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How Marathon County, WI Gets Their Priorities Straight!

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

." - Brad Karger, Marathon County Administrator Brad Karger This article originally written by Brad Karger and published in the Summer 2016 Marathon County Newsletter. 160 million dollars ($160,000,000) is A LOT of money. That’s the size of Marathon County’s annual budget. So don’t let anybody tell you that the County is broke.

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What It’s Like to Be a Parks and Recreation Director

Let's Talk Parks

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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From LAX to ONT: The Transfer of Ontario International Airport and its Economic Implications

The Lowe Down

In November 2016, ownership of ONT was returned to the Inland Empire from LA County. After a period of power struggle back and forth, it was decided that ownership of ONT would be returned to the Inland Empire, with the official transfer taking place in November 2016. Under the leadership of the Inland Empire, ONT is now ranked 9th.

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How governments can transform services securely in the cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

In my experience as the chief operating officer (COO) for the UK Government’s Digital Service (GDS), I saw first-hand how approaches to security in the cloud can affect digital services delivery. In 2016, on the eve of the voting registration deadline, political leaders referred audiences to the website after a live TV debate.

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

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

By looking at many factors of the City’s operations, Priority Based Budgeting starts to identify services areas that are important to our community ,” said City Manager Sam Anselm. “ But there has not been enough growth in the city's general revenue fund to pay for all the city's operational costs along with pay raises for city employees.

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The question of how best to fund Metro is an important one that requires thought leadership and extensive community input. Operating safely isn’t a choice. From the article: The capital improvement program reflects the region’s commitment to maintaining and improving your community’s $100 billion transit asset.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The leadership of the FHLBs, along with various beneficiaries of their subsidies, has also begun to aggressively lobby and advocate against virtually any proposed change that it views as detrimental to its bottom line. The private persona of a GSE is that it is owned and capitalized by the private sector and operated as a for-profit company.