American City & Country

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Let’s explore how firefighters can use risk management strategies to stay prepared and build trust with the folks they’re responsible for protecting. While firefighters are the ones doing the grunt work during natural disasters, the community at large has an important role to play, too. Why does trust matter?

Disaster Response 68

Disaster Response Coordinator Cultivation Education 68

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. I was fortunate to work for a senior appointed official—a Deputy County Executive. Emergency managers are no exception.

Management 52

Management Elected Officials Sustainability Public Works 52

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

MAY 1, 2020

In other words, we either spruik the benefits of the neo-liberal, new public management framework of the past 40 years or advocate and even in some cases warmly predict the return of “socialism” or “big” government. Might the choice palette be more appetising than that sterile binary?

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Public Works Government Public Sector Leadership 52

American City & Country

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The Exemplary Public Servants awards were created in 2018, and since then, AC&C has selected exemplary leaders based exclusively on merit. This is open to city, county, public works leaders at all levels of service. If it has made an impact, nominate it.

Parks And Recreation 96

Parks And Recreation Constituents Public Transportation Public Safety 96

AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Working with AWS Partner OpenGov on a new solution, Grand Island’s finance department saved 1,000 hours of manual labor—equating to half the time of a full-time staffer. It can now quickly scale to add more data systems and sets without purchasing or managing new hardware.

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Public Sector Public Safety Nonprofit Regulations 189

A Library Writer's Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Examples include: How to engage in a TDM “reference interview” Data ethics in text data mining research contexts Embedding critical theory into text data education The role of library administration and management in supporting TDM Education, Training, and Logistics.

Public Works 40

Public Works Social Media Education Engagement 40

Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

We did this as part of our work to develop the NIST Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0). Advance trustworthy approaches to AI NIST has been working with the AI community in the U.S. That’s an important start. Without these tools, there is no way to know the consequences of AI technologies.

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Cultivation Development Accountability Translation 123

GovLoop

JUNE 16, 2023

Agencies still manage offices full of paper, which severely limits the sharing, analysis and distribution of that critical information,” said Ashley Hawkins, Director of Federal Operations, also of Iron Mountain. Address Present Needs in Real Time Records management isn’t just for archives, though.

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Management Security Public Works Government 98

zencity

JANUARY 18, 2022

From my perspective, the past few years have given rise to a perfect storm – where COVID-19 is one of the biggest contributing stressors – and a storm that is unavoidable for our residents, our employees, and ourselves as city managers. As a leader and manager, this is perhaps where you are best positioned to provide support.

City Manager 52

City Manager Management Communications Social Media 52

Death and Taxes

MAY 26, 2022

Working capital management is a managerial strategy that monitors and uses current assets (e.g., This integral part of sound financial management uses a variety of strategic tools to manage cash flows. In our research study, we evaluate one working capital management strategic tool: interfund transfers.

Management 40

Management Financial Management Budgeting Public Administration 40

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2023

Due to the management goals for the City’s water resource, the [reservoir] areas are not managed as park, recreational areas, but as water resource protection areas. Loch Raven Reservoir isn't a park per se, it's part of the regional water system, and owned and operated by the Baltimore City Department of Public Works.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Management Stewardship Transportation 52

American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

For a sustainable cleaning program to work, BU conducts regular training to ensure custodial staff know how to deal with hazardous materials and safely manage waste. Procurement may be asked to help support a broader strategic plan, such as energy management.

Sustainability 97

Sustainability Government Operations Strategic Planning 97

PubWorks Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

What’s the right mix for Public Works? Public Works departments will always have demand maintenance issues to contend with and while most recognize the benefits of adopting a planned maintenance approach, it can be hard to implement. Improve analysis and reporting to help determine new maintenance strategies. .

Public Works 52

Public Works Budgeting Implementation Management 52

Public Works Group Blog

MAY 9, 2022

The two mutual aid tabs show information regarding Emergency and Incident Management compacts. The post National Building Code Adoption Tracking Portal (BCAT Portal) first appeared on Public Works Group Blog.

