Model City Charter Revision Project - Eighth Edition
Committee Members
Eric Anderson
Eric Anderson has served as the City Manager of Des Moines, Iowa, since 1995.
Prior to that, he was the City of Manager of Evanston, IL, from 1991 to 1995,
and of Eau Claire, WI, from 1984-1991. He was the Town Manager of Munster,
IN from 1978-84 and the assistant Town Manager of Windsor, CT from 1973-1978.
He is a member of the board of directors of the GeoData Alliance and has been
a Fellow with the National Academy of Public Administration since 1996. He
is the author of numerous articles on local government. He holds an MPA from
the Graduate School of Public Affairs, State University of New York at Albany.
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Linda Barton
Linda Barton is the City Manager of Livermore, California
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Donald J. Borut
Donald J. Borut, executive director of the National League of Cities, is
responsible for managing the broad array of activities carried out by the
nation's oldest and largest public interest group representing municipal governments.
As the administrative leader of NLC, he reports to the elected municipal officials
who serve as the League's officers and board of directors.
Borut, 59, has more than 35 years' experience in municipal government and
organizational leadership in the public interest sector. Prior to his
NLC appointment in 1990, he was deputy executive director of the International
City Management Association (ICMA), the nation's preeminent organization representing
professional local government administrators.
A graduate of Oberlin College, with a master's degree in public administration
from the University of Michigan, Borut began working in city government in
1964 as a staff assistant in the office of the city administrator Ann Arbor,
Mich. He advanced to the post of assistant city administrator of Ann
Arbor before leaving the city to join the ICMA staff in 1971.
His work at ICMA included the development and enhancement of many support
programs, information services and publications, as well as the creation of
an ICMA Endowment Fund. He also was a founder and director of the Program
on Community Problem Solving, which provides technical assistance on collaboration
and consensus building in solving various community problems.
Borut has served on numerous advisory boards, editorial boards and other
committees in the public interest sector and has chaired the screening committee
of the All-America City Awards program conducted annually by the National
Civic League. In 1992, he was elected to the National Academy of Public
Administration.
He currently holds the post of secretary general of the North American Section
of the International Union of Local Authorities (IULA), a global organization
to strengthen the capacity and performance of local governments around the
world, and serves on the board of directors of Public Technology, Inc.
Borut, who makes his home in Washington, was born and grew up in New York
City.Ý He is married, with two children.Ý He is a member of the board and
past president of the Levine School of Music, a community school and music
center in Washington.
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Peter A. Buchsbaum
Peter A. Buchsbaum is a partner of the firm in its Real Estate Department,
and is chair of the firm's Land Use Practice Group.Ý Mr. Buchsbaum concentrates
his practice in land use planning and related environmental, municipal and
real estate issues.
Mr. Buchsbaum is a graduate of Cornell University (1967).Ý He obtained his
J.D. from the Harvard Law School in 1970. ÝHe began his legal career as law
secretary to the Honorable Joseph Weintraub, then Chief Justice of the New
Jersey Supreme Court.
A great deal of his work has involved Mt. Laurel cases and other efforts
to obtain rezoning and regulatory approvals for private development.Ý He has
also represented public sector clients as general municipal counsel and also
on specific issues which include formulation of redevelopment plans in Long
Branch and Atlantic City, New Jersey.Ý His work encompasses motion, trial
and appellate litigation; development applications before local boards; and
representation, and participation in advisory committees involving state agencies
such as the New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing (COAH), the State Planning
Commission; and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
He has served as a member of the legislative and appellate practice committees
and as chair of the Land Use Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association.Ý
He has been a member of the Council of the American Bar Association's (ABA)
State and Local Government Law Section and chaired its largest committee,
the Land Use, Planning and Zoning Committee.Ý He also is an adjunct professor
at the Rutgers School of Law - Camden and a faculty associate of the Lincoln
Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Mr. Buchsbaum writes an award-winning Courts column for New Jersey Reporter
magazine and a column on recent developments in state and local government
law for the ABA section newsletter.Ý He has written articles on land planning
law in such periodicals as the Urban Lawyer, the Real Estate Law Journal and
the New Jersey Law Journal, and has authored papers on innovative planning
techniques for the American Planning Association and the National Endowment
for the Arts.Ý He co-edited a book on state growth management planning throughout
the United States and has contributed to a Matthew Bender text on New Jersey
land use law and an ABA book on the trial of a land use case.
