Congress finally approves spending budget, nearly six months late
GCN
MARCH 23, 2024
The vote in the House and Senate averts a shutdown and brings funding certainty. But several programs significant to state and local governments saw cuts.
Univ. of Pittsburgh Athletics use AWS to unlock data insights for every step of the fan journey
AWS Public Sector Blog
JUNE 6, 2024
In 1914, they fielded a women’s varsity basketball team, six years before women had the right to vote. “We Richard Turnquist, assistant athletic director of data and analytics, was interested in how the department could use analytics to drive the department’s budget and financial goals. “We
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Community Engagement Trends for 2025
Social Pinpoint
DECEMBER 8, 2024
Given the significant political shifts in the UK, USA, and Europe, alongside the fallout from the Indigenous Voice to Parliament vote in Australia over the past year, we believe that diversity in community engagement will increasingly become a key focus for achieving equitable outcomes.
City of Joplin, MO Residents Engage with City Budget Survey to Rank Seven City Priorities
PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting
JUNE 2, 2016
"Priority-based budgeting will allow city officials to regain control of the budget." - City Manager Sam Anselm The City of Joplin, Missouri is in their first year of the priority based budgeting process. This will help better manage the broad number of services we provide, while recognizing our budget constraints.”
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Understanding public participation and community engagement initiatives
Partnership for Public Service
DECEMBER 4, 2024
This past summer, the Office of Management and Budget and the General Services Administration issued a challenge : Create a toolkit of effective approaches to increase public participation and community engagement in government. The Partnership rose to the challenge and finished in the top three.
Shutdowns and continuing resolutions aren’t the answer of effective government
Partnership for Public Service
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
This funding typically makes up only approximately one-third of the federal budget, with a majority of spending going toward Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and mandatory programs that fall outside the purview of annual appropriations. The full House and Senate still need to consider and vote on these bills.
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Vermont Chapter Councilor Report – ALA LibLearnX 2023
Librarian.net
JANUARY 30, 2023
. – Article V – Makeup of the Executive Board in the absence of Council, what representation was the optimal makeup and who votes for them. (I I voted for the original Forward Together suggestion) – Article VI – Does Council maintain policy-making power or are they advisory? Longer report: [link] Action items.
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City of Toledo Mayor Hopes Move to PBB Will Restore Faith in City Government
PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting
JULY 7, 2016
." - City of Toledo Councilperson Sandy Spang In an unprecedented public-private partnership, the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce is partnering with the City of Toledo, OH to bring Priority Based Budgeting (PBB) to Northwest Ohio. The City of Toledo launched their Priority Based Budgeting initiative earlier this week.
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Vermont Chapter Councilor Report – ALA Annual 2023
Librarian.net
JULY 15, 2023
not vendors, corporate members, free attendees) All votes passed. Blockson – Reports from the Budget Committee, the Committee on Accreditation, the Committee on Committees and the International Relations Committee, Committee on Legislation, and the Freedom to Read Foundation – Resolution objecting to the IFLA location in Dubai.
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Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
DECEMBER 9, 2023
-- " Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution " From the article: Paris will hold a referendum on 4 February asking residents to vote for or against a specific parking tariff for heavy, large and polluting SUVs. And my neighborhood was the first.
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ALA Midwinter Report 2022
Librarian.net
JANUARY 27, 2022
There were some Round Table readjustments which were mostly paperwork-driven and seemed non-controversial but required voting. We did not get to vote on the Resolution to Support School and Youth Services Librarians Facing Increased Intellectual Freedom Challenges because of time spent discussing TAG which was too bad.
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A 21st-Century Education in Ohio Prisons
GovLoop
JANUARY 5, 2024
The Future Is Bright Pandemic-era funding helped set up the system, Sanders explained, but the program also got a vote of confidence in Ohio’s most recent biennium budget, when state legislators approved funds to continue providing devices.
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Emphasizing ‘people over position’: 2023 Exemplary Public Servant James Earp
American City & Country
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Despite being voted “most likely to be president” in high school, James Earp’s path to public service wasn’t a direct one. Adding ‘value in the proposition’ When it comes to working with the public and budgeting, Earp finds that “cost is always an issue in the absence of value.” Earp at a ground breaking for a new turn lane in Hutto.
