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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part One | Defining Levels of Service for individual parks

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The city agreed to provide a certain level of personnel and budget, with transfer of active management of the park to the third party nonprofit, which raised additional monies for staff, maintenance and improvements. Asking questions like "why is our meager budget earned from pavilion rentals paying for security?"

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So, Your Jurisdiction is Thinking of Starting a Revenue Manual…

Death and Taxes

It sounds like something they should probably not start right before budget season. When teaching MPA students I, somewhere in that first week or so, tell them that a public budget is an encyclopedia of government. the budget), a revenue manual is an encyclopedia of how government is financed. And to the back burner it goes.

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30 November 2017 | Rethinking the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Who’s Funding Whom?, by Kelly LeRoux

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

More recently, foundations in the state of Illinois were called upon to help bridge the funding gap during the state’s three year budget impasse in which government contractors were not paid money owed by the state. References. LeRoux, Kelly. Who Benefits from Nonprofit Economic Development? Journal of Urban Affairs , 34 (1): 65-80.

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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

To riff off this, there are five other elements at a minimum that matter a lot, that cities aren't budgeting or planning for, if their central business districts become meccas for housing: public safety. You could do a tradeoff in space (like Tribeca in the 1970s); I'd think about downtown if you can get me around 3000 SF in space.

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They need to be thinking about and planning for how transit strengthens and improves communities, rather than just thinking about transit in terms of modes or engineering or budgets.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

budget calculations but intentionally set things up so that the broader financial marketplace believed the government had an obligation to never let the two companies default on their debt; 15 this allowed the marketplace to largely ignore measures of GSE financial strength, in particular their capital ratios. Also, the 0.10 Also, the 0.10

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