Sunday Committee Meeting

Today's focus of discussion was on issues relating to ICMA's international affiliates. These are mostly national organizations of city managers around the world. They run as big and complex as the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives in the United Kingdom, to smaller groups such as the Slovak City Managers Association. ICMA staff discussed our current outrech and partnership efforts with these groups and received feedback from the committee that we still need to do more in engaging these groups.

The second part of today's meetings was to discuss revisions to our current committee workplan. The biggest change that we agreed to was to begin developing a specific policy document to recommend to the ICMA Executive Board on how ICMA should pursue future international efforts that are funded by sources other than traditional foreign aid funding sources.

The committee decided to meet in Europe for its Winter/Spring 2009 meeting in order to encourage involvement from our European affiliates at the meeting. The next regular meeting of the committee will be in Richmond, VA this Fall as part of the ICMA Annual Conference.