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January 22, 2025
11:30AM - 1:00PM CST

January OKC LinkUP Luncheon & General Meeting

Featured Speaker: Mike Fina - Exec. Director, Oklahoma Municipal League

**NEW VENUE** | Innovation Hall | 316 NE 9th St | Oklahoma City, OK 73104


ORCA is excited to kick off the first LinkUP Luncheon of the new year! We're equally excited to announce a new venue for 2025, which is the brand new Innovation Hall event space.

**Please note: Innovation Hall offers more than 600 parking spaces located in their underground parking garage at no cost to attendees.

Registration for the 2025 luncheons will be
$25 for ORCA members | $50 for non-members

Our featured speaker for January will be none other than Mike Fina, Executive Director of the Oklahoma Municipal League (OML). We are excited to be working more closely with the OML to ensure that we align on various issues that affect our industry, our members, and the communities they are a part of. Forging strategic relationships is one of ORCA's primary goals as we move the association and our agenda forward. 

Mr. Fina will be talking about a number of issues that ORCA and the OML are communicating and coordinating on, as well as the strategy and thought process behind these discussions. Legislators and municipal leaders alike look to the OML as the collective voice of local government at the state and national levels. The OML strengthens municipalities and empowers municipal officials by providing education, resources, and a platform for collaboration. 

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  Mike Fina is a native of Piedmont Oklahoma. He graduated from Texas State University where he was active in student government and played fullback on the Bobcat football team.
 
In 1999, Mike began working for the Oklahoma House of Representatives and served a number of roles before becoming Press Secretary to the Speaker of the House.
 
After leaving the Legislature, Mike was the Spokesperson for the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department. He also served as Aide to former Corporation Commissioner Jim Roth, and served as Chief of Staff for former Lt. Governor Jari Askins.
 
In 2006 Mike was elected to the Piedmont City Council and the following year was elected Mayor. In 2010 he was honored by the Oklahoma Municipal League as the Mayor of the Year.
 
In 2011 he launched a consulting and public relations firm serving mostly regulatory clients. In 2014 he was asked by a telecommunications client to serve as President and did so until accepting his current position as Executive Director of OML.
 
During his tenure with OML, Mike has served on numerous boards and commissions. He was selected to serve on the National League of Cities Board of Directors and in that capacity was asked by the President of the organization to serve on the Budget Committee. Mike has served on the Rural Broadband Expansion Council and was the Chair of the Oklahoma Broadband Governing Board. He currently serves on the Oklahoma Route 66 Centennial Commission.		  

 

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