Mr. Buchsbaum has served his community as Vice President of the ARC of NJ
(formerly Association for Retarded Citizens.)Ý He is a past trustee of the
Regional Planning Partnership, the largest private regional planning group
in New Jersey, the Hunterdon County Housing Corp and the Hunterdon County
United Way.Ý In November 2000 he was elected to the West Amwell Township Committee.
He has spoken before the ABA, the American Planning Association, the New
Jersey Judicial Conference, the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal
Education and other groups.Ý In 1994, he was appointed by Senate President
Donald DiFrancesco to the New Jersey Law Revision Commission on which he still
serves.Ý He is named in Who's Who In America.
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John Buechner
John Buechner is the President Emeritus of the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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Terrell Blodgett
Terrell Blodgett, in more than fifty years of public service, has been a
city manager, administrative assistant to a governor, a private consultant
to state and local officials nationwide, and a professor in urban management.
From 1985 to 1989, Blodgett served as chairman of the steering committee for
revision of the Model City Charter in its seventh edition.
After receiving his master's degree in public administration in 1947 from
Syracuse University, his first job was research assistant in the Bureau of
Municipal Research at the University of Texas in Austin (1947-1950). He began
his local government career as personnel director and later assistant city
manager for the City of Austin (1950-1960). He served as city manager of Waco
(1960-1963) and Garland (1963-1964) before returning to Austin as an administrative
assistant for urban affairs to Governor John Connally, for whom he coordinated
the activation in Texas of such new federal government programs as the War
on Poverty, law enforcement assistance, and highway safety (1964-1969).
From 1969 to 1982, Blodgett directed governmental consulting in a nine-state
area of the Southwest for Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. (now KPMG Peat
Marwick). He organized and directed management studies at local and state
levels, including organizational analyses of several governors' and mayors'
offices.
In 1982 he was appointed the first Mike Hogg Professor in Urban Management
at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas
at Austin. His course topics covered both local and state government administration.
He organized the school's first course in management of nonprofit organizations,
which was attended by graduate students and executives in nonprofits.
His more than a dozen studies and assignments for the state during his tenure
at the university included a study in 1985 for then Governor William Clements
that called attention to the safety and fire hazard conditions in the 100-year-old
state capitol. His recommendations were among the factors that led to the
$185 million restoration and expansion of the capitol that was completed in
1994. In 1991 he served as executive director of Governor Ann Richards' Task
Force on Revenue.
Upon his retirement in 1995 from the LBJ School, Blodgett was named the Mike
Hogg Professor Emeritus in Urban Management by the UT Board of Regents.
Blodgett's honors for his public service are numerous. In 1987 he was named
the first Distinguished Member of the Texas City Management Association and
in 1993 became only the fifth Texan in the 80-year history of the International
City-County Management Association to receive a Distinguished Service Award.
In 1986 and 1987 he served as chairman of the National Civic League, a sponsor
of the All-American Cities competition. He is an Honorary Life Director of
the League and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
He is also the author of the book, City Government That Works: The History
of the Council Manager Government in Texas.
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Jacqueline J. Byers
Director of Research
National Association of Counties
Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, New JerseyÝÝÝÝ B.A. 1969
Howard University, Washington, DC ÝÝÝÝÝÝÝÝÝÝÝÝÝÝ 1971-1972
Catholic University, Columbus School of LawÝÝ Juris Doctor, 1976
Member of the District of Columbia Bar
As Director of the Research Division at the National Association of Counties
since October `1996, Jacqueline manages the research effort for the organization.
In addition to national surveys, research projects and technical assistance,
the division is also responsible for the administration of four national awards
programs. She does frequent speaking engagements and television appearances
on issues of importance to county officials. She also serves as the
NACo representative to the Census 2000 Advisory Committee to the Secretary
of Commerce, where she currently chairs the Government Subcommittee, and was
a member of the NACo Task Force on the President's Initiative on Race.
