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The Future Is Customer-Centered

GovLoop

But in 2015, VA set up the Veterans Experience Office to begin to address the way veterans’ needs were met. Barbara Morton, the VA’s deputy chief veterans experience officer, who joined the office in 2016, has been a leader in that change. I wish I’d known back in 2016 that there were others like me.

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California Forests Are Disappearing–And So Are Air Pollution Disparities

The Lowe Down

in 2011-2015 and 0.09 for 2016-2020. While we include county fixed effects to account for county-specific time-invariant unobservable characteristics, we do not explicitly analyze the relationship between ethnicity and pollution within counties the way we have for income. in the period 2006-2010. percent decline in exposure.

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Insights from the City of New Orleans’ analytics unit, NOLAlytics, about using data to improve city services: An interview with Oliver Wise, Director, Office of Performance and Accountability, City of New Orleans – Episode #114

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

An important element in those efforts is the Office of Performance and Accountability, launched in 2011. In 2015, it launched an analytics unit called NOLAlytics that undertakes data-driven projects to improve city services. He is the founding director of the Office of Performance and Accountability.

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It’s time to talk about a regional tax to help fund Metro (DC area)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And later about various funding mechanisms. -- St. Many people make the point that lack of dedicated funding is why the system is in failure mode.

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Transforming Cleveland Vacant Lots into an Urban Farm

Center for Community Progress

She attended housing court to hold inspectors and policymakers accountable and spent every spare moment providing opportunities for her neighbors to learn job skills, from baking to data entry. Source: Google Maps The same lot in 2016. The condemned Carpenters Hall at Kinsman Road in 2011.

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Why Strathcona County Council & Administration have Embraced Priority Based Budgeting

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

BPBI Project Update to Priorities Committee - September 16, 2014 When complete in 2015/16, these processes will simplify and strengthen business planning and budgeting at Strathcona County, providing focus and direction to all of the County’s activities. Linton Delainey is councillor for Ward 6.

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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

At the beginning of 2015, over 80 communities across North America have implemented Priority Based Budgeting (PBB), impacting over 11 million citizens across the US and Canada. Demand Accountability for Results. Traditional budgets focus on accountability for staying within spending limits.