As a follow-up to discussions that took place during the annual conference in September, our officers have been hard at work developing the Intermountain Chapter blog. I am very excited about this new forum and I am looking forward to utilizing this tool to keep in touch with everyone and to hear about what everyone is up to in the realm of public participation.
In addition, we have some exciting things coming up in the chapter and in IAP2. Coming up at the end of April I will be attending a worldwide IAP2 leadership event in Vancouver, British Columbia. The purpose of the event is to bring together affiliate, chapter and emerging IAP2 leaders with IAP2 board members to exchange information, develop skills to foster membership, translate IAP2’s strategic goals and objectives into local action, and foster a sense of community among members. It should prove to be a very exciting event and I will either present a brown bag on the experience and what I learned or I will send an overview out via email and this blog.
We are also working on future brown bag presentations and additional training opportunities for the Chapter. We are going to try something a little different with brown bag presentations. Some of the upcoming brown bag presentations will be held at a specific location and via teleconference allowing people to participate in a variety of ways. Our first brownbag of this kind will be on May 4, 2008, with Michele Straube from the Mayor's office in Salt Lake City. She will be sharing information about Mayor Ralph Becker's Transparency Initiative and Salt Lake Solutions. More details to come soon on the blog. If you have any ideas on possible topics for future brown bag presentations, please feel free to send them to me via email or comment on this post.
Also, Wendy Green Lowe is in the process of determining a date and location for certificate training courses. Once the details have been determined, we will be sure to let you all know.
The last thing I wanted to remind everyone of is the 2009 Annual Conference. It will be held in San Diego in September – so there is lots of time to plan ahead. See the countdown gadget to the right!
Our chapter has a lot of momentum and I truly hope that we can keep it up. As always, please feel free to contact me with any ideas, comments, questions, or suggestions: randi.shover@kiewit.com or 801-736-8219. Thank you!
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