PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JULY 7, 2016

." - City of Toledo Councilperson Sandy Spang In an unprecedented public-private partnership, the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce is partnering with the City of Toledo, OH to bring Priority Based Budgeting (PBB) to Northwest Ohio. The City of Toledo launched their Priority Based Budgeting initiative earlier this week.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

This is unfortunate, as nonprofits are increasingly compensating for government failures, and becoming more rather than less relevant to the practice of Public Management in the process. While that perspective is not inaccurate, the reality is that the government-nonprofit partnership has become far more nuanced and complex.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Powering a high-stakes government auction with high performance computing In 2016, the United States Federal Communication Commission (FCC) wanted to reallocate radio airwaves from TV broadcasters to wireless carriers. Instead, the research team turned to RONIN , an AWS Partner.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 31, 2017

Some view this as an opportunity to expand programming and resources while, for others, it is another challenge in an environment of tightened budgets, expanded administration, and increased pressure to do more with less. In order to prepare undergraduates for a life of public service, we need to teach American government.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 26, 2023

One of the comments on the article made a point about a local "Government Accountability Office" function. More of that, please." He makes the point that the Council probably needs more staff to be able to do so. The auditor, former Councilmember Kathy Patterson, has done a lot of good reporting.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. I first understood the DC area transit planning gap in two dimensions.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

" While politicians easily offer policy prescriptions, they often fail to ask how they will be paid for. " - Mark Funkhouser, Publisher of Governing Magazine Governing recently published a P3 supplement as part of their Guide to Financial Literacy series. Through the lens of PBB, this points precisely in the direction of a partnership.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.” But during his decade-plus as King County executive, lifelong West Seattleite Dow Constantine has been the local music and arts community’s biggest champion in local government.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As an advocate, my experience with trying to do "new things" in government, is that you only get one chance to do it right. There are many such examples in government. Incrementalism has been fruitfully applied to explain domestic policy making, foreign policy making, and public budgeting. She didn't last long.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Regardless of Rahm Emanuel's point about not wasting crises , my observation is that governments aren't good at decision making generally, and are particularly bad during crises. This let the system get sloppy in terms of finance, budgeting, and understanding why "WMATA is so successful at funding operations from farebox revenue."

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 18, 2022

These attacks, and others going back as far as 2017, attributed to Russia by the CIA , have shut down airports, banks, government ministries and even radiation monitoring at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. appeared first on Open Access Government. A chilling reminder of the damage a determined state actor can cause.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Some of those same local leaders are responding with a plan of their own: Convince the federal government, whose workforce is Metro’s largest customer base, to subsidize the system’s operational costs. But it is also a management failure of local government. And the State governments can vary wildly on their support.

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Super Library Marketing

MARCH 11, 2024

” “I had been a freelance writer and editor for about 10 years and took a job as a Youth Specialist at Forsyth County Public Library (FCPL) in 2017. The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation’s social media strategy is the best thing to ever happen to a government agency’s public persona. ” P.S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 4, 2024

Governments impute a likely increase in property value and tax revenue from a new development, but direct that increase to the developer as a source of finance, inducement, etc. Between 2017 and 2023, those schools lost $237.3 One of the biggest sources of funds for urban revitalization is tax increment financing.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2024

The city agreed to provide a certain level of personnel and budget, with transfer of active management of the park to the third party nonprofit, which raised additional monies for staff, maintenance and improvements. Asking questions like "why is our meager budget earned from pavilion rentals paying for security?"

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

Across the board, implementation is dependent on future funding, which Larsen said was requested in this year’s capital improvement budget. Once the program has its team on board, they’ll begin prioritizing roadways to start on with guidance from the city council. “I

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 22, 2022

Although it started back in 1999 it really came to people’s consciousness back in 2017 with the WannaCry attack that impacted the NHS. I think there’s already some work going on in the US government for that, starting with federal agencies. Is the government doing enough to support the NHS? How else could the government help?

