Page 4 - 4Q 2016 Reporter
P. 4
Message From
the League President
“The dreams of golden glory in the future will not
come true unless, high of heart and strong of hand, by
Erich Bloxdorf our own mighty deeds we make them come true.”
Teddy Roosevelt
As we close the book on 2016, we reflect on the develop strategies for legislative engagement and
past and dream of the future; sure in the knowledge regulatory relief. We began planning our outreach
that we will act on those dreams. 2016 was a year efforts at the ABA Alliance Advocacy Workshop
of transition for The League and 2017 promises and State Issues Summit in October. A key
to be a year of transition for our country and, component of this process will be the distribution
hopefully, our industry. and compilation of our annual legislative survey.
One of the most contentious elections in When it is distributed, please invest the time in
my memory came to a close with the seemingly completing this important survey. It truly does help
improbable election of Donald Trump as the us advocate for your issues.
45th President of the United States. This victory I am scheduled to meet with our newly elected
portends an opportunity for positive change for our officials in late January at the ABA Freshman
industry and The League is poised to capitalize on Fly-In. In conjunction with the ABA, we will be
that. participating in the Mutual Community Bankers
2016 ushered in a new chapter in the storied Conference and Government Relations Summit in
history of The League with the retirement of two Washington DC, March 20 - 22. This is a HUGE
long-tenured staff and the addition of two new (pardon the play off a popular term) opportunity
industry professionals. The fourth quarter of 2016 for us to influence the trajectory of legislative and
continued the streak of active months for The regulatory relief. If you have not yet registered, I
League. As you know, the four pillars of service of urge you to do so - you won’t regret the investment
the league are to advocate, communicate, educate of your time.
and innovate and we showed strong effort in each Finally, we are resurrecting our participation in
of these areas. the Springfield Lobby Day on April 4th. Partnering
with the Illinois Bankers Association and working
Advocate with our political consultants Leinenweber, Baroni
& Daffada LLC, we will pull together a program that
We continued to advocate and develop gets your unique voice heard at the State Capital.
strategies for our membership in the closing Save the date...there will be more to come.
moments of 2016. I attended a conference with
the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in Communicate
Chicago. We learned of their continued push to
move towards a more tailored approach to their One of my goals in coming to The League
mission, which was welcomed and endorsed by all was to improve our communication with members
attendees. and key constituents. As you may know, we have
With a new Administration scheduled to begun using social media with the creation of our
take office in 2017, I believe that we have an Facebook page. And through this channel we
outstanding opportunity to re-shape the regulatory have been sharing League and member news.
environment. With that in mind, we began to We also felt that if we were improving our
1
Fourth Quarter 2016 IllInoIs RepoRteR
