FLGISA Newsletter, April 2011

Florida Local Government Information Systems Association

The organization of choice for Florida Local Government Information Technology

April 2011

Issue: 2

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FLGISA Newsletter

Welcome to the second issue of our FLGISA newsletter!

Your Board of Directors wants to insure that we communicate all the great things happening across the State and to keep you informed of what we are doing as an organization. The newsletter will consist of articles about special projects FLGISA is involved in, news and events from each District, legislative updates, and conference information. Please feel free to give us feedback so we can make this a better communication tool for you!

President's Corner by Melinda Miller

I'd like to express my thanks to all who attended the Winter Conference in Altamonte Springs. This was our best attended Winter Conference ever! We had 101 registrants for our conference. Thanks also to the speaker committee for putting together a very timely and relevant agenda. For those of you who could not attend, the presentations are located on our NetQA message board. To retrieve them, login to NetQA and search for "2011 Winter Conference." The documents dated 02/07/2011 are the documents you want.

Legislative Update by Kevin Kryzda

There are a number of legislative issues to pay attention to. They have to do with Tax Caps (TABOR) and Pension Plan Reform.

Certified Public Technology Leadership Update by Frank Hagy

At the direction of the FLGISA Board of Directors, Harold Schomaker and I met with Jeff Hendry and Dena Hurst from the Florida Institute of Government (IOG). The purpose of this meeting was to review the progress of the Certified Public Technology Leadership (CPTL) program and to clearly define the role of both the IOG and the FLGISA.

The Transformational CIO by Melinda Miller

There's a lot of buzz around being a "Transformational CIO." Different experts give differing opinions and approaches to how to make this happen but almost all concede that it centers on business alignment and innovation. In the public sector that can be a little difficult to define sometimes.

Broadband Initiative by Kevin Kryzda

A brief report for your review on Broadband.

FLGISA District News & Events

Current FLGISA district information and events are posted here.

In This Issue

President's Corner

Legislative Update

CPTL Update

Leadership Article

District News/Events

Broadband Initiative

FLGISA 2011

Annual Conference

"Through the
Looking Glass"

The Annual Conference

will be held at the

Naples Beach Hotel & Golf Club, Naples, Florida on July 12-15, 2011.

Registration details will be available soon!

FLGISA Board of

Director Elections

There are four positions up for election at the annual conference.

The following positions will be open:

If you are interested in running for one of these positions or would like to nominate someone please contact Past President Kevin Kryzda, kevin@martin.fl.us, who chairs the nominating committee.

District elections will be held prior to the Annual Conference and announced during the business meeting at the conference.

The Treasurer will be elected at the conference after nominations from the floor have been entertained.

Please feel free to forward this FLGISA newsletter to non-members in your area.