NACo on the Move

NACo Officers and County Officials

NACo First Vice President Sallie Clark and three other county officials Janet Weir, commissioner, Stark County, Ohio; Jennifer Montgomery, supervisor, Placer County, Calif., and Marie Lopez Rogers, supervisor, Maricopa County, Ariz. have been selected to participate in Governing's inaugural Women in Government Leadership Program.

NACo Executive Director Matt Chase and Natalie Ortiz, senior research analyst, visited the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, N.Y. March 18 20, where Chase was a panelist at the Roundtable on Pretrial Practice.

NACo Staff

March 21 22, Emilia Istrate, research director, and Cecilia Mills, research assistant, exhibited on behalf of NACo at the Spring Conference at the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania in Dauphin County (Harrisburg). On the 22nd, Istrate presented on research projects at NACo and the benefits of membership.

Paul Beddoe , deputy legislative director; Brian Bowden, associate legislative director for health; Maegh an Gilmore, program director; and Kathy Rowings, program manager, represented NACo at a forum in Cook County, Ill. on connecting the justice-involved population to Medicaid health coverage, March 17. The forum was sponsored by the Center for Health and Justice at Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities (TASC). Cook County was featured at the forum.

Yej in Jang , associate legislative affairs director for justice and public safety, briefed program staff at the MacArthur Foundation on juvenile justice legislation March 19.

Arthur Scott, associate legislative director for rural development, met with Iowa state transportation and human services directors during the Iowa State Association of Counties (ISAC) Spring Instruction School, March 10 12. Scott worked with ISAC staff addressing key mental health, transportation and infrastructure related issues.

Coming Up

Andrew Goldschmidt , director of membership marketing, will be speaking and exhibiting on behalf of NACo at the MAS Minority Caucus Annual Conference in Lauderdale County, Miss. on March 31 April 3, 2015.

Alex Koroknay-Palicz , membership coordinator, will be exhibiting on behalf of NACo at the Michigan Association of Counties Legislative Conference in Ingham County on March 30 31, 2015.

Kor okn ay-Palic z will also be exhibiting on behalf of NACo at the Association of County Commissioners of Oklahoma Spring Conference in Norman County on April 1 3, 2015.