She is also currently a member of several advisory boards including the State
and Local Legal Center and the National Alliance Bridging Race and Ethnicity
sponsored by the Joint Center on Economic Justice. She has been a judge
for the All American City Award for the National Civic League, the National
Hometown Award for the National Association of Cities and Towns and the Census
Bureau Innovations Award.
Prior to coming to NACo she was an Assistant Director at the Georgia Department
of Community Affairs where she directed the Research Center.Ý In that position
she administered seven statewide surveys and various state programs including
the Growth Strategies Act, he Georgia Planning Act and the Georgia Solid Waste
Management Act.Ý Prior to that position, she spent six years as the Section
Chief of the City/County Management & Technical Assistance Section at
the GA DCA.Ý Before moving to Georgia, she was a Senior Program Analyst and
State Coordinator for the Office of Revenue Sharing, U.S. Department of Treasury,
for 12 years.
She was also a visiting professor in the MPA program at the University of
Georgia and a regular instructor in the Local Government Training Program
at the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, at UGA.Ý For 18 months, from May
1995 to September 1996, she was the Human Resources Director for the Georgia
Department of Community Affairs, responsible for overseeing the merger of
that agency with the Georgia Housing Finance Authority.
Jacqueline also was a consultant with her own firm, Byers and Associates,
and has conducted training at the University of South Carolina on numerous
occasions and worked directly with several cities and counties on budgeting
and financial forecasting.
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William Cassella
William Cassella will serve as Senior Advisor
to the Model Charter Revision Project.Ý Dr. Cassella served for 16 years as
Executive Director of the National Municipal League (now the National Civic
League), the oldest organization in the U.S. devoted to improving state and
local government and responsible citizen participation in government. He coordinated
the League's project to prepare revised editions of the Model City Charter
and the Model County Charter, which have been used throughout the U.S.
and Canada to help citizens and public officials revise their charters and
change their form of government. He also headed the League's projects on Metropolitan
Areas and directed the design and drafting of the Model State Constitution.
Dr. Cassella is currently a Senior Associate at the Institute of Public Administration.
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James Dailey
James Dailey is the Mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Edward Ferguson
Edward Ferguson is the Director of County Services at the National Association
of Counties.
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Mony Flores-Bauer
Mony Flores-Bauer is the former president of the Oakland League of Women
Voters.
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R. Scott Fosler
R. Scott Fosler is the former chair of the National Civic League (1999-2000)
and past President of the National Academy of Public Administration (1992-2000).
While at NAPA he directed the Academy's diverse program of research and management
advisory services for federal, state, and local government and international
organizations. In 1978 Mr. Fosler was elected to a four-year term on the County
Council of Montgomery County, Maryland, and was reelected in 1982 to a second
term. He served as President of the Council, was elected President of the
Washington Metropolitan Area Council of Governments, and chaired the National
Association of Counties Steering Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs.
Mr. Fosler has written numerous publications on public management, state,
local, and regional issues, productivity, economic development, and public-
private partnership. Among his books are Demographic Change and the American
Future (University of Pittsburgh Press) and The New Economic Role of American
States (Oxford University Press).
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H. George Frederickson
H. George Frederickson was appointed Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor
of Public Administration at the University of Kansas in 1987. He teaches administrative
ethics and the role of government to graduate students in the Department of
Public Administration, and he teaches the honors section ofÝ an introduction
to public administration class to political science undergraduates.
Before coming to KU, Professor Frederickson served as President of Eastern
Washington University. Prior to his presidency, he served on the faculty at
Syracuse University in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs,
and held faculty and administrative appointments at Indiana University and
the University of Missouri.
Professor Frederickson has served as President of the American Society for
Public Administration and has been honored on numerous occasions for distinguished
research and professional service by the American Society for Public Administration
and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
He is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, and an honorary
member of the International City/County Management Association. He recently
received the John Gaus Award and Lectureship from the American Political Science
Association to honor his lifetime of scholarship in the joint traditions of
political science and public administration.
