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Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson has announced that Louisville Metro, in cooperation with the Alliance for Regional Stewardship, will host this Fall a national Forum that will examine successful models of local government collaboration across the United States.
The Forum, ?Collaborative Government: Is Your Community Ready?? will be held November 8-11, 2005, at the Brown Hotel. Civic, business, and government leaders are invited to this Forum to network and explore the many ways that local governments are saving money, improving services, and promoting economic development through collaboration.
On Tuesday, November 8th and Wednesday, November 9th, Louisville Metro will host a special ?Lessons from Merger Workshop? for representatives of communities that want to explore the Louisville-Jefferson County merger experience.
Based on topics requested by community representatives who wish to attend the merger workshop, the agenda will be designed to answer specific questions communities have about the events that led to Louisville-Jefferson County?s successful merger vote in November, 2000; the preparations made to establish a new merged government; and the challenges facing Louisville Metro government since it began operation on January 6, 2003. The workshop also will present a diagnostic tool participants can use to analyze merger and consolidation for their communities.
The Forum will kick off the afternoon of Wednesday, November 9th, with a tour of the Greater Louisville Region. Sessions will begin on Thursday morning, and will cover such topics as Collaborative Governance Models in the U.S., Rural Regional Stewardship, and Creating Regional Identity.
For more information on the Forum and merger workshop, contact Amy Carrier of the Alliance for Regional Stewardship, , or by calling , or visit the ARS website at regionalstewardship.org/leaderforum.html.
For information specifically on the merger workshop, contact Joan Riehm, Deputy Mayor, Louisville Metro: , .
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