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October 2013 News Digest News Digest™ October 2013 The Premier Organization for Municipal Clerks Since 1947 Become a Board Member Milwaukee North Point Lighthouse, See page 5 located on Milwaukee’s East side since 1855. At one time a working lighthouse over the years for various reasons the light was turned off and it was decommissioned. After decades of neglect in the fall of 2007 the lighthouse was reopened through the restoration efforts of the North Point IIMC STAFF DIRECTORY BOARD OF DIRECTORS News Digest™ ADMINISTRATION PRESIDENT • Executive Director Marc Lemoine, MMC, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Professionalism [email protected] In Local Government Chris Shalby [email protected] PRESIDENT ELECT Through Education Brenda K. Young, MMC, Nashville, Indiana Volume LXIV No. 9 ISSN: 0145-2290 • Office Manager [email protected] Denice Cox VICE PRESIDENT October 2013 [email protected] Monica Martinez Simmons, MMC, Seattle, Washington Published 11 times each year the News Digest • Finance Specialist [email protected]> is a publication of The International Institute of Municipal Clerks Janet Pantaleon IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT 8331 Utica Avenue, Suite 200 [email protected] Brenda M. Cirtin, MMC, Springfield, Missouri Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 [email protected] • Administrative Assistant Chris Shalby, Publisher Maria E. Miranda [email protected] DIRECTORS - 2014 EXPIRATION [email protected] Vincent Buttiglieri, MMC -- II, Township of Ocean, New Jersey Emily Maggard, Editor EDUCATION [email protected] [email protected] Mary J. Kayser, MMC - IV, Garland, Texas • Associate Director of Education Telephone: 909/944-4162 • (800/251-1639) [email protected] FAX: (909/944-8545) Jennifer Ward Roxanne Schneider, MMC - VI, Dysart, Iowa E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] • Communications Coordinator Kittie Kopitke, MMC - VII, Streamwood, Illinois Founded in 1947, IIMC has more than 60 years of experience [email protected] improving the professionalism of Municipal Clerks. IIMC Emily Maggard Donna Geho, CMC -- VIII, Glenrock, Wyoming has more than 9,500 members representing towns, small [email protected] municipalities and large urban jurisdictions of more than [email protected] several million people. • Verification Specialist Gail E. Pomroy, MMC -- X, Conception Bay South, NF, Canada A portion of your annual membership dues goes toward Ashley Carroll [email protected] publishing and distributing the monthly News Digest. [email protected] Samantha Shippen, CMC -- XI, Seaford, East Sussex, UK MEMBERSHIP [email protected] IIMC is affiliated with 49 U.S., & Nine Canadian Associations. • Director of Member Services National affiliations: DIRECTORS - 2015 EXPIRATION Janis Daudt • ATAM (Portugal) • JOSZ (Hungary) Shawn Cullinane, MMC - I, Lindenhurst, New York [email protected] • IAM (Israel) • SLCC (England) [email protected] • UDITE (Europe) • VVG (The Netherlands) • Member Services Representative Kelly J. Lovette, MMC -- III, Goose Creek, South Carolina • IMASA (South Africa) • SOLAR (Scotland) Tammy Schultz [email protected] • NAMCB (Bulgaria) • ADSO (England) [email protected] Patty Dupuis, MMC - IV, Breaux Bridge, Louisiana [email protected] Accounting & Association Terri Kowal, MMC - V, Auburn Hills, Michigan Inside… • Software Group [email protected] President’s Message ......................................................................3 Pilar Archer Linda Rappe, CMC - VI, Kasson, Minnesota 2014 IIMC Board Vacancies ............................................................5 [email protected] [email protected] Professional Development Workshops Lana McPherson, MMC - VII, De Soto, Kansas Fall 2013- A reminder to Register ............................................6 Computerized Business Solutions [email protected] Be Accountable First ....................................................................14 Joann Tilton, MMC - IX, Manteca, California Does the Future of Emergency Management • Doug Griffith Lie in a High School? .............................................................16 [email protected] [email protected] Government House Launches Public Event Series- Jaap Paans, MMC - XI, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Lieutenant Governor .............................................................17 [email protected] Ask the Clerk: Madonna M. King .................................................18 Conference Spread - Milwaukee ..................................................20 DIRECTORS – 2016 EXPIRATION Putting Psychology to Work in the Public Sector .........................22 Paul Bergeron, MMC, I, Nashua, New Hampshire Institute Directors Award of Excellence .......................................23 