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City of Joplin, MO Residents Engage with City Budget Survey to Rank Seven City Priorities

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

By looking at many factors of the City’s operations, Priority Based Budgeting starts to identify services areas that are important to our community ,” said City Manager Sam Anselm. “ Residents were not asked to vote on specific city services to fund or how much funding they thought should go toward specific services.

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ALA Midwinter Report 2022

Librarian.net

There were some Round Table readjustments which were mostly paperwork-driven and seemed non-controversial but required voting. We did not get to vote on the Resolution to Support School and Youth Services Librarians Facing Increased Intellectual Freedom Challenges because of time spent discussing TAG which was too bad.

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City of Toledo Mayor Hopes Move to PBB Will Restore Faith in City Government

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

Toledo City Council unanimously voted last month to spend up to $50,000 from the city’s general fund to hire the Center for Priority Based Budgeting, of Englewood, Colo. He made his comments before a webinar with Colorado-based consultants hired to shepherd the city through a review of its budgeting practices.

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CFP: Collaborations and Outreach for Student Success: Initiatives for College and Small University Libraries (ACRL Publication)

A Library Writer's Blog

As librarians from small-mid-size institutions, we want to provide a volume aimed specifically at libraries found in ACRL’s College Libraries Section (CLS), as they often operate with minimal library staff and smaller budgets.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Cities cost money to operate. The book Community Economic Development Handbook is very good on microenterprise development and the development of locally owned businesses and the differential impact on the local economy. Community building versus revitalization.

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Local Government Support for Privately Owned Affordable Housing

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

One thing is certain: government alone does not have the resources to construct and operate the needed housing units. In what may set the record for the longest single paragraph in the statute books, G.S. In what may set the record for the longest single paragraph in the statute books, G.S. Powers of housing authorities.

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The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How One Libary Marketing Team Executed a Grand Opening of Epic Proportions for Their New Library Building

Super Library Marketing

. “They had placed a Sorting Hat from Harry Potter on top of the platform where it scanned in the books. The final member of the team is Graphic Designer Steph Koblich , who grew up browsing picture books at the library, and admiring their illustrations, which led her to a career in illustration and design. “My