OpenGov

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Transforming Government Finance for a Stronger Future For too long, local governments have been weighed down by outdated toolsmanual spreadsheets, paper-based workflows, and slow processes that leave little time for […] The post Modern Financial Management: Empowering High-Performance Government appeared first on OpenGov.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Opening their phone, they were able to provide copies of their ID, Social Security card, and even a fully signed copy of their intake forms with the HOPICS case manager who set them up with Kiip. Kiip, working with HOPICS and powered by AWS, enables unhoused individuals to securely keep, manage, and share copies of their vital documents.

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GovPilot

MARCH 28, 2023

Managing local government assets is an essential part of efficient government operations and maintaining community safety. From buildings and land to emergency vehicles and equipment, local governments have many assets to maintain.

Local Government 52

Local Government Management Government Budgeting 52

NLC (National League of Cities)

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Over the past two years, the National League of Cities (NLC) has been actively working with both Congress and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to improve the ability for local governments to manage the life cycle of federal grants, making more federal grants attainable for cities and towns regardless of size.

Local Government 98

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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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zencity

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

When it comes to creating a city or county budget , there are many ways to move forward: whether it’s taking the previous year’s budget and adapting it as necessary, or throwing it all away and starting with a blank slate. There’s no “right” choice when it comes to budget type—only what’s best for your jurisdiction.

Community Engagement 52

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GovPilot

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As this year comes to a close, governments’ approach their own finale of the fiscal year. Similarly to the universal financial stresses of the holiday season, budgets tighten in the last months of the fiscal year. Operations do not slow, bills remain due, and funding cannot cease in the final stretch of the year.

Budgeting 52

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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. Then, with the time they saved managing numbers, they turned their attention to new outreach channels: chat, text, and email.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The Arizona Statewide Cyber Readiness Grant Program enables local entities to reduce their cyberattack surface by accessing technical assistance and software licenses across five functional areas: advanced endpoint protection, converged endpoint management, multi-factor authentication, security awareness training, and web application firewall.

Local Government 130

Local Government Security Public Sector Education 130

Barrett & Greene

AUGUST 9, 2022

To prevent a “climate catastrophe,” the focus of local, regional, national, and international government leaders has been to keep temperature rise in check – no more than 2.0°C Without considering the environment in the budgeting process, all the commitments to change will be little more than words.

Budgeting 52

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

When they buy technology, cities and counties will often face multiple issues, says Dean Cunningham , segment development manager, Public Safety at Axis Communications , a company that produces network cameras, access control systems, network audio devices and other IP networking solutions for physical security and video surveillance applications.

Government 110

Government Public Safety Local Government Public Sector 110

AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that provides one of the simplest ways for development teams to build and scale generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI. Also, as a council with budget pressures, there’s significant financial gain.

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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.

City Manager 52

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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.

Government 97

Government Budgeting Public Sector Sustainability 97

AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

With these solutions, the Navy Yard can support the community while utilizing ground truth data across planning objectives and support budgeting. It provides PIDC with insights into additional infrastructure projects that need to be deployed to manage any changes in traffic as well.

Public Sector 312

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Partnership for Public Service

APRIL 21, 2025

Some states and localities make it illegal to ask for salary history and/or require employers to publish a salary range on job postings. If an interviewer asks about your salary expectations, deflect and ask about what is being budgeted for the position. If possible, don’t share salary history. Do your research.

Translation 53

Translation Public Sector Public Service Budgeting 53

AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With this solution, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment. Advice for customers procuring a managed service Many customers outsource their landing zone operations to an AWS partner or AWS managed services. 1.17 - CIS.1.16

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Barrett & Greene

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Over the years, we’ve written a great deal about ways in which government officials can improve their relationship with the press. We know there’s a lot of frustration in state and local governments about the coverage (or lack of coverage) they receive. Of course, that doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with trying them again.

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Government Local Government Legislation Government Employee 52

AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 12, 2023

Each CoC identifies a lead agency that serves as its collective representative to HUD and maintains a Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) to track service delivery and measure outcomes according to specific HUD standards. Stay on budget and on timeline because that’s where you’ll lose stakeholder support.