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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. You could do a tradeoff in space (like Tribeca in the 1970s); I'd think about downtown if you can get me around 3000 SF in space.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 26, 2023

In 2022, the Biden Administration released a strategy to address hunger, nutrition, and health—but the federal government cannot make these transformative changes alone. Accelerating this work requires action and collaboration from state and local governments, the private sector, and more.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

For example, the securities brokerage industry in 1975 was barred from setting prices as a cartel, as it long had; airline fares were deregulated by the government in 1978; and bank deposit interest rates underwent complete deregulation in phases from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. 15 Credit reports.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

MH’s supporters consider it naturally low-cost due to the efficiency of factory production, rather than via government subsidy. First, have the four government mortgage agencies 1 strongly support 2 “chattel” loans (i.e., Q4: MH structure-only (i.e.,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Generally, they have the power to weigh in on matters before government bodies. to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well.

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Death and Taxes

MAY 26, 2022

Yet, little academic research on governments has evaluated the process for selecting different tools, the policies governments have in place to implement them, and the consequences of using one tool over another. The legal allowance and authorization can be recognized through a formal policy created to govern practices.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Since about 2017, we’ve seen a steady increase in the number of intentionally malicious components that are put into these repositories,” Fox said. A memo from the Office of Management and Budget (M-22-18) calls for agencies to enhance the security of the software supply chain through secure software development practices.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

“We are fighting perception, and you have to be aggressive, or it takes on a life of its own,” says Andrea Zopp, who was CEO of World Business Chicago, the city’s public-private partnership for corporate recruiting, from 2017 to 2020. “It And cities have limited budgets and many priorities. New Geography). into a global learning hub.”.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Since that year, police records show, transit officers have dramatically shifted away from enforcing fare evasion across the rail and bus system, with citations and arrests numbering less than 300 last year, compared with more than 15,000 in 2017. Of that 2021 total, none took place in the District.

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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 publication put a spotlight on schools where reform efforts were working, as well as those where reform efforts were running aground.

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Death and Taxes

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It sounds like something they should probably not start right before budget season. When teaching MPA students I, somewhere in that first week or so, tell them that a public budget is an encyclopedia of government. It includes everything that government does and typically why. And to the back burner it goes.

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Barrett & Greene

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Government Accountability Office was known until 2004. We invite authorities in other government disciplines like budgeting or human resources to do the same. Washington, DC: IBM Center for The Business of Government. Performance Measurement for Local Government Management: Getting it Right. here’s John!

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

One of the strands from which the planning profession in the US was birthed was out of women-initiated "good government" and "good places" initiatives in a time when women still didn't have the right to vote. Gender budgeting. Governments routinely bat away sensible policies that lack a champion when the money is handed out.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Photograph: David Rowe/Alamy Under Conservative control of the UK from 2010-2024, local governments were severely crushed by actions of the central government, austerity and other cuts, and further mandates meant that local governments faced up to a 2/3 drop in revenues.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

When we originally wrote the book, we were aware of a sea of writing that ballyhooed the potential of performance management to cure what ailed state and local government. Centralized easy to access websites that provide retrievable copies of government reports and evaluations make sure that past work is not lost.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 19, 2023

First, the impact of neoliberal induced disinvestment in government --the US could "slide" for a long time with denigration and disinvestment in government because in the decades before it overinvested. A third example would be the impact on local governments of declining budgets.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JULY 22, 2021

What is government for, what is it supposed to be and how is it supposed to act? Brian Kilmeade answered that not getting the vaccine is a personal choice and that the government has no role in protecting the population. It is, of course, literally the job of the government to protect us. That’s not their job.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 16, 2025

Marshals Service; and Bureau of Prisons, with an annual budget over $37 billion. Our country is too divided to be able to make necessary changes to government structure, like the small state bias of the Senate and the existence of the Electoral College versus the popular vote for deciding the winner of the Presidential election.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 25, 2025

WFH has totally messed up transit agency budgets, shifting the most use from morning and evening commute to primary business districts, to use spread out during the day, across the system, further increasing costs alongside revenue decreases. Impact of graphic design in government communications. The transit agency released a $1.65

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