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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

Residents were not asked to vote on specific city services to fund or how much funding they thought should go toward specific services. It ends with: "Where would you place your votes?" This survey doesn’t translate to dollars and cents. That phase comes later."

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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

It’s through the strategy and policy produced by elected officials, that administrative professionals translate, create context for, and craft these campaign promises into actual deliverable results to the publics and constituencies. Image: Wikipedia. All hope is not lost, however, since there are “hundreds who are wise.”

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The power of the connecting middle: where policy, delivery and democracy meet (and often don’t)

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

Her recent book is a must-read and her collection of Substack essays on Eating Policy (as in “delivery eats policy for breakfast” – think Michael Lewis and The Fifth Risk ) are required reading in my research and intelligence gathering. We seem to be stuck. And getting unstuck is hard. Enter The Possibility Partnership.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: “Home Land Security” opened a few months after the Brexit vote and ran through the U.S. The National Parks article discusses presentation of potentially controversial contemporary art in parks (also see " Home Land Security" art certain to spark dialogue in uncertain times ," Golden Gate Conservancy). presidential election.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: “Home Land Security” opened a few months after the Brexit vote and ran through the U.S. The National Parks article discusses presentation of potentially controversial contemporary art in parks (also see " Home Land Security" art certain to spark dialogue in uncertain times ," Golden Gate Conservancy). presidential election.