A Week to Celebrate: Public Servants & Municipal Clerks

This week is celebrating two large groups of government employees: Municipal Clerks and all of those in Public Service.

Public Service Recognition Week

About: Public Service Recognition Week (PSRW) is hosted annually by the Partnership for Public Service and the Public Employees Roundtable.

Their website has a “Celebration Toolkit” and an “Events” page to help you celebrate the week.



Municipal Clerks Week

“This event features a weeklong series of activities aimed at increasing the public’s awareness of Municipal Clerks and the vital services they provide for local government and the community.” (source, PDF)

“The true worth of the Municipal and Deputy Clerk is often not realized,” said IIMC President Sharon K. Cassler, MMC, Clerk of Council in the City of Cambridge, Ohio. “But Clerks perform some of the principal functions of the democratic process.” (source, PDF)

Here’s a “Fact Sheet” (PDF) on the week.



*Also, May 3rd is World Press Freedom Day.

Information on their Webcast Series can be found here.


HT to GovLoop for the reminder about PSRW, to the NC Clerks Listserv for the heads up about Municipal Clerks Week, and to this Tweet on Twitter from @digiphile / this search for multiple Tweets the on #WPFD Twitter hashtag on Twitter. A similar version of this was originally posted at the company that I work for’s product blog (Disclosure: the product deals w/ transparency, gov’t, & technology)