FEMA Continues to Support Response to Colorado Flooding .......28 [email protected], The Blurred Lines Between Social Media and Censorship ............30 Kimberley Rau, MMC – II, Laurel, Maryland Art City, Manitoba Government Partner to [email protected] Celebrate Women’s History Month 2013 ................................31 Lynnette Ogden, MMC – III, Millport, Alabama Can the Threat of Defunding Education [email protected] Slow Down Tax Cuts? .............................................................32 Lanaii Benne, CMC – V, Franklin, Tennessee The Language of Local Government order form.............................34 Parliamentary Procedure order form ............................................35 [email protected] IIMC Partners in Democracy CD/DVD order form .........................36 Nancy Vincent, MMC – VIII, Thornton, Colorado IIMC Publications order form .......................................................37 www.iimc.com [email protected] Robert’s Rules of Order order form ................................................38 Alice Attwood, CMC – IX, Tonasket, Washington Recruit-A-New Member ..............................................................41 Copyright 2013 by the [email protected] Recruit-A-New-IIMC Member Application ...................................42 International Institute of Municipal Clerks. Karla Graham, MMC – X, North Vancouver, BC, Canada Calendar of Events ......................................................................43 All rights reserved. [email protected] 2 October 2013 IIMC News DigestIIMC President’s Message Marc Lemoine, MMC IIMC President, 2013-2014 The best part about being IIMC’s President is the of which count toward your CMC and MMC designations. opportunity to meet so many of our members and talk to IIMC also offers other alternative avenues for continu- them about IIMC. Like most members, prior to joining ing education including the Athenian Dialogue program, the Board of Directors, I did not think too much about which explores leadership principles and practices in what IIMC truly is and what it has to offer all of us. Join- a group settings based on group discussion of a book ing the Board of Directors gave me some insight into the the group has read. Our Study Abroad programs, most inner workings of everything that IIMC is and does. But recently visiting Scotland and South Africa, allow IIMC it is in talking to our members about IIMC and listening members to visit other countries and explore the best to their stories that I have truly discovered the value that practices of fellow Clerks and local governments in those IIMC provides. What does IIMC provide? Are you get- regions. And to assist with educational costs, the Mu- ting everything you can from your membership? nicipal Clerk’s Education Foundation (MCEF), provides IIMC’s first and foremost offering, of course, is scholarships towards Clerk’s education. Last year over education. Did you know that IIMC members currently 30 CMC and MMC scholarships were awarded, as well as hold 4,600 Certified Municipal Clerk designations and 22 grants (2 per region) to attend IIMC’s annual confer- 1,200 Master Municipal Clerk designations? And that ence were made available. these designations are earned through IIMC’s network While education is the main raison d’etre for IIMC, of 47 Municipal Clerk Institutess, many of which are IIMC offers many other benefits to its members. These hosted by the world’s top universities and educational include networking opportunities with over 9,400 other organizations? Completing one of these designations professionals in 15 different countries that face the same automatically shows municipalities that our members challenges on a daily basis that you do. IIMC “members have completed a rigorous course of study, similar to only” section gives you access to our Listserv, allow- other certificates and degrees offered up by the In- ing clerks to ask questions and get responses from the stitutess organizations, qualifying them to undertake greater Clerk’s community. The membership database the duties of the Clerk. IIMC also recognizes that our allows you to find and reach out to other clerks in your members are often incredibly busy and can’t always get vicinity, state or worldwide. IIMC’s annual conferences, out to Institutesss. To help enable continuing education which move to different IIMC regions each year, allow in these busy times, IIMC offers a wide range of online you to reconnect with up to 1,000 fellow clerks in person education, which can be found on our website at www. in a conference setting featuring world class speakers iimc.com. Online courses include those from Ed2go, a and in education programs. Our next conference is in network of over
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