President’s Message November 2024

Greetings to all members of the National Association of County Administrators (NACA). It is truly a pleasure to serve as your President and I continue to do my best to successfully represent this organization during my tenure.

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.

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 professional development and recognition of very critical work performed by you all daily in the nation’s counties.

For information on what we are involved in please check the NACA website at countyadministrators.org for information or to find out how to reach me regarding things we are doing that you like and ideas on how to make NACA more of a valued resource for you. County government provides so many critical and essential services so let’s all promote our work to the fullest extent possible! I am very excited to announce the first-ever NACA Virtual Idea Exchange on December 4, 2024, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm CST via Zoom thanks to our partner Mission Square Retirement.

Once again, thanks for your support. Wishing you all a prosperous and joyful holiday season and I look forward to seeing you all at the 2025 NACo Legislative Conference March 1-4 in Washington D.C.!

Yours Truly,

Kenneth N. Wilson, MPA, CTA, ECI

President, NACA