2017 Outstanding Local Government Achievement (OLGA) Award Winners

Categories and Honorees for the 2017 OLGA Awards

• Gateway Lifetime Public Service Award
  • Dr. Edward Hillhouse
  • Nancy Thompson
• Exemplary Accomplishment by a Local Government Jurisdiction, Agency or Individual
  • Dr. David K. Tan, M.D.
  • Manufacture Craft Your Future
    – Leadership Council Southwestern Illinois
    – Madison Employment and Training/Workforce Investment Board
    – MidAmerica Workforce Investment Board
    – Southern Illinois Builders Association
    – St. Clair County Intergovernmental Grants Department
• Exemplary Intergovernmental Collaboration
  • St. Louis Regional Freightway
  • Consolidated Municipal Courts
    – St. Ann
    – Vinita Park
    – Charlack
    – Northwoods
    – Wellston
    – Beverly Hills
• Exemplary Public/Non-profit Collaboration
  • Monroe County House of Neighborly Service
    – City of Waterloo
  • City of St. Louis, City Energy Project
• Leadership in Planning and Design Innovation
  • St. Louis County Library District
    – “Your Library Renewed”
  • Madison County Upper Silver Creek Watershed Plan
    – Heartlands Conservancy
    – Madison County

Videos of 2017 Award Winners and Their Projects