His international work takes him frequently to the far east, and in 1990
he served as a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar in South Korea. In 1998 he
was awarded The Order of Diplomatic Service Merit, from the Republic of Korea.
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Chris Gates
Chris Gates is the President of the National Civic League.
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Neil Giuliano
Neil Giuliano is the Mayor of Tempe, Arizona.
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Guy Goodson
Guy Goodson is a City Councilperson of the City of Beaumont, Texas.
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Charles Gossett
Charles Gossett is an Associate Professor of Political Science Georgia Southern
University, Statesboro, GA. He has taught American government, state &
local government, public administration, intergovernmental relations, urban
politics, diversity management, public personnel management both to undergraduates
and in the Master of Public Administration program. He has lectured at the
University of Botswana, and served as Secretary to the Mayor's Office and
as a Policy Analyst in Washington D.C. He was affiliated with the American
Society for Public Administration from 1986-1998 and the International Personnel
Management Association from 1992-1995. He has a P.H.D. in political science
from Stanford University.
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John Hall
John Stuart Hall is a Professor of Public Affairs and Public Service and
Director of the Urban Data Center at Arizona State University.Ý He received
his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Oregon in 1973.
As a founder and former Director of Arizona State's School of Public Affairs
and Center for Urban Studies, and as Project Director for over 20 large scale
funded public service research projects, Dr. Hall has specialized in linking
the University to pressing community public policy and governance issues.
John Hall is the author or co-author of numerous books and articles about
local and intergovernmental politics and governance.Ý Recent publications
include two chapters on local governance for the forthcoming new book Metropolitan
Governance Without Metropolitan Government?ÝÝ He is a co-author, with Neal
Peirce and Curtis Johnson, of Citistates:Ý How Urban America Can Prosper
in a Competitive World.
Professor Hall has conducted research on local government with several national
orgnizations including the Brookings Institution, the Urban Institute, the
National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Woodrow Wilson School
of Public Affairs at Princeton University, and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute
of Government.Ý
Professor Hall frequently counsels international groups and delegations about
U.S. Federalism, state and local government and governance, and regional issues.
In 1990, he organized and led the first U.S. delegation on "Decentralizing
Public Affairs" to what was then the Soviet Union.
John Hall is serving his third four-year term as an elected member of the
Board of Directors of the National Civic League, and was elected to the American
Society for Public Administration's National Council in 1997. He has
served on several local civic and public policy panels dealing with such topics
as growth, workforce, tax reform, and school finance.
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William H. Hansell
Bill Hansell has been Executive Director of the International City/County
Management Association (ICMA), the professional association of appointed administrators
serving cities, counties, regional councils, and other local governments since
October of 1983.Ý He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the
Wharton School of Commerce, and a Master's in Government Administration from
the Fels Institute of Government, both at the University of Pennsylvania.Ý
Bill was previously Executive Director of the Pennsylvania League of Cities;
Business Administrator of the City of Allentown, Pennsylvania; and Manager
of the Towns of Catasauqua and South Whitehall in Pennsylvania.Ý He was Managing
Partner of Progress Associates Management Consultants; Vice-President of Business
and Management, University of Scranton; and Director of the Management Studies
Program, Cedar Crest College.Ý He also served as labor arbitrator.
Bill has been Chair of the Boards of the Academy for State and Local Government,
and Public Technology, Incorporated; a member of the Board of the Retirement
Corporation; the Coalition for State and Local Government; and the National
Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.Ý He has previously
served as President of the Pennsylvania Stage Company, as a Commissioner of
the Pennsylvania Public Employee Retirement Commission, and as Chair of the
Arlington County, Virginia Commission for the Arts.
Bill Hansell is an elected member of the National Academy of Public Administration.
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James Keene
James Keene is the City Manager of Tucson, Arizona.
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Robert Kipp
Robert A. Kipp, 69, is vice president of Hallmark Cards, Inc., the world's
largest publisher of greeting cards, and chairman of the board of Crown Center,
a Hallmark subsidiary. He serves on the board of the Hall Family Foundation.
Prior to joining the corporation, he was city manager of Kansas City, Missouri,
an assignment that followed 20 years in management of cities in Kansas, Ohio
and Missouri.
