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City of Kenmore Officials Find the Fun in 2017-18 Priority Based Budget

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

The City of Kenmore, Washington was the second organization to implement PBB, along with the City of Bainbridge Island , and both have been practitioners since 2013. The total proposed budget for the 2017-18 biennium is $55.9 For the 2017-18 biennium, $4.5 “Our major theme of the next two-year budget is ‘Where’s the fun?’”

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In the near term, we are supporting returning customers with more rapid social media engagement, and extended customer service hours Monday through Friday 7 a.m. and Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser. See item #10 in " Creating a Silver Spring "Sustainable Mobility District" | Part 3: Program items 10-18 " (2017), for the concept. Demonstration kitchens.