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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. This can hurt the relationship between auditors and managers.

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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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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. But in the real world, that’s just not true, and the real goal of performance management is to gather information that will be helpful in making decisions.

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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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Public housing administration as a measure of government (in)competence

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DC received a scathing report from HUD about the failures in managing the city's public housing stock of 8,000 units, 25%--2,000-are vacant because most are uninhabitable (" D.C. It attributed the issue to management failure and said the vacancies have accelerated the agency’s steadily deteriorating financial condition.

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Top 50 City Government Blogs

Masters in Public Administration

Top City Government Manager Blogs. City managers are often charged with the day to day tasks of running a city and can be read more about in the below blogs. Blog from the Office of the City Manager. This city manager serves the town of Lowell, Massachusetts. Ventura City Manager.