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MME President: beginnings, endings, and begin again
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January 13, 2023


Beginnings, endings, and then begin again 

Michael Cain | MME President


First, I would like to wish each of you a Happy New Year. Hopefully, the start of 2023 has been good for you and yours.  As I begin this, my final newsletter article as your president, I can’t help but reflect on this past administrative year and all that has been accomplished.  In some ways it seems like the we were just at the Winter Institute in Troy instead of making final preparations for the one later this month in Grand Rapids.  Sure, there have been plenty of challenges, but we have worked our way through them one by one and, hopefully, will be even better prepared and ready for anything MME going forward. Read more. 

Register Today for Winter Institute

Matthew Butts | Board Member, MME


There is still time to register for our Michigan Municipal Executives annual Winter Institute happening this year in Grand Rapids Jan. 31-Feb. 3. We have numerous outstanding sessions and activities planned for the conference, including vetting your police chief, EMS on life support and what managers can do about it, leading through crisis, collective bargaining 101, and much more. Read more.

Member’s Success

Martin A. Colburn | Chair, Member Success Committee


How do we measure a member’s success? There are so many different values and goals that each one of us can measure success. However, a great effort has been made in recent years through the Michigan Municipal League (MML) that helps value placing more women into the executive seat in local government. Our profession, not unlike many others, has been slow in supporting women in management positions. Read more.

New MME Board Announced

Michael Cain | MME President


I wanted to share with you all your Michigan Municipal Executives officers and board members for 2023. Thank you to all those who expressed an interest in serving. We’re only as strong as our members and I’m confident this group of leaders will do an excellent job serving the membership. Here’s your board for this year … Read more.

Experience Committee Update

Al Vanderberg | Chair, Experience Committee 


The Experience Committee will be rolling out the updated MME History at the Winter Institute in a few weeks.  The updated version will consist of the previous versions combined into a digital format with some updated material.  The intent is to make this a living document that can be updated annually as we go instead of a printed document (though we may print a version in addition to the digital version at some point) that exists for decades until someone gets the itch to update it. There will also be the capability to add video content such as interviews with MME luminaries from the past and present. Read more.

Follow MME on Twitter

Advocacy Committee


As you peruse your respective social media sites, please consider following MME's Twitter page @MIMunicipalExec. And as you post about your fantastic community, feel free to use the hashtag #MME so that we can all hear about and enjoy how great your community is doing. Check out our Twitter page.

New MME Members


New applicants for MME membership from the months since the last MME E-Newsletter was distributed are listed by category on the Member News page of our website. Any objections that would impact their membership status or category should be submitted to MME within 60 days of the date of this publication. Objections should be addressed to the Ethics Committee Chair, Robert Bruner at r.bruner@troymi.gov.

View the latest list of new MME members.

Save the Date for Future MME Events 

Winter Institute
2023 – January 31-February 3, Grand Rapids

Summer Workshop
2023 – July 25-27, Frankenmuth

Past Events

Winter Institute
2022 – January 25-28, Troy

MME Summer Workshop
2022 – July 19-22, Holland


MME Vision 2020 Strategic Plan Final Report


Member News


Member News features recent job changes, retirements, and remembrances for MME members. It also highlights new MME and ICMA members. Have someone you'd like to add? Email the details to webposting@mml.org.



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