GCN

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Just over three years since Oregon voters passed Ballot Measure 110, elected officials want to repeal key elements, blaming the law for open drug use and soaring overdoses. But it’s their own hands-off approach that isn’t working, advocates say.

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GCN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Public-private partnerships and enhanced resource sharing activities have been key to defending against outside threats to voting systems, according to the head of CISA’s National Risk Management Center.

Elected Officials 55

Elected Officials Voting Management 55

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

JUNE 1, 2021

Emergency managers are no exception. Sometimes the position of emergency manager reports to a senior appointed official like the public works director or the fire chief. Others report directly to an elected official, mayor, fire chief or county commissioners. Emergency managers are no exception.

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Management Elected Officials Sustainability Public Works 52

Super Library Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

She and several other employees manage all the marketing and public relations for the library. It offers a professional means for sharing information with elected officials, community partners, and a myriad of other groups and individuals with whom we all come in contact. Who will manage the production?

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Elected Officials Social Media Outreach Communications 105

GCN

MARCH 1, 2024

COMMENTARY | As the chief election official, a secretary of state’s influence over the democratic process can extend to every single elected office.

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Elected Officials Management 76

Barrett & Greene

MARCH 14, 2023

by Hala Altamimi Assistant Professor, School of Public Affairs and Administration, University of Kansas In the public administration literature, it is generally expected that city managers are likely to support practices that improve government performance. All of this means that they tend to take a long-term view in managing their cities.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Building departments and their elected officials should make their decision based on the specific needs and constraints of the jurisdiction’s construction projects, regulatory environment, and ultimately, how they serve the public and consider their safety first.

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Elected Officials Regulations Coordinator Public Safety 63

AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

The day begins with a keynote led by an AWS executive and a fireside chat with special guests such as elected officials from the community or executives from local organizations and institutions with success stories. There is also an executive track for IT and business leaders.

Education 189

Education Public Sector Local Government Elected Officials 189

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

Transportation Demand Management programming The reality is, especially in a place like Salt Lake, most people drive. Sometimes they're led by the elected official for that district. This came up in an email discussion a few weeks ago, and I started listing what I thought should be the elements of an ideal TMD program.

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Transportation Management Parks And Recreation Housing 96

Super Library Marketing

JUNE 10, 2024

Photo courtesy Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library During the pandemic, Claudine Bennet was stuck at home, and trying to adjust to her new role as External Relations Manager at Dayton Metro Library , she came up with a fun game. “At At the time, I had a map next to my desk at home,” remembers Claudine. “I

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Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

But the second reason is somewhat more troublesome and it's come up, in off-the-record portions of a number of conversations we've had over the years: Sometimes elected officials don’t want to gather data because they fear it will make them look bad.

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Elected Officials Sanitation Public Safety Voting 98

Barrett & Greene

MARCH 6, 2023

Ellen Harpel, Founder of Smart Incentives and Randall Bauer, Director, PFM Group Consulting ​ Randall Bauer Ellen Harpel As management guru Peter Drucker said – and as has been repeated by many others over the years – “what gets measured gets managed.” What is the process for obtaining and managing data? Procedures.

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Management Economic Development Elected Officials Program Manager 52

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

OCTOBER 3, 2023

One of the additional duties for emergency managers at the local level is to make and maintain connections with local and state elected officials. This is not everyone’s “cup of tea” but it can be a vital aspect of having a disaster management program that enjoys the support of legislators.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In addition, AWS Partners offer hundreds of tools and features to help customers meet their security objectives, ranging from network security, configuration management, access control, and data encryption. We launch new features regularly, including more than 500 features and services focused on security and compliance.

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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. historic architecture 2.

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Management Elected Officials Transportation Budgeting 52

NLC (National League of Cities)

MARCH 19, 2024

Thousands of individuals manage America’s 19,000 cities, towns, and villages – both career staff members and elected officials – who dedicate their lives and careers to bettering the places we all call home. Where can they turn for help? Where can they improve themselves as civil servants and stewards of their community?

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Elected Officials Management 52

Barrett & Greene

MAY 20, 2024

without the time for adequate preparation, may be great for elected officials anxious to make quick headlines. stated, “Political decision-makers and senior civil servants often have misconceptions about the capabilities and boundaries of project management. Jumping into new initiatives.

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Barrett & Greene

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Results from local government budgeting in general, would likely show less innovative practices.” While the survey found that local governments are inclined to take into account the priorities of elected officials and staff, when it comes to listening to residents, the results were somewhat bleaker.

