Local Leadership Workgroup
Upcoming Meetings
Local Leadership Workgroup Meeting - Fall 2022
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 from 9:00am - 12:00pmScope and Purpose
The Local Leadership Workgroup was established in 2014 after the signing of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement. This workgroup exists to accomplish the local leadership outcome outlined in the Agreement. For more information, visit the local leadership management strategy page.
Subscribe to the Watershed Currents Newsletter: Resources for Local Governments
This bi-monthly newsletter features curated inspirational and informative resources and content for local governments within the Chesapeake Bay watershed region. Check out some past examples of our newsletter below.
Projects and Resources
A Local Government Guide to the Chesapeake Bay
A Local Government Guide to the Chesapeake Bay is a seven-module series created to support decision-making by local officials. Local leaders make decisions that set the course for their community and local government actions determine the health and vitality of their jurisdiction, as well as that of local waterways and the Chesapeake Bay. Local officials can achieve mutually beneficial outcomes by prioritizing local economic development, infrastructure resiliency, public health, and education, while also protecting your environment.
Project Materials
Below are links to pdf versions of these materials. For access to editable versions of these files, please email lgac@allianceforthebay.org.
To offer feedback on these modules, please use this survey.
- How your watershed works fact sheet (pdf - 2.634 MB)
- Foundations of clean water fact sheet (pdf - 1.974 MB)
- Clean water for the economy fact sheet (pdf - 1.802 MB)
- Capitalizing on the benefits of trees fact sheet (pdf - 2.013 MB)
- Preserving local character and landscapes fact sheet (pdf - 2.161 MB)
- Protecting your infrastructure through stormwater resiliency fact sheet (pdf - 1.867 MB)
- Building the workforce of today and tomorrow fact sheet (pdf - 1.925 MB)
- Module overview one pager 1 (pdf - 5.27 MB)
- Building the workforce of today and tomorrow (pdf - 40.276 MB)
- Module 1 how your watershed works (pdf - 131.035 MB)
- Module overview 1 2 (pdf - 2.195 MB)
- Module 2 foundations of clean water (pdf - 63.234 MB)
- Module 3 clean water for the economy (pdf - 66.986 MB)
- Module 4 capitalizing on the benefits of trees (pdf - 101.895 MB)
- Module 5 preserving local character and landscapes (pdf - 134.321 MB)
- Module 6 protecting your infrastructure through stormwater resiliency (pdf - 136.534 MB)
Watershed Currents Newsletter: Resources for Local Governments
Watershed Currents is a bi-monthly curated newsletter that highlights local case studies and provides inspirational and informative resources for local governments and interested parties within the Chesapeake Bay watershed region. Each newsletter will be themed-focused and organized by local priorities impacting local government communities today. Please see below for past editions of the Newsletter:
September 2022: Hazard Mitigation
Publications
Local Leadership Pre QPM Logic and Action Plan 2021
Local Leadership Pre-QPM Logic and Action Plan 2021
View detailsLocal Leadership Quarterly Progress Presentation 2021
Local Leadership Quarterly Progress Presentation 2021
View detailsMembers
Heidi Bonnaffon (Chair), Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
777 North Capitol Street NE
Suite 300
Washington, Districtofcolumbia 20002
Email: hbonnaffon@mwcog.org
Michelle Edward (Vice Chair), Rappahannock-Rapidan Regional Commission
Laura Cattell Noll (Coordinator), Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
501 Sixth Street
Annapolis, Maryland 21403
Email: lnoll@allianceforthebay.org
Phone: (443) 949-0575
Phillip Stafford, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Jim Sullivan, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
Mark Hoffman, Chesapeake Bay Commission
60 West Street
Suite 406
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Email: mhoffman@chesbay.us
Phone: (410) 263-3420
Nancy Nunn, Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology
Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology, Inc. P.O. Box 169 124 Wye Narrows Drive
Queenstown, Maryland 21658
Email: nnunn@umd.edu
James Wheeler, Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors (PA)
Andy Fellows, Environmental Finance Center - UMD
Don Phillips, Local Government Advisory Committee
Pam Shellenberger, York County (VA)
Jake Reilly, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
1133 Fifteenth St., N.W., Suite 1100
Washington, Districtofcolumbia 20005
Email: jake.reilly@nfwf.org
Ben Alexandro, Maryland League of Conservation Voters
Megan Lehman, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Chris McDonald, Virginia Association of Counties (VA)
Michelle Gowdy, Virginia Municipal League
Heidi Bonnaffon, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
777 North Capitol Street NE
Suite 300
Washington, Districtofcolumbia 20002
Email: hbonnaffon@mwcog.org
Pat Calvert, Virginia Conservation Network
Martha Narvaez, University of Delaware
Michelle Edward, Rappahannock-Rapidan Regional Commission
Jen Cotting, Environmental Finance Center - UMD
Rick Vilello, Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development
David Wood, Chesapeake Stormwater Network
Kate Fritz, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
14741 Governor Oden Bowie Drive
Upper marlboro, Maryland 20772
Email: Katharine.Fritz@ppd.mncppc.org
Phone: (301) 952-5402
Jennifer Starr, Coordinator, Local Government Advisory Committee
501 6th St
Annapolis, Maryland 21403
Email: jstarr@allianceforthebay.org
Phone: (443) 949-0575