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Page 3 • WHAT HAS THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES DONE RECENTLY ABOUT . . . SMALL COMMUNITIES? The League's Small Cities' Council continues to help NLC's leadership insure that the needs of the nation's smaller municipalities -- its most numerous ones -- don't get overlooked. NLC worked hard to enact specific provisions in the new tax bill which benefit smaller cities, towns, and villages. We recently published The State of the Small City, a comprehensive survey of community conditions and problems in cities and towns under 50,000 population. NLC's annual convention always has a full slate of workshops designed specifically to meet the needs of officials from smaller communities. And NLC's newspaper, Nation's Cities Weekly, regularly features news from and about smaller communities. INFORMATION RESOURCES AND SERVICES? The Local Information Network for.Universal Service (LINUS) , sponsored by NLC and the International City Management Association, already has more than 700 participants. LINOS provides an instant electronic communications network linking cities and towns to each other, to their state municipal leagues, and to NLC. And NLC, through a cooperative venture with the Control Data Corporation, also uses the Local Government Information Network (LOGIN) to help cities solve problems and share information. LOGIN provides a • computerized data base of innovative local government programs and solutions to common city problems. NLC also has a computerized data base containing information on elected and appointed officials in more than 2,800 communities, plus detailed information on selected city characteristics (fiscal year, form of government, election dates) as well. NLC uses this information to publish a regular series of up-to-date directories of elected and appointed municipal officials. NLC's Municipal Reference Service has a comprehensive collection of books, journals, and other information about municipalities, and responds to more than 2,000 substantive inquiries from member cities and towns each year. And for keeping abreast of developments in Washington that will affect local governments, Nation's Cities Weekly newspaper is the most authoritative and up-to-date source of information for local policy leaders. The Weekly also reports regularly on innovative programs which cities and towns across the country are undertaking to solve municipal problems. CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS? Each year, NLC holds two major conferences -- the nation's largest gatherings of municipal officials. The annual Congress of Cities, held shortly after Thanksgiving each year, is • packed with more than 40 workshops on subjects ranging from solid waste management to housing strategies. NLC's Officers and Board of Directors are elected and the National Municipal Policy is adopted each year at this (over, please)