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League of Minnesota Citie? <br />January 5, 1993 <br />3490 Lexington Avenue North <br />St. Paul, MN 55126 <br />(612)490-5600 7 3993 <br />TO: All clerks, mayors, and managers <br />FROM: Larry Bakken, president <br />SUBJECT: New LMC executive director <br />It gives me great pleasure to announce that the board of directors of <br />the^League of Minnesota Cities has agreed to hire James F. Miller, <br />Minnetonka city manager, as the new executive director of our <br />organization. Jim will tako over on February 4^ 1993* <br />Many of you know Jim on a personal basis, but for those of you who <br />don't, let me give you a brief history of his career. He has been <br />Minnetonka's city manager for the past 13 years. He was the <br />assistant city manager in Des Moines, Iowa; assistant to the city <br />manager in Janesville, Wisconsin; administrative assistant to the <br />village manager in Brown Deer, Wisconsin; and served a management <br />internship in Phoenix, Arizona. He is an adjunct professor in the <br />graduate program in public administration at Hamline <br />was an instructor in the graduate program in public adm.inistration at <br />Drake University in Des Moines. <br />in my estimation. Miller is the most suitable person „ <br />fill the position of executive director of the League. He xnows the <br />policies and personnel of the League, inside and out. is familiar <br />with the questions and problems facing cities in Minnesota, and is a <br />proven and capable leader. <br />In addition to possessing ovf r 27 years of cumulative city go/er^ent <br />experience, he is also a past president of the League of m <br />Cities. He was a past chair of the LMC budget committee, is a member of <br />the Association of Metropolitan Municipalities' metropolitan ajencies <br />conwittee. and chair of the operating committees fo**, i«« <br />Southwest Suburban Cable Commission and the Municipal Legislative <br />Commission. He is a past president of the ^etro^lltan Area <br />Managers Association and the Local Government Information Service ana <br />a member of the LMC's development strategies committee. <br />I urg«' you to avail yourself of Jim's expertise once he becomes <br />settled In his new environment. I'm pv->sitive that he will be one or <br />the great leaders of the eo-year old association.