National Association of Counties * Washington, DC / Vol. 30, No. 14 * July 20, 1998

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NACo Officers/County Officials

NACo President Randy Johnson discussed his initiatives of "global, digital and sustainable" at the annual summer conference of the Ohio County Commissioners' and County Engineers' Associations in Hamilton County (Cincinnati), Ohio. The conference was held May 31-June 2.

Johnson spoke before the National Academy on Public Administration during the group's annual meeting June 4-6 in Boulder, Colo. Johnson discussed regional governance.

NACo Staff

Edwin Rosado, NACo's new legislative director, announced on July 8 that Jeff Arnold will be NACo's deputy legislative director. Arnold has been an associate legislative director with NACo since 1994. Before that he worked for the U.S. Department of the Interior and on Capitol Hill.

Winifred Lyday, director of information technology services, represented NACo at the first meeting of the Applications Steering Committee for the newly created Office of Earth Sciences/NASA on June 29-30. The new Applications and Outreach Division offers a better possibility for counties to obtain remotely sensed data.

(NACo On the Move is compiled by Kevin Wilcox, senior staff writer).