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Sep 29, 2026
Dave MartinHOST
We've, we've, uh, done a little bit of research about what's going on in Boulder.
Dave MartinHOST
So let's start at the very beginning, the reason why I met you folks is we're here at the National Association of Counties, and you won an achievement award for, you know, best in your class for a program called Boulder County's Public Health Healthy Eating, correct?
Ashley StolzmannGUEST
That's correct.
Dave MartinHOST
Did I get it right?
Tamika PuckettGUEST
If there's a law or code or something of that nature in the jurisdiction that you're working, you want to make sure that you are incorporating whatever guidance comes along with that into the governance for your organization.
Tamika PuckettGUEST
And then there are also organizations that are specific to public entities, right? There is one that is called Gov AI Coalition and then the National Association of Counties, both of which have released very practical public sector specific AI governance tools and templates that can be ready to use to kind of kick off or jumpstart any governance program for a public entity.
Shonda RaglandNARRATOR
What core principles should an AI governance policy protect?
Tamika PuckettGUEST
So this one is a really good one as well, because there are a number of things that AI governance should protect, and it can be industry specific.
Michelle RathmanHOST
My thanks to both Commissioner Schaefer and Stroph.
Michelle RathmanHOST
And a thank you, a big thank you goes out to the National Association of Counties for helping us connect with them.
Michelle RathmanHOST
You know, before we move on, I just want to say one thing that was really clear to me after this conversation and meeting both these gentlemen is that they both care fiercely about the communities and the counties they serve.
Michelle RathmanHOST
And I hope that that came through to you as well.
Allison WunschHOST
GFOA has been collaborating with the Environmental Finance Center Network on education related to small water systems.
Allison WunschHOST
We are here today with Charlotte Mitchell-Dysart, Associate Legislative Director with the National Association of Counties, and Steve Vaya, Director of Federal Relations with the American Water Works Association.
Allison WunschHOST
We are going to be talking about regulatory changes related to PFAS drinking water standards.
Allison WunschHOST
We're excited to have Charlotte and Steve with us today to discuss this topic.
Charlotte Mitchell-DuyshartGUEST
Thank you so much for having me today.
Charlotte Mitchell-DuyshartGUEST
My name is Charlotte Mitchell-Dicehart.
Charlotte Mitchell-DuyshartGUEST
I serve as the Associate Legislative Director for Environment, Energy, and Land Use at the National Association of Counties.
Charlotte Mitchell-DuyshartGUEST
NACO represents the interests of America's 3,069 counties, parishes, and boroughs and serves as a powerful voice in federal policymaking and a vital part of our nation's intergovernmental system.
Anders ReynoldsHOST
There's got to be so much more to learn about this.
Bill HodgeHOST
Yeah, I mean, I'm curious, you know, Mark, to your ideas of the Sovereign Wealth Fund and the stewardship economy, how would somebody from NACO, from the National Association of Counties, react to something like that? It's hard pressed for me to think of a reason why they wouldn't see it as a positive, but I'm curious what we're not, what we haven't addressed yet since, as Andrew's put it, we just barely scratched the surface here.
Mark HaggertyGUEST
We introduced legislation with Wyden and Crapo that would have created a sovereign wealth fund to refinance the Secure Real Schools program.
Mark HaggertyGUEST
NACO endorsed it.
Mark HaggertyGUEST
They were totally on board.
Mark HaggertyGUEST
The opposition came from two places to the extent, you know, NACO was on board, but there were some counties that didn't like it.
Mark HaggertyGUEST
There are counties... that like tying their budgets to extractive industries because they're ideologically positioned or they, you know, like the industry, whatever, right? They're trying to get that back.
Mark HaggertyGUEST
There were also opponents on the environmental side that said, wait a second, why are we, whether it's direct payments or a sovereign wealth fund, why are we providing any benefits to communities from timber extraction? Right? So we kind of had that horseshoe effect where like we had the broad middle and then at the two extreme ends, they came together to oppose it.
Julie RogersGUEST
Got to know you all very well.
Julie RogersGUEST
Was very engaged with both MAC and NACo.
Julie RogersGUEST
I love attending conferences.
Julie RogersGUEST
I'm an, a lifelong learner, and I would say that the MAC, um, conferences and the NACo Co- National Association of Counties conferences just provide so much educational opportunity.
Julie RogersGUEST
We're elected into office, whether it be local government or state, and we're suddenly expected to be experts.
Julie RogersGUEST
I'm an expert in health policy, but I'm not necessarily an expert in all these other fields, whether it be veteran services or brownfields or, you know, all these different things that counties touch.
Julie RogersGUEST
And we just had one of these situations when the tornado hit Three Rivers, which is only 30 minutes from my community.
Julie RogersGUEST
And I was still working w- a weekend at my hospital, and we had some issues with our IT going on, and I went back to my county government roots and kind of started triaging kind of in a government capacity.
Dan HollawayHOST
And no appropriation.
Dan HollawayHOST
The National Association of Counties, which represents the people who actually run all this machinery, flagged that the bill imposes these duties without defined timelines, guaranteed resources, or implementation flexibility, and authorizes no additional federal funding.
Dan HollawayHOST
If you've listened to me talk about this, I think that's a mistake.
Dan HollawayHOST
uh never would i want to spend more government money but if that's the only hold up to this then i think maybe we should look into it if the if the conversation is can we secure our elections uh no because people can't afford it if that's really the only argument i kind of feel like we can turn that argument off in a single generation As for where it stands, this is the fastest moving part of the story.
Dana BarrettGUEST
But But the lifetime elections officials are deeply committed to the process, no matter what party they're from.
Dana BarrettGUEST
That's something that we see when we're meeting together at the National Association of Counties meetings, at the state counties meetings.
Dana BarrettGUEST
And I really think there is a commitment from elections officials across the country to get it right.
Dana BarrettGUEST
But now we have this extra requirement for coordination with the law.
Mark PoloncarzHOST
I want to finish talking about FEMA.
Mark PoloncarzHOST
I was on a national task force for the National Association of Counties to come up with a better version of FEMA.
Mark PoloncarzHOST
And we've had some recommendations that I think are very good that are being implemented on the federal level.
Mark PoloncarzHOST
But when people hear that FEMA is coming to a disaster, they think, oh, everything's great.
Greg LindsayGUEST
You're not in every hyper locale.
Greg LindsayGUEST
And it's been interesting to see like, you know, so apparently the National Association of Counties, like there were 500 bills last year at the state level to preempt county level control.
Greg LindsayGUEST
30 percent of them succeeded.
Greg LindsayGUEST
But like the states are trying to like create that flattening of a playing field so that you can actually start to achieve scale.