From: Leslie & Downe [rlsd@io.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 11:27 PM To: BBilling@TNRCC.State.TX.US; gwood@tnrcc.state.tx.us; Homdax@swbell.net; casey10@flash.net; twilson567@aol.com; jcurran@bushschool.tamu.edu; terryturner@totalaccess.net; cag71@hotmail.com; Doyle Pendleton; djohnson@bushschool.tamu.edu; juliegerman@prodigy.net; landrumm@prodigy.net; mark_macLeod@edf.org; MSHAMPASZ@aol.com; kyle@tml.org; Patrick_Gilles@tcada.state.tx.us; CIBOLD@TEXAS.NET; seibel@swbell.net; vickiem@ci.waco.tx.us; jolifant@ci.waco.tx.us; jimblume@aol.com; joem@ci.waco.tx.us; Ginae@ci.waco.tx.us; lillianm@pointe.com; Lisatyer@ci.waco.tx.us; copadm@wcnet.net; Myra715@aol.com; dcastillo@nety2k.net; JBplan@aol.com; sbrandon@pwe.ci.houston.tx.us; abarnes@texoma.net; jbiggers@ci.coppell.tx.us; steveb@wtrt.net; nancyn@gwmail.plane.gov; bldgins@airmail.com; susanb@gwmail.plano.gov; Liza@ci.sat.tx.us; DCCozby@swdell.net; bcfranklin@ci.sat.tx.us; SharonG@ci.sat.tx.us; Bridget@ci.sat.tx.us; imahula@ci.sat.tx.us; rmorules@ci.sat.tx.us; lmendiola@ci.sat.tx.us; maryo@ci.sat.tx.us; rosa@ci.sa.tx.usa; cindys@ci.sat.tx.us; avtv@swbell.net Subject: CenTex ASPA Web Blast 25 April 2000 --- The website of the CenTex Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration at http://www.main.org/aspa has been updated. This notice about the highlights is a service to members. If you do not wish to receive similar notices in the future, please send an e-mail the CenTex ASPA Webmaster at rlsd@io.com requesting to be taken off the mail-out list. HIGHLIGHTS * PUBLIC SERVICE RECOGNITION WEEK event. The online reservation form for the 5 May 2000 banquet is at http://www.main.org/aspa/rsvp0505.htm. Reservations are due by 2 May 2000. Check out the form because it also contains advance information about some award winners. The CenTex ASPA awards have a rich in tradition. The banquet on Friday 5 May 2000 will be at Landry's, 600 East Riverside, Austin, with a social hour starting at 5:30 PM (cash bar) and dinner at 6:30 PM. Keynote speaker will be Bastrop County Judge Ronnie McDonald. See and share the brief bio about this remarkable elected official and public administrator and make your reservation now to hear him speak. * The "Announcements and Activities" at http://www.main.org/aspa/new.htm also include a link to Public Employees Roundtable (PER), source for free PSRW celebration supplies and sponsor of a public service scholarship contest (for which applications are due 19 May). Be sure your city, county, agency, business or community organization event is listed on the big national calendar PER is compiling online. Other items featured include a link to the program and registration site of a major performance measurement conference in Austin 25-29 April and more, links to two innovation and excellence award nomination opportunities with upcoming deadlines. The announcement page is designed to be printed and posted wherever ASPA members and prospects gather. You can also copy/paste and e-mail it or this notice to a friend who might like to know more about CenTex ASPA activities. * New links of special interest to public administrators -- at http://www.main.org/aspa/links.htm -- include TACNews, an online publication of the Texas Association of Counties, the site of the Project Management Institute's Austin Chapter, and the Innovation Journal. There's also the standing link to ASPA's growing international "Online Community", a members-only service with message boards, free e-mail, webpages, and much more. COMING SOON...WATCH FOR... * More news, including details about PSRW poster pickup points, upcoming programs and networking events now being planned, stories about CenTex ASPA members' experiences at the amazing national ASPA conference in San Diego 1-4 April, updates about the five Texas semifinalists in the prestigious Innovations in American Government award (including TWO managed by CenTex ASPA Council member Sharon Zambrzycki!), and links to new reports on state employee wages and turnover. * More pictures and bios of CenTex ASPA Officers and Council * More content by more authors, thanks to volunteers for the CenTex ASPA Webteam...want to join? Reuben Leslie, Jr. rlsd@io.com Webmaster, CenTex Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) http://www.main.org/aspa 25 April 2000