Excellence in local government through professional city managers
Local government Media relations and strategic marketing plans for cities
Demographic trends – the needs of the aging population, population decline and the need for increased government cooperation/consolidation, immigration and cultural diversity
Youth gang prevention
Tax increment financing and economic development – impacts, best practices, defining success
Cost of the sales tax on local governments
LGA formula with new census data
Levy limits – impact on levies and fees, government strategic behavior
Flypaper effect and its reverse – effects of state aid cuts on local budgets and effect of state aids on local spending
Personnel management changes since 1970 – cumulative costs and burden
Public sector hiring – effects of demographic, economic and policy changes
Affordable housing – what are cities doing? What economic factors affect supply?
GASB 34 – how to implement
College towns – loss of affordable housing to student housing
Pay equity – is it still useful?
Internet sales tax – loss of revenue, effect on main street businesses
