AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In the 2021 Global Knowledge IT Skills and Salary Report , one of the largest studies of industry salaries, certifications, and skills, 76% of IT decision-makers reported an IT skills gap, up from 31% in 2016. So how can public sector organizations help address this skills gap? Rethin k skill potential in hiring.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

After a major flood in 2016 knocked out their 911 system, they decided to use the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud to become resilient against disaster, reducing service interruptions and improving response times. When a natural disaster strikes. “In

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JUNE 21, 2016

Scott County was the first local government in the State to implement 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 ).

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

These properties, as Community Progress Senior Fellow Alan Mallach recently discussed on NPR’s 1A , actively harm neighbors and neighborhoods by threatening public health and safety, keeping residents from building wealth, and destabilizing local government finances.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

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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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

OCTOBER 19, 2016

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

And it imposes rules on the other properties, but doesn't do too much enforcement and oversight on recycling from multiunit residential and commercial properties (" Reformulating building regulations to promote sustainability, " 2016). This also came up in comments on a recent Post article on composting, " Composting in NYC is hard."

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

AUGUST 30, 2016

At the Center for Priority Based Budgeting (CPBB) , we're constantly impressed and amazed at just how innovative local government communities can be. A complete revolution in how local governments utilize their limited resources to the benefit of the communities they serve.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

MAY 2, 2016

The following article was published on April 18, 2016 by the Sherwood Park News and written by Krysta Martell. There are over 90,000 entities of local government throughout the United States and Canada,” Fabian said. “To I was excited to hear them and I am looking forward to using these tools.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

And that's where the local government planning functions have opportunities. Cities like Greensboro or Portland or Spokane have to be more innovative because they have fewer opportunities. DC has plenty of assets. They aren't coordinated or leveraged very well.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

For those in local government, service delivery and strategic fiscal planning doesn't get much better than this folks. increase over 2016. Another way to look at the resource shifts achieved by using PBB in the budgeting process is shown in Table 2-01 below.The most significant increase occurred in quartile 2 with a 9.8%

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

AUGUST 16, 2016

By 2009/2010, ICMA, GFOA, NLC and the Alliance for Innovation urged us to broaden our ability to serve many local governments surviving the Great Recession. The Center for Priority Based Budgeting (CPBB) was created “ to produce a replicable and scalable methodology and toolset for all local governments” to use.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JULY 27, 2016

Liz Butterfield continues this tradition with her Master's Capstone exploration of the influence that PBB has had on strategic planning in local government. This capstone was completed during summer 2016 for the Center for Priority Based Budgeting in partnership with the Alliance for Innovation. Congratulations Liz!

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The problem with equilibrium or shrinkage is that personnel is the biggest cost for cities, and wages go up not down, not to mention the issue with retirees and pensions--typically local governments may stint on wages but in return offer great pensions often with health care, but these are underfunded creating significant financial overhang.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

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. German VV as the model for DC.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

With tens of millions in federal funding, the selected consortiums—made up of state and local governments, educational institutions, businesses and community groups in 32 states and Puerto Rico—now have an opportunity to turn themselves into global players in advanced technology. Learning from Europe: Knowledge locations in cities.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

The Job Description Is Changing ," New York Times = Other relevant blog entries -- " Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" from 2009 " (2019) Cultural quarters and innovation districts -- discussion on the Arabianranta district within " Helsinki as an example of creative industries driving urban revitalization (..)

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

JUNE 5, 2016

The program provides grants to nonprofits and local governments to address community needs in education, public safety, health and the environment. The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) is probably best known for overseeing the AmeriCorps program.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

Flint's economy was based on the success of General Motors manufacturing and when the company declined, it cratered local finances and property values--GM has less than 10% of the employees in Flint that it did at its peak. million to NextEra Water, a private Florida company. But that won't be happening any time soon.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

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

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

This is another side of the argument in " The real lesson from Flint Michigan is about municipal finance " (2016) in how the funding systems for local governments were created when cities were growing and successful, and we don't have new funding systems focused on the reality of current conditions.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

1) Have several, if not all of the four government mortgage agencies, 6 strongly support and subsidize “chattel loans” (i.e., 3] Focusing on owner-occupied housing, house prices have increased faster than wages from 2016 (when they reached their pre-2008 peak level) through early 2020, reducing affordability.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

The increased targets led to changes in behavior from local governments, too. “Discretionary processes may enable local governments and homeowners to effectively block projects by creating costly delay and uncertainty,” the authors write. Marantz, UC Irvine, Christopher S. Elmendorf, UC Davis, and Youjin B.

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