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A Startling Insight Into the Auditor/City Manager Relationship

Barrett & Greene

by Hala Altamimi Assistant Professor, School of Public Affairs and Administration, University of Kansas In the public administration literature, it is generally expected that city managers are likely to support practices that improve government performance. There’s little question that’s true for a variety of reasons.

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Where in the Organization Chart Does Your Grant Professional Belong?

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

Some metropolitan cities have grant professionals embedded in multiple departments – police, fire, parks and recreation, and transportation. We collaborate with program directors, accountants, and organizational leadership. Sometimes we are found in administration or some other catchall department.

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Emphasizing ‘people over position’: 2023 Exemplary Public Servant James Earp

American City & Country

But Earp, city manager for Hutto, Texas, and a recipient of this year’s American City & County Exemplary Public Service award , believes the winding road to his current role is evidence that he’s where he’s supposed to be. Earp attends a Block Party Bash in Hutto, where he’s served as city manager since 2022.

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Understanding Fiscal Scandals and Their Impact on Localities

Barrett & Greene

We subsequently had long talks with the city manager of Durango, Colorado, as well as officials in Cincinnati, Stonecrest, Georgia and Buncombe, County, North Carolina, which had all experienced financial scandals of their own in recent years. The following is a brief edited transcript of the conversation we had with Pope in July.

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Fighting Fraud: Advice for Smaller Cities

Barrett & Greene

Recently, in an interview that appeared on Route Fifty’s October 11 “Follow the Money” broadcast, City Manager José Madrigal, talked about the effort to fight fraud in Durango, a city of 19,000 in a rural county in the southwest part of Colorado. Some people who have not been in a bigger city have this shield. ‘Oh,

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Let’s Talk Performance!

Barrett & Greene

A couple of weeks ago, we were invited by the National Center for Public Performance to be the inaugural panelists in its series of webinars about performance management.

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WHEN CORRUPTION HITS SMALL CITIES

Barrett & Greene

That was all about a $53 million embezzlement that occurred over many years by the Dixon, Illinois comptroller, who worked in that small city (population currently about 15,000) from 1983 until her indictment in 2012. Some people who have not been in a bigger city have this shield. ‘Oh, Can’t do that.