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City of Joplin, MO Residents Engage with City Budget Survey to Rank Seven City Priorities

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

Residents were not asked to vote on specific city services to fund or how much funding they thought should go toward specific services. It ends with: "Where would you place your votes?" This survey doesn’t translate to dollars and cents. That phase comes later."

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

This translates into considerable clout in Congress and state legislatures. Unusually, the industry’s regulator, the Appraisal Foundation, was established by the industry itself and then, in 1989, designated by Congress as its regulator. In other words, vote totals in the next election are now visibly in play.

Advocacy 101
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The power of the connecting middle: where policy, delivery and democracy meet (and often don’t)

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

And just as much, innovations that emerge from the people and places who are “in the rules” are often not translated effectively into day-to-day practice. The burden of the story is whether or not the regulations require a facility to have at least six sinks in their kitchen to be able to handle fresh fruit.