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City of Kenmore Officials Find the Fun in 2017-18 Priority Based Budget

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

Where Kenmore particularly stands out, is in their commitment to apply PBB not only to their ongoing operations, but to their capital projects as well. The total proposed budget for the 2017-18 biennium is $55.9 For the 2017-18 biennium, $4.5 What’s next The 2017-18 budget will be up for discussion again at the council’s Nov.

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From Waste to Energy: How Urban Waste is Powering Our Cities

Reprogramming the City

This process significantly reduces the volume of waste while also recovering energy from the waste material (European Commission, 2017). The plant converts food waste and wastewater into biogas, which is then used to generate electricity for the facility’s operations (EBMUD, 2020).

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Local authority partnerships encourage small cells delivery

Open Access Government - Technology News

Threading the legal needle While the benefits of adopting this technology are clear, the process of quick and cost-effective deployment can often resemble threading a needle for both local authorities and operators. Instead, establishing non-exclusive Open Access agreements now offers industry and local authorities a simpler way of working.

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Mapping the Cyber Threat Landscape

GovLoop

In February 2023, for example, the Defense Department’s inspector general found that “DoD personnel are downloading mobile applications to their DoD mobile devices that could pose operational and cybersecurity risks to DoD information and information systems.”

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Episode 9: Find CRA and First Western Trust-Partnering for Impact

CRA Today

Credentials: BA, Marketing – Kent State University, MBA, Leadership and Business Management – Kent State University Emily Gardner, Senior CRA Analyst Emily joined First Western in June of 2017 and currently serves as CRA Analyst.

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If you're going to promote electric bikes at scale, there needs to be complementary investment in secure bicycle parking and charging

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I suggested a system for secure bicycle parking operating at the metropolitan scale a few years ago, based in part on the Parkiteer model in Melbourne.

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AI in the financial industry: Machine learning in banking

Open Access Government - Technology News

As such, ML is now embedded into many day-to-day operations. This is likely due to its most commonly identified benefits: enhanced data and analytics capabilities, increased operational efficiency and improved fraud and money laundering detection. This was back in 2017, and AI has significantly improved since then.