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Welcome to the team, Maurice Classen!
zencity
MAY 3, 2023
His principal management responsibility included oversight of the City’s employees and a multi-billion dollar budget. Few things could be more exciting for us, or represent a higher vote of confidence in Zencity’s mission and future, than Maurice’s growth from a customer, to an advisor, and now to our COO.
CFP: Collaborations and Outreach for Student Success: Initiatives for College and Small University Libraries (ACRL Publication)
A Library Writer's Blog
AUGUST 22, 2022
While many volumes have been published about academic library outreach programs, these often showcase libraries with extensive staff, budgets, and materials available to them. Readers will take away practical examples of collaboration across their campus and community that are suitable for their institution size.
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Toronto Star "Can't We Do Better" series: Rampant Municipal Management Failure #3
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Maybe he wouldn't if Toronto had ranked choice voting. " on the various way that the city government's execution of basic services is failing. The incumbent of the last 8 years, John Tory, is likely to win.
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Revisiting Pittsburgh and Allegheny County as an opportunity for city-county consolidation: The "RiversCity" proposal
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 26, 2023
Partly what got me thinking about city-county consolidation--places like Indianapolis (1970), Knoxville, Macon-Bibb County, Georgia (2012), and what SF and Philadelphia did in the 1800s--was seeing mention of a Brookings Institution report about Pennsylvania c.
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Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JUNE 27, 2024
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 ).
Public housing administration as a measure of government (in)competence
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Council votes for $8 billion Medicaid contracts, housing overhaul ," Post ). It attributed the issue to management failure and said the vacancies have accelerated the agency’s steadily deteriorating financial condition. The City Council is worked up about it (" D.C. Housing Authority better ," Post ).
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Top 50 City Government Blogs
Masters in Public Administration
AUGUST 30, 2011
Read them to learn how a city budget works, how townhall meetings are conducted, and even to see the inner workings of a police department. Lynch writes on everything from the budget to public service. There are also interactive resources on the budget for the viewing. One of the latest posts was on the proposed budget.
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Local Government Support for Privately Owned Affordable Housing
Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
MAY 16, 2022
A local government therefore must exercise oversight of the budgets for construction and operation of the housing project to ensure that the public subsidy is going to LMI persons and not toward other activities of the third party. 153A-149, unless the same is first submitted to a vote of the people as therein provided.”
The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
JUNE 10, 2024
However, appraisers are different from the other groups discussed herein: they are not numerous (estimated at just 78,000 nationally), working mainly as smaller, local providers – and thus not collectively wealthy enough to support a large lobbying and advocacy budget. There seem to be three reasons for this exceptionalism.
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Look Back at 2023 Online Community Engagement Trends
Social Pinpoint
JANUARY 24, 2024
The Solidification of Hybrid Engagement Staged Engagement Community Development and Going Beyond the Project Participatory Budgeting The Initial Adoption of AI in Community Engagement 1. Now a popular tool, Fund It is certainly seeing more use in local government budgeting processes.
The 50 Best City Manager Blogs, Sites, and More
Masters in Public Administration
SEPTEMBER 22, 2010
A city manager is often charged with managing the city’s budget, various offices, and a ton of other responsibilities. City Budget Office : Because budgets are something a city manager comes into contact with a great deal, stop here. It is the site for the Budget Office of Seattle, Washington.
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Strathcona County Updating Priority-Based Strategic Plan
PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting
JULY 19, 2016
"Some recommended updates to the strategic plan include revising prioritized strategic goal ranking, adding outcome statements for strategic goals, and integration of priority-based budgeting references." Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada, is leading the way in priority based business planning and budgeting.
Defining deviance down: Disorder and cities in 2022
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 3, 2022
This is an issue in the UK, because 10+ years of austerity have crush public agencies and local governments--some have lost as much as 2/3 of their budget, at the cost of public libraries, health care, maintenance of streets, sidewalks, parks, etc. Transit fare evasion in DC (and elsewhere).
10 Interesting Facts About the History of Public Administration
Masters in Public Administration
JUNE 13, 2011
In modern voting, this process is often called the political machine and is now done in a less blatant way. 1900 Economist Fredric Taylor develops the need for budgets, cooperation between management and labor workers, and studying work methods to become more effective for the future. At this time the U.S.
How to Capture the Benefits of Participatory Budgeting
Social Pinpoint
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Participatory budgeting is a democratic process that lets community members voice how they would like public money to be spent. However, it’s important that the right technology and processes are in place to maximize the full value of the participatory budgeting process. Participatory budgeting can be conducted offline or online.
