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

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

"Before diving head-first into a local government’s budget season, it’s important to establish priorities first." Priority based budgeting is something that we believe will greatly benefit our County for the next decade ” - County Administrator Joshua Schoemann Among Priority Based Budgeting implementers, there is an evolution underway.

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Indiana DOC works with Mi-Case to fast-track offender management system launch on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The key drivers of success for IDOC were agency executive leadership commitment, subject matter experts (SMEs), and Mi-Case’s agile project methodology which resulted in an on-time and on-budget implementation. The search for a new OMS In 2017, IDOC parted ways with a vendor and crafted a request for proposal (RFP).

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Accelerating economic research at UBC with high performance computing using RONIN and AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Speeding time to high performance computing research with RONIN and AWS In 2017, Leyton-Brown and Newman returned to the FCC auction design to assess its strength and weaknesses, in part because of new publicly available data about how TV broadcast and wireless carrier bidders responded to the novel auction design.

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Enabling public-private collaborations to innovate on behalf of those facing food insecurity

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2017, Amazon was one of the first retailers to work with the USDA to build support for online utilization of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. In this way, we enable individuals to purchase healthy food for their families with the confidence that they can maximize meal servings and stay on their food budget.”

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What is government for?

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

If the bipartisan bill fails, the Democrats can simply fold the provisions in it into their larger infrastructure bill that they intend to pass through budget reconciliation, which cannot be blocked by a filibuster. It also will move corporate taxation from the 21% established by the 2017 tax cut up to about 28%. (It This larger, $3.5