I’m off to sunny Indianapolis, Indiana today to attend the annual conference of the National League of Cities (NLC). I try to attend this conference every year. I find it more valuable, personally, than attending annual city manager-oriented conferences. I like the focus of the NLC conference on elected officials. I think that they do a great job of understanding the current trends and issues of concern to locally elected officials. In my opinion, those are the issues that ought to be driving my agenda as city manager. I get a better picture of those issues – and more importantly how elected officials might feel about them – at the NLC conference than at the city manager’s state or national conference.
I hope it’s sunny there. It looked sunny in the brochure.
Back on Friday.
