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Colorado Municipal Clerks Association

CMCA promotes, enhances and encourages the professional development and standing of municipal clerks through cooperation, communication and education.

 

The Benefits of Membership

Joining the Colorado Municipal Clerks Association (CMCA) provides an excellent opportunity to get involved with Municipal Clerks across Colorado and access excellent educational and networking resources. Our site provides some introductory resources for you to look around at, but if you want full access to all of the resources, you'll need to become a member of the Colorado Municipal Clerks Association. 

Curious about what CMCA has to offer? Here's an overview of what membership gets you: 

  • Access and special member pricing to regularly scheduled Professional Development Opportunities (PDOs). There are both virtual and in-person PDOs where you will get the opportunity to spend a day learning about a topic and earn points towards your CMC or MMC. 
  • Access and special member pricing to Athenian Leadership Dialogues.
  • Notice and special member pricing when registration opens for the Annual Clerk's Institute as well as the CMCA Annual Conference. 
  • Invitations to join virtual Coffee with the Clerks meetings to network and troubleshoot your pressing issues with other members of CMCA. 
  • Access to our members-only forums where other Municipal Clerks share their perspectives and ideas. 
  • Access to a library of resources including on-demand brief educational videos, sample information and policies from other municipalities, and so much more!
  • For more information here are several FAQ's our Membership Committee has complied to assist you! 
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How to Navigate the Website

Membership has its privileges!  Our website offers many self-service and exclusive benefits that only members and/or their employees can take advantage of.​ To ensure only Members receive these benefits, these areas of our site require a valid log in.​  The more you update and personalize your membership, the more value you will receive from us.  Once you have a Username and Password, you can use it to access any Members-only or restricted items, like event discounts, members events, member directory and the social community features.  If you have forgotten your password, no worries! Click ‘forgot your password’ or ‘forgot username’ and enter the email address associated with your profile. You will then be emailed a link to reset your password. ​(HINT: you might want to try your email address as your username.)  To receive the link via email, the email address you enter must be the email address in your membership profile. Click here access the "Website Guidebook". 

Check out the Calendar to the right, as well as the "Quick Links" that will take you to your transcripts and our Learning Management System (LMS), where you can take your assessments.  Be sure to update your profile, and subscribe to any e-lists you are interested in.
 

 Clerk Corner | Finn Foster


My name is Finn, and I work for the City of Greeley as the Boards & Commissions Coordinator. I also serve as a backup Administrative Hearing Clerk, a Website Content  Coordinator, and a Project Manager for an ongoing data migration project. Overall, as we know in the Clerk world, there are a few different hats to be worn simultaneously! ?

What accomplishment are you most proud of in your career?

I’m proud of a lot of things, so choosing just one feels borderline cruel haha I’d say I’m most proud of how far I’ve come since I started two years ago. I began as a Boards & Commissions Coordinator who was still figuring things out, and I’ve since grown into a broader municipal professional role. One accomplishment I’m especially proud of is working with my boss to streamline and improve our boards and commissions processes, making them more efficient and manageable. Along the way, I’ve also taken on responsibilities spanning project management, various cross-departmental website maintenance tasks, public meetings, hearings, and more.

What is your favorite thing about your job?

The people and the unexpected! After more than two years, you might think you’ve seen everything for your main role, only to walk in one morning and be completely surprised by something completely new. I especially love the relationships I’ve built with people in my department, across other departments, and even with members of the boards and commissions I work with. There’s always something new to learn, and the people I work with are a huge part of what makes the job so enjoyable! It has also been incredible to get to know people at other municipalities and that has been an absolute blast connecting with others across the state of Colorado! 

What is your favorite thing about your municipality?

The camaraderie between my colleagues in the City Clerk’s Office and Community Development. We jokingly call our shared office the “fishbowl” because residents can watch us work through a large, rounded window! More than anything, I love the connections I’ve made here at my municipality and the people who make coming to work so enjoyable. I also really appreciate the ongoing effort to encourage collaboration and interaction between departments across the municipality: it’s great seeing people from different areas come together and work toward the same goals.

What are you most passionate about?

Learning and charting the unknown! I love new experiences, traveling, learning about different cultures and languages, meeting new people, and stepping outside my comfort zone. I’m always up for an adventure!

What’s the most random task or assignment you have?

A lot of people could relate to this in the Clerk world; but overall, probably the fact that my job doesn’t really have a “normal” day! Between boards and commissions, administrative hearings, website content, and data migration, I can wear several completely different hats all in the same day. Municipal government has a funny way of keeping you on your toes! 

If you’re comfortable, feel free to include a few sentences about yourself (hobbies, background, or anything fun you’d like to share).

I have a pretty unusual hobby: I help build and restore World War II tanks! I’m also fortunate enough to be sponsored to help at an annual tank event called Militracks in Overloon, Netherlands: a hobby I owe largely to my dad and the tank owner we volunteer for. It’s definitely a “Wait…you do WHAT?” kind of hobby! ?I’m also a huge foodie, so the quickest way to become my friend is to introduce me to a yummy restaurant or be willing to try one with me! I love traveling abroad, learning about different languages and cultures, meeting new people, and experiencing things outside my normal routine. If I had to describe myself in one phrase, I’d say I’m an adventurous introvert. I love people, connections, and adventures, but I also need some quiet time to recharge. I can happily spend one day exploring a new country, going out with friends, snowboarding in the winter, or getting ready for a hockey game, and the next day be perfectly content curled up at home with my cats and gaming online with friends. In short: foodie + history/political science nerd + traveler + language enthusiast + adventurer + introvert + cat guy. ???