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Smart city transformation made simple with the globally available AWS Smart City Competency Program

AWS Public Sector Blog

These solutions help cities manage traffic infrastructure in real time, alert traffic engineers and emergency-response teams when problems are detected, and automatically change traffic signals to get emergency personnel to accident scenes faster. This includes Metering Headend for remote acquisition of data and Kalki.io

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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

We might report to city managers, executive directors, development directors, finance directors, vice presidents, assistant superintendents, or any number of titles found in nonprofits, universities, local governments, K-12 schools, and other organizations. But where is the right fit for a grant professional?

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Fighting Fraud: Advice for Smaller Cities

Barrett & Greene

Whatever their size, all state and local governments must contend with the possibility that federal grant money or taxpayer revenues will be siphoned off by perpetrators of fraud. Some people who have not been in a bigger city have this shield. ‘Oh, Can’t do that. They have more resources than we’ll ever have.’. “I

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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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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. I don’t believe there are schemes just designed for state and local governments.

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Top 50 City Government Blogs

Masters in Public Administration

This is the personal blog of John Landwehr, mayor of the City of Jefferson and his wife Peggy. Located in Missouri, he often updates readers on the state of the city but has been known to go off topic for items such as books and film. You can also get links to local government, such as the city office and several high schools.