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What's Happening with the Fire Service?

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

In May 2016, Mayor James Kenney appointed Adam Thiel to serve as the 20th Fire Commissioner for the City of Philadelphia. From 2014-2016, he was a Deputy Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security for the Commonwealth of Virginia. How do you measure up when it comes to experience and education? and 30,000 employees.

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Revisiting Pittsburgh and Allegheny County as an opportunity for city-county consolidation: The "RiversCity" proposal

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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. Later I suggested this for Baltimore City and County (" Opinion: What Baltimore and D.C. Louis City and County (" St. Louis: what would I recommend for a comprehensive revitalization program?

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30 November 2017 | Rethinking the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Who’s Funding Whom?, by Kelly LeRoux

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

To many scholars in the field of public administration and public management, the study of nonprofit organizations is viewed as a narrow niche, a handful of people working at the margins of the field on topics that largely sit outside of mainstream concerns for public managers. Yandle, Tracy, Douglas S.

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Why Washington County, Wis. Chose to Pursue Priority Based Budgeting

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

"Before diving head-first into a local government’s budget season, it’s important to establish priorities first." Priority based budgeting is something that we believe will greatly benefit our County for the next decade ” - County Administrator Joshua Schoemann Among Priority Based Budgeting implementers, there is an evolution underway.

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PERFORMANCE READER’S GUIDE (PART 2)

Barrett & Greene

Manoharan , executive director of the National Center for Public Performance at the Institute for Public Service (IPS), Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University; Robert Shea , chief executive officer of GovNavigators and former associate director of the U.S. And, if you have additional suggestions, please send them in!

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They need to be thinking about and planning for how transit strengthens and improves communities, rather than just thinking about transit in terms of modes or engineering or budgets. Putting a Bias for Action into Planning Agency Management: A Practitioner's Perspective ," Public Administration Review , 1986). . *

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Public Administration Under Trump: An Age of Institutional Decline? By Don Moynihan

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Public administration can be seen as the study of people, organizations, and institutions. Much of our work as public administration scholars has focused on individual-level outcomes or organizational variables, but in a context where we could take for granted a stable institutional background. It means using your voice.