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City of Kenmore Officials Find the Fun in 2017-18 Priority Based Budget

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

“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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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The COG is the union of local governments and designated by the USDOT as the region's metropolitan planning organization for regional transportation planning and coordination. And a more expanded concept of the "sustainable mobility dates to 2018 (" Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Framework ").

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Salt Lake City Capital Improvement Program process allows for citizen initiated projects

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Is separate from the annual appropriations process and is connected, in that primary funding source is the General Fund, but supplemented by other tax sources (special sales taxes usually), impact fees on new development, and transportation related funding. It made it very easy to come up with the budget.) That was a mistake.

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A debt limit breach and a government shutdown: Different crises but a terrible way to do business

Partnership for Public Service

Every year, Congress is required to approve appropriations that fully fund the federal government’s budget. Since implementation of the Congressional Budget Act in 1977, this has happened 20 times. transportation security personnel and some food inspectors) were forced to work without pay for over a month.

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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Now a goodly amount of that is encapsulated in " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit " (2018), but old pieces like " Making Transit Sexy " (2005), make the point too, less sophisticatedly. Second, during the 2008 crash, I got an email from an activist in response to all the budget and service cuts faced by transit systems.

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Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Unlike the local and state jurisdictions that fund Metro, federal money goes only to the agency’s capital budget but not to its separate operating budget — a distinction local officials have long said is inequitable. Good luck with that. historic architecture 2.

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National Volunteer Week: April 16th-22nd

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Instead of contracting with consultants like most planning departments, Salt Lake City has developed a "civic engagement unit" that works across all city agencies for public projects (transportation and planning mostly, but other agencies too. Funds for small projects. Some cities already do this.