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Las Vegas’s data-driven effort to improve traffic safety at its most dangerous intersections: An interview with Betsy Fretwell, City Manager, City of Las Vegas – Episode #115

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

To learn more, we are joined by Betsy Fretwell ( @ BetsyFretwell ), the City Manager of Las Vegas. She has been in that role since 2009, overseeing a city workforce of nearly 3,000 and a budget of $1.2 The results have been dramatic. billion per year.

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City of Humboldt Open House Brings Priority Based Budget to Public

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

City Manager, Roy Hardy, made the presentation to a small crowd on what the 2016 budget is going to look like in terms of tax increases and social programs. This article originally written by Becky Zimmer from the Humboldt Journal. Unlike the budget draft that had a $3.6

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City of Joplin, MO Residents Engage with City Budget Survey to Rank Seven City Priorities

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

"Priority-based budgeting will allow city officials to regain control of the budget." - City Manager Sam Anselm The City of Joplin, Missouri is in their first year of the priority based budgeting process. Congratulations to the City of Joplin for their leadership in civic engagement through priority based budgeting.

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Municipal finances face a shaky future

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Labor and material shortages and cost increases have crimped construction to the point where, even if the federal government resumes billions in funding to cities, city managers have told Kozlik they would have a hard time spending it on projects in the near future. Construction challenges.

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

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

Intro: November 15, 2016 from Noon to 1 PM EST What are partnerships and how PBB leads to unveiling opportunities around partnerships II. Public/Private Partnerships: December 13, 2016 from Noon to 1 PM EST CPBB to co-present with leading public-private local government provider Safebuilt III. The three individual webinars include: I.

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ACTION, DATA, EVOLVE! 3 Ground Breaking Moments from the CPBB (Un)Conference

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

Entering 2016, over 100 communities had implemented PBB. During the Conference, Eric Keck, City of Englewood’s City Manager (and the first city manager to implement PBB in two different cities) gave a riveting presentation on the merger of his Fire Department with the City of Denver’s.

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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

One of the problems is that there has been bifurcated management of different elements of "Eastern Market." Regardless, the city management structure means that EM lacks the capacity and vision to do it and manage it. But now many of these elements have been consolidated into EM. Eastern Market building/overall 1.