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How Marathon County, WI Gets Their Priorities Straight!

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

That’s the size of Marathon County’s annual budget. This means that pretty much every year we start the budget process with a 1.5 In preparing the 2017 budget, we will aspire higher. So, for 2017, we need to FIRST get our priorities straight and THEN align our money with our stated priorities.

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Post columnist Colbert King says the DC Council needs to do more oversight

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The article mentions Councilmember Robert White question Brenda Donald, director of the DC Housing Authority, asking about her $40,000+ bonus for the year, after the agency was ripped to shreds by a HUD inspection report (" D.C. Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says ").

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part One | Defining Levels of Service for individual parks

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I am on the board of Sugar House Park, which is owned by both the city and county, so it has some interesting intergovernmental issues. Uncleared sidewalks from 1300 East to Sugar House Park. Levels of Service at the scale of an individual park is an issue with Sugar House Park. Technically.

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

alongside affordable housing and commercial space, and adaptable buildings--in how it discusses the primacy of West Seattle as the anchor of the rock music ecosystem in Seattle. From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.”

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Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It's doing some great bike infrastructure, some of which we will be trying to get for the perimeter of Sugar House Park. Across the board, implementation is dependent on future funding, which Larsen said was requested in this year’s capital improvement budget.

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From BTMFBA to "community right to buy"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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.

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Generative AI as a force for good in facilitating cyber-resiliency in public sector organizations

AWS Public Sector Blog

The future of My eCISO While initial design and testing focused on K-12 IT stakeholders, test user feedback has indicated that My eCISO is ideal for small business owners with limited budgets or local municipalities with constrained resources.