President’s Message April 2025
Greetings to all members of the National Association of County Administrators (NACA). It is truly a rewarding experience serving as your President and representing this organization. As county management professionals, we are vitally important during this challenging and unpredictable economic period.
As you know, NACA provides us with a valuable network of professionals who have committed to public service, with whom we can share insights on county-specific management challenges and opportunities. Please contact us if there is anything we can do to assist you in getting involved with our organization.
NACA encourages professional excellence to improve the management of county government. Our members are county administrators & managers from across the country, and many are members of the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), and their counties belong to the National Association of Counties (NACo).
We are all proud to provide support for professionally administered county government. NACA is valuable in several ways, such as providing a peer network of professional county administrators and promoting continuing professional development, and amplifying essential work performed by you all every day leading the nation’s counties.
For information on what we are involved in, please read through the news or skim the events on this website or follow us on LinkedIn. I very much value every member of this organization, so please feel free to contact me with any ideas on how to make NACA more of a valued resource for you. County government provides many critical and essential services, so let’s all promote our work to the fullest extent possible! I am very excited to announce our 3rd NACA Virtual Idea Exchange on May 8, 2025, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm CST via Zoom, thanks to our partner MissionSquare Retirement. Please review our website for details regarding this exciting upcoming conversation among county administrators and other professionals.
As we have kicked off April as County Government, it provides numerous opportunities to highlight the daily extraordinary work by managers and administrators of America’s 3069 counties. Please send us any exciting things in your counties that we could share on social media. On behalf of NACA, I would thank each one of you for your confidence in us and your support of our mission. I look forward to seeing you all at the 2025 NACo Annual Conference on July 11-14 in Philadelphia City and County, Pa.
Yours Truly,
Kenneth N. Wilson, MPA, CTA, ECI
President, National Association of County Administrators
County Administrator
Franklin County Board of Commissioners
