Public Works Group Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The Basics: Your Starting Line Lets get the lay of the landterms we all live by on these jobs: Scope of Work : The jobs boundaries and expectationswhat will be built, from culverts to curb cuts. Step outside the scope, and change orders start piling up along with the potential to expand budgets and schedules. Got a stake in this?

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PubWorks Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

When working with Public Works departments around the country, we often hear the struggles that organizations face daily. The biggest thing we hear from public works departments is that they are still relying on homemade databases, paper files or memory to keep track of assets, work activities and job costs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The city of Grand Island , Nebraska needed a cloud-based solution that it could use to build its budget more efficiently. Working with AWS Partner OpenGov on a new solution, Grand Island’s finance department saved 1,000 hours of manual labor—equating to half the time of a full-time staffer.

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Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Back a year ago, for example, we wrote that phase one of the city’s efforts – notably priority-based budgeting (PBB) –involved three departments: police, human resources and transportation and public works.

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Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Back a year ago, for example, we wrote that phase one of the city’s efforts – notably priority-based budgeting (PBB) –involved three departments: police, human resources and transportation and public works.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Is public. It made it very easy to come up with the budget.) Citizen-initiated projects are managed and constructed by one of the four city divisions deemed the subject area for the project (Parks and Public Lands, Public Works and Transportation, Economic Development & Neighborhoods, etc.). That was a mistake.

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PubWorks Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

What’s the right mix for Public Works? Public Works departments will always have demand maintenance issues to contend with and while most recognize the benefits of adopting a planned maintenance approach, it can be hard to implement. Reduce overtime costs by working on a scheduled basis versus a reactive basis.

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