 "Serving Western Legislatures" Council
of State Governments - WEST OFFICERS Melvin
R. Brown Jeannette
Hamby Timothy
Z. Jennings Manny
M. Aragon Kent
Briggs COMMITTEE CHAIRS Electrical
Industry Restructuring Future
of Western Legislatures Energy
& Minerals Western
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Boarder Smart
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CSG-West Meeting to Close with Executive Committee Session and a Look at 1998 Elections Tuesday, September 22 schedule For Immediate Release: September 21, 1998 Contacts:
WHAT: Day four features a morning session of the CSG-WEST Executive Committee. Meeting highlights will include expansion of the states’ role as intervenors before the U.S. Supreme Court, opportunities for collaboration on Western transportation policy, a discussion of the areas of agreement and concern with the Western Governors’ Association Environmental Management Program, and the discussion and adoption of policy positions. The CSG-WEST Annual Meeting concludes with a panel of national experts who will make predictions about the 1998 elections. WHEN:
WHERE: Hotel Captain Cook, 939 West 5th Ave., Anchorage, AK, Discovery Ballroom. WHO: Executive Committee: "Expanding the Role of the States as Intervenors before the U.S. Supreme Court, Richard Ruda, Executive Director, State and Local Legal Center, Washington DC; Opportunities for Transportation Collaboration, Jerry Overton, Acting Director, MultiState Highway Transportation Association. The 1998 Elections program will be moderated by Phil Burgess, Center for the New West. Presenters are Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, Politics of California and the West, and David Moore, President, the Gallup Organization HOSTS: The Alaska Legislature and The Council of State Governments-WEST, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to cooperation and collaboration among Western state legislators. # # # |