GovPilot

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Unlike the Federal Government, which can and does run a large budget deficit, most local governments are legally required to prepare a balanced budget. Because local governments cannot spend more than they’ve budgeted each year, preparing a budget is one of their most critical jobs.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 4, 2022

Increased focus on constituent experience is pushing agencies to expand and redesign their digital services. Government services have lagged behind retail, but constituent expectations haven’t. But agencies, under pressure from constituents, can stumble when trying to increase digital services. Address budgeting silos.

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Barrett & Greene

DECEMBER 11, 2023

At the end of November, a survey was released that investigated how local government finance leaders feel about their current budgeting practices and their readiness to embrace modernized approaches. These results come from higher performing organizations based on surveying GFOA’s distinguished budget award winners.

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Budgeting Elected Officials Strategic Planning Local Government 64

AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

The state’s Human Services Department (HSD) manages a budget of $7 billion of state and federal funds as it works to transform the lives of 800,000 low-income New Mexicans. Discover how government agencies across the country use AWS to better serve constituents at the AWS Cloud for Health and Human Services hub.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The rise in cybersecurity threats means city, county, and education leaders must consider how best to protect constituent and student data, financial information, services, and more. The Cyber Readiness Grant Program’s initial budget isn’t large enough to provide security software to every city, county, and school.

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GovPilot

JUNE 10, 2022

No matter where your local government's size or where it is located geographically your community is not alone in needing to make critical updates to your physical and digital infrastructure. Or, as more local governments make the switch online, perhaps your paper filing systems inefficient and antiquated.

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Government Technology Insider

APRIL 10, 2024

It was fitting that this conference was held in Los Angeles,” shared Tom Wiri, West State and Local Account Executive, Tricentis. For most local governments this is a hard ask because they have small budgets, limited resources, and lean IT teams.”

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GovLoop

JANUARY 24, 2023

Local government services play a role in so much of our everyday lives that they become invisible. To achieve that, local governments must move away from budgeting for services in silos and come together to create a digital twin of the organization, Francis said.

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Civic tech makes it easier for people to interact with government agencies. When well-designed, it improves constituent experiences (CX) and promotes equity and engagement. A new term to some, “civic tech” relates to technology that directly facilitates CX, constituent experience or communication.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

In my experience working with city governments, I’ve seen firsthand cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, Sacramento, and St. Louis struggle with resource constraints and grapple with the significant challenges cities face in balancing budgets, maintaining public services and managing infrastructure needs. What is a fiscal cliff?

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Google Public Sector

AUGUST 29, 2022

While the digitization of government services and operations has helped enhance the constituent experience, it has also increased the cyber threat surface for governments of all sizes. In 2020, 79 ransomware attacks hit government organizations, amounting to nearly $19 billion in downtime and recovery costs 1.

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GovPilot

JANUARY 3, 2024

As the year draws to a close, the role of local government officials becomes increasingly demanding. During this time, the weight of their responsibilities intensifies with the pressure to wrap up the year’s initiatives, while also preparing for the challenges that may come with the new year.

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Government Technology Insider

JULY 9, 2024

Over the last few years, there’s been a marked shift among state and local governments to prioritize the launch of digitized services and adopt the kind of automation and digital transformation that’s been well-established across the private sector.

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GovPilot

JUNE 12, 2023

US federal and state governments both recognize the key infrastructure developments needed to bring American physical and digital infrastructure to the modern world. They also recognize how difficult modernizing infrastructure can be with limited local government budgets.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 12, 2023

That’s half a million people without a home,” said Kim Majerus, vice president of global education and US state and local government at AWS. Stay on budget and on timeline because that’s where you’ll lose stakeholder support. When other CoCs have asked RTFH for migration advice, Kohler told them, “Be intentional.

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GovPilot

JULY 22, 2024

Navigating the complex problems of local governance is no small feat. Local government officials shoulder large responsibilities , from budget restrictions to catering to the needs of their constituents, all while trying to stay green.

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GovPilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Local government officials serve as the backbone of community governance, holding the responsibility of representing the interests of their constituents and overseeing the functioning of local administrative affairs.

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Constituents Local Government Budgeting Implementation 52

Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This has led to increasing frustration among government workers and citizens. The White House’s Office of Management and Budget attributes this bottleneck to the “time tax,” or the amount of effort required to fill out applications, assemble documents, and schedule government visits. One source estimates that in the U.S.

