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Innovative Hydrogen Technology Benefits Public Works Projects

NLC (National League of Cities)

Authored by Senior Manager of State Affairs at the American Gas Association Frank Canavan Innovation and asphalt are not two words often in the same sentence.

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Cities Turn to Fleet Management Solutions to Confront Severe Weather

State Tech Magazine

The Syracuse Department of Public Works manages a fleet of 150 snow removal vehicles to clear city streets. In Syracuse, N.Y., snow typically falls from November to April, dumping significant precipitation on the city for more than five months of the year.

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The Top Three Pain Points that Public Works Organizations Face

PubWorks Blog

When working with Public Works departments around the country, we often hear the struggles that organizations face daily. The biggest thing we hear from public works departments is that they are still relying on homemade databases, paper files or memory to keep track of assets, work activities and job costs.

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A Policy Level Look at Emergency Management

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

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.

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5 benefits of modernizing transportation asset management software in the cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

As they consider where to allocate these funds, public infrastructure owners, especially Department of Transportation (DOT) and public works agencies, have to assess the condition of their assets, determine what to prioritize while rebuilding, and identify what needs maintenance.

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Reflections on government and COVID19: expertise, the role of government, the new public work, social imagination and beating the binary #3

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

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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Nominations open for the 2024 American City & County Crown Communities and Exemplary Public Servants awards

American City & Country

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.