Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

A couple of weeks ago, we made a request in the B&G Report for recommendations of books that would provide worthy reading for people who are interested in state and local government. Banfield, recommended by BJ Reed, Professor, School of Public Administration, University of Nebraska Omaha.

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First State Insights

MARCH 16, 2022

Ellory Monks, co-founder of The Atlas, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director at the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration, about major opportunities and challenges the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) presents for state and local governments.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Clear and efficient processes for resolving payment disputes can help maintain positive relationships between government agencies and the public, ensuring that issues are Modernizing payment systems offers numerous benefits, not only for the efficiency of revenue collection but also for broader public administration.

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First State Insights

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Terry Tieman, Town Manager of Fenwick Island, speaks to Sean O'Neill, Policy Scientist at the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about how she became a town manager, unique issues towns are facing as a result of COVID-19, and her experience as a woman in leadership positions in local government.

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First State Insights

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

This interview was recorded on October 21, 2020. To view the most up-to-date flood maps in Delaware, visit [link] For flood information from FEMA, visit [link] Learn more about IPA at ipa.udel.edu. Opening and closing music: "I Dunno" by Grapes, used under Creative Commons 3.0 This interview was recorded on October 21, 2020.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

A fiscal cliff, a term that underscores the urgency and potential abruptness of the financial crisis, occurs when local governments experience a sudden and severe economic downturn due to declining revenues and increasing expenditures. Recent economic shifts have intensified these issues. What is a fiscal cliff?

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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. org , August 2021.

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Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But as a recently released report from the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) , points out that, the feds aren’t the only level of government that must be involved in meaningful solutions. That’s true in large part because adapting infrastructure to climate change is fundamentally a local government issue.

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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.

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Barrett & Greene

JUNE 10, 2024

Delay in gathering, analyzing and disseminating data can also lead people to believe that state or local governments aren’t making things better for them. “Jumping into new initiatives. Getting to visible solutions often requires an iterative process, with tweaks and changes necessary before results show improvement.

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Barrett & Greene

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This kind of thing happens all-too-frequently to us, and to others who have been around the world of state and local government for a while. We were talking about this with Marc Holzer the well-known public administration scholar who got is PhD from the University of Michigan in 1971.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

MARCH 9, 2023

For over a decade, local leaders have worked in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop frameworks that provide the flexibility local governments need to continue progress toward improving our nation’s waterways.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

APRIL 25, 2023

Commissioner Thiel is currently enrolled in the Organizational Dynamics graduate program at the University of Pennsylvania and he has also completed: doctoral coursework in Public Administration and Public Policy at Arizona State University (ABD) and George Mason University, respectively; a MSc.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2024

Level of service a s a public administration term The term Level of Service is typically thought of in transportation term is used to refer to vehicle throughput, functioning of intersections, etc. I am on the board of Sugar House Park, which is owned by both the city and county, so it has some interesting intergovernmental issues.

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

It is no surprise that Florida city managers placed the forecasts for the pandemic’s impact on local revenues as the top priority, as local governments are revenue-driven entities. The tradeoff between revenue growth and stability has always been a concern for local governments. Authors’ Bios.

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Barrett & Greene

JUNE 26, 2023

by Craig S Maher, Director School of Public Administration, University of Nebraska, Omaha and co-editor of the , Public Finance Journal There’s a great deal of valuable academic work being churned out every day in order to help practitioners deal with real world questions. advancing excellence in government finances.”

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Barrett & Greene

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Bradford Rockabrand CPA, CIA, MBA, Partners, Eide Bailly, LLP Eric Berman Bradford Rockabrand Many of the articles written about the shortage of qualified workers in state and local government have missed an area that should be a concern to public sector leaders as well as taxpayers.

Public Sector 52

Public Sector Accountability Public Service Public Administration 52

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

OCTOBER 19, 2016

In some county and municipal jurisdictions where the Great Recession brought strained budgets, kept tax collections flat and necessitated difficult cost-cutting decisions, public administrators have been prompted to consider new fiscal-planning strategies.

Budgeting 52

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Death and Taxes

MAY 26, 2022

Governments with full-time chief financial officers are more likely to access this strategy, but it can be beneficial for different sized local governments, regardless of managerial capacity. Her research investigates public finance, public budgeting implementation, public working capital management, and fiscal institutions.

Management 40

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Basically our local government finance systems were set up when the country was growing. The economic circumstances they face are issues common to that of municipal finance for communities and metro areas across the country, which I wrote about in " The real lesson from Flint Michigan is about municipal finance " (2016).

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Masters in Public Administration

AUGUST 30, 2011

You can also get links to local government, such as the city office and several high schools. Mayor Jeff Graham discusses everything from the latest local happenings to items in global headlines. The local government here strives to be accountable and accessible. Mayor Graham’s View. City News Blog.

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

His past work has included a range of both strategic and technical roles at Results for America and the Sunlight Foundation as part of the What Works Cities initiative, which helps local governments improve people’s lives by using data and evidence effectively to tackle pressing challenges.

Leadership 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

But it is also a management failure of local government. Admittedly, oversight-wise, WMATA has a hard slog, as the State of Virginia, State of Maryland, and DC are "co-owners" now alongside the federal government. They all have to agree on major decisions.

Management 52

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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. Appointed, not elected, they must have outstanding educational and managerial qualifications.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

) , Governing Books, 2016 John Pickering, Gerald Brokaw, and Anton Gardner, Building High-Performance Local Governments: Case Studies in Leadership at All Levels , Greenleaf Book, 2014 Kaifeng Yang and Marc Holzer, The Performance-Trust Link: Implications for Performance Measurement , Public Administration Review, January/February 2006 Also, (..)

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First State Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Betsey Suchanic, Senior Program Manager with the Urban Libraries Council, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director of the University of Delaware’s Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about local libraries' critical community economic development roles.

Public Administration 52

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First State Insights

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Dan Shortridge, the author of DIY Public Relations, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director at the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration, about how communications professionals and organizations should tell their stories and generate publicity for their work.

Public Administration 52

Public Administration Communications Public Policy Public Service 52

AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This work will also help the government anticipate future risks. In 2021, when fire erupted in the data center in the Province of Chubut in Argentina, authorities identified a critical need to migrate local government data. With AWS support, the local government migrated their data to the cloud to support ongoing operations.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The undeniable fiscal constraints associated with local governance has challenged contemporary public administrators to achieve more with less. Budgets are stretched thin, and local government managers face increasingly complex service delivery demands from an electorate that loathes the idea of paying higher taxes.

Public Safety 110

Public Safety Public Administration Political Consequences Leadership 110

Barrett & Greene

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Government Accountability Offices Managing for Results in Government Jakob Majlund Holm, Successful Problem Solvers?

Public Policy 52

Public Policy Local Government Public Administration Public Sector 52

Barrett & Greene

MARCH 4, 2024

As we recently reported in the second of a two-part series about Trust In Government for Route Fifty, about 45% of Americans have a less than favorable view of the trustworthiness of local governments, according to data from Polco. And while it’s better than the federal government it’s still a very sorry state of affairs.

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Public Affairs Urban Planning Cultivation Public Administration 53

Barrett & Greene

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Were looking forward to participating in a panel at the upcoming annual conference of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) about Trust in Government. With that in mind, were devouring anything we can read about that topic (though well be focusing on states and localities at the conference).

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