Conference of Urban Counties

TechShare

TIHCA

The work of the Urban Counties is organized into five programs:

The IGR program is the central focus of Urban Counties activities and consumes the lion’s share of staff time. In addition to advancing the interests of the urban counties in the legislative process, the IGR Program provides analysis of all proposed legislation, attorney general opinions, and proposed administrative rules. Reports and newsletters are produced by the staff and sent out to urban county officials as needed to keep them informed of new issues that may impact their counties.

The Events and Programming Program covers all Urban Counties activities to develop continuing education courses for urban county officials that are tailored to their needs.

This program covers all projects that provide services directly to Urban Counties members, like the popular Clippings service, whereby members receive a daily email containing clippings of interest to counties from newspapers on both the state and national level. The member services program is also instrumental in developing new programs of the Urban Counties to provide savings for county government, such as the exciting new TechShare program (see below).

This program covers all of the work necessary to govern and organize the association’s activities on a day-to-day basis.

The TechShare Program is a significant new program for the Urban Counties, with the potential to realize substantial savings for Texas counties. The goal of the TechShare Program is to leverage existing technology based projects, assets and resources among the members to save counties money and improve IT systems and capabilities.