CAMBRIDGE MATTERS
By: Commissioner Steve Rideout
swrideout@aol.com
June 11-13, 2018
Attached is my report on what I learned at the Maryland Municipal League Conference that was held earlier this week. Also included is a Power Point presentation with regard to one of the trainings that I attended. I anticipate that additional Power Point presentations will be available that I will share with you as I receive them.
While the training opportunities on paper did not at first appear to be that interesting, I found that every session that I attended was well prepared and presented and that I returned to Cambridge with information from all of them that will help me in my work as a City Commissioner.
I hope that you find the attached helpful and interesting.
Upon my return from the conference, I also found a book called “Our Towns” by James and Deborah Fallows that had been delivered. My thanks to Ed Mihok for thinking of me and offering me the opportunity to read what looks like a very interesting book. The flyleaf of the book says in part “A vivid, surprising portrait of the civic and economic reinvention taking place in America, town by town and generally out of view of the national media. A realistically positive and provocative view of the country between its coasts.”
I plan to provide you more information about it in the future, after I have had the chance to read it and think about how it relates to what is happening or not happening here in Cambridge.
All the best,
Steve