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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 22, 2025
Even though the Office of Planning made a reasonable proposal which would only increase height by 25% (I think it could have been higher), the City Council did not vote in favor of considering a change.
The Benefits of Participatory Democracy
Social Pinpoint
JANUARY 8, 2023
One example is online participatory budgets , which enable citizens to vote for how they would like public spending to be allocated toward an initiative. In a direct democracy, citizens are responsible for voting directly on policies and laws. How is participative democracy different from direct democracy?
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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy
Public Policy Blog
JUNE 16, 2013
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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House Majority Denies Low-Income Seniors and People With Disabilies Choice of Living in Their Homes
Poverty & Policy
MAY 12, 2017
I’m inclined to think that some House Republicans who voted for the bill knew this, though, as we know for sure, House Speaker Ryan chose to rush it through, rather than wait for an official score from the Congressional Budget Office. The left-leaning Center for American Progress estimates at least $31 billion.
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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well. Even neighborhood associations. I and many activists were against public funding, but it happened anyway.
Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 5, 2024
Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York City Lack of budget. A big problem is that park departments have budgets that are inadequate to meet the demand for services, so programming tends to be an after thought, maybe funded by special grants, or offered in association with other agencies to share the cost, but mostly doesn't exist.
Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 4, 2024
Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York City Lack of budget. A big problem is that park departments have budgets that are inadequate to meet the demand for services, so programming tends to be an after thought, maybe funded by special grants, or offered in association with other agencies to share the cost, but mostly doesn't exist.
Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.
Public Policy Blog
JANUARY 3, 2014
Nevertheless, the Tea Party remained an influential force within the Republican Party, evidenced by its sway over House Republicans during the budget showdown in 2013 that resulted in a partial government shutdown on Oct. However, the movement’s electoral success in 2010 did not carry over to the 2012 midterm elections.
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What is government for?
Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company
JULY 22, 2021
trillion American Rescue Plan without any Republican votes. Even before that, at least 26 Republicans were touting the benefits of the measure to their constituents while neglecting to mention they voted against it. And the budget needs to be hammered out by September 30. This larger, $3.5
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Women's History Month and urban planning
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 3, 2025
One of the strands from which the planning profession in the US was birthed was out of women-initiated "good government" and "good places" initiatives in a time when women still didn't have the right to vote. Gender budgeting. Governments routinely bat away sensible policies that lack a champion when the money is handed out.
One Safety Net Time Limit Down, More Sweeping Limits in View
Poverty & Policy
JUNE 12, 2017
No state has done this, DC Fiscal Policy Institute’s Executive Director notes in an emailed budget wrap-up. The Council’s unanimous vote for a policy more protective than what the Mayor originally proposed is maybe the biggest high point of this budget season. SNAP Benefits Limits. It would also test its own strategies.
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A Slice of the Trump Budget’s Shrunken Pie for the Needs of Low-Income People
Poverty & Policy
MAY 26, 2017
Well, we finally have the full version of Trump’s proposed budget for upcoming fiscal year. These tacks are basically the same as when the administration released its skinny budget preview, except that we now have a shift prompted by a range of cuts to safety net programs that don’t depend on annual appropriations.
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(Reprint) Electing a Federal Attorney General and a Chief Inspector General | Expanding Democracy
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 16, 2025
Marshals Service; and Bureau of Prisons, with an annual budget over $37 billion. Our country is too divided to be able to make necessary changes to government structure, like the small state bias of the Senate and the existence of the Electoral College versus the popular vote for deciding the winner of the Presidential election.
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Our federal deficit needs a dose of reality
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
The budget deficit is primarily a function of tax cuts. The recent vote by the House of Representatives extends Trump tax cuts which will lead to massive budget cuts in areas where people really need the services currently provided (" House Passes G.O.P. Budget Teeing Up Enormous Tax and Spending Cuts ," New York Times ).
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Poverty & Policy
JUNE 8, 2017
I recently said I was torn between delving into Trump’s proposed budget and picking at less-reported angles because the package was DOA in the Senate. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities says no such thing. We’re still a long way from a budget for next year.
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Partnership for Public Service
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
The nominee for the Office of Management and Budget controller, Laurel Blatchford, recently withdrew from consideration, after waiting more than 10 months without a Senate confirmation vote. The Office of Personnel Management has been missing an official deputy director for nearly two years.
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