2025 Summit
Vision thru Action 2025 - Leadership & Officer Summit
General Information
The Federation of Community Councils’ 2025 Leadership and Officer Summit – Vision thru Action.
March 15 & 16, 2025 @ Alaska Pacific University
Community Council Officers Leadership Training
The goal of the day was to equip Community Council Officers with the skills and knowledge they need to lead effectively and foster inclusive, collaborative council environments. Sessions covered topics such as board responsibilities, Robert’s Rules of Order, ethics, by-laws, and short-term strategic planning. Breakout sessions and interactive workshops will encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing among participants.
Setting Ground Rules: Municipal Code & Community Council By-Laws
Darrel Hess, Municipal Ombudsman
- Community Council By-Laws: a breakdown of by-law requirements for Community Councils
- Community Council 101: an explainer on Community Councils
- Community Council Roots: highlights and history of the Community Council Program from 1973 to 1978
- How to Submit New By-Laws: how Community Councils should submit new by-laws
Core Principles of Robert's Rules of Order
Christopher Constant, Assembly Member, & Jamie Heinz, Municipal Clerk
- Presentation Slides
- The Chair Recognizes: a booklet of Parliamentary Procedure
- Parliamentary Procedure: a reference guide to moving the meeting along
Ethics & Community Council Officers
Terrance Kelly, PhD, UAA Department of Philosophy
- Presentation Slides
- References from Dr. Kelly
- A Puzzle about Professional Ethics.
- Blindspots, Bazerman and Tenbrunsel: Surveys studies on implicit bias and how bias distorts ethical reasoning.
- Ordinary Men, Browning: Applies Milgram’s Authority Experiments and other social psychology to the open air shooting of the Holocaust.
- The Psychology of Evil, Zimbardo, TED Talk: Stanford Prison Study psychologist discusses that experiment as well as Milgram experiment and applies it to cases such as Abu Ghraib.
- Bowling Alone & The Upswing, Robert Putnam.
- Professional Ethics: A Trust-Based Approach, Terrence Kelly.
- Replication (within ethical limits) of Milgram Study for ABC Primetime.
- Ethics Unwrapped: Excellent website on behavioral ethics, bias, ethical theory. Great short videos and case studies.
Strategic Planning: Not Just a Piece of Paper
Presentation by Arianna Bellizzi, FCC Executive Director
Graphic Processing by Lee Post of PostMarks
- Presentation Slides
- Strategic Planning Questionnaire: questions to ask for making a strategic plan
- VMOSA Questionnaire: Vision, Mission, Objectives, Strategies, & Actions
- SWOT Analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, & Threats
- Meeting & Facilitation Tips: a guide with resources for leading a meeting
- Spectrum of Public Participation: the International Association for Public Participation’s Spectrum of Public Participation describes five general modes of public participation in democratic decision-making on continuum of increasing community influence
