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ACMA Newsletter Advertising
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Contact Mary Vinzant at 602-258-5786 or mvinzant@azleague.org
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Az-Management is a bi-monthly publication of the Arizona City/County Management Association.
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Editor: Liisa Laikko
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Your comments, suggestions and news contributions are welcome. Please email your contributions to:
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llaikko@azleague.org
Telephone: 602-258-5786
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Arizona City/County Management Association will offer two full scholarships this year to ACMA
members for the Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program at Harvard
University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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Our first new life member, Terry Ellis, joined ACMA in 1997 shortly after becoming City Manager
of Peoria and was very active in the association until his retirement in June of 2008. Terry
was the 2009 recipient of ACMA's highest honor, the DeBolske Award.
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The John J. DeBolske Professional Excellence Award, was created in 1997 to recognize City/County
Managers who demonstrate the highest level of professional excellence in local government and
who have made life contributions in serving the profession. This award is the highest honor that
ACMA may bestow upon a member.
The namesake of the award, Jack DeBolske, was the Executive Director of the League of Arizona
Cities and Towns for 40 years.
This year, ACMA recognized Mark Pentz, Chandler City Manager, as the recipient of the 2010 John
J. DeBolske Professional Excellence Award for his exemplary service to the City of Chandler, the
profession and our association.
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The Catherine F. Connolly Outstanding City/County Manager Award recognizes an outstanding
assistant city or county manager who has demonstrated exemplary service to their organization,
the community, local government and ACMA. The namesake of the award, Catherine F. Connolly, was
the Executive Director of the League of Arizona Cities and Towns for eight years and served 20+
years as the Deputy Director.
This year's recipient of the Catherine F. Connolly Award was Cynthia Seelhammer, Deputy City
Manager for Phoenix.
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Introduced two years ago, the Associate's Award for Excellence in Leadership is designed to
recognize associate ACMA members who contribute to the profession through their organization at
an associate level rather than the CEO level.
This year's Associate's Award for Excellence in Leadership winner was Josh Wright, Assistant to
the Town Manager in Marana.
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During the Conference in Sedona, ACMA honored Aaron Adams as the 2010 Esser Scholar. Aaron is
currently attending Graduate School at Arizona State University for his Masters in Public
Administration. The Esser Scholarship is a $2,000 award given to a student who is already
working for a local government.
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Career Compass Columns are reprinted with the permission of Dr. Frank Benest
In this installment of Career Compass, Dr. Benest offers suggestions for how mid-level
professionals can help lead the organization, even though they aren't senior management.
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Reprinted with permission from the October 2009 issue of Public Management (PM) magazine
published by ICMA, the premier local government leadership and management organization, located
in Washington, D.C.
No city manager should take an active part in politics. That clear, succinct statement of the
profession's bedrock principle of political neutrality was expressed in the first ICMA Code of
Ethics. As the profession evolved to include city and county managers, assistants, and
professionals at all levels, the statement of the principle changed as well.
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Grady Miller, Deputy Community Services Director, who is a long time ACMA Associate member and
former ACMA Board Member and Arizona Municipal Management Assistants Association President, has
been appointed as Town Manager of Narragansett, Rhode Island. Congratulations to Grady on your
new appointment!
Do you have a recent promotion or transition that you would like to announce? This new section
of the newsletter recognizes members who have recently been promoted or have changed
organizations. If you would like your name to be featured in this section of the newsletter,
please contact Liisa Laikko at 602-258-5786 or email:
llaikko@azleague.org.
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George Kolb, Interim Assistant City Manager, City of Surprise
Ralph Velez, City Manager, City of San Luis
Associate
Keith Betsuie, Tribal Liaison-Intergovernmental Relations, City of Maricopa
Bruce Washington, Sr., Manager, Information Technology, City of Sierra Vista
Steven Patrick Methvin, Assistant to the Mayor, City of Glendale
Student
Phillip A. Barr, Full time Student, Arizona State University
Stacy Hettmansperger, Full Time Student, Arizona State University
Amy Whatley, Full Time Student, Arizona State University
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James Jayne
President
County Manager
Navajo County
Pam Kavanaugh
Immediate Past President
Assistant City Manager
City of Glendale
Robert Flatley
Director
City Manager
City of Coolidge
Carl Swenson
Director
City Manager
City of Peoria
Rachel Hut
Director
Associate Representative
Management Assistant II
City of Glendale
Lloyd Harrell
ACMA/ICMA Range Rider
Retired City Manager
City of Chandler
Tom Belshe
Secretary/Treasurer
Deputy Director
League of Arizona Cities and Towns
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Gilbert Davidson
President-Elect
Town Manager
Town of Marana
Julie Ayers
Director
County Administrator
Yavapai County
Cynthia Seelhammer
Director
Deputy City Manager
City of Phoenix
Jim Thompson
Director
City Manager
City of Casa Grande
Joshua Wright
Director
Associate Representative
Assistant to the Manager
Town of Marana
Mike Hutchinson
ACMA/ICMA Range Rider
Retired City Manager
City of Mesa
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