Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Public Issues Forum This Sunday

From Walter Diggs of the Memphis Public Issues Forum:

The Memphis Public Issues Forum is pleased to announce that Carol Coletta will be the featured speaker this Sunday, 3:00 PM, April 13, at the Hooks Central Library, Meeting Room C. Carol is president and CEO of CEO’s for Cities and host and producer of the nationally syndicated public radio show Smart City. She will be speaking about what makes cities successful.

Before moving to Chicago to head CEO’s for Cities, she served as president of Coletta and Company (now Smart City Consulting) in Memphis. In addition, she previously served as executive director of the Mayor’s Institute on City Design, a partnership of the National Endowment for the Arts, U.S. Conference of Mayors, and American Architectural Foundation.

She has interviewed almost 600 international urban leaders. We expect Carol to speak on talented, innovative, connected, and distinctive cities! The public is invited.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

So what happened?

I realize they may not have spoken about this but, maybe they did.

What are we doing to combat energy costs in public transportation?
What are we doing to offset or remove energy costs for street lighting and public bldgs?
Charging points for electric vehicles, seen any?