Super Library Marketing

APRIL 8, 2024

My official title is Marketing & Events Coordinator, but I am also the branch manager for our Germantown Hills branch. They managed to hand out nearly all their copies. “We Even on a tight marketing budget, the expense was worth it.” Many staff members do double- or sometimes triple-duty.” “My

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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. My background in planning, including parks planning, provides a knowledge base they didn't have access to before.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed AWS service that makes foundation models such as Anthropic’s Claude easily accessible through an API that leverages a serverless experience while enabling customers to keep data collected by the chatbot secure within their own AWS environment.

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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. When the Communications Manager role was created at FCPL in 2021 I jumped at the chance to use my skills and experience to promote the library to a wider audience.”

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In our work in Priority Based Budgeting , one of the greatest outcomes of the work is the ability to shed light on where to find opportunities for shared services. For some services, there are proven successes that can provide a ready made blue-print for how to implement them in your community.

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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. 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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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. But a third question is whether those who manage the systems have the incentive to fix them at all.

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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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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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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. Traffic calming has been a revolutionary treatment in sustainable mobility focused transportation for the last 20+ years.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 22, 2022

At Osirium, we focus on the privilege access management (PAM) space. Although it started back in 1999 it really came to people’s consciousness back in 2017 with the WannaCry attack that impacted the NHS. And on the back of that, NHS Digital made budget available to invest in privileged access management specifically for backup systems.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

“Our major theme of the next two-year budget is ‘Where’s the fun?’” The City of Kenmore , and the City of Bainbridge Island are not only pioneers in Priority Based Budgeting, but also the launch of OnlinePBB (where Kenmore incorporated their capital project prioritization). The total proposed budget for the 2017-18 biennium is $55.9

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Barrett & Greene

AUGUST 9, 2022

Without considering the environment in the budgeting process, all the commitments to change will be little more than words. Luckily, there are cities that are transforming the budget process to align resources with climate action. They spoke a whole different language: budget cycles and bond ratings.

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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. the budget), a revenue manual is an encyclopedia of how government is financed. And to the back burner it goes.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JUNE 27, 2016

." - Strathcona County Councillor Linton Delainey Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada, is leading the way in priority based business planning and budgeting. To date, Council and Administration have developed a strategic plan and completed a 4E (efficient, effective, equitable and economical) review of business plan and budget processes.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 26, 2023

In 2017, Amazon was one of the first retailers to work with the USDA to build support for online utilization of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. In this way, we enable individuals to purchase healthy food for their families with the confidence that they can maximize meal servings and stay on their food budget.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Speeding time to high performance computing research with RONIN and AWS In 2017, Leyton-Brown and Newman returned to the FCC auction design to assess its strength and weaknesses, in part because of new publicly available data about how TV broadcast and wireless carrier bidders responded to the novel auction design.

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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)

MARCH 10, 2023

budget calculations but intentionally set things up so that the broader financial marketplace believed the government had an obligation to never let the two companies default on their debt; 15 this allowed the marketplace to largely ignore measures of GSE financial strength, in particular their capital ratios. Also, the 0.10

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Barrett & Greene

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Several decades ago, when we first developed a passion for performance management, we leaned upon a cadre of people who were pioneering in that work. We invite authorities in other government disciplines like budgeting or human resources to do the same. Managing Performance: International Comparisons. Boyd (2017).

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

APRIL 13, 2017

But in 2000, Congress created a new position at the State Department, the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources — in other words, the chief operating officer. She served as the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources from 2013 to the end of the Obama administration.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

They need to be thinking about and planning for how transit strengthens and improves communities, rather than just thinking about transit in terms of modes or engineering or budgets. Putting a Bias for Action into Planning Agency Management: A Practitioner's Perspective ," Public Administration Review , 1986).

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Last week’s B&G Report included the second in a series of lists, compiled by experts, about managing performance. 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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Key topics covered include addressing concerns around data sovereignty, security, lock-in risks and budget control while highlighting AWS capabilities and commitments in these areas. Second, the extensively tested Amazon S3 API ensures consistent data management across platforms, providing robustness and reliability.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

Not as scintillating as the Boston Globe series (" Blueprints for a downtown Boston | Boston Globe "), but at least the business community is concerned about reputation and brand and identity management. From destination managers to city brand managers to community asset managers.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This let the system get sloppy in terms of finance, budgeting, and understanding why "WMATA is so successful at funding operations from farebox revenue." Step 2: Separate planning from budgeting. Too many transit services in the DC area make planning subsidiary to budgeting. They charge two.

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