Kipp graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in civil engineering
in 1952. After serving in the United States Air Force as a communications
and electronics staff officer, he received his master of public administration
from the University of Kansas in 1956. He taught engineering at the University
while completing his master's. He joined Hallmark in 1983.
He is currently vice president of the board of the Kansas City Symphony.
He serves on the boards of the Metropolitan Kansas City Performing Arts Centre,
Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute and the University of Kansas Center
for Research. He is also a member of the University of Kansas Edwards Campus
board of advisors.
Kipp has held various civic positions. He is past chairman of the board of
trustees and board of directors of Midwest Research Institute, past chairman
of the board of the Civic Council of Greater Kansas City, past chairman of
the board of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce and past president
of Starlight Theatre.
He is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, and is past
president of the International City/County Management Association. He is a
recipient of the University of Kansas Distinguished Service Award, the National
Public Service Award, the William Jewell College Distinguished Service Medallion,
the Urban League Distinguished Leadership Award, the Baker University Distinguished
Leadership Award, and the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce Kansas Citian
of the year Award (2000).
He and his wife, Debbie, reside in Leawood, KS. They have two sons and four
grandchildren.
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Ronald Loveridge
Ronald Loveridge is the Mayor of Riverside, California.
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David May
David May is Vice President of Chamber of Commerce Relations - the U.S. Chamber’s
link to the more than 3,000 state, local, and metro chambers.
A 19-year veteran of chamber management, May has served as president of the
Independence, Missouri Chamber and as president of the Sarasota (FL) Chamber.
Most recently, he has worked with the U.S. Chamber to help launch its new
small business Internet portal, ChamberBiz.
May served on the U.S. Chamber’s Institutes for Organization Management
SMU Board of Regents; the boards of chamber executive associations in both
Missouri and Florida; the Management Corporation Board of the Florida Chamber;
and the board of the American Chamber of Commerce Executives. May is a former
president of the state executive’s association in Missouri (CCEM), which
awarded him with the Distinguished Service Award. While in Florida, the Florida
Chamber of Commerce Executives selected him as Chamber Professional of the
Year in 1997.
In addition to holding a bachelor’s degree, May is a graduate of the
Chamber’s Institute program and has earned two professional designations:
Certified Chamber Executive from the American Chamber of Commerce Executives
and Certified Association Executive from the American Society of Association
Executives. He is one of four chamber executives in country with both CCE
and CAE designations.
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David Miller
David Miller is an Associate Dean at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Sylvester Murray
Sylvester Murray is a professor of public administration at Cleveland State
University in Ohio. He teaches courses in management and budget & finance.
He has a BA from Lincoln University in PA, a MA in economies from Eastern
Michigan University and a MGA in State and Local Government from the Wharton
School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a former management consultant
with PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is former City Administrator of Ann Arbor,
MI and he is former city manager of Inkster, MI, Cincinnati, OH and San Diego,
CA. He is a former president of the International City Management Association,
and past president of the American Society for Public Administration. He serves
on the Board of the National Civic League, the Lincoln Land Institute, The
Northeast Midwest Institute, the Conference of Minority Public Administrators,
the National Academy of Public Administration, the Ohio Institute, and the
National Forum for Black Public Administrators. He is a winner of the National
Public Service Award. He is a consultnat to local governments nationally,
including the Cleveland City Council, the Colorado Springs City Council,the
Dayton City Council, the Dallas TX City Council,and the Oberlin City Council,
and local governments internationally with USAID in South Africa, Zimbabwe,
Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Abu Dubai, The Phillippines, Jordan, and the Republic
of Georgia.
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John Nalbandian
John Nalbandian chairs the Department of Public Administration at the University
of Kansas. He came to Kansas in 1976 from Los Angeles, where he earned his
Ph.D. at the University of Southern California.
The public administration department at KU specializes in training students
for careers in local government. In 2001, US News and World Report rated it
as the number one local government academic program in the country.
In addition to his faculty position, he served on the city council in Lawrence
from 1991-1999. The council elected him mayor in 1993-1994 and again in 1996-1997
In addition to numerous articles on city management, in 1991 he wrote Professionalism
in Local Government: Transformations in the Roles, Responsibilities, and Values
of City Managers.
