04/28/2006

Professional Development FY07 - It's time to complete your requests for next fiscal year. Here's a link to the database. Please be sure to select FY2007 for your new entries and please complete this by the end of May. Thanks.

Administrative Specialist II - Our job titles are not very descriptive. Jennifer is transferring from Administrative Specialist II with training to Administrative Specialist II with the Information and Technology team. This means she'll go from doing anything needed to make training work (with an emphasis on on-line courses and MMA) to working with Lisa and Justin with a primary responsibility for the Government Mailing List. Lisa, Izetta, and Jennifer will make it a gradual transition.

TCMA training - The Tennessee City Management Association board of directors approved a proposal for a more extensive training program for city managers last week. The proposal was prepared by Kurt and Margaret and was well received by the board.

MTAS Retreat - The support staff continues to make final plans for the MTAS retreat. They haven't given me many of the details so we can all be amazed together.


Urban Forestry - We received tentative approval for about a $40,000 grant to provide technical support and training for cities in the area of urban forestry. Thanks to Mike, Frances and Warren for putting the application together.