On September 30 I retired from active employment in local government after more than 38 years–the last 13+ years as Human Resources Director for the City of Medford. \u00a0I will continue to be active, however, as Chairman of the Board of \u00a0the HRA VEBA Trust, a three-state health benefits trust serving more than 40,000 local government employees in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. I will also continue to actively support the Oregon Chapter of the International \u00a0Public Management Association for Human Resources, and the Oregon chapter of the National Public Employer Labor Relations Association. \u00a0It was \u00a0pleasure to appear at ORPELRA’s annual conference this week in Wilsonville, talking about experience with Oregon’s employment relations statute.<\/p>\n
Some random thoughts on retiring;<\/p>\n
And, since I don’t believe in only 10 rules, here’s another (like rule 10 advice from Charles Schulz):<\/p>\n
“People expect more of you when you have naturally curly hair.”<\/p>\n
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