Budgeting Elected Officials Operations 
Barrett & Greene
AUGUST 9, 2022
Without considering the environment in the budgeting process, all the commitments to change will be little more than words. Luckily, there are cities that are transforming the budget process to align resources with climate action. They spoke a whole different language: budget cycles and bond ratings.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 10, 2024
While some elected officials expressed some support of “good cause” in principle, the absence of a concrete proposal left the debate unresolved. Because landlords factor eviction costs into the operating budgets for their buildings, those costs risk being passed on to all tenants.
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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. It's really hard when you're failing.
AccessE11
MARCH 14, 2024
This transition not only promises to streamline operations but also to significantly enhance decision-making through real-time data and insights. The real-time nature of digital reporting means that city managers and officials have immediate access to up-to-date information. It also contributes to a lag in the flow of information.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 4, 2024
The private persona of a GSE is that it is owned and capitalized by the private sector and operated as a for-profit company. 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.
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.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
It took 13 years to make it operational after planning first started--by contrast it took Seattle four years, and they've since expanded. 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.
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