Extension Communications
3614 Administrative Services Building
Ames, Iowa 50011-3614
(515) 294-9915
8/7/02
Contacts:
Paul Coates, Extension Political Science, (515) 294-1844, paulc@iastate.edu
Del Marks, Continuing Education and Communication Services, (515) 294-9807,
delmarks@iastate.edu
or municipal clerk listed at the end of this news release
___(Name)____ Receives Advanced City Clerk Training
___(Name)___, ___(Town)___ completed the second session of a three-part curriculum in municipal management that leads to professional certification. The five-day Municipal Clerks Institute was conducted by Iowa State University Extension July 22-26 in Ames. Topics for the session ranged from use of computers in city government to tours of municipal utilities plants in Ames.
The session opened with a review of parliamentary procedures used in city council business. There were presentations on written communications, ethics for public officials and municipalities, introduction to the Internet, record keeping and the roles of municipal clerks in local government.
The program is sponsored by the ISU Extension Office of State and Local Government Programs in conjunction with the Iowa Municipal Finance Officers Association. Instructors include ISU faculty, extension staff, bonding attorneys, accounting experts and city clerks who have completed the Institute. The Iowa State University program was one of the first offered in the United States, and is among the largest of 44 similar programs offered in other states and Canadian provinces.
Participants in session 2 will have the opportunity to attend the final session of the three-part curriculum in July 2003.
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Participants in the July training included the following:
Allerton: Charlotte Van Fleet
Ankeny: Deb Arend
Belmond: LeeAnn Waltzing
Cedar Falls: Jacque Danielsen
Center Point: Angie Rilling
Clermont: Jenean Van Sickle
Coralville: Nancy Beuter
Corwith: Janet Dietel
Dundee: Michele Bandy
Eagle Grove: Ryan Heiar and Connie Tofteberg
Fairfax: Mary Pacha
Fostoria: Sirena Richarson
Garner: Daisy Huffman
Hamburg: Georgann Stephens
Hazleton: Lynne Crandall
Holstein: Marlo Schoer
Huxley: Lee Hand
Kanawha: Sharon Grimm
Lakeside: Jackie Stief
Marquette: Denise Schneider
Marshalltown: Shari Coughenour
Mechanicsville: Linda Coppess
Northwood: Cindy Borcherding
Pleasant Hill: Carol Brown
Rembrandt: Valita Evers
Robins: Lori Pickart
Ryan: Kim Downes
Sergeant Bluff: Marsha Hough
Sheldon: Mavis Sybesma
West Des Moines: Fern Stewart
Extension programs are available to all without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, or disability.