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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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In some cases, these foundations or charities are created and operated by private citizens. In other cases, they’re created directly by elected and administrative officials of government organizations, operating as an extension of government agencies yet they engage in fundraising, soliciting private contributions from willing citizen donors.

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Death and Taxes

MAY 26, 2022

accounts payable and notes payable) to ensure smooth operations. The purpose is to maintain cash flows for liquidity to meet short-term operating expenses and obligations. 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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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. million non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) operate in the United States. Through the lens of PBB, this points precisely in the direction of a partnership.

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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 same organization that publishes CR published Catalyst , which ceased operation in 2016, after publishing for 26 years. School reform and how can communities respond.

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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. It's best to line up support and funding, when you're wildly successful. It's really hard when you're failing. Good luck with that.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It took 13 years to make it operational after planning first started--by contrast it took Seattle four years, and they've since expanded. Incrementalism has been fruitfully applied to explain domestic policy making, foreign policy making, and public budgeting. A perfect example is the DC streetcar. Or the Norfolk light rail.

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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. And on the back of that, NHS Digital made budget available to invest in privileged access management specifically for backup systems. to ‘how should I do PAM?’. What is ransomware? was attacked.

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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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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

6 ) Nevertheless, all newly built MH units, even those with the very low cost, meet the building standards established by HUD, including energy efficiency (which leads to lower monthly operating costs). 4] The three levels of quality are described in a 2017 article by Mobile Home Living ( [link] ). [5] stone vs. Formica countertops).

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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. Of the current 0.46 Also, the 0.10

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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. Cost and budget control concerns The AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program covers the cost of storage for publicly available cloud-optimized datasets.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

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. Even neighborhood associations.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 22, 2024

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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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. Before that role she served as Deputy Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.

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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." But there are over 20 operators of the various services, including private operators of bus lines. Step 2: Separate planning from budgeting. Start over.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

SeeJaneGo, a ride hailing service catering to women, operating in Orange County, California, shuttered in 2018 (" See Jane Go, a ride-hailing service for women, by women, says farewell ," Orange County Register ). Gender budgeting. But overall in the US, such services haven't fared too well.

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