KATHIE NOVAK Joins CPBB as Senior Advisor

The Center for Priority Based Budgeting is thrilled and honored to announce an exciting new partnership with Kathie Novak, a former long-term Council member, former two-term Mayor of the City of Northglenn, Colorado, and former President of the National League of Cities. She joins CPBB Founders Jon Johnson and Chris Fabian in bringing the dynamic and established concepts of Fiscal Health and Priority Based Budgeting to local governments nationwide. Kathie's wealth of experience and insights from the perspective of an elected official will truly enhance and energize the work of the CPBB. Welcome and congratulations Kathie!

Kathie states, "I so believe in what the Center is doing…helping elected officials and communities really understand their financial situation, better communicate that information to their citizens, and use that information to make the best decisions possible for their communities in light of  changing economic situations.    The tools they have developed help policy makers move from the “What we know we need/would like to do”  to the “How do we actually make it happen.”  I wish I had this available when I was in office!"

 

Kathie Novak

Kathie Novak is currently a Senior Advisor with the Center for Priority Based Budgeting, a non-profit located in Denver, Colorado. She is currently a part time lecturer for the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver.  Kathie has experience in the private, public, and not for profit sectors. 
Kathie has 19 years of elected public service, eleven as a member of the Northglenn City Council, and an additional 8 years as Mayor.  She was term-limited in 2010.  During her time in public office, she served as President of the National League of Cities in 2009, and held numerous other leadership positions.  She consults in the areas of leadership development, management training, team building, and facilitation.  She has worked as an international consultant, specializing in program development, curriculum development, and training. Kathie has been a presenter and speaker at numerous national and international conferences.
She earned her Master of Science in Management from the University of Colorado at Denver, and has an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and has been teaching management at the graduate and undergraduate level since 1991.

Her awards include the 2012 John V. Christensen Award for exemplifying the tradition of John V. Christensen in promoting and working for good, strong, representative local government and regionalism in solving mutual problems; “9NEWS Leader of the Year” for 2003, “Businesswoman of the Year,” awarded by the MetroNorth Chamber of Commerce, “Excellence in Teaching Award”, from Regis University, and was awarded an American Marshall Memorial Fellowship, for travel in Summer 2002.