Washington, DC — The country'...

Washington, DC — The country's first Joint Center for Sustainable Communities has been created as a ensue of the release of the report of President Clinton's 1996 Council in succession Sustainable Development. Creation of the center which will provide a framework for city and shire implementation of the council's recommendations, was announced during a White House pres colloquy attended by Vice President Al Gore, Seattle Mayor Norm Rice; National Association of Counties President and Fulton shire Ga., Commissioner Michael Hightower; Tulsa, Okla., Mayor Susan Savage; NACo President-Elect and Hennepen shire Minn., Commissioner Randy Johnson, Marion shire Ore., Commissioner Randy Franke and Wayne shire Mich., Commissioner Edna Bell.

“The Joint Center describes an affirmative response by the nation's cities and counties to demonstrate that work at jobs creation, environmental protection and social opportunity must be complementary and interrelated goals for the time to come of our urban center and counties,” says