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How city governments can navigate the fiscal cliff

American City & Country

Regularly updating financial models and engaging in long-term fiscal strategy development can provide a clearer roadmap for sustainability. Promote transparency and accountability: Enhance transparency in budgetary processes and expenditures to increase trust with constituents.

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5 Ways That Agencies Are Ailing From Legacy Systems

GovLoop

“Agencies have had difficulty finding employees with such knowledge and may have to pay a premium for specialized staff or contractors,” according to a recent report on modernization from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). That’s proving to be a costly assumption as those systems remain in place.

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Insider Coverage on Freight and Supply Chain Trends

First State Insights

Rachel Premack, senior investigations reporter at Business Insider, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director of the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about her ongoing coverage of the freight sector and supply chain trends. Her Twitter account is @rrpre. Her Twitter account is @rrpre.

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Logistics Tech in the Wild

First State Insights

Eric Johnson, Senior Editor of Technology at the Journal of Commerce, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director of the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about how businesses, consumers, and freight operators interact with logistics technology as goods move from factories to living rooms.

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Mapping Logistics Technology

First State Insights

Eric Johnson, Senior Editor of Technology at the Journal of Commerce, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director of the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about efforts to map, understand, and report on the companies, technologies, and business functions at the forefront of innovation in the logistics sector.

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Solutions for the Talent Gap in Finance Offices

Barrett & Greene

The reasons for this are many, but here are a few of the outstanding ones: The lack of consistent finance-focused public administration, governmental accounting, and governmental auditing instruction at institutions of higher education. How about other important benefits such as stress management?

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The article discusses how the Regional Transit Service in Rochester New York developed "partnership" funding agreements with schools, colleges, and businesses to provide financial support beyond farebox revenue, to support mutual agreed upon objectives. It's worth a read. historic architecture 2.