City/County Management in ILLINOIS Strengthening the Quality of Local Governance Through Professional Management November 2012
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Volume 93 Number 4 City/County Management in ILLINOIS Strengthening the quality of local governance through professional management November 2012 Calendar of Events In This Issue For complete details on events please visit the ILCMA calendar at http://www.ilcma.org/calendar.aspx President’s Column ............................... 2 e-Government Academy ....................... 3 November 2, 2012 November 15 & 16, 2012 SWICMA Luncheon Downstate City/County Welcome New Members ....................... 3 Management Association Corporate Partner Spotlight ................... 4 November 14, 2012 Effingham, IL IAMMA Luncheon IML Managers Monthly Column ........... 10 Glen Ellyn, IL December 7, 2012 ILCMA Reception ................................ 11 SWICMA Luncheon November 15, 2012 Fall Downstate Meeting ....................... 12 ILCMA Professional Development December 12, 2012 IAMMA Luncheon .............................. 15 Lombard, IL IAMMA/Metro Manager Holiday Luncheon Professional Development Committee ... 17 November 15, 2012 Lombard, IL Members in Transition ......................... 18 Metro Manager Luncheon Lombard, IL February 20 – 22, 2012 New Credentialed Managers .............. 19 ILCMA Winter Conference ILCMA Winter Conference .................. 20 Peoria, IL Job Mart............................................ 22 DISCLAIMER: Statements or expressions of opinions appearing herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Association or its editor. The publication of any advertisement is not to be construed as an endorsement of the product or service offered. Happy Thanksgiving! From a public outreach perspective, we will continue our work President’s Column with the Article Series to raise our profile to elected officials and to the public. These stories highlight the successful efforts and Promote the Profession Committee positive relationships of managers and elected officials. To date, By Julia Cedillo, Chair the Committee has completed articles on Woodridge, Decatur, Village Manager, Village of La Grange Park and Glencoe, which have been published in the IML Review. We also completed our first article focused on a successful county Marty Bourke, Co-Chair administrator in McHenry County, which was included in the Illinois Village Administrator, Village of Bloomingdale Association of County Officials (IACO) publication. This year, the Committee plans on including an intergovernmental initiative to The ILCMA Promote the Profession (PTP) Committee was created complement and contrast with individual municipal operations. with the mission of promoting awareness of the local government management profession and encouraging individuals to consider Finally, the Committee recently worked to highlight the effectiveness careers in the field. In recent years, ILCMA has broadened the focus of the professional manager through the development of a session of the mission to include promoting the benefits of professional for the IML Conference in Chicago. The session featured a group management to enhance the perception of the profession. One of managers and mayors providing a perspective on effective way ILCMA has chosen to achieve this goal is by providing communication tools and approaches by the managers that are individual members with tools and resources that help clarify and appreciated by elected officials. The premise of the session was reinforce the importance of the role of the professional manager in that accurate and timely communication between managers and the community. the elected governing body can result in a stronger relationship and the building of trust in the execution of effective community In 2011, the Committee completed the “How To” Guide for governance. The session was well attended, and was an excellent Administrators and Managers, for new and aspiring managers to springboard for future manager - elected official relations topics. promote, educate and communicate the importance of professional management to one’s community through civic involvement and A special thanks to the group of talented and dedicated members elected official education. The Guide is now available on the serving on the Promote the Profession Committee. We have a busy ILCMA website. In the coming year, the Committee will take a look year ahead of us, but we are looking forward to it and appreciate at all resources currently available to the ILCMA membership that any feedback from the membership. promote the value of the professional manager and enhance the understanding of the role to elected officials. The Committee will then make recommendations as to how such tools can be better organized and more accessible to the membership. Promoting Ethics in Local Government: A Year in Review Fiscal Year 2012 Inspired by ICMA’s Life Well Run Campaign (Lifewellrun.org), the Committee will research and evaluate public awareness campaign ICMA enforces the Code of Ethics through a formal review process options that promote the benefits of professional management and administered by a peer-review body, the ICMA Committee on enhance the perception of the profession on a local and regional Professional Conduct (CPC). The confidential process provides level. The Committee will also evaluate whether there are benefits a member with the opportunity to respond to the complaint and to engaging the services of a media relations firm and whether for the appointment of a fact-finding committee where additional there are additional efforts that can be done in-house, such as a documentation and information is required. At the conclusion of “Media” tab on the ILCMA website. the review process, the CPC can decide to close a case where no violation has occurred; issue a private censure for an ethics The Committee continues to move forward with Next Generation violation; or recommend that the ICMA Executive Board publicly initiatives, and recently approved a five year Action Plan. By censure and/or expel, bar or revoke the credential of a member partnering with IAMMA in the development of the Plan, we now who has violated the Code of Ethics. New in FY12, the CPC can have a set course for Next Generation Initiatives that will inspire recommend to the Executive Board that a member’s membership be young and mid-career professionals, as well as help senior suspended for a period not to exceed five years and any member professional managers prepare, develop, and motivate the next barred or expelled from membership are so for life. generation. The Action Plan is operational and includes the following strategic goals: (1) The establishment of annual career To access the detailed ICMA Committee on Professional Conduct discussions with University interns; (2) The continuation of successful FY 2012 Review CLICK HERE. student mixers and to encourage ILCMA member involvement and attendance; (3) Conducting annual seminars focusing on careers in local government; and (4) Creating a packaged communications piece explaining and extolling the benefits of hiring an Intern. The Committee encourages IAMMA and ILCMA members to help us reach these goals by attending the upcoming student mixer in January, 2013. 2 BUILD SKILLS, BUILD BETTER COMMUNITY Welcome New Members! SERVICES Andrez Beltran, Village of Algonquin, Management Intern We have all experienced financial reality during the “great Justyn Miller, City of DeKalb, Administrative Planning Intern recession.” Every community needs to cut costs. Every community Sarah Schillerstrom, Village of Glenview, needs to improve its services. Every community can improve Deputy Director of Admin Services services and cut costs through e-Government measures. The UIC Department of Public Administration is proud to announce the new e-Government Academy. This Academy gives your community an opportunity to work in an online “IT laboratory” with seasoned professionals and instructors who can guide you through real-life challenges of IT planning, strategy, and project management. This professional development program will provide participants with the opportunity to learn IT concepts as they apply to the public sector. The program will benefit a wide range of professionals, from public administrators to IT personnel and consultants working with the public sector. With a curriculum geared toward the working professional, the e-Government Academy will give participants a practical base of knowledge that will immediately enhance and supplement their existing skill set. This program consists of four courses which address topics such as the fundamentals of e-Government, IT planning, IT management, and e-Government project management. The courses will be taught through a collaborative, instructor-led online experience by IT professionals with public sector expertise. For more information about this exciting new program, please visit http://www.go.uic.edu/egovacademy. 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