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February is African-American History Month: Urban planning history -- the attempt to make Roxbury a separate city from Boston

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

While the Roxbury initiative was voted on, twice, it didn't pass (" Separatist City of Mandela : Boston Voting on Proposal to Let Black Areas Secede ," Los Angeles Times ). Mandela versus electing Black leaders. Atlanta: the city too busy to hate (" How Atlanta became the 'city too busy to hate' ," ahoo).

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Why hide from data?

Barrett & Greene

The simple political reality of this was conveyed to us many year ago by the long-time mayor of Indianapolis William Hudnut, who said (and we’re paraphrasing here, as it’s hard to find notes from the early 1990s): “The real measure of my success is clear when people vote.”.

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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?" Residents were also told they could give zero points to statements with which they did not agree, but all seven received points.

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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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My ALA Conference

Librarian.net

The treasurer’s report was a lot more optimistic than it’s been in the past few meetings and we made a vote to have ALA ‘s bylaws amended to allow for electronic meetings and voting which was an easy pass (we’d been doing it under some sort of emergency allowance but now it’s part of the organization’s structure).

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The 2023 Guide to Social Media for Libraries: New LinkedIn Success Secrets for This Year

Super Library Marketing

It positions the library as a trusted source for voting information. How does your collection development department choose books? Finally, according to Adweek, LinkedIn is the second most trusted social media platform. Toledo Lucas County Public Library saw great engagement on this informative LinkedIn post.

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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.