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Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

-- " 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. I don't remember the exact definition. And my neighborhood was the first.

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Connecting the dots between the customer experience and trust in government

Partnership for Public Service

So while efforts to improve the federal customer experience may prevent a further decrease of trust in government, we cannot definitively say that CX initiatives alone will drive significant and lasting increases in public trust in government. adults from Nov. 29 to Dec.

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BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: What’s featured here is not definitive, and perhaps not even fully representative of what it looks like to have an artistic space of one’s own in the city. The Times article is more photo essay, but like the Equinox Studios article, has some kernels of wisdom on how properties have been able to remain comparatively low rent.

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ALA Midwinter Report 2022

Librarian.net

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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My ALA Conference

Librarian.net

Midwinter, now called LibLearnX for some reason, is in San Antonio and will definitely be a hybrid meeting and I do not plan to attend in person. Speaking of structure, Councilors voted on adding a ninth clause to ALA ‘s Code of Ethics. Annual is in DC and I have not made a decision about in person attendance to that one.

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Montgomery County Maryland Planning Board resigns

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The council, which appoints the board, voted unanimously in a closed session Tuesday to ask the entire board to resign, according to two people familiar with the vote. Those who didn’t resign would have faced a public hearing seeking their removal, the people said.

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City of Joplin, MO Residents Engage with City Budget Survey to Rank Seven City Priorities

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

Residents were not asked to vote on specific city services to fund or how much funding they thought should go toward specific services. It ends with: "Where would you place your votes?" Residents were also told they could give zero points to statements with which they did not agree, but all seven received points.