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. Tell us about your position as Parks and Recreation Director, and how you managed to get into this role? Which is why I interviewed Sean.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

Earlier this year, Dr. Marybeth Gasman of University of Pennsylvania wrote a Hechinger Report op-ed piece, where she argued that elite universities do not have diverse faculties because they do not want them.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

After a major flood in 2016 knocked out their 911 system, they decided to use the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud to become resilient against disaster, reducing service interruptions and improving response times. When a natural disaster strikes. “In

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

“Our hope is that the additional AWS Promotional Credit support will empower nonprofits to actively explore and pursue opportunities for cloud experimentation and innovation,” explains Allyson Fryhoff, managing director of AWS Nonprofit and Nonprofit Health. Larger nonprofit organizations can access $5,000 in AWS Promotional Credit annually.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

Our new journal, Perspectives on Public Management and Governance (PPMG), is likely to succeed in part because of its “comparative boldness.” “We need to continue to be mindful of the need for research to inform practice,” George cautioned. The Future of PMRA is Closely Connected to Our Journals and Conferences.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

OCTOBER 29, 2024

How to manage technology and risks that extend from the cyber perspective all the way to corporate leadership and climate change. Emergency Management for Dynamic Populations (DyPop): Hot Mess Express: An emergency management leadership course focusing on response tactics during terrorist attacks. Major Endorsements: !Rescheduled

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

APRIL 25, 2016

City Manager, Roy Hardy, made the presentation to a small crowd on what the 2016 budget is going to look like in terms of tax increases and social programs. When it comes to the amount of feedback the city has received from Humboldt residents, the waste management program has received the most feedback through social media.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 18, 2023

So that makes a chief element of that idea realizable. Photo by alphanumeric. Seeing the Washington Post article " 3 maps for getting to the 2023 Washington, D.C., Cherry Blossom Festival ," about getting to the Cherry Blossom Festival, I had a similar thought.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

APRIL 25, 2023

In May 2016, Mayor James Kenney appointed Adam Thiel to serve as the 20th Fire Commissioner for the City of Philadelphia. Adam also served as Director of the Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management from 2019-2022. From 2014-2016, he was a Deputy Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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The Lowe Down

MAY 14, 2023

In November 2016, ownership of ONT was returned to the Inland Empire from LA County. By examining cargo volume, domestic and international passenger traffic, and the resulting financial implications, we show that the Ontario Airport has performed significantly better under local management.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 6, 2024

We took best practices from all over the world — open gangways, more space, better digital screens for real-time information, enhanced video systems to improve safety, a more sustainable aluminum shell, and eye-catching design — and put them in this train,” Metro General Manager and CEO Randy Clarke said in a statement.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

. -- " Fighting blight by fixing up homes could bring down Philly gun violence, new study shows ," WHYY/NPR -- " Abandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violenceAbandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violence ," Penn Today (2023) -- " Urban Blight Remediation as a Cost-Beneficial Solution to Firearm Violence: A Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial (..)

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The January issue of Parks & Recreation magazine is out now, and on today’s bonus episode, I’m thrilled to welcome Maureen Neumann, NRPA’s Senior Health Program Manager, to discuss her feature article, “ Celebrating Seven Years of Advancing Health Equity.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Many local governments have gone bankrupt and are blamed for lack of probity and good management, when really it is a mark of system failure. Now you could argue that other attempts by local councils to own properties, or mis-management or failure to keep control of buildings in a nonprofit portfolio doesn't bode well for this policy.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2023

Massey has served as the Regional Director of the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Region 10 office in Seattle since 2016. Massey served as the Assistant State Hazard Mitigation Officer with the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and served as a Planner for a Regional Planning Commission in Illinois.

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Super Library Marketing

AUGUST 20, 2023

“I was promoted to Circulation Supervisor at a branch in 2016,” says Paul. I loved managing social media, which eventually led to my current position as the Social Media Specialist with CHPL. “My My least favorite part, and this is something I’ve started recently, is editing captions for our YouTube videos.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MARCH 14, 2023

In 2007, Jim was appointed General Manager of the Los Angeles Emergency Management Department, where he led a successful departmental reorganization and restructuring of Los Angeles’ emergency management protocols and processes. Today Jim is a Principal Consultant at Themata Strategic LLC, a crisis management consultant agency.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

AUGUST 26, 2016

We get insights from Michael Nutter who served for eight years at the Mayor of Philadelphia, from 2008 to January 2016. We get insights from Michael Nutter who served for eight years at the Mayor of Philadelphia, from 2008 to January 2016. Under his leadership, Philadelphia became known as a leader in the use of data and evidence.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But one group has managed to hold off the forces of gentrification — and keep growing — for almost two decades. Then the dancers, sculptors and jewelry-makers get the boot when “progress” arrives, and landlords can cash in by selling to builders or remodeling for a more upscale market.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

And it imposes rules on the other properties, but doesn't do too much enforcement and oversight on recycling from multiunit residential and commercial properties (" Reformulating building regulations to promote sustainability, " 2016). This also came up in comments on a recent Post article on composting, " Composting in NYC is hard."

