During his tenure as a member of the National League of Cities' (NLC) Board of Directors and President of Hispanic Elected Local Officials (HELO), he helped initiate and craft the NLC's policy process and position in support of comprehensive immigration reform.
NLC's Hispanic Elected Local Officials (HELO) constituency group honored Mayor Julian Castro with its Local Hero Award for his leadership as the new mayor of San Antonio and as the host of this year's NLC Congress of Cities during the conference last month.
NLC's Hispanic Elected Local Officials (HELO) constituency group is pleased to announce that Henry Cisneros, an NLC past president, will serve as one of its national leadership honorees at the upcoming HELO Special Reception at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Annual Conference in Washington, D.
The Hispanic Elected Local Officials (HELO) constituency group took time during the Congressional City Conference to discuss how to strengthen the group and NLC and examined best practice models.
Founded and sponsored by the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials (NBC-LEO), this year's breakfast event was jointly sponsored by all of NLC's constituency grips including Women in Municipal Government, the Hispanic Elected Local Officials, the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Local Officials and the Asian Pacific American Municipal Officials.
At this year's Congress of Cities, the Asian Pacific American Municipal Officials (APAMO) had the opportunity to cosponsor an NLC Leadership Training Institute seminar, "Intergenerational Communication: Tools for Communicating with Your Constituents," with the Hispanic Elected Local Officials (HELO).
In addition, APAMO will serve as a cosponsor of a Leadership Training Institute seminar with the Hispanic Elected Local Officials (HELO), "Intergenerational Communication: Tools for Communicating with Your Constituents," on Wednesday, November 14, from 9:00 a.