Volume 1, Issue 12
 
Registration is now open for NACo's 2007 Annual Conference & Exposition in Richmond, Virginia from July 13-17.  For more information, click here.

 


Portion of U.S. households that do not have Internet access and do not intend to subscribe over the next year, nearly half of which say their reason is that they do not perceive the Internet as valuable and are not interested in anything online: 29 percent
 
Source: Parks Associates



On Thursday, April 12, WCA Senior Legislative Associate Sarah Diedrick-Kasdorf, as well as Wisconsin County Human Services Association (WCHSA) President and La Crosse County Human Services Director Gerald Huber, have been invited to speak on child welfare in Wisconsin before the Assembly Committee on Children and Family Law.
 
For more information on the hearing, including a full list of speakers, read on.  

WCA is quoted in the Sunday, April 8 Wisconsin State Journal front page story on Family Care.  Read the article here.

GHTColumbia County Supervisor Andy Ross has been named the new WCA Group Health Trust Claims Committee Chairman.  He replaced Bayfield County Vice-Chair John Blahnik, who was recently elected as chairman of the WCA Group Health Trust.

LGCThe UW-Extension Local Government Center (LGC) is publishing this announcement of statewide programs on a monthly basis.  It includes Extension programming and other programs of interest relating to local government that are offered in Wisconsin. Asterisked (*) programs are Cooperative Extension programs.  Read on for the full schedule and registration information.

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Last year, public service professionals in Iowa and Minnesota began a collaborative effort known as the Midwest Government Performance Network.  The network consists of local and state government professionals committed to using performance data and citizen engagement to improve governments' effectiveness and responsiveness to those we serve. 

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The Wisconsin County Mutual Insurance Corporation's Annual Highway ROADeo is fast approaching.  For more information, click here.
 
Also, the Wisconsin Ready Mixed Concrete Association (WRMCA) is partnering
with the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA) to do a
pervious concrete demonstration on August 9th in Milwaukee. For more information on the WRMCA, go to www.wrmca.com.

 

 
 
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