Public safety and criminal justice professionals encounter a myriad of society’s most difficult and demanding challenges. The sound leadership principles and skills taught in this training will provide new, current and future leaders at all levels with a foundation that will allow them to immediately transfer these principles and skills to real-life challenges that they will encounter in both their personal and professional lives. ? Teaches sound personal leadership skills ? Promotes and influences doing the right thing, noble and constitutional thing ? Promotes and encourages self-awareness and self-discipline ? Promotes “good faith decision making” ? Aids in reducing “unethical breakdowns” ? Great risk management and legal review ? Aids in reducing misconduct, lawsuits, and complaints ? Aids leadership in resetting the organizational culture To attend this training, please register online at www.dodsontraining.com. Pre-payment is not required to register.

The Complete Count Committee was created to work in conjunction with the U.S. Census Bureau to raise awareness and drive local participation in the 2020 Census. Committee members span a wide array of representatives from local organizations in both the public and private sector.

Regular monthly meeting of the New Braunfels Downtown Board

Councilmember Shane Hines, New Braunfels City Council District 1 representative, will host a citizen forum on Thursday, December 19th, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., at the Westside Community Center. The center is located at 2932 S. IH 35 Frontage Rd. in New Braunfels. The forum will include a presentation by City Capital Programs Manager Jennifer Cain and staff on an overview of the 2013 and 2019 Bond projects recently completed, currently in-progress and planned capital improvement projects in the district and city-wide. Councilmember Hines and staff will then be available for a general question and answer session and residents are encouraged to attend and participate.