How to Join a Steering Committee 

If you have knowledge or an interest in a certain issue area or concerns about the effects of federal legislation on your county, then you should become a member of a NACo Steering Committee. The steering committees enable county officials from member counties to become actively involved in NACo’s policy process.

The process of joining a steering committee is simple: You need to apply through your state association of counties.

Here are the important points to remember:   

• Your state association receives steering committee nomination forms from NACo in the spring.  You should fill out and submit a nomination form to your state association of counties approximately one month before the NACo Annual Conference, which usually occurs in July.
• You should mark on the nomination form your first and second choice of which steering committee you would like to serve.
• Members of NACo affiliate organizations who want to serve on a steering committee should follow the same process.

NACo makes every effort to accommodate the nominee’s first choice of steering committee assignments. Committee appointees serve on a committee for one year and cannot transfer membership to another committee, or serve on more than one steering committee, during that year.

•  2011 - 2012 NACo Steering Committee Nomination Form