PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JUNE 2, 2016

Joplin residents rank safe, secure city as highest priority Joplin residents who responded to a city budget survey rated a "safe, secure and prepared community" as the highest of seven city priorities. ." - City Manager Sam Anselm The City of Joplin, Missouri is in their first year of the priority based budgeting process.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

The Marmalade branch has a coffee shop (poorly designed so it hasn't really worked) and the meeting room, outfitted with stadium style seating, is set up so that it can be securely open separate from when the library is closed. Oh, and interestingly, the County provides recreation centers throughout the county. So double the libraries.

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Center for Community Progress

MARCH 16, 2023

By Tarik Abdelazim , Director, National Technical Assistance, Center for Community Progress Before I came to Community Progress, I spent eight years in public service in my hometown, Binghamton, New York. Then, I heard that New York was exploring legislation to allow municipalities and counties to create land banks. What the heck is a land bank ?”

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Government Technology Insider

JULY 9, 2024

According to NASCIO, deploying cloud solutions and artificial intelligence, increasing broadband/wireless connectivity and balancing the need for security and risk management with public access rank among the Top 10 CIO Priorities for 2024. Fortunately, there’s a proven model for managing massive IT demands alongside budgetary constraints.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 17, 2024

An example might be living in Capitol Hill, DC and riding around on various errands, trips to work, for recreation etc., An example might be living in Capitol Hill, DC and riding around on various errands, trips to work, for recreation etc., Building infrastructure isn't enough. Even great infrastructure can be empty much of the time.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The US has a very homogeneous approach to land use and transportation planning. It's not very open to heterogeneity in that everyone is supposed to rely on a car to get around, uses are supposed to be widely distant from each other, etc. No city has the kind of bicycling for transportation penetration common in the Netherlands or Denmark.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The underused Harbor Park area along the Connecticut River has great potential for residential, commercial and recreational use. Constituents don’t have to pay transportation costs to commute to a meeting, and there are fewer custodial and security expenses when meetings are fully virtual. Rethink to Boost Participation.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

They thought it was transit, it was recreational. Bird launched in Santa Monica, a tourist-beach town, and the scooter users were recreational. -- " What the e-scooter industry hasn't figured out about Santa Monica: It's recreation not transportation ," 2018 Note, ride hailing is a similar issue.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It should be in September or October, in order to leverage the enthusiasm of the start of the school year with the aim of creating transportational cyclists--although the Bike Week event schedule at University of Utah is a mix of transportational and recreational events, which makes sense given their audience.

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GovLoop

MAY 12, 2023

The underused Harbor Park area along the Connecticut River has great potential for residential, commercial and recreational use. Constituents don’t have to pay transportation costs to commute to a meeting, and there are fewer custodial and security expenses when meetings are fully virtual.

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Partnership for Public Service

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Although the American public interacts with the federal government in numerous ways such as going through security checkpoints at airports and receiving veterans benefits, many people learn about how government works through television programs and movies. Entertainment can have a wide reach. adults conducted by the Partnership from Sept.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the Seychelles archipelago in East Africa, flooding and erosion caused by rising sea levels pose an imminent threat to the country’s many low-lying islands. At the same time its mangrove forests, which serve as a vital buffer against these.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

The answer is doubling down on the value of place in terms of the special amenities that tend to distinguish center cities from the suburbs--walkability, transit, neighborhoods, commercial districts, nightlife, museums and other cultural assets, great public spaces and parks, etc. historic architecture 2. Photo: Green Minneapolis.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

. -- Last year's blog entry Entrance to national parks is free. Many parks, at all levels: national; state; and local, have events. Interesting that the federal government is on the verge of shutting down (" US government shutdown: What is it and who would be affected? ," Reuters), which means that parks and open lands close too.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

JUNE 21, 2022

And while 94 percent of park and recreation agencies offer youth sports, there are significant disparities in who has access to and benefits from sports participation. NIC Outdoors is the only outdoor recreation technology and services provider exclusively focused on government.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

There are a number of freeway deck parks around the country, dating to the 1970s in Seattle. Klyde Warren Park in Dallas opened in 2012. It's a model for how I'd like to extend Sugar House Park in Salt Lake City, which abuts a section of I-80 that is about 40 acres. They are working to extend the park in a second phase.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The URL is long because at the time I didn't appreciate the need for brevity. I have over 12,000 entries. While many are photos, and some are reprints, the fact is that the ouevre is a few million words in all likelihood. While many are photos, and some are reprints, the fact is that the ouevre is a few million words in all likelihood. And images.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Art has shaped our perception of landscapes, parks, and other public spaces for 200+ years in the United States alone, and longer in Europe (" ‘Nature’s Nation’: How American art shaped our environmental perspectives ," Princeton University Art Museum). Gene Harris Bandshell (amphitheater), Julia Davis Park, Boise, Idaho.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

Art has shaped our perception of landscapes, parks, and other public spaces for 200+ years in the United States alone, and longer in Europe (" ‘Nature’s Nation’: How American art shaped our environmental perspectives ," Princeton University Art Museum). Gene Harris Bandshell (amphitheater), Julia Davis Park, Boise, Idaho.

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