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INSTITUTE FOR ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT 1313 East 60th Street Chicago, IL 60637-2881 Telephone: 312/667-2200 FAX: 312/667-2304 of the AMERICAN PUBLIC WORKS ASSOCIATION RECEIVEL) JAN 2 4 19go January 4, 1990 All Chapter Presidents and Chapter Committee Chairs of Institute of Administrative Management The National Institute of Administrative Management has adopted the following goals for 1990: 1. Improve the quality of leadership and management of Public Works Programs. 2. Address employer/employee issues such as good employer practices, promotion of effective labor management relations, employee assistance, job satisfaction, job involvement and development programs. 3. Improve members effectiveness in public communications in order to create a better understanding of Public Works. 4. Cope with the issues of the future. 5. Expand the base of information and understanding of Public Works financing needs and solutions. Demands on Public Works Directors probably have never been greater and will not be greater than those being faced by Public Works Directors in the 1990's. All Public Works Directors will be facing a rapidly deteriorating infrastructure with limited financial resources and with rapidly changing technology in the whole field. Consequently, the Institute of Administrative Management felt it advisable that a new set of goals be instituted addressing what was perceived as the most important issues facing Public Works Directors and Administrators in the 1990's. We feel very strongly that a better liaison needs to be established between the National Office and Institutes and the Chapters and their respective parallel Institute Chairs. We have made an attempt as an Institute at the Congresses to invite Chapter Presidents and parallel Chairs to workshops with the hopes of soliciting ideas and developing the relationship where National can work more closely with the Chapters in supporting their specific areas of activity. Having been a committee chair of IAM Chapter Institute, I am fully aware of the difficulty of establishing meaningful programs for presentation to the members and for promoting the concept of the importance of the administrative management in the whole perspective of APWA.