Business View Magazine | December 2020

305 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2020 ALABAMA LEAGUE OF MUNI C I PAL I T I ES and confounding many. He notes, “So, what we are dealing with is how do our cities pull out of the economic picture that COVID-19 has imparted on us? To understand where we are and how we get back to where we were before the pandemic. We think that’s going to be valuable and important to them, to understand there is a way out, but we have got to reimagine what that looks like.” To help municipalities deal with facing the challenges of a post-COVID world, ALM recently partnered with some of Alabama’s top minds in economic development to host a conference geared toward elected local officials to define what role those officials play when it comes to the economic development of their municipalities and how to get a sense of what they can do in the current economic climate. For 85 years, the League has served as the primary legislative advocate for Alabama’s Greg Cochran, ALM Executive Director, pictured with ALM Vice-President Gary Fuller, Mayor of Opelika, ALM President Leigh Dollar, Mayor of Guntersville, and ALM Immediate Past President Ronnie Marks, Mayor of Athens. League headquarters, completed in 1970, in downtown Montgomery is within walking distance of both the Alabama Capitol and the Alabama State House. It was expanded in 1992 from 7,500 square feet to 22,000. Both the land and structure are owned by the Alabama League of Municipalities. Courtesy of Elmore DeMott