New Rolla City Council members attend Elected Officials Training

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Newlyelected Rolla City Council members Kelly Long (Ward 3) and Steve Leonard (Ward2), recently attending the Missouri Municipal League 2012 Elected OfficialsTraining Conference on June 14 and 15 at the Capitol Plaza Hotel in JeffersonCity. 
 
Theconference, which was attended by hundreds of newly elected officials acrossthe state, consisted of a comprehensive overview of municipal government,including what it looks like and how it works. Some of the areas coveredincluded: the municipal budget process; conflict resolution; liability andrisk; the Missouri Open Meetings and Records Law; public works contracts, economicdevelopment; taxation and revenue; ethics and the many services provided by theMissouri Municipal League. “Thisconference is a great overview to municipal government,” said John Butz, CityAdministrator. “In addition to the great training it provides, it also provideselected officials an opportunity to meet with and network with other elected andgovernment officials who are facing the same kind of challenges and issues weare in Rolla.”The Missouri Municipal League, an independent,statewide not-for-profit association governed by a Board of Directors, wasorganized in 1934. Its aim has been "to develop an agency for thecooperation of Missouri cities, towns and villages and to promote the interest,welfare and closer relations among them in order to improve municipalgovernment and administration in the state." Thus, the League's basic goalis to strengthen cities through unity and cooperation.