

Register online  for this networking and professional development opportunity for members and state officers in the Mountain Plains and West Coast. All ICMA members and state officers in Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming; as well as Alaska, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, are invited to attend the ICMA Mountain Plains and West Coast Regional Summit. 

summit agenda

Thursday:

• 1:30-4:30p.m.: ICMA University Workshop: Community: The Structure of Belonging
• 5:30-6:30 p.m.: Reception
• 6:30-8:30p.m.: Dinner - “Celebrating the Profession”

Friday:

• 7:30-8:30a.m.: Breakfast
• 8:30-10:15a.m.: Conversation with Bob O’Neill, ICMA
• 10:30 a.m. -Noon: Regional Meeting of State Officers and Members

 Workshop Description:

Leading Ideas Series: Community: The Structure of Belonging
Building on concepts from the conversation between Peter Block and Bob O’Neill, captured on DVD, this workshop will focus on the special role of the manager in overcoming the deficiencies of our current approach to community involvement, including providing hands-on tools to involve your community in discovering the possibilities and helping the community to become owners of the outcome.

Workshop leaders: Bob O’Neill, ICMA executive director, and Felicia Logan, ICMA director of Leadership Development

This workshop addresses Practice Groups 1: Staff Effectiveness; and 6: Innovation, Vision, and Creativity of the ICMA Practices for Effective Local Government Management.

Consider your staff for the Young Professionals Leadership Institute, March 10-11, 2010.