Ravalli County commissioners will be heading out of the Bitterroot Valley next week to Helena for the Montana Association of Counties’ Elected Officials Training. According to MACo’s website, the training is “Phase II of the commissioners certification program”. And according to a draft agenda of the three-day session, seminars the commissioners will be sitting in on include:
- Managing County Finances
- Principals of Human Resource Management
- A Primer to Building the County Budget
- County Tax Policy
- County Special Boards Governance
- Effective Relations with Other Governments
- Hiring, Supervising and Motivating County Employees
Also on MACo’s website are this year’s MACo committee assignments. Ravalli County commissioners are on the following committees:
- Greg Chilcott: Justice and Public Safety, Natural Resource/Public Lands Litigation Fund, Public Lands and Tax, Budget and Finance
- Ron Stoltz: Agriculture
- Suzy Foss: Community, Economic and Labor
- Matt Kanenwisher: Health and Human Service
- J.R. Iman: Land Use and Development
*Update* According to the commissioners’ calendar, only the three freshmen commissioners – Foss, Kanenwisher and Stoltz – headed to Helena for the MACo training.
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