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

MARCH 4, 2024

The argument can be made that the tax abatement shouldn't be total, that it should be more measured, especially when it comes to funding local schools (" Students lose out as cities and states give billions in property tax breaks to businesses — draining school budgets and especially hurting the poorest students ," The Conversation).

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Death and Taxes

MAY 26, 2022

Many governments, therefore, have interfund transfer policies established that regulate the process of using interfund transfers to prevent arbitrary manipulation and misuse of public resources. We test this hypothesis using a sample of all 159 counties in the state of Georgia from 2010 through 2017 and find this to be indeed the case.

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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

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. Good luck with that. The director then, Mark R.

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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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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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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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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

It is also clear that, in the judgment of the marketplace, rather than being totally unwarranted because of the advocacy claim that MH is “just as good as site-built housing,” some barriers to MH in more dense geographies make sense to local government officials due to their potential to lower property values over time.

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Barrett & Greene

OCTOBER 14, 2024

We invite authorities in other government disciplines like budgeting or human resources to do the same. Performance Measurement for Local Government Management: Getting it Right. Strategic Use of Analytics in Government. Washington, DC: IBM Center for The Business of Government. Boyd (2017).

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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. The importance of building relationships between government and academia, with an emphasis on better communication on both sides, is already in the air.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 19, 2023

But I don't know if the failure of the Army Corps of Engineers and levees was about capital shallowing or just politics, failure to adequately address risk, budget shortfalls, etc. With covid, policing, transit, health care as mentioned above, care for the aging, defunding of local government, parks, libraries, etc.

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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. Another model is the California Civil Grand Jury proces s, where county-specific civil grand juries are appointed for a one year term to investigate local government functioning. Bondi would oversee 94 regional U.S.

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