Let's Talk Parks

APRIL 25, 2020

I met Sean VanRoenn at the Colorado Parks and Recreation conference in September of 2016 through a networking event where young professionals were paired with a director of parks and rec. But what I do is a lot of budget management, managing our personel, day to day operations of our facilities. Which is why I interviewed Sean.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JULY 19, 2016

"Some recommended updates to the strategic plan include revising prioritized strategic goal ranking, adding outcome statements for strategic goals, and integration of priority-based budgeting references." Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada, is leading the way in priority based business planning and budgeting.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

" This approach ensures every decision council makes is viewed through a priority lens. " - Mayor Roxanne Carr Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada, is leading the way in priority based business planning and budgeting. Heading into county budget 2017 Today, council begins its formal budget discussions.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 3, 2023

In 2018, the Office of Management and Budget made VA a lead agency partner to pilot improving CX across the federal government. Barbara Morton, the VA’s deputy chief veterans experience officer, who joined the office in 2016, has been a leader in that change. I wish I’d known back in 2016 that there were others like me.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Many have had serious budget problems. I wrote about this in more depth in " 6Ps and cultural planning and the failure to create a network of African American historic sites across the DMV " (2016) in response to articles spurred by the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Part 1: Conceptualising Cultural Quarters " ( Planning, Practice & Research, 18:4)," to music as a performing art in terms of developing "music as production" as opposed to "music as consumption." From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 4, 2023

Second, during the 2008 crash, I got an email from an activist in response to all the budget and service cuts faced by transit systems. My response was you don't develop such relationships in crisis, but when times are good, and hopefully, those relationships and funding streams can survive exogenous shocks. Step 3: Fix the Funding.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

can do to start working better together as a region (Baltimore Business Journal op-ed ," 2016), and I support efforts to do this for St. It was probably easier for Louisville because Knoxville city and Knox County had merged some functions--but not the city and county--years before. Louis City and County (" St.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

about the importance of CapitalOne Arena on the development of Downtown's East End. Fort Worth Star-Telegram ). I argued it would have happened anyway. said "no, the Arena has had significant impact." The reality is that he was right (" More sports: sports-anchored entertainment districts and LA Live."

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

AUGUST 16, 2016

Just one week ago, our 5 th Annual (un)Conference on Priority Based Budgeting concluded, and to quote one of our attendees who has been to all five “it was easily the most complete Conference, and also the most forward-looking.” Entering 2016, over 100 communities had implemented PBB.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Summit County where Park City is then developed a similar tax, called RAP, Recreation, Arts and Parks. It's called ZAP and it covers three areas: the Hogle Zoo, Parks both the County system and projects by the various cities, and funding for cultural organizations. I don't know if other jurisdictions elsewhere in Utah have done the same.)

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Partnership for Public Service

MARCH 22, 2023

In 2016, the Office of Management and Budget directed agencies to improve the way they serve the public by integrating their risk management functions with their internal controls—internal processes designed to help agencies effectively and efficiently achieve their objectives.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Over the past twenty years a set of institutionalized funding relationships developed in which nonprofit organizations in the forms of private philanthropic foundations and “friends of” charities formed and now raise increasingly large share of revenues to help pay for public services. Who Benefits from Nonprofit Economic Development?

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

2 The report came about at a time when the FHLBs have been increasingly criticized for neglecting their housing and community development mission and instead using their subsidies and privileges to benefit their financial institution owners and executives. mortgage originations.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 11, 2023

From the article: a state law decentraliz[ed] the Chicago school system and giving parents and educators the power to review school budgets and hire principals. The same organization that publishes CR published Catalyst , which ceased operation in 2016, after publishing for 26 years. School reform and how can communities respond.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 2, 2022

aren't selling very quickly It does get back to understanding the factors that support long term value, which I've written about in: -- " The eight components of housing value ," (2016) -- " Revisiting factors influencing housing purchase ," (2021) Decline in attractiveness of center city location with shift to work from home. Pella Corp.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

budget calculations but intentionally set things up so that the broader financial marketplace believed the government had an obligation to never let the two companies default on their debt; 15 this allowed the marketplace to largely ignore measures of GSE financial strength, in particular their capital ratios.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. Very soon into my writing, before the blog, a bunch of DC cultural institutions failed, so this became an ongoing topic.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

To riff off this, there are five other elements at a minimum that matter a lot, that cities aren't budgeting or planning for, if their central business districts become meccas for housing: public safety. This reminds me that when Toronto did an urban grayfield development project in the 1970s, creating the St. cleanliness.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 29, 2025

Thats why, when a critical application was reaching end of life in 2016, the university saw an opportunity to completely transform its IT landscape. Working closely with AWS, Seattle University has now migrated more than 50 percent of its applications to the AWS Cloud and is actively migrating the remaining 50 percent.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 22, 2024

In the case of many of these councils it has led to budget cuts to many services, redundancies, fire sales of council properties and an appeal to central government for bailouts. But Labours overall communities strategy needs to be considerably fleshed out if its impact is to be transformative.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

In fact, light rail here in Salt Lake was spurred by the 2002 Olympics, it's a small system and doesn't go to all the places it should, but it's complemented by a developing commuter rail program, a dinky streetcar line on the south side of Salt Lake and South Salt Lake, and a decent enough bus system.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York City Lack of budget. A big problem is that park departments have budgets that are inadequate to meet the demand for services, so programming tends to be an after thought, maybe funded by special grants, or offered in association with other agencies to share the cost, but mostly doesn't exist.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 19, 2023

WMATA has even more issues because if either Maryland or Virginia have Republican Governors, it makes it very difficult to develop consensus support for such a tax, because they see it, justifiably or not, as helping DC disproportionately. Step 2: Separate planning from budgeting. And later about various funding mechanisms. -- St.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

One of the special interest sections of the American Planning Association is Planning and Women and the Women's Transportation Seminar is a professional development organization for women working in the transportation field. Gender budgeting. Women and the history of the planning profession. 3, Supplement.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

The proposed Director of the Office of Management and Budget, charged with keeping the governments financial house in order, is best known for championing government shutdowns and defaulting on debt payments in order to pursue social issues such as defunding Planned Parenthood. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 22, 2016.

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