(Why be a member?)
Round-Robin sessions
- Held quarterly
- Opportunities to discuss both local, regional, and state-wide concerns and best practices
Quarterly membership meetings
- Education on MN COLA focus areas
- Updates on happenings in St. Paul
- Annual election of open Board of Director seats
Recorded presentations on MN COLA focus areas
- Available on-line for replay for yourself or at your meetings
Current Waters newsletters
- Stay up to date on what’s happening in MN COLA
- Be alerted to water-related news
- Learn about upcoming educational opportunities
- Know what we are reading and seeing
- Get recaps of prior membership meetings
mncola.org Website
- Be alerted to upcoming events
- See important water-related news, curated by MN COLA
- Read about our focus areas and our agendas for local and statewide changes
- Search our repositories for access to information about water issues
- Find out how you can act on our collective causes
- Learn how and who governs MN COLA
- Join and renew your MN COLA membership
Influence our legislative and grass-roots action agendas
- You help us define and prioritize the issues needing local or statewide change
Leadership and Advocacy on water-related issues
- Our MN COLA Legislative Agenda team works directly with MN legislators and with MN Lakes and Rivers Advocates
- MN COLA leaders work on important statewide and regional committees on your behalf
Help for lake and river associations, COLAs and LARAs
- We “answer the mail” providing guidance on water-related issues