Regulations 52

Regulations Laws Public Works Management 52

Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

We forwarded an e-mail to ourselves at the time to remind us to check in with Fort Worth in a year to see what had happened in the intervening months.

Budgeting 52

Budgeting Transportation Strategic Planning Implementation 52

Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

We forwarded an e-mail to ourselves at the time to remind us to check in with Fort Worth in a year to see what had happened in the intervening months.

Budgeting 52

Budgeting Transportation Strategic Planning Implementation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Citizen-initiated projects are managed and constructed by one of the four city divisions deemed the subject area for the project (Parks and Public Lands, Public Works and Transportation, Economic Development & Neighborhoods, etc.). Generally they are supposed to.

Budgeting 52

Budgeting Transportation Economic Development Public Works 52

GovLoop

JANUARY 22, 2024

What have you learned about translating policy into management goals? On the other side, he can’t be an expert in managing the services those departments provide. Imagine the director of public works, whose main task is not IT, and I come along and say, ‘We can connect all your traffic lights,’” Mayta said.

Public Sector 59

Public Sector Translation Implementation Management 59

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Nichole Bohner, Aquatics Division Manager, City of Round Rock, Texas “Talk to everyone! Sarah Olson, CPRP, Public Works Deputy Director of Engineering, Planning, and Development Servies, City of Kirkland, Washington “Go to a pre-conference event. And, if you haven’t already registered, there’s still time.

Parks And Recreation 40

Parks And Recreation Operations Leadership Local Government 40

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.

Elected Officials 40

Elected Officials Local Government Engagement Management 40

Google Public Sector

APRIL 3, 2020

Using a Google Maps interface, residents and visitors can subscribe to a targeted area, like their neighborhoods or workplaces, and define what public works and event information they’d like to receive (and at what frequency). ChiStreetWork is more user-friendly and coordinates all events and work projects.

Public Sector 52

Public Sector Supervision Government Agency Coordinator 52

Public Works Group Blog

MAY 9, 2022

The two mutual aid tabs show information regarding Emergency and Incident Management compacts. If you are focused more on protection from specific hazards you can click on the tabs at the top of the map which highlight different hazards.

Regulations 52

Regulations Laws Management 52

Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

“Once, on a public street, someone dumped a 55-gallon drum of an extremely hazardous chemical right at the curb near a park within the city,” said Keith L. Walker, Director of the Department of Public Works in Camden, New Jersey. “It Illegal dumping also attracts rats and other vermin.

Stewardship 52

Stewardship Public Health Local Government Accountability 52

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JUNE 25, 2023

It is also a story freighted with insights about the way to conceive and prosecute systemic reform in governing and public work. Much of this overhaul of governing and public governance infrastructure and practice is being led by “young, tech-savvy Ukrainians” seized as much by its opportunity as its necessity.

Public Sector 59

Public Sector Government Leadership Accountability 59

Librarian.net

AUGUST 5, 2024

As someone who has seen a lot of repositories of public domain images come and go, I realized I’ve become something of an expert in them. A result on Public Work, once clicked, gives the viewer three options. Here are some of my thoughts. This isn’t a search engine. That’s it.

Accountability 105

Accountability Public Works Engagement Management 105

Masters in Public Administration

JUNE 13, 2011

It’s interesting to see how far we’ve come and how public administration continues to develop as we deal with new challenges like the Internet and public safety. Plato recognizes the separation between management and develops the concept of democracy. Taylor is dubbed the “father of scientific management.”

Public Administration 40

Public Administration Laws Voting Public Safety 40

State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2025

In the city of Dallas, Interim CIO Brian Gardner needs to manage software licenses for a wide range of products, across a massive base of users. I have more than 40 departments that are doing more than 40 different things, from policing and fire to homelessness solutions and water, transportation, public works.

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Local Government Management Transportation Government 164

Barrett & Greene

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

No surprise that an article jumped out at us from The New York Times that said early on: Voters across the political spectrum are disillusioned with a government that has become synonymous with Groundhog Day-esque spending battles, slow public works projects and political gridlock.

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Government Social Media Public Safety Public Administration 90