Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2023

She recently had a book published, Getting Elected is the Easy Part: Work and Winning in the State Legislature In this podcast we learn about her personal experiences and then also dive more deeply into her advice for people aspiring to be elected officials.

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Elected Officials Legislation Campaign Sustainability 52

Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

Although implementing the recommendations has not been without difficulty, the city had the organizational infrastructure, data collection expectations, and working relationships in place to do so. The plan for Bethlehem, which straddles both Northampton and Lehigh Counties, won the 2018 Lehigh Valley Award for Plan or Policy.

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Implementation Development Community Development Elected Officials 52

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JUNE 21, 2016

"What distinguishes Scott County among the 120+ implementers in the PBB community, is the organization’s commitment to being truly data-driven." Scott County was the first local government in the State to implement Priority Based Budgeting. Scott County, Minnesota has always been unique, but it’s rapidly becoming even more so.

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Elected Officials Budgeting Implementation Local Government 52

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

JANUARY 25, 2022

Call and email your city, county and state elected officials, your school principals, school district and then contact the respective Parent Teacher Association (PTA) to tell them to take action. Besides listening to this podcast you can go to the website Seismic Safety for Kids to learn more.

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Elected Officials Legislation Sustainability Management 52

Policy Chats

DECEMBER 15, 2023

From 2023, Associate Professor Attwell leads MandEval, a mixed methods and multi-country study of the implementation and impact of COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Australia, Italy, France and California, a $4.7 million dollar project funded by the Medical Research Future Fund of the Australian Government.

Public Policy 52

Public Policy Elected Officials Implementation Public Health 52

Barrett & Greene

MARCH 14, 2023

For one thing, unlike elected officials who can retain their jobs based on simple popularity or name recognition, city managers are evaluated based on their ability to achieve policy goals and improve the quality of life for residents. There’s little question that’s true for a variety of reasons.

City Manager 52

City Manager Management Elected Officials Public Administration 52

Barrett & Greene

APRIL 20, 2023

But the book points to Averell Harriman, the Secretary of Commerce at the time, as the individual who coordinated the implementation of the plan. Over the course of years, we’ve been aware that the people who generate new policies -- often elected officials – get much of the credit, or blame, for major projects and programs.

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Elected Officials Implementation Coordinator Community Development 52

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

AUGUST 30, 2016

In this first article, the focus is on: “What is Priority Based Budgeting, Why do Communities implement this practice, and where is the City in the midst of its implementation.” The City of Toledo has just launched its implementation of Priority Based Budgeting, with the development of its Program and Services Inventory.

Budgeting 52

Budgeting Local Government Elected Officials Stewardship 52

Partnership for Public Service

MAY 17, 2023

The federal workforce also consists of more than the elected officials and political appointees who hold office and lead agencies. In truth, the bulk of the workforce is composed of 2 million nonelected, career civil servants who specialize in a wide range of fields and design, launch and implement critical public services.

Government 51

Government Elected Officials Public Service Nonprofit 51

AccessE11

MARCH 14, 2024

For municipal staff and elected officials, the journey towards digital transformation involves understanding the limitations of current practices, exploring the capabilities of modern technologies, and leveraging data for continuous improvement and strategic planning. Creative funding strategies can often mitigate financial hurdles.

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Strategic Planning City Manager Elected Officials Operations 69

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

From the article: Metro’s prospects for replacing hundreds of millions of dollars in fare revenue that vanished during the pandemic appeared to be waning as stimulus money runs dry, particularly as weary elected officials watch the agency struggle during a year-long train shortage.

Management 52

Management Elected Officials Transportation Budgeting 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

A commitment to the development and production of a broad, comprehensive, visionary, and detailed revitalization plan/s (Bilbao, Hamburg, Liverpool); the creation of innovative and successful implementation organizations , with representatives from the public sector and private firms, to carry out the program.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Elected Officials Implementation Development 52

GovLoop

DECEMBER 22, 2022

What we’re finding that resonates with our elected officials is loss of trust by the public. ” To see more about how agencies are implementing cybersecurity, download the guide. “If you can couch things in terms of risk, that’s something that conceptually everybody understands,” he explained. Get the guide. Favorite.

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Elected Officials Communications Outreach Public Health 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

Gosh, years ago I wrote about an approach to planning I called "action planning," focused on implementation, and to be successful included elements of social marketing and branding and identity. and often people don't understand when treatments are implemented, often with little community involvement.

Transportation 52

Transportation Sustainability Communications Campaign 52

Barrett & Greene

MARCH 6, 2023

How can the steps be implemented to ease the administrative burden for both companies and compliance staff? Externally, organizations can be confident that they have good quality data that can be shared with elected officials, other policy leaders, and the public. Procedures. What is the process for obtaining and managing data?

