2023 Agenda

Thursday, June 8

9:00 a.m. Registration and Municipal Resource Showcase

9:45 a.m. Welcome - Barbara Buffaloe, Mayor, Columbia

10:00 a.m. MML Services - Ramona Huckstep, Policy and Membership Associate, MML

10:30 a.m. Fundamentals of Municipal Gover nment - Allen Garner, Attorney, Allen Garner Law, LLC

11:30 a.m. Conducting City Business - John Young, Attorney, Hamilton Weber, LLC

12:30 p.m. Lunch and Municipal Resource Showcase

1:30 p.m. Personnel Law - Ivan Schraeder, Attorney, Schraeder Law Firm

2:30 p.m. Break

2:45 p.m. Ethics - Liz Ziegler, Executive Director, Missouri Ethics Commission

3:45 p.m. Break

4:00 p.m. Planning and Zoning - Brian Malone, Attorney, Lashly and Baer, P.C.

5:00 p.m. Adjour n

5:30 p.m. Reception/Networking

Friday, June 9

7:30 a.m. Breakfast

8:00 a.m. KEYNOTE: Destination Creation In Any Size Community: One Business At A Time - Jon Schallert, President, The Schallert Group, Inc. 9:00 a.m. Break

9:15 a.m. Media Relations - Drew Douglas, Director of Communications, Nixa

10:15 a.m. Revenue Sources - Stuart Haynes, Director of Administration and Policy, MML

11:15 a.m. Break

11:30 a.m. Missouri Sunshine Law - Erin Seele, Attorney, Cunningham, Vogel and Rost, P.C.

12:30 p.m. Adjour n

Jon Schallert is the only professional speaker teaching businesses and communities how to turn themselves into consumer destinations. Schallert speaks to thousands annually on his “Destination Business” process, that he developed after speaking in more than 600 communities and interviewing more than 10,000 independent business owners.

In this session, Schallert explains his proprietary 14-step Destination strategy that can turn any city, town or county, large or small, into one that attracts more customer traffic from both inside and outside a marketplace, leading to measurable revenue increases.

This is community reinvention from the bottom up as entrepreneurs contribute to the improvement of a community, regardless of an area’s current demographics.

8 hours of MGI and 1 hour of AMGI credit available!

by Padraic Corcoran and John Mullane