Senate Minority Leader Bill Doyle has been appointed by to serve on the Council of State Governments' Eastern Regional Conferences's Executive Committee from 2011 through 2012.
"As a member of the Executive Committee, I will play a key role in guiding the important work of the Council of State Governments," Sen. Doyle said.
"Through CSG, a national organization with a regional conference structure, officials in Vermont and the Northeast can share information with colleagues across the country. In these though fiscal times, we need to share ideas and best practices more than ever."
CSG/ERC is a non-profit, non-partisan organization, located in New York City since 1937, serves legislative, executive and judicial branch officials in 11 Northeastern states, as well as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Eastern Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Quebec.
Its mission is to promote successful state policy innovations, advocate multi-jurisdictional problem solving, advocate for regional interests at the federal level, offer leadership training and technical assistance and forecast policy trends that affect the Northeast.
CSG/ERC's policy staff supports the three branches of state government through nine areas of special concern to the region. These include agriculture, criminal justice, economic development, education, energy and environment, fiscal affairs, health care, transportation and US-Canada relations.
For more information on CSG/ERC's policy areas, as well as copies of its publications and information on its 2011 Annual Meeting and Regional Policy Forum, please visit www.csgeast.org.
" In many areas, such as the environment, energy, transportation or agriculture, our concerns in the Northeast are quite different from other regions of the country, " Sen. Doyle said. " As a member of the CSG/ERC Executive Committee, I can help advance regional solutions to the problems we face and, when necessary, speak with a single voice in Washington on critical regional issues with my counterparts in the Northeast."
