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Citizen Engagement: Active Participation

Death and Taxes

Participatory budgeting, for example, requires significant staff time and resources to manage the process and ensure that it is fair and transparent. Governments should be clear about what they hope to achieve through participatory budgeting or citizen advisory boards, and ensure that these goals are aligned with broader policy objectives.

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On Demand Webinar from UNC’s Tax Center on State Response to the Pandemic

Death and Taxes

Joe is involved in all aspects of the firm’s efforts to help clients resolve the challenges they face in the state and local government arena, with a concentration on providing strategic counsel, identifying and deploying political assets, and advancing tax policy objectives.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

36 However, with a properly designed GSE Board in place, a public-private hybrid GSE can be a practical and reasonable vehicle to achieve public policy objectives over the long term. To create such a board will obviously require congressional legislation. billion of losses by just four of the FHLBs in 2009 and 2010.

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An Analysis of Survey Data from Municipalities who have Implemented Priority Based Budgeting

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

With the tools of PBB, leaders and decision makers are better able to understand how their resources are being marshaled to achieve their policy objectives - thereby reinforcing the importance of strategic goal setting, as policy makers have a clearer path to achieve their stated Results.

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October 2023 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter

Microsoft Public Sector

What's new and planned for Power BI MC673725 — Power Automate – End of support for the List Flows as Admin action with Power Automate Management connector - reminder 1 Rolled Out On Thursday, June 15, 2023, the List Flows as Admin action reached end of support and was replaced with the List Flows as Admin (V2) action.

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The GSEs and the Second Trump Administration: Ten Possible Mortgage Program and Policy Changes to Expect (Part 2 of 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In doing so, it presumably has found, or will soon find, that it has the authority to directly manage the GSEs, unlike during its first term (Trump I). The necessary background: Why, how, what, who and when Why does the President have the ability to manage the GSEs? Second, the FHFA turns around and tells the GSEs what to do.

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