He has spoken nationwide and in the United Kingdom and Canada--at national
meetings of professional associations, state League meetings, executive development
institutes, and individual cities--to elected officials, professional staff,
and academic audiences.
Professor Nalbandian has been honored on two occasions by the International
City Management Association-as an honorary member and as recipient of the
Stephen B. Sweeney award for local government education. The Kansas Association
of Parks and Recreation recognized him in 1996 as its elected official of
the year. He was honored with a teaching excellence award by the National
Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration in 1997 and has
been inducted into the National Academy of Public Administration for lifetime
contributions to public administration.
Web Site: www.goodlocalgovernment.org for more information.
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Betty Jane Narver
Betty Jane Narver is a Senior Research Fellow at the Daniel J. Evans School
of Public Affairs at the University of Washington.Ý For many years she was
Director of the University's Institute for Public Policy and Management and
was responsible for overseeing several centers of applied policy research.Ý
Her own areas of expertise include education reform, workforce and economic
development, growth management and state and local government reform.Ý She
has been appointed to a number of statewide boards and commissions under three
governors and served as the first chair of Washington State's Workforce Training
and Education Coordinating Board. Ms. Narver has long been active in state
and local activities and served as Chair of the Board of the Seattle-King
County Municipal League.Ý She is a member of the Seattle Public Library's
Board of Trustees and the newly elected Chair of the Executive Board of the
national Urban Libraries Council. She is a member of the Board of the National
Civic League.
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Bob O'Neill
Bob O'Neill is the President of the National Academy of Public Administration.
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Neil Reichenberg
Neil Reichenberg is the Executive Director of the International Personnel
Management Association.
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Dorothy Ridings
Dorothy S. Ridings is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Council
on Foundations. The Council is a national association of some 2,000 foundations
and corporations that will make charitable grants of about $18 billion this
year.
From 1988 until joining the Council in March 1996, Ridings served as publisher
and president of Knight-Ridder's Bradenton Herald in Bradenton, Florida. She
also served as a Knight-Ridder general executive while based in Charlotte,
North Carolina, and held editorial and reporting positions at The Kentucky
Business Ledger, The Washington Post and The Charlotte Observer.
Ridings served the League of Women Voters of the United States as president
from 1982 to 1986 and as a member of its board of directors from 1976 to 1986.
She has been a trustee of the Ford Foundation and a director of the Benton
Foundation and Independent Sector. She currently serves as board chair of
the National Civic League and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary,
is a member of the boards of the Foundation Center and the Commission on Presidential
Debates and is a member of the councils that accredit journalism schools and
law schools. Internationally, she has made speaking tours for the U.S. Department
of State and led two fact-finding delegations sponsored by NATO.
Ridings taught journalism at the University of Louisville and the University
of North Carolina. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northwestern
University's Medill School of Journalism and a Master's degree from the University
of North Carolina. She was awarded honorary degrees from Spalding University,
the University of Louisville and the University of Charleston.
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Tanis Salant
Tanis J. Salant is director of the Institute for Local Government, School
of Public Administration and Policy, The University of Arizona.She holds a
Doctorate in Public Administration from the University of Southern California,
a Masters in Public Administration from the University of San Francisco, and
a Bachelor's in History from the University of California, Berkeley.Ý The
focus of Dr. Salant's research and consulting is local government.Ý Areas
include county home rule, county-state relations, county-tribal relations,
county law enforcement and criminal justice fiscal impacts, unfunded state
mandates to county government, and municipal home rule charters.Ý She has
published numerous books, book chapters, journal articles, and studies on
these topics.Ý The most recent include:Ý "Illegal Immigrants in U.S./Mexico
Border Counties:Ý The Costs of Law Enforcement, Criminal Justice, and Emergency
Medical Services"; "County Charter Government in the West";
and "County-Tribal Relations:Ý Six Southwestern Counties and the Navajo
Nation."Ý Dr. Salant has consulted with the Pima County Home Rule charter
Committee, the Pima County Juvenile Drug Court, the National Association of
Counties, the Southern Arizona Leadership Council, the U.S./Mexico Border
Counties Coalition, the County Supervisors Association of Arizona, the League
of Arizona Cities and Towns, and the Broward County, Florida Charter Review
Commission.
