Events - GOVERNING Summit - Cost of Government - 2013

PAST EVENT

Sep 17 - 18, 2013

Agenda

Tuesday Sep 17

Time	Session
8:30 - 9:00AM	Networking Breakfast and Registration
9:00 - 9:05AM	Welcome Speakers: Erin Waters - Publisher, GOVERNING
9:05 - 10:00AM	One Governor's Perspective - Paying for "the America that Works": 21st-Century State Revenue Structures In the introduction to a special report entitled "The America that Works," The Economist reported that "while the federal government twiddles its thumbs, states and... more Adding 170015156 to Unordered. Moderated by: Zach Patton - Executive Editor, GOVERNING Speakers: Honorable Dave Heineman - Governor, The State of Nebraska
10:00 - 10:15AM	Group discussion Adding 199609691 to Unordered. Moderated by: Mark Funkhouser, Ph.D. - Director, GOVERNING Institute, former mayor, Kansas City, Missouri
10:15 - 10:30AM	Break
10:30 - 11:30AM	Paying for "the America that Works": The View from Local Government It is not just state governments that need to modernize their revenue structures. Local governments also have revenue structures that are increasingly out of sync... more Adding 199609691 to Unordered. Moderated by: Mark Funkhouser, Ph.D. - Director, GOVERNING Institute, former mayor, Kansas City, Missouri Speakers: Harry E. Black - Director of Finance, City of Baltimore, Maryland Stanley J. Czerwinski - Director, Intergovernmental Relations, U.S. Government Accountability Office Honorable Toni Preckwinkle - Cook County Board President, Cook County, Illinois Honorable Scott Smith - Mayor, City of Mesa, Arizona
11:30 - 11:45AM	Group Discussion Adding 198516671 to Unordered. Moderated by: Erin Waters - Publisher, GOVERNING
11:45 - 12:45PM	Lunch
12:45 - 1:45PM	The Great Debate - Fiscal Distress and State Intervention: Does it Work? From the Municipal Assistance Corporation put in place to deal with the fiscal crisis in New York City in the middle 1970s to the recently... more Adding 169891926 to Unordered. Moderated by: Alan Ehrenhalt - Contributing Editor, GOVERNING Adding 208539001 to Unordered. Adding 211560531 to Unordered. Adding 213864771 to Unordered. Adding 208539221 to Unordered. Panelists: Andy Dillon - Treasurer, State of Michigan Calvin A. Kent, Ph.D., AAS - Lewis Distinguished Professor of Business, Director BB&T Center for American Capitalism, Distinguished Fellow in Economics, CBER, Marshall University Honorable Christopher Doherty - Mayor, City of Scranton, Pennsylvania Dall Forsythe - Senior Fellow, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University
1:45 - 2:00PM	Group discussion Adding 199609691 to Unordered. Moderated by: Mark Funkhouser, Ph.D. - Director, GOVERNING Institute, former mayor, Kansas City, Missouri
2:15 - 2:30PM	Break
2:30 - 3:30PM	On the Launching Pad: Medicaid and the Health Exchanges The Affordable Care Act has launched an unprecedented era of expansion, innovation, risk and potential benefit in the delivery of health and human services. The... more Adding 170015156 to Unordered. Moderated by: Zach Patton - Executive Editor, GOVERNING Adding 205472911 to Unordered. Adding 208705631 to Unordered. Adding 222536611 to Unordered. Adding 182456511 to Unordered. Panelists: Andy Allison - Arkansas Medicaid Director Christine C. Ferguson, JD. - Director, Rhode Island Health Benefits Exchange, Office of the Governor, State of Rhode Island Ivan Samstein - Chief Financial Officer, Bureau of Finance, Cook County Matt Salo - Executive Director, Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD)
3:30 - 3:45PM	Group Discussion Adding 198516671 to Unordered. Moderated by: Erin Waters - Publisher, GOVERNING
3:45 - 4:45PM	Common Goals - Coordinated Efforts: Achieving Strength through Regional Collaboration Today managing well is a necessary but not sufficient condition for delivering the outcomes the public wants in economic development and quality of life. Social... more Adding 170014836 to Unordered. Moderated by: Paul W. Taylor, Ph.D. - Editor at Large, GOVERNING Adding 215126241 to Unordered. Adding 220273551 to Unordered. Adding 207430161 to Unordered. Adding 181411051 to Unordered. Panelists: Catherine L. Ross, Ph.D. - Director, Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development, Georgia Institute of Technology Linda Langston - President, National Association of Counties (NACo), Linn County Supervisor, District 2, Iowa Rushern L. Baker, III - County Executive, Prince George's County, Maryland William J. Bratton - President and CEO, The Bratton Group LLC
4:45 - 5:00PM	Group Discussion Adding 198516671 to Unordered. Moderated by: Erin Waters - Publisher, GOVERNING
5:00 - 6:30PM	Reception The Source by Wolfgang Puck Join the GOVERNING staff, our sponsors, our speakers and your colleagues as we recap the highlights of the day over drinks... more

Wednesday Sep 18

Time	Session
8:30 - 9:00AM	Networking and Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15AM	Welcome Speakers: Erin Waters - Publisher, GOVERNING
9:15 - 10:15AM	Pensions, Healthcare and Other Post-Employment Benefit Costs: Mounting Pressure Virtually every state and most local governments have seen some sort of pension reform since the beginning of the Great Recession. In many cases, rigorous... more Adding 203244551 to Unordered. Moderated by: Justin Marlowe, Ph.D. - Senior Fellow, GOVERNING Institute, Associate Professor and Faculty Director of the Executive Master of Public Administration Adding 208539461 to Unordered. Adding 208539451 to ordered. Adding 205988961 to Unordered. Adding 182400801 to Unordered. Panelists: Pete Constant - Councilmember, San Jose, California Keith Brainard - Director of Research, National Association of State Retirement Administrators Rob McCord - Treasurer, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Steven Malanga - Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
10:15 - 10:30AM	Group discussion Adding 199609691 to Unordered. Moderated by: Mark Funkhouser, Ph.D. - Director, GOVERNING Institute, former mayor, Kansas City, Missouri
10:30 - 10:45AM	Break
10:45 - 11:45AM	Workforce Management - Optimizing High Performance Government Under pressure to provide quality services with shrinking resources, governments face an exigent need not only to attract and retain talented and motivated staff but... more Adding 170015406 to Unordered. Moderated by: John Buntin - Staff Writer, GOVERNING Adding 212215141 to Unordered. Adding 212367751 to Unordered. Adding 206446821 to Unordered. Adding 170015256 to Unordered. Panelists: Donald F. Steuer - Assistant Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Operating Officer, County of San Diego, CA John E. Nixon, CPA - Director, Department of Technology, Management & Budget, State of Michigan John Thomason - State Cards Program Manager, Department of Administrative Services (DOAS), State of Georgia Theresa Reno-Weber - Chief of Performance Improvement, Office of the Mayor, Louisville, KY
11:45 - 12:00PM	Group Discussion Adding 198516671 to Unordered. Moderated by: Erin Waters - Publisher, GOVERNING
12:00 PM	Adjourn

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