How Municipal Government Can Save Money With Energy Benchmarking
Local Governments & Energy Efficiency How can you save money, invest more resources in your community, fight climate change, and offset rising energy prices? Sounds like a trick question, but it’s not! Energy efficiency is the answer to achieving all those goals. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, government agencies spend more than […]
Five Leadership Lessons from the Intersection of Business & Politics
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams Let me start out by saying that I’m a very big fan of local government. Serving as an alderman and then as my community’s first woman mayor, I came to appreciate how […]
Leading Change and Successful Citizen Engagement
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” John F. Kennedy Change is inevitable and that’s especially true when it comes to local government. Public policy revisions are necessary for growth, staff members retire or leave for other opportunities, and elected […]