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Exercise Cygnus Report.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

Leveraging the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) , CSS manages $6.4 The decision to develop and host the CSP in the AWS Cloud put CSS among the first enterprises to adopt the cloud and build and manage one of the first mission-critical cloud-native applications.

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Data.gov

APRIL 12, 2016

Dear Open Data Enthusiasts, Below is an abstract of “Liberating data for public value: The case of Data.gov,” International Journal of Information Management (2016). Abstract Public agencies around the globe are liberating their data. Drawing on a case of Data.gov, … Continued.

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ASPA National Weblog

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Kettl’s 2016 book Escaping Jurassic Government: How to Recover America’s Lost Commitment to Competence. One panel was several members of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) raising the question of what advice should they provide to the new administration and Congress.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 9, 2023

And I don't see things changing.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2023

The authors find evidence that average eviction filing rates were consistently higher in public housing than in other types of subsidized housing in the pre-pandemic period (2016-2019). This could reflect discretion on the part of property managers in deciding how quickly to file eviction notices when tenants owe rent.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

For many building managers, property, and estate teams, finding the information needed to support everyday decisions about the operation of a building or the performance of the wider estate can be a challenge. DIO manages around 1.8% The DIO has published a Defence Infrastructure Data and Management.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2023

It has raised $50 million to buy and manage five buildings, with five more in the pipeline. The organization estimates that it helped 198 artists last year with support ranging from subsidized studio space to artist residencies to a place to stay when in need (an artist displaced by recent storm flooding lived in its office for two weeks).

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Open Access Government - Technology News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

So would we manage without one? Grey matter changes A 2016 study compared 34 college students with high mobile phone addiction scores, with 34 healthy controls. of the population currently suffering, Dr Deborah Lee, Dr Fox Online Pharmacy, explores and examines concerns around smartphone addiction (SMA) With 3.8

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

," 2013 -- " DC and streetcars #4: from the standpoint of stoking real estate development, the line is incredibly successful and it isn't even in service yet, and now that development is extending eastward past 15th Street ," 2015 -- " The streetcar and the new potential for H Street retail revitalization ," 2016 this is an important piece.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MAY 14, 2024

This is not to denigrate the work of resilience managers, as there is obviously much to be done to reduce the risk and impact of adverse events. After much pondering of the question, I have come to the conclusion that resilience is an illusion. However, the concept of resilience is, I think, suspect. Holling, C.S Manyena, B. Whatmore, R.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JANUARY 5, 2022

Rubinstein, Artur, 2016. The Four Books of Architecture ( I quattro libri dell'architettura , 1570). Dover Press, New York, 110 pp. Thompson, D’Arcy Wentworth 1942. On Growth and Form (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1116 pp. Schumann: Carnaval, Op. 9 & Fantasiestücke, Op. RCA, New York (CD).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

From " Intra-neighborhood (tertiary) transit revisited because of new San Diego service " (2016): Center City (DC) Primary Transit Network : Core of the WMATA system in DC (31 stations); streetcar system; Downtown Circulator bus service; foundational "main line" WMATA bus services; bus rapid/rapider transit.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 13, 2024

Another aspect of the balkanized transit system in the DC area is that every jurisdiction has a different program for bus shelters--what Ivan Bennett, product design manager for the London bus program, calls "a lack of continuity." WMATA should upgrade its Metrorail station bus shelters.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Between 2016 – 2022, US K-12 schools experienced 1,619 publicly disclosed cyberattacks, with 80 percent of school IT professionals reporting a ransomware attack in 2022. A solution overview The application relies on several managed AWS services. These incidences are estimated to cost businesses worldwide an average of $4.88

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Grant Consulting Services, LLC

APRIL 25, 2024

Strengthens Organizational Capacity: Builds skills and knowledge in grant seeking, project management, and evaluation. 2016, February 24). Because it drives decisions, organizations should be able to effectively utilize strategies to create a higher level of awareness that focuses on the activities that increase the chances of success.

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