WILLMAR -- Peter Hutchinson, president of the Bush Foundation, will speak in Willmar on Dec. 2.
Hutchinson is also a former state finance commissioner and was the 2006 Independence Party candidate for governor.
He will speak on "Government Service Redesign and Spending Reform" from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Willmar Conference Center, hosted by the Willmar Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce.
Cost is $10, including lunch. To make reservations, call 320-235-0300 or e-mail chamber@willmar areachamber.com.
Hutchinson will talk about the problems facing Minnesota and outline the kind of leadership it will take to solve them.
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Hutchinson has been president of the St. Paul-based Bush Foundation since December 2007. The foundation was established in 1953 by 3M executive Archibald Granville Bush and his wife Edyth. Its aim is to help improve the lives of the people of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota and in the 23 sovereign tribal nations in those states. In 2009, the Foundation made grants of approximately $35 million.
Before moving to the foundation, Hutchinson was co-founder of the Public Strategies Group, a St. Paul company that redesigns and transforms governments throughout the world. He also served as the vice president for external affairs for the Dayton Hudson Corp. and chairman of the Dayton Hudson Foundation. He was superintendent of the Minneapolis Public Schools and was a deputy mayor in Minneapolis. Hutchinson is coauthor with David Osborne of "The Price of Government: Getting the Results We Need in an Age of Permanent Fiscal Crisis."
