Let's Talk Parks

JULY 15, 2020

They focus on lobbying for our industry and they primarily serve the agencies as a whole, the elected officials and the Executive Directors. So, the impact to our agencies from the pandemic and the state shut down is extensive and we’ve heard that some agencies in our state are facing budget cuts of up to 50%.

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Barrett & Greene

JANUARY 29, 2024

One element involved in considering this question (though not one that necessarily applies to the police data in New York City) is whether the managers or elected officials in an organization are really going to use the data that’s been painstakingly gathered.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

From the article: Metro’s prospects for replacing hundreds of millions of dollars in fare revenue that vanished during the pandemic appeared to be waning as stimulus money runs dry, particularly as weary elected officials watch the agency struggle during a year-long train shortage. Good luck with that.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

And this is increasingly important as our country becomes more polarized, and even outside of this, people are very quick to criticize elected officials and government processes as uniformly corrupt, etc. But that our management processes aren't set up to do that. But parks agencies and libraries aren't set up to do this purposively.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 24, 2022

They are firefighters, teachers, administrative assistants, program directors, accountants, and even elected officials and board members. Typically, the individuals writing and managing grants for your organization are not people with titles like grant administrator, grant manager, or director of grants.

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AccessE11

MARCH 14, 2024

For municipal staff and elected officials, the journey towards digital transformation involves understanding the limitations of current practices, exploring the capabilities of modern technologies, and leveraging data for continuous improvement and strategic planning. They may feel uncertain or threatened by new technologies.

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AccessE11

JUNE 10, 2022

In terms of job function, we received feedback from users involved in customer service, operations, finance, administration, and IT, as well as from elected officials. Many were also using it for citizen engagement, elected official offices, and even internally for staff IT ticket handling.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Even though transit usage is much reduced in DC post-covid, I don't think DC elected officials understand how central transit is to the city's competitive advantage and identity. Incrementalism has been fruitfully applied to explain domestic policy making, foreign policy making, and public budgeting.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

7 Additionally, GSE subsidies and privileges are crafted to largely avoid showing up as a federal budget expenditure, thus avoiding competing with other priorities for scarce tax dollars. Any contact between F&F and elected officials is strictly controlled by the FHFA.

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Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

They make policy and procedural recommendations for meeting budgets, deadlines, etc. They are chosen by elected officials and can work for small towns on a part time basis or for large cities. Budget Analyst. This website is run by an actual budget analyst with the 30 years’ experience in the field. City Manager.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

Across the board, implementation is dependent on future funding, which Larsen said was requested in this year’s capital improvement budget. Traffic calming has been a revolutionary treatment in sustainable mobility focused transportation for the last 20+ years.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It's also a failure of elected officials to not see themselves as "asset managers" and "risk managers." -- " Town-city management: "We are all asset managers now" ," 2015 -- " Municipal Natural Assets Planning Initiative, British Columbia ," 2018 What's up? But it is not truly independent. The agency reports to the mayor.

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AccessE11

MARCH 14, 2024

For municipal staff and elected officials, the journey towards digital transformation involves understanding the limitations of current practices, exploring the capabilities of modern technologies, and leveraging data for continuous improvement and strategic planning. They may feel uncertain or threatened by new technologies.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Unlike DC's "constituency service" programs by Councilmembers and the Mayor's Office, these initiatives are designed to support DIY self-help efforts driven independently of elected officials. Participatory Budgeting initiatives. They also have a small grant program for friends of parks groups.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

Elected officials and attorneys, who took oaths to uphold the state constitution, understandably wish to tread carefully. This blog post outlines the framework through which local governments can lawfully support privately owned affordable workforce housing. “No

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Death and Taxes

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It sounds like something they should probably not start right before budget season. When teaching MPA students I, somewhere in that first week or so, tell them that a public budget is an encyclopedia of government. the budget), a revenue manual is an encyclopedia of how government is financed. And to the back burner it goes.

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Management Excellence Medal Amira Boland , formerly of the Office of Management and Budget, pioneered policies to improve government services and the customer experience in areas ranging from newborn care and disaster assistance to renewing passports online. Emerging Leaders Medalists Jerry Ma. Management Excellence Medalist Amira Boland.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

At the same time planners (and elected officials) are supposed to be helping the citizens. I think it is the job of an office of planning to name-identify these kinds of issues, for citizens and elected officials, and to help us work through them and come to as much of a consensus understanding as is possible.

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

Professional government employees are vital partners for these officials and do [or should do] the day-to-day operations of the government, procure products and services, supervise, develop budgets for programs and execute tactics outlined in strategy put forth in part by our elected officials.

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Human Transit

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In the projects we do for transit agency clients, mostly around bus network redesign, the task of seeking public feedback is at least one third of the project budget. My job as a public transit planner requires a lot of public engagement, as it should. I can’t begin to express how frustrating this is.).

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Barrett & Greene

JULY 25, 2023

With that in mind, we were intrigued to read an excellent report that came out last week from the Citizen’s Budget Commission, a nonprofit civic organization that focuses on the finance and services of New York City and New York state government. It was titled 11 Billion Reasons to Rethink New York’s Increasing Economic Development Spending.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

I stopped testifying when I realized that the city's elected officials either didn't understand or care. to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

One of my earliest pieces " Town-City branding or "We are all destination managers now" " (2005) was later expanded into the concept of a city's elected officials and stakeholders are its brand managers in commercial district revitalization framework plans I wrote in 2008 for Cambridge, Maryland, and Brunswick, Georgia.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

They need to be thinking about and planning for how transit strengthens and improves communities, rather than just thinking about transit in terms of modes or engineering or budgets.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 16, 2025

reminds me of an idea I've had for 17 or so years, making the federal Attorney General an executive office elected official with the agency and its reporting agencies like the FBI, independent of the President. Marshals Service; and Bureau of Prisons, with an annual budget over $37 billion. Bondi would oversee 94 regional U.S.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

system seem designed to constrain elected officials who do not respect them. prides itself on a reverence to the constitution, and on being “a government of laws, not of men,” in the words of John Adams. The checks and balances of the U.S.

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