AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

To make hearings visible to the public, even when in-person attendance is limited, state and local governments are beginning to mandate many court proceedings be live streamed, often with a very short window to do so. Read more about AWS for state and local government: Working backwards from Vision Zero to improve road safety.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

That’s a problem for any organization, and certainly for government. Soon, Gregg’s office will develop its approach for the North Dakota legislative session, which takes place every other year. This article appeared in our guide, “ Going Places: Priorities for State and Local Tech.”

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Center for Community Progress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Effective legislation is a vital piece of equipping state and local governments to effectively address vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties (VAD). This year, legislative sessions in Missouri and Alabama saw big wins to advance community revitalization. Missouri (HB 2062) In Missouri, the St.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Land banks are a powerful tool to address vacant properties in rural communities, and West Virginia passed land bank enabling legislation in 2014. In their previous role at the West Virginia Community Development Hub, Bennett worked as the primary statewide convener and advocate for land bank-based policies.

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GCN

APRIL 5, 2024

Adam Schiff and Jimmy Gomez cosponsored legislation that would direct the Housing and Urban Development Secretary to help refashion certain federal, state and local government properties into affordable residential rental projects. California Reps.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 10, 2024

This blog post attempts to identify which of these property tax breaks that might be relevant to a local government’s community and economic development plans. Local governments may not create their own custom exemptions; they all need to play by the uniform, statewide rules created by the General Assembly.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Louis County Land Bank Coalition , which includes local community development corporations, neighborhood associations, the St. Louis County Board of Realtors, a housing advocacy nonprofit, legal aid, local elected and government officials, and residents. What could be done? This month, Rep.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 3, 2024

One highlight has been the generous grant of over $1 million from JP Morgan Chase to support our Developers of Color initiative. This initiative, led by our Director of Engagement Odetta Macleish-White, creates opportunities for marginalized local developers and promotes equitable development in underserved communities.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. Davis, John E. Decker, Andrew.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

While restrictive zoning is not the only reason housing costs are high in the United States, it does play a major role in limiting housing development, especially in parts of the country with high paying jobs in fast-growing industries. The increased targets led to changes in behavior from local governments, too.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 15, 2023

Land banking programs, on the other hand, exist in states that don’t have state-enabling legislation, which limits their powers and utility. State laws gives land banks their unique powers. Sometimes a municipality may call their land bank a “land reutilization authority,” “land reutilization council,” or “redevelopment authority” instead.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 2, 2023

The board said I’d be buying properties that were abandoned and tax delinquent and selling them to developers to turn into affordable housing. I got my start in local government in Memphis, Tennessee, which is where I developed my love of working with my community and driving generational wealth-building.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

In textbooks on organizational psychology, behavior and development, there is an extended discussion of boundary spanning, where people have conflicting responsibilities to different groups with different priorities. Planning as boundary spanning and serving multiple masters. Planners are the classic example of boundary spanners. U Street NW.

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GovLoop

APRIL 1, 2024

Government is under pressure to update its legacy technology systems. Modernization is crucial for agencies to stay agile, secure, and responsive to evolving needs,” said Francisco Ramirez, Chief Architect of State and Local Government at Red Hat. Getting there, however, has often proven problematic.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 3, 2023

I quickly learned about the power of relationships, particularly when building programs and developing grant proposals. For more details about local government grant seeking, check out this blog post. Your US Senators and Representatives create the federal legislation that leads to grant programs.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 17, 2022

Vacant properties are, by and large, a local government issue, and urban and rural local governments are fundamentally different in size. In addition to smaller local government capacities, the economics of rural land and property markets are different from urban ones.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 4, 2022

One [city] had developed a very specific IT application as a homegrown solution to an issue,” explained Lata Grover, who, as Senior Advisory Strategist at ServiceNow, works with state and local governments. That solution worked initially, but over time developed issues. “A The first answer is rarely the best answer.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 12, 2022

The Government of Canada (GC) is turning to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support increased agility and speed of delivery of new solutions especially as it responds to events like COVID-19. This will open up both application development and security resources to work on delivering additional business requirements.

