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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. Ohio’s Traditional Land Bank Law.

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Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Even though transit usage is much reduced in DC post-covid, I don't think DC elected officials understand how central transit is to the city's competitive advantage and identity. And for the most part, DC City Councilmembers aren't interested in putting out the money to expand it to make it more useful.

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21 August 2017 | Partisan Alignment and Delegation to the U.S. Bureaucracy, By Christine Palus & Susan Webb Yackee*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

In sum, a takeaway message from our findings, then, is that agency officials may feel pressure to conform, rather than discretion to innovate, when serving under politically like-minded elected officials. He passed away in 2009; yet, his legacy in the field of Public Administration continues to live on.

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CPBB Teams with Toledo Regional Chamber to Bring Priority Based Budgeting to the City of Toledo, Ohio

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

In 2009, the Center for Priority Based Budgeting was created as a mechanism to help local governments implement PBB, as nothing else existed within local government public finance that truly is scalable, transferable and effective.

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Sometimes they're led by the elected official for that district. In 2009, I was able to spend half a day at Stoneleigh Elementary School in Baltimore County Maryland on International Walk to School Day. They had a very sophisticated approach. I've heard a school in Oxnard, California does something similar.

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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

Professional government employees are vital partners for these officials and do [or should do] the day-to-day operations of the government, procure products and services, supervise, develop budgets for programs and execute tactics outlined in strategy put forth in part by our elected officials.