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Messenger Reach Out to Your
Colleagues Click here to see if you qualify for TCMA Intransition Services. For a list of current city management job openings in Texas, please click here . July
2006 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, as well as news about our colleagues. You play an important role in the ethics process. Acquaint yourself with the Code of Ethics and its Rules of Procedure for Enforcement . In particular, please note that the Board has approved a change to the Tenet 8 guideline which now requires new members to obtain ethics training within six months of joining and current members to do so every two years to maintain TCMA membership. Please remember to browse through YOUR Web site, http://www.tcma.org The TCMA 2006-2007 Membership Directory is currently being printed. It is scheduled to be mailed the third week of July.
TCMA Code of Ethics -- Tenet 8 Professional development is a life long learning process. The increasing complexity of local policy issues, their organizational setting, and their social and political context, necessitates continual education in order to achieve results. Since TCMA stands as an organization with an adherence to strong, shared values of professionalism, the TCMA Board recently amended the guidelines regarding Tenet 8 of the Code of Ethics. The Ethics Committee will be meeting on July 14 to discuss how to implement the new ethics training requirements. Tenet 8 as amended on June 1, 2006 Make it a duty continually to improve the member's professional ability and to develop the competence of associates in the use of management techniques. Guidelines Professional Development. Each member should commit at least 40 hours per year to professional development activities and ethics that are based on the practices identified by the members of ICMA. New members must attend ethics training within six months of joining and current members must attend ethics training every two years to maintain TCMA membership. Vicky Varnau is the interim city administrator for the City of Pilot Point. Mike Rhea is no longer the city manager for the City of Ingleside. Walter Hill is the acting city manager of the City of Ingleside. Bo McDaniel is no longer the city manager for the City of Seabrook. Kenneth Williams has been hired as the city manager for the City of Diboll. He will begin in August. Jack Harper will begin his new position as city manager for the City of Hillsboro on August 7. Beverly Queen is the city manager for the City of Bedford. Click here to see if you qualify for TCMA Intransition Services. For a list of current city management job openings in Texas, please click here . An invitation to join the new TCMA List Serve: EN-Quire will be coming to TCMA members' e-mail accounts. This service is only available to current TCMA members, is password protected, and is by invitation only. It is an email-based service intended to facilitate communication among TCMA members regarding the public service challenges that surface within our respective work environments each day. You may be faced with a situation that someone among our 800-plus members has already experienced and can provide constructive insights about. We encourage you to join this complimentary service and participate-whether you have a question or an answer. TCMA List Serve Guidelines
If you have not received an invitation by July 14, 2006, or you have technical questions, please contact Kim at 512-231-7442 or kim@tml.org. Universities - An Untapped Resource When was the last time you contacted a university when you had a project? While larger cities typically have professional staff to undertake projects, small and medium-sized cities typically do not have that luxury. Regardless of size, cities constantly deal with limited resources (both financial and human) but still have a need for high quality yet reasonably priced services. Universities are a terrific resource for a variety of projects-and a highly untapped resource. TCMA encourages you to be proactive in working with the universities. Here are some tips for doing so:
One of TCMA's goals has been to strengthen the relationship between TCMA and the university community. One way that you can help accomplish this goal is to keep the universities in mind for different projects that present themselves. Do you need a citizen survey done? Check with the area university to see if they have any kind of survey center with which you could contract to perform the survey. You will get the survey done quickly, professionally, and generally at a cost savings. Do you need to update your Comprehensive Plan? Talk with your contact at the university to see if one of the classes needs such a project. While it may take a little longer to get the project done if it is a class project, you will get quality work at a fraction of the cost (if anything at all). How about updating your Human Resources Policy and Procedure Manual? Contact the Public Administration Department, find out which professor is teaching a personnel class, and contact that professor. Chances are they are looking for class projects or projects for groups of students for the semester. In addition to contacting universities for different projects, keep the universities in mind for Requests for Proposals and Requests for Qualifications that your city sends. Be sure those requests get to your area universities and that the area universities know how your city distributes this type of procurement information. Article submitted by Julie Johnston, City Manager, Oak Point. back to topTexas State University offers public access to applied research from their Public Administration Program. To find research of interest, visit http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/. Services Extended to the TCMA Membership The Texas Association of Municipal Information Officers (TAMIO), an affiliate of Texas Municipal League, extends their expertise to the TCMA membership. The TAMIO Speakers Bureau is available to conduct classes and workshops on a range of communication topics. These topics include media relations, Web site trends, public speaking, resident involvement, community and program marketing, crisis communication, and workforce morale. To contact any TAMIO board member, visit www.texastamio.org. FULL ASSOCIATE STUDENT/INTERN
Make a note of TML's upcoming “Technology Summit II.” It will be held at The Marriott Horseshoe Bay Resort in Horseshoe Bay on August 3-4, 2006. Special guests speakers are Dr. Gary Chapman, director of The 21st Century Project and associate director of the Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute, Austin; and William Eggers, global director for Deloitte Research-Public Sector in Washington, D. C., and former project director for the Texas Performance Review/e-Texas initiative. We also encourage you to visit the entire TML Web site at http://www.tml.org . ************************************************************* If you have some interesting news that you would like to see included in the Management Messenger, please e-mail messenger@tml.org . To update your contact information, please send an e-mail to database@tml.org. |
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