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 16, 2024

When Congress passes and the President signs major legislation, federal agencies must translate it into practical action to ensure its goals are realized. Our work to date The Partnership for Public Service has developed resources – detailed below – to help leaders implement these laws for maximum impact.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Developing data that provides evidence of different sources of PFAS could help municipalities in this instance. Developing data that provides evidence of different sources of PFAS could help municipalities in this instance. Fortunately, there is a guide and screening tool to accomplish this. and consolidated the research.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The upheaval in the planning agency’s governance has shocked even longtime political observers in a county accustomed to intense development spats. Because land use planning is about managing not preventing development, you're always going to get plenty of citizens calling the system corrupt. It's not corrupt--well, not usually.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 17, 2022

As I’ve written before , both our state constitution and the Machinery Act (the collection of state statutes that govern property taxes) require that all local governments across North Carolina play by the same property tax rules. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The “historic property” exclusion in G.S.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

to states, local government, and territories to aid them in building and strengthening their cyber posture. But now is the time for state and local government agencies to act quickly and think strategically about their approach to building a resilient WOS strategy. This funding opportunity allocates $374.9M

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 20, 2024

You need to craft data-driven narratives that connect with the intended audience, whether government officials, legislators or constituents. Bateman and her team focus on demographics and work extensively with Census data, but also create their own datasets based on local input. Its not enough to dig up good data.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Simon Chassar, CRO at Claroty, discusses why cyber-physical systems security is so integral to government in the modern era Digital transformation allows state and local government agencies to better and more efficiently serve the public.

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Bang the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The available funding creates new and exciting opportunities for local governments to tackle infrastructure projects that are long overdue and have the potential for positive impacts on community life. The Legislation Within the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal. The Legislation Within the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Before I came to Amazon Web Services (AWS) as an executive government advisor, I spent years as a local government chief information officer (CIO). Comprehensive policies, processes, and in some cases legislation must be put in place to make sure it is protected.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

Part 2 examines eight key policy topics, via a Q&A format, that must be accurately understood to develop effective policy that can expand affordable housing via MH. At this point, we must expand the analytical framework developed in Part 1. These topics reveal that MH is indeed a very complex type of housing.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 11, 2023

The Historical Commission, always deferential to real estate interests, continues to allow developers great leeway. The only real costs are regulatory, and those costs can be subsidized a bit with funds from the federal government so long as the city is a "certified local government" for historic preservation matters.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 26, 2023

The Growth Machine thesis from urban sociology is focused on local government, and how political and economic elites, despite seemingly intra-elite competition, are united on a real estate focused pro-growth agenda, since real estate development is the primary source of revenue and economic activity for local governments. "

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iGrantWriters

JULY 7, 2021

They include former and current staff, members of the NIC advisory board, contractors, former students, and legislators.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The department hired its first social media coordinator, who was tasked with developing the organization’s social media “voice” and mapping an overall strategy that reflects each platform’s unique audience. When a position opened, the agency reevaluated it, asking how it could better serve communication goals?

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Barrett & Greene

JULY 25, 2023

With that in mind, we were intrigued to read an excellent report that came out last week from the Citizen’s Budget Commission, a nonprofit civic organization that focuses on the finance and services of New York City and New York state government. It was titled 11 Billion Reasons to Rethink New York’s Increasing Economic Development Spending.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

I didn't know NASA originally planned for a big electronics hub in Boston's Kendall Square, as MIT's Draper Laboratory was an original developer of various electronics systems for the Apollo space program. The Department of Defense as a customer of technology firms has also spurred economic development.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

While the response to Hurricane Helene continues, local governments are looking ahead to the long road to recovery. This post describes the legal authority and practical considerations for local governments seeking to serve in the role of financial bridge. Detailed legal analysis of each point follows after the summary.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Photograph: David Rowe/Alamy Under Conservative control of the UK from 2010-2024, local governments were severely crushed by actions of the central government, austerity and other cuts, and further mandates meant that local governments faced up to a 2/3 drop in revenues.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JANUARY 21, 2025

This post, co-authored by Kristina Wilson and Tyler Mulligan, also appeared on the Coates’ Canons Local Government Law Blog here. However, government bodies can hold closed-door meetings, known as closed sessions, under certain limited circumstances. 143-318.10(a). 143-318.11(a)(4) City of Winston Salem, 342 N.C.

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