Yours truly had the pleasure of speaking to more than 100 members of municipal councils and school committees on Friday night as part of the Newly Elected Leaders Orientation at Bryant University organized by the Rhode Island League of Cities and Towns and the Rhode Island Association of School Committees in collaboration with Bryant’s Hassenfeld Institute for Public Leadership. Tim Duffy, who heads the school committees group, says the two-day orientation is designed to give the rookie officials “practical training on the most pressing issues and laws impacting them.”