Community Leadership Development
Class 6 Holds Session 4 in Ardmore

October 12, 2017

The Community Leadership Development class traveled to Ardmore October 5th and 6th for Session 4, Lead by Example.  

Thursday October 5th the class had the opportunity to attend OML’s District Dinner Meeting at Café Alley.  The District Dinner Meeting was the first District meeting of the year.  Executive Director Fina welcomed the class and gave an OML update and Missy Dean, Deputy Director of External Operations/Government Affairs gave a legislative update.  Wrapping up the evening Vice Mayor Sheryl Ellis welcomed the group to Ardmore and shared some of the past and present exciting changes taking place in her city!

Ardmore City Manager, JD Spohn welcoming the CLD class

Class members from the City of Wagoner presenting The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.  Left to right, Bob Haley, Chief of Police, Kim Door, HR Director, and Dwayne Elam, City Administrator.

Friday morning the CLD class met at the Ardmore City Hall Commission Chamber.  City Manager JD Spohn welcomed the class! The morning session class members gave presentations, and James Johnson, Director of Programs, Oklahoma Department of Commerce talked with the class on how to respond to requests for proposals.  The class then took a short walk to Casa Roma and had a delicious meal and then walked through the downtown shops.  Following lunch Mike Mowery with Strategic Government Resources presented Leading by Example.

A big thank you to the City of Ardmore for hosting this event!  Thank you to Vice Mayor Sheryl Ellis and JD Spohn, Ardmore City Manager.  We would also like to thank CLD 6 class members and City of Ardmore staff Kevin Boatright, Assistant City Manager and Jessica Scott, Director of Development Services and Lori Linney, Assistant to the City Manager for coordinating all the events that made session 4 a great success!

The next class will be held December 8th in Alva for Session 5.  The CLD Class 6 would not be possible without the generous support of community partners, including Oklahoma Natural Gas, Public Service Company of Oklahoma and Phillips66.

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