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Budgeting Elected Officials Strategic Planning Local Government 64

ASPA National Weblog

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Many things have sparked a renewed interest in the vetoing process as I think about accountability and holding elected officials to a higher standard while they make decisions for those who vote them in.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

JANUARY 25, 2022

He has a passion for emergency management and when he discovered the status school seismic safety in his state he set off to change that. 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.

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Elected Officials Legislation Sustainability Management 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2023

DC, not being particularly sophisticated politically, was ripe for the picking, and local elected officials welcomed them with open arms. But the elected officials wanted it to happen - - JOBS! And it had one of the best transportation demand management signs I've ever seen in a retail store. To Open Dec.

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Elected Officials Laws Housing Transportation 52

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

At the same time planners (and elected officials) are supposed to be helping the citizens. I think it is the job of an office of planning to name-identify these kinds of issues, for citizens and elected officials, and to help us work through them and come to as much of a consensus understanding as is possible.

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Urban Planning Elected Officials Housing Development 52

Barrett & Greene

JANUARY 29, 2024

One element involved in considering this question (though not one that necessarily applies to the police data in New York City) is whether the managers or elected officials in an organization are really going to use the data that’s been painstakingly gathered.

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Elected Officials Legislation Laws Accountability 64

Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. Everything seemed to work as planned—until 2008.

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Legislation Operations Elected Officials Laws 52

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 24, 2022

Typically, the individuals writing and managing grants for your organization are not people with titles like grant administrator, grant manager, or director of grants. They are firefighters, teachers, administrative assistants, program directors, accountants, and even elected officials and board members.

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Grant Writer Fundraising Elected Officials Prospect Research 59

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. This enables them to make swift and informed decisions.

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Strategic Planning City Manager Elected Officials Operations 69

GovLoop

JULY 19, 2023

Good measurements also help you communicate with constituents and elected officials about what you’re accomplishing and how you’re responding to their concerns. Then, employees and managers can evaluate how well those priorities support the mission. The right measurements can guide future efforts and inspire your team.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 29, 2023

when its administrators blunder through years of bad contracting and project-management decisions. The culprit for this latest glitch is the relocation of utility lines. Those decisions have bloated what was to be a five-year project with almost $2 billion in construction costs into a nearly 10-year, $3.4 billion undertaking.

Elected Officials 52

Elected Officials Voting Legislation Management 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

DC received a scathing report from HUD about the failures in managing the city's public housing stock of 8,000 units, 25%--2,000-are vacant because most are uninhabitable (" D.C. It attributed the issue to management failure and said the vacancies have accelerated the agency’s steadily deteriorating financial condition.

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Housing Government Elected Officials Leadership 52

AccessE11

JUNE 10, 2022

Responses were received from individuals in a broad range of job roles including day to day users of the system and managers needing a higher level view of service activities and issues. The remainder were reliant on manual processes including email and excel for managing the lifecycle of their citizen service requests.

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Elected Officials Local Government Engagement Management 40

GovLoop

DECEMBER 22, 2022

What we’re finding that resonates with our elected officials is loss of trust by the public. To entice county officials to participate in a tabletop exercise to help prepare for 2022 election threats, Godsey’s team phrased the invitation simply, explaining the potential fallout from a cyber breach. “We

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Elected Officials Communications Outreach Public Health 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

This item is implicit in the original list of six in that you need an implementation organization separate from government to keep the focus, especially because government interest waxes and wanes depending on who gets elected and their desire to work on their priorities, not the long term priorities developed by previous administrations.

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Parks And Recreation Elected Officials Implementation Development 52

Barrett & Greene

AUGUST 9, 2022

This allowed its Office of Management and Budget, in collaboration with the Sustainability and Resilience division of City Planning, to provide then Mayor William Peduto unprecedented insight into the city’s budget and its climate impacts.

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Barrett & Greene

AUGUST 4, 2022

We subsequently had long talks with the city manager of Durango, Colorado, as well as officials in Cincinnati, Stonecrest, Georgia and Buncombe, County, North Carolina, which had all experienced financial scandals of their own in recent years. Yes, there was an audit failure on the side of the auditors.

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Elected Officials Accountability City Manager Nonprofit 52

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

AUGUST 30, 2016

Priority-Based Budgeting was declared a Best Practice by the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), urging every local government in the world to approach resource allocation decisions in the context of what matters most to it’s community. Local government communities must consider a completely different perspective.

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Budgeting Local Government Elected Officials Stewardship 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). Create the DMV Transport Association (" The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association ") 2.

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Elected Officials Transportation Sustainability Operations 52