GovLoop

MARCH 21, 2023

But while the problems might be similar, the solution depends on the specific priorities of a given agency, factoring in both their requirements and their budgets, said Arno Bergstrom, Vice President of CounterTrade Products, a technology solutions provider and certified woman-owned small business.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 3, 2023

In 2018, the Office of Management and Budget made VA a lead agency partner to pilot improving CX across the federal government. This article appears in our guide, “Agency of the Future: How New Possibilities are Emerging in the Present.” The Department of Veterans Affairs was no different.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The FBI said that most attacks targeted smaller municipalities and counties, given that they were likely to have resource and budget limitations. The initiative, which began in 2018, encompasses a wide range of entities, from state and local government and educational institutions to organizations managing critical infrastructure.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

From the article: Metro’s prospects for replacing hundreds of millions of dollars in fare revenue that vanished during the pandemic appeared to be waning as stimulus money runs dry, particularly as weary elected officials watch the agency struggle during a year-long train shortage. It's really hard when you're failing. Good luck with that.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 3, 2022

From the article: Fare evasion has worsened during the pandemic and is a visible reminder to riders of revenue Metro is not collecting — even as the agency calls on regional leaders to help with financial woes. Council to decriminalize fare evasion in 2018. From the article: Things are falling apart. Or they’re not there at all.

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

Collaborating with the Florida League of Cities (FLC), we endeavored to provide a simple and practical revenue forecasting strategy to help cities in Florida plan and prepare for the potential impacts of the COVID 19 pandemic on their budgets. His scholarship focuses on state and local public finance, budgeting and financial management.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

But there have been a bunch of Associated Press articles in my newsfeed, which clued me in. -- " Volunteers speak on why they serve and why more people don’t " -- " Nonprofits scramble for help amid dearth of volunteers " -- " New to volunteering? Funds for small projects. Some cities already do this.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

From the article: A damning, 72-page report the agency authored portrays a housing authority in disarray and at risk of defaulting on its agreement with the federal government. From the article: The U.S. Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says ," Washington Post ). Performance dashboards.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JUNE 30, 2023

This article provides the top five retail BI use cases to highlight the technology advantage for businesses. At the same time, gathered data can be used for sales forecasting, allowing retailers to set more realistic business goals, allocate resources more efficiently, and plan enterprise budgets more accurately.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

What this should mean is that schools should get additional funding, from the local government separate from the school system, or the school system's budget should include support, for these functions. Students, parents, and teachers participating in a clean up of the school grounds, Wasatch Elementary School, Salt Lake. Special Funding.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

From the article: In a news release sent out Wednesday, officials said that the organizations’ Boards of Directors will meet on May 1 to start “months-long discussions about how to efficiently provide, fund, and govern public transit.” It's about speed versus access. I first understood the DC area transit planning gap in two dimensions.

Transportation 52

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

14 A separate calculation by the Urban Institute, an MH supporter, from 2018 claims manufactured homes are 35 to 47 percent cheaper per square foot than site-built homes. without any qualification as to whether the underlying land is owned or rented), and how the evidence shows that, based on data from 1995 to 2018, it appreciated at 3.4

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2024

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports, " Mayor Parker’s budget slashes funding for Vision Zero, a program designed to end traffic deaths ," that the mayor has cut funding for Vision Zero programs, which are designed to reduce traffic fatalities. Other cities have had mixed to negative results from similar initiatives.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2024

There's an article, " ‘Sticky’ places are urban planning lifelines Shared spaces build community and are key to alleviating America’s loneliness epidemic. From the article: These spaces make people feel welcome, represented, and connected to their neighborhoods, and this, in turn, builds social connections between visitors.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

There is an article at Building Salt Lake, " Why isn’t Utah Transit Authority supporting the Rio Grande Plan? ," opining about why the Utah Transit Authority isn't all in on the concept of reviving Rio Grande Station as the "central station" for Downtown railroad and transit service.

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Transportation Economic Development Sustainability Development 52

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. Thus, a potential 0.20

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