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What’s the deal with rural land banks? A Q&A with West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation Executive Director Taylor Bennett

Center for Community Progress

Land banks are a powerful tool to address vacant properties in rural communities, and West Virginia passed land bank enabling legislation in 2014. We spoke with Taylor Bennett , Executive Director of the West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation (WVLSC). The bill ran in 2014 and passed that same year.

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Reflection on public service leadership in the new year

Partnership for Public Service

These include stewardship of public trust, commitment to public good, becoming self-aware, engaging others, leading change and achieving results. At the Partnership, we bolster how agencies interact with customers by issuing data-driven recommendations, convening customer experience experts and championing legislative reform.

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Approaches to Rural Property Vacancy in Law and Policy

Center for Community Progress

Thus, a realistic, creative discussion of rural property vacancy should take these conditions into account. In most states, land banks also require enabling state legislation to be created. However, state legislation on intergovernmental agreements (IGAs) may be a potential legal barrier to rural communities.

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How AWS can enable the Government of Canada’s 2023-2026 Data Strategy

AWS Public Sector Blog

Advancing data governance and stewardship practices to build trust and enable secure data sharing between departments, including safeguarding privacy. AWS continually monitors the evolving privacy regulatory and legislative landscape to identify changes and determine what tools our customers might need to meet their compliance needs.