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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.” But during his decade-plus as King County executive, lifelong West Seattleite Dow Constantine has been the local music and arts community’s biggest champion in local government.

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Why Washington County, Wis. Chose to Pursue Priority Based Budgeting

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

Regionalization of services and public-private partnership (“P3’s”) are among the greatest sources of opportunity for PBB communities (at the 2016 PBB Conference, the PBB data-mine demonstrated $409million in opportunities among PBB communities alone in 2016).

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City of Boulder, CO Integrates PBB into Budget as the "Framework within which all Budget Decisions are Made!"

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

Boulder has recently published their 2017 Recommended Budget. For those in local government, service delivery and strategic fiscal planning doesn't get much better than this folks. And for a much deeper dive, please see the full City of Boulder 2017 Recommended Budget (with a focus on Strategies and Priorities on pages 54 - 67).

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. I note that GGW just wrote about this this week.

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The CPBB + ELGL Webinar Series - Applied PBB: P3's!

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

The role of government, even in a high-priority program, is not always to be the direct service provider; it can be a key partner! What services might the local government consider "getting out of the business" of providing? There are 87,453 units of local government as recognized by the US Census.

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With the post-covid decline of Downtowns, arts and cultural institutions are affected too

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017 -- " Downtown Edmonton cultural facilities development as an example of "Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2018

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Building resilience: Using technology to prepare for, respond to, and recover from the unexpected

AWS Public Sector Blog

After a similar experience in Mexico in 2016, I wanted to find a way to help developing countries implement affordable solutions to help predict and prepare for earthquakes, which is why I founded Grillo.”. This work will also help the government anticipate future risks. At the time, some 300,000 people were injured , and 1.5