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Park system ratings for 2023 | Trust for Public Land ParkScore® rating system

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

," TPL, 2023 In the past I've had issues with it, because DC is always rated highly--this year its #1--but the reality is that 80% of "DC's" parks are run by the National Park Service, and its arguable about how successful they are at serving the local residents. -- " Lies, damn lies, and statistics: parks edition ," 2012 -- " Washington, DC, Named (..)

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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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Retaining Generation X and Generation Z federal employees: Three ways Congress can help

Partnership for Public Service

Specifically, we considered Generation X (born between 1965 and 1980)—which is the future of federal senior leadership—and Generation Z (born between 1997 and 2012)—which represents the future of the federal workforce. Both Gen X and Gen Z employees are impacted by government shutdowns.

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Revisiting Pittsburgh and Allegheny County as an opportunity for city-county consolidation: The "RiversCity" proposal

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Partly what got me thinking about city-county consolidation--places like Indianapolis (1970), Knoxville, Macon-Bibb County, Georgia (2012), and what SF and Philadelphia did in the 1800s--was seeing mention of a Brookings Institution report about Pennsylvania c.

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Lessons Learned from TANF Clients

Barrett & Greene

We went through this process twice – once starting in 2006 and then again in 2012. According to the Center On Budget and Policy Priorities , for every 100 families living in poverty, only 21 received cash assistance from TANF in 2019/2020. I am not sure of plans for the future.

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Guidance for academic medical center data center migrations

AWS Public Sector Blog

SQL edition SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Microsoft SQL Server edition. CPU string Intel Xeon E7-8893 v4 @ 3.2GHz If not provided, three-year old hardware will be assumed. Environment Production This will impact licensing and migration strategies. Common values are production, dev, test, QA, or staging.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

7 Additionally, GSE subsidies and privileges are crafted to largely avoid showing up as a federal budget expenditure, thus avoiding competing with other priorities for scarce tax dollars. The two companies have no lobbyists or lobbying budget and make no political donations of any kind.

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