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Why Strathcona County Council & Administration have Embraced Priority Based Budgeting

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

During 2016 budget deliberations last November, I indicated it was my desire that administration invite the Center for Priority-Based Budgeting to make a formal presentation to council. I invite every taxpayer to let me know if my approach to budget accountability is on the right track! Linton Delainey is councillor for Ward 6.

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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

See item #10 in " Creating a Silver Spring "Sustainable Mobility District" | Part 3: Program items 10-18 " (2017), for the concept. Use the daypart model, account for seasons, city-wide events that you may or may not be able to leverage, and organize it by program area -- food, arts, etc. Allow the sales of alcohol.

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Microsoft Collaboration Framework for the US Defense Industrial Base

Microsoft Public Sector

However, not all the features have been available to organizations that deploy into the US Sovereign Cloud when introduced in 2016. For example, in late 2017, Hurricane Harvey wreaked havoc across Texas. The US Sovereign cloud was designed to protect US Government data from ending up in foreign adversary hands.

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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)

trillion in 2016, which at the time was almost twice the size of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet and became the largest source of GSE profits. This would be, in essence, an unwinding of the ERCF and a return to approximately the CCF that was officially in place from 2017 to 2019 for setting the average G-fee. Also, the 0.10

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I get a kick out of this because this has been raised on and off for 20 years, such as in these reports from 2004-2006. -- Washington Metro: Deficits by Design , Brookings, 2004 -- Keeping Metro On Track: The Federal Government's Role in Balacing Investment With Accountability at Washington's Transit Agency , Brookings, 2005 -- " Mass Transit: Issues (..)

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

” In their research, Monkkonen and his colleagues evaluated California’s 2017 and 2018 reforms to address issues in the state’s “fair share” system. The first reform they looked at led to increased housing production targets for regions across the state. Marantz, UC Irvine, Christopher S. Kim, UC Irvine.

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