TCMA and ICMA have established a partnership for the Range Rider Program to make the counsel, experience, and support of respected, retired managers of the profession available to individual members. The program is designed to help with personal and professional issues.
How does the program work?
Range Riders are available to meet periodically with members to discuss the profession and concerns of members. Discussion topics range from problems with mayors and councils, overall management questions, relations with ICMA, responses to local controversies such as referenda on the council-manager plan, to career development counseling.
- All discussions are confidential. Range Riders are friends, colleagues, and counselors to the profession—not consultants. The Range Rider program is designed to help with personal and professional issues, not to provide technical assistance or solve substantive problems in a local government. Range Riders also help communities interested in adopting or retaining council-manager government.
- Range Riders are not compensated and the program is designed to expect from the Range Riders only the time they feel comfortable donating to the profession—usually a few days per month. Only expenses are reimbursed.
- Range Riders are selected jointly by the ICMA Executive Director and the managers’ state association. Expenses are shared by ICMA and the sponsoring state organization. The amount of expenses allocated depends on the size of the state, the number of Range Riders, and funds available from the sponsors.
- For more information, please visit ICMA Range Rider Program.
Interested in becoming a Texas Range Rider?
TCMA is conducting an open call for two Range Riders. Those interested in application, should review the TCMA/ICMA Statement of Policy and the ICMA Range Rider Program Guidelines and Manual. TCMA members are encouraged to invite respected retired managers to apply if they meet the qualifications.
Please contact Kim Pendergraft at [email protected] or 512-231-7442 for an application if you are interested in serving as a Range Rider. Deadline to submit your application is August 15.