July 1, 2002

A number of videotapes produced by the Conference of Mayors were premiered at the Madison meeting:

"Detroit to Madison" featured Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and Conference Executive Director J. Thomas Cochran in remakes of the DaimlerChrysler Dodge Ram commercials "The Mayor of Truckville". The videotape began with Mayor Kilpatrick and Executive Director Cochran leaving Detroit, the site of the Conference of Mayors 69th Annual Conference, and "driving" to Madison, the site of the 70th Annual Conference of Mayors. Along the road, they experience a number of "situations" found in the Dodge Ram commercials. The video ends with them arriving in Madison, doing a quick tour of the sites mayors will be visiting, and then arriving at Monona Terrace after picking up Trenton Mayor Doug Palmer, the Conference's membership director. Following their entra"The Morial Year" paid tribute to past president New Orleans Mayor Marc H. Morial. A number of dignitaries paid tribute to the mayor's leadership of the Conference including Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton (NY) and Lincoln Chaffee (RI) Jonathan Tisch, Chairman of the Travel Business Roundtable, Robert Lynch, President and CEO of Americans for the Arts, and jazz great Ellis Marsalis. Highlights included Mayor Morial's work on Amtrak and transportation, brownfields, metropolitan economies, terrorism prevention, travel and tourism and the establishment of the International Conference of Mayors.

"The Morial Year" paid tribute to past president New Orleans Mayor Marc H. Morial. A number of dignitaries paid tribute to the mayor's leadership of the Conference including Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton (NY) and Lincoln Chaffee (RI) Jonathan Tisch, Chairman of the Travel Business Roundtable, Robert Lynch, President and CEO of Americans for the Arts, and jazz great Ellis Marsalis. Highlights included Mayor Morial's work on Amtrak and transportation, brownfields, metropolitan economies, terrorism prevention, travel and tourism and the establishment of the International Conference of Mayors.

"The Mayors Role in Homeland Security" featured the mayors leadership post 9-11 and included mayors excerpts from news broadcasts on NBC, ABC, CNN and PBS. The video also showed a number of local events held under the Conference's program "Cities Unite America and Thank New York Firefighters."

"Mayor Menino Becomes President" focused on Boston Mayor Menino's assumption of the Conference presidency and included his leadership in the housing area having convened at National Forum on Housing. Excerpts were also shown from his inauguration held in Boston.