AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

The key drivers of success for IDOC were agency executive leadership commitment, subject matter experts (SMEs), and Mi-Case’s agile project methodology which resulted in an on-time and on-budget implementation. The search for a new OMS In 2017, IDOC parted ways with a vendor and crafted a request for proposal (RFP).

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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

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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

I don't understand when elected officials don't appreciate how important getting public safety under control was to inward investment and population growth in the 2000s. And cities have limited budgets and many priorities. My lesson from the bad times is that it's very easy for disorder to get out of control.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

DC's Muriel Bowser is one such example, but there are many others, including Houston, Salt Lake City, and in 2017, Seattle and Montreal. Gender budgeting. From the editorial: At its simplest, gender budgeting sets out to quantify how policies affect women and men differently (see article).

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