article thumbnail

Episode 70: CRA Services: If It’s Not Documented, It Didn’t Happen

CRA Today

Episode 70: CRA Services: If It’s Not Documented, It Didn’t Happen [link] I received an email from a CRA officer who recently took over a CRA program. Here, I share her journey and tips to document community development activities. Here, I share her journey and tips to document community development activities.

article thumbnail

How to Keep the Local Grocery Store Open: A Challenge for NC CED Professionals

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

The quote from Mayor Douglas Shere below comes from an award-winning short documentary, They Came From All Over, documenting the impact of potentially losing a local grocery store in a rural Iowa community. By 2016, it had lost that store. “The town is either growing or it is dying. .”

2016 84
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

November 2016 | The Past as Prologue: A Discussion with PMRA Founder H. George Frederickson, By Rosemary O’Leary*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

I have been very impressed with the leadership of Don Moynihan, from whom I often receive official emails or documents at 1:00 in the morning. As Vice-President and President-Elect of PMRA, I have spent the last year learning more about our thriving organization. Don is a tireless leader who has given his all to PMRA the last few years.

2016 40
article thumbnail

Scott County, MN Seeks to “Deliver What Matters” for its Citizens!

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

Over 700 FTE were individually allocated to each program, along-side a practical non-personnel cost allocation (this Program Costing approach is documented here in GFOA's Government Finance Review ). Last week, the League of Minnesota Cities teamed forces with the Alliance for Innovation in jointly hosting TLG 2016 in St.

2016 52
article thumbnail

Strathcona County Updating Priority-Based Strategic Plan

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

Acting as the county’s principle guiding document for governance, community development, infrastructure and service delivery, the county’s strategic plan serves as a foundation for the development of a corporate business plan, departmental business plans, the county master plan, and priority-based budget results and budgeting, itself.

article thumbnail

Transforming the performance of your built assets and estate

Open Access Government - Technology News

All too often documents and records are undiscoverable, inaccurate or incomplete. For many building managers, property, and estate teams, finding the information needed to support everyday decisions about the operation of a building or the performance of the wider estate can be a challenge.

2030 69
article thumbnail

Why Strathcona County Council & Administration have Embraced Priority Based Budgeting

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

Together, these form the guiding documents for governance, community development, infrastructure and service delivery when our county’s 19 departments develop annual and multi-year business plans, uniquely designed to align with the Corporate Business Plan, against which their success will be monitored and measured.