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Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2022, the city reduced the street mph to 20mph for most neighborhood streets, which in a car oriented city, is at times controversial (" Salt Lake City Council lowers speed limit to 20 mph on 70% of city streets in unanimous vote ," " Salt Lake City swaps first 20 mph speed limit sign in initiative for safer streets ," Salt Lake Tribune ).

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Public housing administration as a measure of government (in)competence

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Council votes for $8 billion Medicaid contracts, housing overhaul ," Post ). 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?

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Local Government Support for Privately Owned Affordable Housing

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Elected officials and attorneys, who took oaths to uphold the state constitution, understandably wish to tread carefully. 153A-149, unless the same is first submitted to a vote of the people as therein provided.” This sentence was incorporated verbatim into subsection (d) of the successor statute, G.S.

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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

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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(Reprint) Electing a Federal Attorney General and a Chief Inspector General | Expanding Democracy

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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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