Attention Academy for Excellence in Local Governance graduates: This spring and summer the Academy will be offering not one, but two, Academy graduate classes.

The first takes place on Friday, May 17 and will provide an overview on How to Assess your Local Government’s Fiscal Risks. Led by University of Maryland School of Public Policy Assistant Professor Thomas Luke Spreen, the class will introduce participants to a framework for evaluating a local government's resiliency through the use of financial metrics.  Participants will also learn how to identify and institute policy changes that build fiscal resiliency, along with strategies to navigate unexpected financial challenges. To register for this class, contact Academy Registrar Elizabeth Hinson at [email protected].

A second Academy graduate class will be held at the annual MML Summer Conference and focus on Interest-Based Negotiation. Interest-based negotiation emphasizes the importance of understanding the interests of all parties to a negotiation and creatively generating options that lead to outcomes satisfactory to those parties. Virtues of this approach include enhancing the prospects for sustainable win-win outcomes that also preserve relationships between parties. The instructor for this session will be University of Maryland Adjunct Professor and U.S. State Department official Daniela Friedl. To participate in this class you must be registered for the full MML summer conference and there is a separate fee for the graduate class.

These classes are open to Academy graduates ONLY and spaces are limited. For more information, contact Tom Reynolds.