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On behalf of the AZ City/County Management Association Board I want to express our appreciation
to each of you for your dedication to the Public Management profession in Arizona. I appreciate
your confidence in my selection as the new ACMA President for this year. Arizona is very
blessed with a cadre of public management professionals and a very strong State ICMA Association.
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ACMA and ICMA have partnered to offer two scholarships to the 96th Annual ICMA Conference in San
Jose, California, October 17-20. The scholarship recipients will receive a complimentary
conference registration from ICMA and ACMA will reimburse 75% of the recipient's travel expenses
up to $1,000.
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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 to "bounce-back"
from work related defeats and maintain your enthusiasm for public service.
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Alliance for Innovation
An Arizona jurisdiction will be among a select group presenting Case Studies at the Alliance for
Innovation's Transforming Local Government Conference (TLG), June 2 -4, 2010. This year's
conference theme, The Future of Service in Local Government is hosted by the Southern Nevada
Cities of Henderson, Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Pahrump and both Clark and Nye Counties.
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Reprinted with permission from the January/February 2010 issue of Public Management (PM)
magazine published by ICMA, the premier local government leadership and management organization,
located in Washington, D.C.
During the past year, ICMA members posed some unusual but interesting ethical scenarios. Be
mindful of these examples as you head into the new year.
Q. I retired from the city management profession with a clear plan to start my
own local government consulting business. Because I never expected to be a city manager again, I
made some small campaign contributions to candidates who were running for the state legislature.
I've now been offered an interim city manager position and wonder what I should do about those
campaign contributions.
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Town Manager
Town of Queen Creek
Where are you originally from?
Canton, Ohio.
Why did you decide to pursue a career in local government?
I became quite interested in how cities were built and how they functioned. I was
particularly interested in what role they played in helping the average citizen to the large
corporate member of the community. I wanted to play some positive role in the various
collision of interests.
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City Manager
City of Peoria
Where are you originally from?
Tacoma, Washington
Why did you decide to pursue a career in local government?
After studying Urban Sociology, I decided I wanted to be a practitioner instead of an
academician.
What do you like most about your job?
I really enjoy working with people. I enjoy solving complex problems, working on answers
and solution which would benefit our society.
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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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Student
Lorizelda Contreras, Student, ASU
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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
John Kross
Director
Town Manager
Town of Queen Creek
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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