Management 52

Management Economic Development Elected Officials Program Manager 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Fifth, that activists and elected officials sure didn't understand how to be proactive (" The Silver Line WMATA story that WJLA-TV missed ," 2014). Set the opening of the Purple Line as the deadline for the implementation of a full-fledged integrated Night Owl bus network for the DC metropolitan area.

Elected Officials 52

Elected Officials Transportation Sustainability Operations 52

Barrett & Greene

AUGUST 9, 2022

Local governments – many with the best of intentions -- face a perennial disconnect between elected officials; sustainability, resilience, and equity offices; and budget and finance leaders in aligning resources with climate initiatives. Consider Pittsburgh, which established laudable goals to help with climate change.

Budgeting 52

Budgeting Elected Officials Local Government Sustainability 52

AccessE11

MARCH 14, 2024

For municipal staff and elected officials, the journey towards digital transformation involves understanding the limitations of current practices, exploring the capabilities of modern technologies, and leveraging data for continuous improvement and strategic planning. Creative funding strategies can often mitigate financial hurdles.

Strategic Planning 52

Strategic Planning City Manager Elected Officials Operations 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Having lived through that period of disorder, I am always amazed that elected officials in cities like SF, Seattle, Portland, and DC are happy with encouraging it. I first moved to DC in grim times, the late 1980s and 1990s, when crime burgeoned. I don't think that's what they intended.

Public Safety 52

Public Safety Elected Officials Development Implementation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

And this is increasingly important as our country becomes more polarized, and even outside of this, people are very quick to criticize elected officials and government processes as uniformly corrupt, etc. Neighborhood groups had to come together to come up with and implement a program of community improvements.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Elected Officials Engagement Advocacy 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 14, 2024

Elected officials didn't make those decisions. This is why I get angry when Republicans say "Democrats destroyed cities." And why spending upwards of $200 million on community improvement doesn't seem to have immediate effect. Planning relevance.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Housing Elected Officials Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Even though transit usage is much reduced in DC post-covid, I don't think DC elected officials understand how central transit is to the city's competitive advantage and identity. And for the most part, DC City Councilmembers aren't interested in putting out the money to expand it to make it more useful.

Public Administration 52

Public Administration Development Government Elected Officials 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

Any contact between F&F and elected officials is strictly controlled by the FHFA. In summary, the reforms that were called for by many critics of F&F prior to 2008, but which never happened, have been substantially implemented within conservatorship. Political is out, commercial is in.

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Legislation Housing Regulations Operations 93

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 12, 2023

So city elected officials seem to think it is the responsibility of the county while the county officials, because the park is in the City, see it more as a city facility. It's an odd governmental construction in that it's owned by both the city and county, but run (theoretically) by an independent board.

Elected Officials 52

Elected Officials Housing Development Implementation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

Intra-district shuttle systems Item # 5 in " Creating a Silver Spring "Sustainable Mobility District" | Part 2: Program items 1 - 9 ," discusses how to implement an integrated parking-shuttle system in Silver Spring, Maryland. Sometimes they're led by the elected official for that district. Salt Lake is hot in the summer.

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Transportation Management Parks And Recreation Housing 96

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Neighborhood groups had to come together to come up with and implement a program of community improvements. Unlike DC's "constituency service" programs by Councilmembers and the Mayor's Office, these initiatives are designed to support DIY self-help efforts driven independently of elected officials.

Engagement 52

Engagement Parks And Recreation Elected Officials Transportation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Bratton implemented a strategy of “quality of life” policing, derived in large part from the “broken windows” theory advanced by the social scientists George Kelling and James Q. As crime dropped and police needed things to do, this was implemented in communities of color as "stop and frisk" which was later found unconstitutional.

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Security Public Safety Implementation Elected Officials 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," (2021) -- " Revisiting St. I stopped testifying when I realized that the city's elected officials either didn't understand or care. Louis: what would I recommend for a comprehensive revitalization program? Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations ," (2021) -- " St.

Transportation 52

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Interestingly, the local high school newspaper gets it even if elected officials and automobile dependent folks do not, " MOVE Culver City: Rethinking Urban Mobility in the Heart of Screenland ," Culver City High Centaurian. And, umm, such interventions are already studied before being implemented. transit ," LAT.

Transportation 52

Transportation Sustainability Elected Officials Implementation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

It's fair to say that in NYC Mayor De Blasio cares a lot less about this than former Mayor Bloomberg (" A Playbook on the Politics of Better Streets ," Bloomberg), and in DC, most elected officials are from "the outer city" where the automobile remains dominant (" DC as a suburban agenda dominated city ," 2013).

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Transportation Economic Development Sustainability Elected Officials 52

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

system seem designed to constrain elected officials who do not respect them. They might slow the implementation process. Such an approach is ethically troublesome, since political appointees carry with them a measure of sovereign legitimacy that the career official does not. The checks and balances of the U.S.

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Public Administration Laws Leadership Government 40