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City of Joplin, MO Residents Engage with City Budget Survey to Rank Seven City Priorities

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Residents were not asked to vote on specific city services to fund or how much funding they thought should go toward specific services. It ends with: "Where would you place your votes?" Residents were also told they could give zero points to statements with which they did not agree, but all seven received points.

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City of Toledo Mayor Hopes Move to PBB Will Restore Faith in City Government

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Toledo City Council unanimously voted last month to spend up to $50,000 from the city’s general fund to hire the Center for Priority Based Budgeting, of Englewood, Colo. He made his comments before a webinar with Colorado-based consultants hired to shepherd the city through a review of its budgeting practices.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The book Community Economic Development Handbook is very good on microenterprise development and the development of locally owned businesses and the differential impact on the local economy. I argued for years that the move by the teams to DC from the suburbs weren't the reason that the Downtown East End began revitalization.

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Strathcona County Updating Priority-Based Strategic Plan

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Council members voted unanimously to approve the revised strategic plan and corporate business plan. The Center for Priority Based Budgeting “A Prioritized World” 2016 Annual (Un)Conference Denver, Colorado | August 2 - 4, 2016 Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel Register Now and Book Your Hotel !

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Revisiting what I wrote about in 2010/2012 back to the fore: regional cultural funding in Greater Detroit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I am not sure it passed, because there is a vote in August on a property tax levy for the Detroit Institute of Arts. Also see " As millage vote looms, lawmaker and DIA spar over finances " from the Detroit Free Press. As center cities have declined, they no longer have the financial resources to do so. From the article: Democrat Rep.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

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Music in the American Wild ( webpage , Eastman School of Music) was a program where new music compositions were commissioned to play in 12 National Parks, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the park system in 2016. From the article: “Home Land Security” opened a few months after the Brexit vote and ran through the U.S.