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Register today for the ARS National Forum on Regional Stewardship!! Register by October 19 to receive the Early Bird rate of $250 (discounts available for ARS members and regional teams). The agenda and online registration are available at: regionalstewardship.org/register4forum.html.
The Forum will be held at the historic Brown Hotel, a treasured landmark in downtown Louisville since 1923, located at 335 West Broadway in Louisville. Please book your hotel BEFORE October 17th to receive the conference rate. Mention the Alliance for Regional Stewardship to receive the group lodging rate of $129/night (not including taxes). To make your reservation, please call or . Visit the Brown?s website at www.brownhotel.com.
Program Highlights
This Forum?s theme is ?Collaborative Governance--Is Your Community Ready?? This Fall meeting will examine successful models of collaboration involving governments in the U.S. , including examples from rural areas. New ideas in building regional identity and in academic research on regionalism also will be explored.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, November 8 and 9, Louisville Metro government will host a pre-Forum ?Lessons from Merger Workshop? for representatives of communities that want to explore the Louisville-Jefferson County merger experience in depth. On Wednesday, November 9, the second ARS ?Boot Camp? will be held.
Forum plenary sessions will introduce the Greater Louisville Region and highlight the merger between Louisville and Jefferson County in 2003. In addition, breakout sessions will focus on new ideas in collaborative governance, creating an identity for and marketing your region, and rural regional stewardship, among others.
The Forum will kick off with a tour of the Greater Louisville region. Join experts from Louisville and Southern Indiana on Wednesday, November 9th to hear aboutand seedowntown housing options, public housing transformation, and Louisville?s award-winning waterfront.
?Lessons from Merger? Workshop
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40 Years of Debate: A business leader, state legislator, merger opponent and merger advisor discuss the pros and cons of merger, debated for more than four decades in Louisville.
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Alternatives to Merger: A look at other government collaboration initiatives in Louisville, that might be instructive for other communities, including merged city-county departments, countywide service districts, and a revenue-sharing Compact.
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Convincing the Voters: Hear from the experts who ran the successful 2000 campaign for city-county merger, after three earlier campaigns lost at the ballot box.
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Taste of Louisville at Metro Hall: Louisville Mayor Abramson hosts a reception at the downtown government center featuring a tasting of local wines and beers.
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Reinventing Government: How the new Louisville-Jefferson County Metro is striving to innovate and economize based on the Best Practices of successful local governments in the U.S.
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Case Studies: Two of the toughest challenges of consolidation merging Louisville and Jefferson County Police Departments, and launching a new 26-member Metro Council will be explored by the Metro Police Chief and Council members.
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Q&A with the Mayor: The first Mayor of Louisville Metro, Jerry Abramson, is also the longest-serving Mayor in the City of Louisville?s history. He?ll reflect on his experiences and answer participant questions at a closing lunch.
National Forum Sessions
Collaborative Governance Models in Greater Louisville
Unique cross-sector partnerships in Louisville are offering new approaches and collaboration for education, economic and workforce development, homeland security, and non-profit social service agencies.
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Eileen Pickett, Vice President, Greater Louisville Inc.- the Metro Chamber of Commerce, discussing ?Every1 Reads? and economic development partnerships (Moderator).
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Dr. Dan Ash, Vice President, Jefferson Community and Technical College and Mayor?s Liaison for Education and Workforce Development (invited), discussing Metropolitan College and the Workforce Education Initiative.
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Joe Tolan, President, Metro United Way, (invited), discussing regional approaches used by area non-profit agencies.
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Doug Hamilton, Director, Louisville Metro Emergency Management Agency, (invited), discussing the new ?MetroSafe? regional communications system linking first responder agencies in Greater Louisville.
The Power of Regional Exchanges
Leadership exchanges to other regions are proving a valuable way for regions to learn how similar communities have addressed their challenges. ARS?s Regional Stewardship Visitation Program (RSVP) will be highlighted, including a recent regional leadership visit to Chicago sponsored by The Pennsylvania Economy League.
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Frank Beal, Executive Director, Chicago Metropolis 2020, Chicago, Illinois (Moderator). Implementing ideas from a 1999 regional visioning study, Chicago Metropolis 2020 has focused on developing a new kind of civic entrepreneurship in the Chicago region.
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David Thornburg, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Economy League, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The League is an independent, nonprofit public policy research and development organization that provides information and support to the civic leadership of Southeastern Pennsylvania.
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Bill Stafford, President, Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle, Seattle, Washington. One of the first regions to organize inter-regional trips for its public and private-sector leaders, Seattle now has expanded to organizing missions to metropolitan areas in foreign countries.
Regionalism to the Max
The institutional boundaries in regions are often dramatically at odds with the reality of the problems people need to address. This session explores the work of four programs that have engaged in regional problem solving.
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David Abbott, Executive Director, George Gund Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. The Gund Foundation is a member of the Fund for Our Economic Future, a collaboration among philanthropies in Northeast Ohio that intends to award $30 million in grants over a three-year period for high impact economic development initiatives.
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Mayor Randy Pye, City of Centennial, Colorado. Mayor Pye chairs the 32-member Metro Mayors Caucus, a consensus-based organization of mayors throughout the region that has dealt successfully over its 12-year history with issues including financing for transportation infrastructure and affordable housing, and air and water quality.
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The Honorable Glenda Hood, Florida Secretary of State. The Florida Chamber Foundation created in 2001 a strategic plan to address five major challenges facing the state, and they are implementing the plan through regional initiatives called the Florida Alliance for Regional Stewardship.
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Elizabeth Humstone, Director of U.S. Initiatives, Institute for Sustainable Communities, Montpelier, Vermont. The New England Futures project is a six-state initiative creating an agenda for New England that addresses challenges and opportunities for future livability and competitiveness that require cross-state cooperation.
To register for the Forum, please visit the ARS website at regionalstewardship.org/register4forum.html. For additional information, please contact Amy Carrier, Alliance Manager, at or .
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