From: Leslie & Downe [rlsd@io.com] Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 12:04 AM 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 Website Update 17 July 2000 CenTex Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration updates website at http://www.main.org/aspa . This notice is intended as a service to members -- with a timely reminder about an important program for which reservations are due in just two days. If you do not wish to receive similar notices in the future, please so indicate via e-mail to CenTex ASPA Webmaster at rlsd@io.com. Highlights: * IMPORTANT MEETING. A Special CenTex ASPA Luncheon Program on "The State of Career State Employment -- Employee Turnover, Employee Benefits, Threats & Opportunities" will be at 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM at Texas State Capitol Annex, West Dining Area of Cafeteria on Level E1. Speakers will be Sheila Beckett, Executive Director of the Employee Retirement System of Texas on employee benefits; Matthew Levitt with the Texas State Auditor's Office on State Employee Turnover report. Cost: $15 (includes full buffet, tax, and tip). For reservations by 19 July, contact Bill Billingsley, CenTex ASPA Vice President, at billyb2@flash.net or see announcement and online reservation form at www.main.org/aspa/rsvp0726.htm. PHOTO ALBUM. A few photos are now online with mostly non-descriptive captions at http://www.main.org/aspa/picts/index.html. If you see yourself or someone you know and would like to suggest a caption, contact the webmaster at rlsd@io.com. OFFICERS AND COUNCIL PAGE now includes bios and pictures for some, at http://www.main.org/aspa/officers.htm. NATIONAL NIGHT OUT is coming up August 1. See http://www.nationaltownwatch.org/ and the CenTex ASPA resolution in support of National Night Out at www.main.org/aspa/nno-res2.htm for more on this event. PUBLISH, PRESENT, AND BE PART OF A NATIONAL ASPA CONFERENCE! August 15 is the deadline for individual paper and presentation proposals for the ASPA National Conference "NEW CENTURY * NEW CITIES * NEW CHALLENGES", scheduled for 9-13 March 2001, in Newark, New Jersey. Panel proposals were due 1 July and are under consideration. See announcement in PA Times and online at http://216.149.125.141/2001conf/call.html. CenTex ASPA provides support for James W. McGrew Award Winners whose papers are accepted for presentation at the national conference. MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS. See announcements page at http://www.main.org/aspa/new.htm for latest on the mentoring mixer coming up the 15th of September and the 2000 Texas ASPA Conference now being planned for October 6. AGAIN, the online reservation form for the upcoming meeting at the Capitol is at http://www.main.org/aspa/rsvp0726.htm Reuben Leslie, Jr. rlsd@io.com Webmaster, CenTex Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) http://www.main.org/aspa 17 July 2000