Event Materials:

2026 Summer Conference (Hilton Head, SC)

• 2026 Summer Conference Agenda
• Pre-Conference: Leading in Uncertain Times
• Revenues & Fiscal Affairs Update
• Building Resilience in Your Community
• Beyond the Org Chart: Building Collaboration That Actually Works
• City of Rockhill Ombudsman Program
• Florence County Leadership Development Program
• Riverside Village Development Case Study
• For Hype to Helpful: Practical AI Applications for Local Government Leaders
• Tri-County Biological Science Center

2026 Winter Conference (Kiawah Island, SC)

• 2026 Winter Conference Agenda
• South Carolina Population Trends and Fiscal Update
• Championing Local Government Service
• Artificial Intelligence Mini Bootcamp
• ICMA Updates - January 2026

Speaker Bios

• Pre-Conference and Keynote Speaker: Brooks Williams
• Championing Local Government Service Panel - Peggy Merriss, Kate Fitzpatrick, Alexis Kiser and Doug Wurster

2025 Summer Conference (Myrtle Beach, SC)

• Tilt 365: Tilting Presence
• Values, Pillar and Polarities
• Winning at Development: How to Manage and Pay for Growth
• Mind-First Wellness: Tools for Supporting the Wellbeing of Public Administrators in the Modern World

2025 Winter Conference (Kiawah Island, SC) 

• Conference Cancelled due to Winter Weather Event

2024 Summer Conference Presentations ( Hilton Head Island, SC)

Planning for Resilience

• Part 1
• Part 2
  
• SCCCMA Member Spotlight: Pickens County
• Leveling Up Your Communications
• DHEC Update

2024 Winter Conference Presentations ( Kiawah Island, SC)

• SC Economic and Budget Update
  
• When Industry Comes to Town: Lessons Learned on the Regional Impacts of Industrial Growth
  
• Passport Center Recruitment Presentation
• Confronting Artificial Intelligence in Public Management
  

SCCCMA Member Spotlight

• City of Columbia
• Dorchester County
• City of Fountain Inn
• Georgetown County
• City of Sumter

2023 Summer Conference Presentations (Myrtle Beach, SC)

• Maximizing State Agency Partnerships
• Michael Speakmon, State Fiscal Accountability Authority
• Candice Shealey, SC Emergency Management Division
• Ben Duncan, SC Office of Resilience
• Public Sector Workforce Trends: Recruitment and Retention
• How do you ARPA?

2023 Winter Conference Presentations (Kiawah Island, SC) 

• SC Economic and Budget Update.pdf
• SCDOT Update.pptx
• PEBA Update.pptx
  

2022 Summer Conference Presentations (Hilton Head Island, SC)

• Leading in a VUCA World
• SC DOT Update
• SC Rural Infrastructure Authority
• SC Economy & Budget Update
• Planning Tools
• Jacob Lindsey
• Spencer Wetmore
• SC DHEC

2022 Winter Conference Presentations (Kiawah Island, SC)

• Attracting & Retaining Top Talent to Assist Local Governments in Service Delivery

• ARPA & the Infrastructure Act in Local Government

• S.C. Economy, Budgets, & Revenue Update

• Update on S.C. Ports Authority

2021 Summer Conference Presentations (Myrtle Beach, SC)

• Building a More Resilient South Carolina 
• Resident Engagement for More Equitable and Impactful ARP Spending
• Managing Through Growth
• Managing Through (Growing) Pains
• David Vehaun, City of Rock Hill
• Shawn Bell, City of Fountain Inn
• Lori Thomas, Richland County
• Daniel Prentice, Dorchester County

2021 Winter Conference Presentations (Kiawah Island, SC) 

• DHEC Presentation on the SC Vaccine Rollout
• Census & Redistricting Council
• COVID-19 Effects on the SC Budget & Economy
• Strategies to Address Mental Health in SC Communities
• Dept. of Mental Health Presentation
• City of West Columbia Presentation
• Opportunity Zones in SC