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A Startling Insight Into the Auditor/City Manager Relationship

Barrett & Greene

For one thing, unlike elected officials who can retain their jobs based on simple popularity or name recognition, city managers are evaluated based on their ability to achieve policy goals and improve the quality of life for residents. There’s little question that’s true for a variety of reasons.

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CPBB Teams with Toledo Regional Chamber to Bring Priority Based Budgeting to the City of Toledo, Ohio

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

In this first article, the focus is on: “What is Priority Based Budgeting, Why do Communities implement this practice, and where is the City in the midst of its implementation.” Demand Accountability for Results. Traditional budgets focus on accountability for staying within spending limits.

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A new video series that explains how our federal government works

Partnership for Public Service

The federal workforce also consists of more than the elected officials and political appointees who hold office and lead agencies. In truth, the bulk of the workforce is composed of 2 million nonelected, career civil servants who specialize in a wide range of fields and design, launch and implement critical public services.

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Measuring & Managing Business Tax Incentives

Barrett & Greene

Among the elements of good incentive program management are: Clear guidance to program users Appropriate applicant eligibility requirements Specific compliance procedures Accountability through public reporting. How can the steps be implemented to ease the administrative burden for both companies and compliance staff? Procedures.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: Metro’s prospects for replacing hundreds of millions of dollars in fare revenue that vanished during the pandemic appeared to be waning as stimulus money runs dry, particularly as weary elected officials watch the agency struggle during a year-long train shortage.

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A commitment to the development and production of a broad, comprehensive, visionary, and detailed revitalization plan/s (Bilbao, Hamburg, Liverpool); the creation of innovative and successful implementation organizations , with representatives from the public sector and private firms, to carry out the program.

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Space needle thinking: Seattle, seizing opportunity, and transformational projects action planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Having lived through that period of disorder, I am always amazed that elected officials in cities like SF, Seattle, Portland, and DC are happy with encouraging it. I first moved to DC in grim times, the late 1980s and 1990s, when crime burgeoned. I don't think that's what they intended.