NACo Officers

NACo First Vice President Vernon Gray addressed delegates at the Community and Economic Development Conference on Sept. 14 in Miami.

On Sept. 26, NACo President Randy Johnson and NACo Associate Legislative Director Neil Bomberg met with Labor Secretary Alexis Herman to review the Department of Labor's "Draft Interim Planning Guidance and Instructions for Submission of Annual State Plans." Johnson underscored NACo's three major concerns - data collection, meeting match requirements and local delivery of welfare-to-work services - and asked Herman to revise the document to address these issues.

On Sept. 28-Oct. 2, Johnson attended the Montana Association of Counties annual meeting in Great Falls, Mont., and spoke at the banquet Oct. 1.

On Oct. 1-3, Michael Hightower, NACo immediate past president, attended the Fall Policy Conference of the Association of County Commissioners of Georgia, in Atlanta.

County officials/NACo Staff

NACo Project Manager for Solid Waste and Pollution Prevention Naomi Friedman moderated a workshop on "Promoting Waste Prevention at the Local Government Level," Sept. 22, at the National Recycling Coalition's Annual Congress in Orlando, Fla. Also speaking at this workshop was Joe Keyser, Environmental Specialist, Montgomery County, Md.

On Sept. 23, Bomberg and NACo Associate Legislative Director Marilina Sanz met with General Accounting Office staff who are planning to evaluate state and local efforts to implement the welfare-to-work program. The meeting focused on innovative programs at the local level and how best to assess them.

Mike Raab and Tina Preston of the Erie County (N.Y.) Environmental Compliance Services presented Erie County's Wetlands and Watershed Stewardship Project at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's River Corridor and Restoration Forum Sept. 23 in Springfield, Va. More than 150 people from around the county attended the forum.

On Sept. 23, Winifred Lyday, NACo director of the department of information technology, attended the Technology 2007 conference in Boston where she gave a presentation titled "Taking Advantage of Networks" at the Federal Laboratory Consortium State and Local Government Committee Workshop.

On Sept. 25, Bomberg met with the Board of Directors of the Training and Employment Council of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Bomberg presented NACo's position on current efforts by Congress to amend the Job Training Partnership Act.

Kelly Schulman, NACo research associate/aging represented NACo and served as a resource person at the Brookdale National Conference on Respite Issues, Sept. 26-28 in Arlington County, Va.

On Sept. 29-Oct. 1 Lyday went to the 88th Annual Conference of the Montana Association of Counties. On Sept. 30, Lyday was a panelist on a workshop titled "GIS: A Vital Resource for Counties" moderated by Gallatin County (Mont.) Commissioner Jane Jelinski. Lyday met with the Montana county information technology committee. On Oct. 1, she gave a short presentation at a meeting of the Montana Local Government GIS Coalition.

(NACo On the Move is compiled by Mary Ann Barton, senior staff writer).