The 2022-2023 ICMA Executive Board met September 29, 2023, in Austin, Texas, for its quarterly meeting and took the following actions:

• Reviewed the president-elect selection process for 2024. Forty-three regional vice presidents are eligible to submit their candidacy to serve as ICMA's 2024-2025 president-elect. The application process opens October 24, 2023, with applications due by February 2, 2024.
   
• Received an update on planning for ICMA's 2024 Local Government Reimagined Conferences. In 2024, ICMA plans to hold two Local Government Reimagined Conferences in the United States. 
   
• Reviewed ICMA's insurance coverage. Each year, ICMA's chief financial officer provides a report on ICMA's insurance coverage so that the board can ensure that ICMA has adequate coverage to protect the association from risks. 
   
• Approved the creation of a new service award for advocacy/ethics. The board approved creation of a new service award honoring Martha Perego's contributions to the profession and the membership, the first such award honoring a woman. ICMA's Awards Evaluation Committee will be asked to develop criteria for the new award, which will then come back to the board for final approval. The first award in this category will be given at the 2024 ICMA Annual Conference in Pittsburgh.
   
• Reviewed workplan accomplishments for each of the board's standing committees:
  • Audit, Finance, and Business Operations
  • Committee on Professional Conduct
  • Global Vision and Collaboration
  • Membership and External Outreach
• Received presentations on ICMA's Global Strategy Roadmap and Global Relationship Model. ICMA's managing director of global engagement, Isabelle Bully-Omictin and consultant Francisco Gomez of Factum Global made a presentation to the board on the proposed Global Relationship Model. Additional feedback will be gathered from existing domestic and international affiliates, with the final, proposed relationship model going to the board for approval at its December 2023 meeting.
   
• Induction of new board members. During the general session on Tuesday, October 3, incoming members of the ICMA Executive Board were inducted. Lon Pluckhahn, deputy city manager, Vancouver, Washington, will serve as ICMA's 2023-2024 president; Tanya Ange, county administrator, Washington County, Oregon, will serve as president-elect. Incoming regional vice presidents are Steve Bartha, town manager, Danvers, Massachusetts (Northeast Region); Eric Stuckey, city administrator, Franklin, Tennessee (Southeast Region); Jeff Weckbach, township administrator, Colerain Township, Ohio (Midwest Region); Pam Davis, assistant city manager, Boulder, Colorado (Mountain Plains Region); Nat Rojanasathira, assistant city manager, Monterey, California (West Coast Region); and Doug Gilchrist, chief administrative officer, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada (International Region). 

The next quarterly meeting of the ICMA Executive Board will be held December 1-2, 2023, in Bentonville, Arkansas.