Tax Commissioner Katherine Sherrington holds annual Leadership Conference

Lawrenceville, Ga., (April 29, 2008) – Katherine Sherrington, Gwinnett County Tax Commissioner, held her annual Leadership Conference at Snellville’s City Hall Conference Room April 23 – 25, 2008, for the managers in her office. Sherrington conducted the conference as part of her ongoing efforts to provide office leadership opportunities for development, while also emphasizing performance-driven customer services for Gwinnett citizens and taxpayers. 

   The conference opened with a welcome from Snellville Mayor Jerry Oberholzer and featured keynote speaker state Rep. Brooks Coleman (District 97, Duluth), who provided a leadership presentation. Also featured were presentations by members of Gwinnett County’s Human Resources and Finance Departments. Several members of Sherrington’s Citizen Advisory Council attended along with representatives of vendors that provide technology support to her office’s operations.

   “We owe a huge thanks to the City of Snellville for allowing us the use of their beautiful facility, which made the event possible,” Sherrington said. “I depend on the leaders in my office to provide the best possible quality and efficiency of service to the people of Gwinnett. The leadership conference gives us a great opportunity to identify ways we can further improve on those services.” 

   Sherrington also expressed appreciation of the presentation by Rep. Coleman, adding that his talk about his leadership experiences “contributed greatly” to the conference.

   While Sherrington has held leadership development activities at various times during her six terms of office, she expanded the training to a formal off-site format in 2006, first utilizing the county’s Shoal Creek Water Filter Treatment Plant’s conference facility in Buford. Conference sessions this year included presentations regarding several of her office’s key operations, technological developments in her office and table-top emergency continuity planning exercises that helped managers practice how to best react to crises as well as Sherrington’s traditional “State of the Office” address.