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How city governments can navigate the fiscal cliff

American City & Country

Louis struggle with resource constraints and grapple with the significant challenges cities face in balancing budgets, maintaining public services and managing infrastructure needs. It results from past budget deficits and requires ongoing management through interest and principal repayments.

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The major challenges in government payment processes: Survey reveals critical inefficiencies

American City & Country

Delays and difficulties in collecting payments can lead to significant shortfalls in municipal budgets, limiting the funds available for public services and infrastructure projects. Furthermore, modern systems can reduce administrative costs by automating many aspects of the payment process.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part One | Defining Levels of Service for individual parks

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Level of service a s a public administration term The term Level of Service is typically thought of in transportation term is used to refer to vehicle throughput, functioning of intersections, etc. Asking questions like "why is our meager budget earned from pavilion rentals paying for security?" Technically.

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January 2017 | Thinking about Undergraduate Education in Public Affairs, By Mary K. Feeney*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Public affairs programs across the country are developing undergraduate certificates, concentrations, minors, and majors in public administration, affairs, policy, and service. Third, we have the opportunity to engage the community in ways that are not done by traditional political science programs.

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What Makes Rural Art Parks Successful? Recommendations for CED Art Lovers

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

The third highlighted logistical and budget issues, and how the community was engaged even in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. In contrast, another organization took incremental steps toward becoming an official organization because they wanted to see if their public art park idea was of value to the community. Strategy 1.

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?Bridging the Academic/Practitioner Gap: Public Finance Journal

Barrett & Greene

by Craig S Maher, Director School of Public Administration, University of Nebraska, Omaha and co-editor of the , Public Finance Journal There’s a great deal of valuable academic work being churned out every day in order to help practitioners deal with real world questions. Enter the , Public Finance Journal (PF).

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30 November 2017 | Rethinking the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Who’s Funding Whom?, by Kelly LeRoux

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

To many scholars in the field of public administration and public management, the study of nonprofit organizations is viewed as a narrow niche, a handful of people working at the margins of the field on topics that largely sit outside of mainstream concerns for public managers.