This conference document was used in the Placemaking for Small Communities session during the 2015 ICMA Annual Conference.

Key Takeaways from reading this PM article: › Military experience can provide courage to take on projects outside a person’s comfort zone.

Control of mosquito population using environmental friendly methods.

According to the 2010 Census, approximately 40 million foreign-born people now live in the United States and seven million of them arrived within the past 8 years alone.

This short piece was developed for a graduate seminar that I teach on public finance and budgeting, and I thought it would be of interest to other ICMA members

This conference document was used in the LG 101: Mastering the Fundamentals: Strategic Planning session.

ICMA survey research updates on public safety, economic development, and CAO salary and benefits were at the top of the list of news items most viewed on the ICMA website in 2014.