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Newsletter Archive March 2011 The Texas City Management Association is pleased to send you this month’s edition of the Management Messenger. It features recent changes in city management positions around the state, current job listings, names of new members, information about upcoming educational events, and news about our colleagues. The newsletter and past issues are also posted at TCMA Management Messenger. You play an important role in the ethics process. Acquaint yourself with the Code of Ethics and its Rules of Procedure for Enforcement. Please remember to browse through YOUR Web site, www.tcma.org. If you have some interesting news that you would like to see included in the Management Messenger, please e-mail messenger@tml.org.
All information is current as of the 25th of the month prior to publication. Value of the Profession Campaign At ts meeting on January 21, the TCMA Board unanimously approved a recommendation from the TCMA ICMA-issues Task Force to provide a significant financial contribution to the Life, Well Run Value of the Profession campaign being coordinated by the International City/County Management Association (ICMA). The TCMA Board approved an initial $50,000 contribution, with an additional $50,000 pledge when half of the planned project's budget is raised. On Friday, February 25, TCMA ceremoniously handed a check to ICMA Executive Director Bob O'Neill and ICMA President Dave Childs in Austin. The estimated cost of the campaign is $5 million, with $4 million expected from private sector donors and a goal of raising $1 million from members. To date, nearly $170,000 in gifts and pledges, from 289 members and 24 state and assistants' associations, has been raised.
From left to right: Rick Cortes, Bob O'Neill, Terrell Blodgett, Dave The Life, Well Run campaign is designed to use a mix of social and traditional media, speakers' bureaus, and other vehicles to push the message that professional local government management enables life to be well run. For a brief overview of the campaign, please click on Life, Well Run Campaign. In addition, for campaign updates and to view a commercial video, please click on Life, Well Run Web site. If you would like to pledge your support for the campaign or make a one-time gift, all contributions are tax-deductible and count toward a donor's annual and cumulative giving totals for the Fund. If you have any questions about the Life, Well Run campaign, please contact Abigail Lundy at alundy@icma.org or 202-962-3594. Ronnie Brossmann retired as city administrator for the City of Schulenberg. Bruce D. Glasscock is the new city manager for the City of Plano. Jason Gray will begin serving as the new city manager for the City of McKinney on March 21. David Huseman is no longer the city manager for the City of Gonzales. Judy Miller is the city manager for the City of Granite Shoals. David Neeley is the new city manager for the City of College Station. Mike Ohrt is the new city manager for the City of Palestine. Raul Rodriguez is the new city manager for the City of Fort Stockton. Margie Rose (current assistant city manager) is the interim city manager for the City of Corpus Christi. Visit tcma.org to see if you qualify for TCMA In-transition Services. For a list of current city management job openings in Texas, please visit Job Openings. TCMA Board policy requires that names of new member applicants be published each month in the Management Messenger. Any written objection during the subsequent 30-day period will be reviewed by the TCMA Membership Committee. If no objections are received during this time, the names will be submitted for Board approval at the next scheduled Board meeting. Written objections can be mailed to TCMA, Attention: Membership Committee, 1821 Rutherford Lane, Suite 400, Austin, TX 78754. Applications received for the month of February: Full: Leo C. Smith, Jr., City Administrator, Bangs Associate: Dana R. Alden, Assistant to the City Manager, North Richland Hills; Gerardo A. Barrera, Contract Administrator, West University Place; Carole Vanzant, City Secretary/Assistant to the City Administrator, Fair Oaks Ranch Cooperating: Richard A. Dorsey, TML Intergovernmental Risk Pool, Austin; Kyle Kasner, Managing Partner, Kasner and Associates, Carrollton TCMA is looking to the future. In order to help identify the needs of the members, the TCMA Board is asking each member to complete a survey. The survey will be available through March 15. Please set aside a few minutes to complete it. The survey can be found by clicking on TCMA Membership Survey. TCMA Membership Directory Update It's time for the annual update of the TCMA Online Membership Directory and the printed directory. It is important for all members to review their contact information in order to have accurate records. Please complete this process by Friday, April 1, for the corrections to be included in the printed directory. To review and update your TCMA directory information, please follow these instructions:
The ICMA-Issues Task Force met on January 13 at the Texas Municipal Center. To view the meeting minutes, please click on ICMA-Issues Minutes. The Membership Committee met via conference call on February 11. A recommendation will be made to the Board for Professional Award recipients. TCMA would like to recognize its members who have reached service milestones. These individuals will be recognized at the TCMA Annual Conference Awards Luncheon on Friday, June 10. The service awards honor TCMA members who have been "Full" or "Associate" members and in full-time service as an appointed employee of a local government entity for a minimum of 20 years. Although TCMA and ICMA are similar organizations, their criteria for service awards are not identical. The criteria in the TCMA Constitution are as follows:
Names of those persons who have been identified as meeting the criteria necessary to receive TCMA service year awards are listed here. Please review this list and contact Kim Pendergraft at
kim@tml.org or 512-231-7400 by May 13 if you know of any deserving members who should be included or if you can offer TCMA 20-Year Service Award James Baugh, City Manager, DeSoto TCMA 25-Year Service Award Lea Dunn, Deputy City Manager, Addison TCMA 30-Year Service Award Wayne Cummings, Assistant City Manager, Anna
TCMA Annual Conference Please make a note of these upcoming TML educational events:
We also encourage you to visit the entire TML Web site at www.tml.org. ************************************************************* To place an online classified ad, click here. |
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