Public Sector 130

Public Sector Housing Coordinator Local Government 130

AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Using LZA on AWS, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment. IAM Identity Center allows customers to integrate with their existing identity stores to simplify the management of their AWS accounts.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

AUGUST 30, 2016

"The Toledo Chamber’s jointly funded venture with the City is the first of its kind public-private partnership in the world to bring Priority Based Budgeting into a community." At the Center for Priority Based Budgeting (CPBB) , we're constantly impressed and amazed at just how innovative local government communities can be.

Budgeting 52

Budgeting Local Government Elected Officials Stewardship 52

Government Technology Insider

APRIL 10, 2024

Recently, city and county IT leaders from around the country met to collaborate on policy, management and leadership issues surrounding the future of digital government. For most local governments this is a hard ask because they have small budgets, limited resources, and lean IT teams.”

Local Government 52

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

“I really have to dive into how I implement new technology on a limited budget,” he said. ” The Journey So Far In 2023, part of Barker’s mission was to “demystify” AI for Burlington government colleagues. It’s change management.” Get the Guide Photo by Kalei Winfield at Pexels.com Favorite

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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.

Local Government 59

Local Government Parks And Recreation Government Sanitation 59

zencity

JULY 24, 2023

Or maybe, since the federal government is moving forward at such a rapid pace, is this less of a priority for mayors? Additionally, recognizing that budget and management are on the mind of mayors is also telling. Image from page 7 of the report.

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Public Safety Social Media Budgeting Local Government 98

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

MAY 2, 2016

Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada, is leading the way in priority based business planning and budgeting. First past the priority-based budget post Strathcona County is becoming a leader in budgeting, as the first municipality in Canada to implement priority–based budgeting. Why would you look at the budget differently?

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Budgeting Strategic Planning Communications Implementation 52

American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

However, improvements in technology are helping local governments provide accurate assessments of flood risk, so steps can be taken to provide early and accurate warning of flood events, minimize potential losses, and improve outcomes and overall resilience after a flood occurs. Let’s start with “human.”

Parks And Recreation 110

Parks And Recreation Local Government Disaster Response Management 110

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JULY 27, 2016

PBB & Strategic Planning An analysis of survey data from municipalities who have implemented priority based budgeting For the 5th year in a row, Priority Based Budgeting has been the subject of a Master's degree or PHD thesis defense. Congratulations Liz! Great work advancing our communities!

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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.

Local Government 52

Local Government Security Government Public Sector 52

American City & Country

OCTOBER 25, 2024

No question, more local governments are facing cyber threats in 2024, says Tim LeMaster, vice president, worldwide systems engineering at Lookout. Either outcome allows the attacker to impersonate or spy on the victim, potentially exposing sensitive government data.” His firm is a data-centric cloud security company.

Local Government 110

Local Government Security Accountability Social Media 110

Government Technology Insider

AUGUST 31, 2022

At the state and local levels, budgets prove thinner. According to SolarWinds recent annual Public Sector Cybersecurity Survey , 50% of security IT professionals across state agencies and 25% of local governments selected “low budgets” as the leading challenge plaguing their team’s success. Consider IT monitoring.

Budgeting 52

Budgeting Public Sector Security Government 52

AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In a March 2022 survey of 147 state and local government leaders by the Center for Digital Government , more than half of respondents said they plan to procure citizen-facing applications and storage and backup infrastructure in the next one to two years. Optimizing AWS Cloud Costs & Lowering Total Cost of Ownership (eBook).

Public Sector 130

Public Sector Budgeting Local Government Accountability 130

GovLoop

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In today’s threat environment, where ransomware and other attacks aim to steal and exploit user credentials, a focus on identity “is the first step in securing state and local systems,” said James Imanian, Senior Director, U.S. Yet many state and local IT teams struggle to implement strong identity controls.

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Security Local Government Government Implementation 52

GovLoop

MAY 19, 2023

In March 2022, the FBI issued a warning that ransomware attacks were straining local governments and public services. Nationwide, numerous city and county offices, police departments, schools, and other local agencies had reported suffering data breaches and service disruptions. This was not news.

Local Government 98

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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.

Government 52

Government Local Government Management Budgeting 52

Open Access Government - Technology News

JUNE 28, 2023

Local government is in need of updated cloud technology to efficiently implement council project management, with the potential of funding from the Levelling Up fund Time is gradually running out for local government to invest £4.8 billion of Levelling Up funding.

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