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GovPilot

AUGUST 17, 2022

When it comes to getting things done as a local government, two of the most critical variables are budgets and timeframes.

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GovLoop

MARCH 27, 2024

PT to hear from a government CX expert about how to ramp up the effectiveness of your public surveys. PT to hear from a government CX expert about how to ramp up the effectiveness of your public surveys. Join us online Monday, April 15 at 4 p.m.

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Barrett & Greene

JULY 11, 2023

In fact, many of us who study state budgeting annually observe budget processes that lead to (largely) fiscally responsible decision-making and do not require high stakes hostage taking to get there. ​ The most obvious place to begin is that almost all states have some sort of statutory or constitutional balanced budget requirement.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

Just that one tool alone is so powerful for our time and budget,” said NPD Sergeant Bucky Culbertson. These annual savings in time and materials come from processing case files through a cloud native information exchange with the local prosecutor’s office.

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GovPilot

MAY 2, 2024

Navigating the complexities of local governance is no easy feat. From managing diverse populations to allocating limited resources, local government officials have a lot of responsibility in their pursuit of creating ethical and equitable communities.

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Local Government Budgeting Government Management 52

Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Modernization helps agencies better serve citizens, improve benefit delivery speed, and resolve technical debt accumulated in legacy systems, but today’s fragmented toolset does not meet governments where they are given their staffing level, skillset, and budget.

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GovPilot

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Faced with limited budgets, a lack of specialized expertise, and a mounting list of responsibilities, local governments often find themselves striving to do more with less. Everyday, municipal leaders must balance the need for innovation with the harsh reality of constrained resources.

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Local Government Budgeting Government Constituents 52

Center for Community Progress

JULY 29, 2024

You can create a curriculum around exactly what matters to your community. Attending RVP will help you better serve your constituents, no matter your role. You could build a schedule of sessions about vacant land reuse, or arts and innovation, or land banking.

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Government Technology Insider

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Digital inclusion—the efforts of federal, state, and local governments, along with industry partners, to deliver connectivity to underserved and unserved areas— has many moving parts that must all work together to ensure access to connectivity.

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GovLoop

JUNE 6, 2024

An interview with Meredith Ward, Deputy Executive Director, National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) Whether they like it or not, state and local governments cannot afford to go it alone on cybersecurity. For local government, there’s a more tactical benefit to making those connections: intelligence gathering.

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GovPilot

JULY 27, 2022

Your local government’s budget is directly impacted by fee and fine collection.

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Government Local Government Budgeting Constituents 52

GovPilot

APRIL 5, 2023

In order to fund budgets, local governments need to collect money from their citizens - from property taxes to fines for code violations to application fees for permits and licenses. Procurement officials are also making constant payments to vendors for products and services.

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Government Local Government Management Budgeting 52

GovPilot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

As a City Manager - a leader in local government, you need to not only help define government-wide objectives and budgets, but also need to leverage data for making informed decisions about benchmarks against progress and how to set new priorities.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

An interview with John Curalli, Director, State & Local Government and Matt Borkowski, Enterprise ERP Solutions Architect, Arctic IT. Given budget pressures, it can be tempting to take a Band-Aid approach to technology issues, modernizing a service here, an application there.

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GovPilot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In the limited budgets afforded to government agencies , officials may find difficulty in assessing where funds need to be allocated. Local governments center their concerns around the prosperity and success of their community but these efforts may be short-sighted.

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Transportation Social Services Local Government Budgeting 52

GovLoop

OCTOBER 5, 2022

For Nancy Rainosek, Texas’ Chief Information Security Officer, cybersecurity directly affects an agency’s mission and constituent service. When you think about budgets, a lot of organizations will spend the majority of their money on meeting the mission. … Here are her suggestions to keep government agencies cyber-secure.

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GovPilot

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

City administrators play a significant role in strategizing and allocating budgets across local government departments.

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City Manager Management Local Government Budgeting 40

GovLoop

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Streamlined digital workflows allow agencies to respond better — and faster — to constituents. “If If you improve the user experience internally, it also enhances the user experience externally for customers,” according to Shonte Eldridge, Senior Director of State and Local Government Strategy and Solutions at DocuSign.

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Government Legislation Constituents Local Government 52

Center for Community Progress

MAY 2, 2023

I got my start in local government in Memphis, Tennessee, which is where I developed my love of working with my community and driving generational wealth-building. When I started out, there was no line-item in the budget for acquiring properties. Leslie : Most of my career has been about public service.

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