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Philip Schenck
Philip Schenck has served as the Town Manager of Avon, CT since 1978. Prior
to that, he was the Town Manager of Farmington, ME, from 1974-1978 and of
Brattleboro, VT, from 1972-1974. He was an Officer in the U.S. Army from 1968-1972.
He serves on numerous State, Regional and National Committees of the Capitol
Region Council of Governments, the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities,
and the International County/City Management Association.
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David Schultz
David Schultz is director of the Doctoral Program in Public Administration
and professor in the Graduate School of Public Administration and Management
at Hamline University where he teaches classes including ethics in government,
legislative process, research methods, housing and economic policy, and public
policy.Ý David is also an adjunct professor of law at the University of Minnesota
where he teaches election law and he holds teaching appointments at Hamline
University in the Department of Criminal Justice. Professor Schultz has a
Ph.D. in political science and a J.D. (law degree) from the University of
Minnesota, M.A.s in political science and philosophy from Rutgers University
and SUNY Binghamton respectively, and a B.A. in political science and philosophy
from SUNY Binghamton. In addition to teaching, Professor Schultz was president
of Common Cause Minnesota from 1994-1999, served as their lobbyist, and twice
as the interim executive director.Ý Previously he served as vice-president
of the Minnesota and Texas chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union,
and he has also been on the board of directors for numerous non-profit organizations.Ý
Presently he is a member of the Ramsey County Home Rule Charter Commission
(2000 -).Ý David is the series editor for four book series on law, politics,
and the media for Peter Lang Publishing and is the author of 14 books and
over thirty articles on topics ranging from civil service reform, campaign
finance reform, land use law, constitutional law, and the media and politics.Ý
His most recent publications include Leveraging the Law: Using the Courts
to Achieve Social Change (1998), The Politics of Civil Service Reform (1998),
and It's Show Time! Media, Politics, and Popular Culture (2000).Ý He is currently
finishing a book entitled Robert Putnam and Social Capital:Ý Critical Perspectives
on American Democracy and Social Engagement, which will be published by NYU
Press in 2001, and he is the editor of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of American
Law, to beÝ published in 2001 by Facts on File, Inc.
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David Sink
David Sink is professor of public administration and senior research specialist
in the Institute of Government at the University ofÝ Arkansas at Little Rock.Ý
He works part-time for the city manager of the City of Little Rock with a
particular emphasis on neighborhood leadership and capacity building and community
regeneration.Ý His research is action-oriented in a seamless connection with
community engagement.Ý He is the co-founder of the Little Rock Neighborhood
Resource Center.Ý He holds the DPA from the University of Georgia and wrote
his dissertation on the political role of the city manager.
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James Svara
My teaching and research interests focus on the roles andÝ relationships
of local government political and administrative officials.Ý Recently, I have
examined these themes in an international study of city managers and theirÝ
equivalents in fourteen countries--12 in Europe, Australia,Ý and the U.S.Ý
I was a member of the Model Charter RevisionÝ advisory panel from 1986-1989,
and have made presentations and consulted with a number of cities about charter
revisions, including the current charter review in Kansas City.
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Henry Underhill
Henry Underhill is the Executive Director of the International Municipal
Lawyers Association.
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John Vocino
John Vocino is a Program/Policy Analyst at the U.S. General Accounting Office
in Washington D.C. He currently is part of the GAO's Physical Infrastructure
Team, and prior to that worked with the GAO's Resources, Economic and Community
Development Division: Housing and Community Development Issues group from
1997 to 2000; with the Health, Education and Human Services Division: IGR
Issues group / Income Security Issues group from 1988 to 1997; and with the
Washington Regional Office from 1987 to 1988. He has also served as an officer
in the Section on Intergovernmental Administration and Management (SIAM) of
the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), and as a co-coordinator
of monthly panel discussions on intergovernmental issues sponsored by ASPA
and the GAO.
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