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Celebrate National Women's Month With The State Budget Officers

Barrett & Greene

The 1953 membership photo of the National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO) shows a world in which men dominated the positions of budget officers. We've been writing about this field since the early 1990s and interviewed many women, over time, who held their state's budget director position.

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A Celebration of National Women’s Month with State Budget Officers

Barrett & Greene

This male-dominated 1953 photo of a National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO) annual meeting would not have been a surprise to public sector leaders of the time. That was followed by two budget directors we knew well -- Kansas’s Gloria Timmer in 1996-1997 and Utah’s Lynne Koga the following year.

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Episode 73: End of Fiscal Year

FedHeads

On episode 73, Robert Shea and Francis Rose discusses the end of fiscal year 2019 and what to look forward to in 2020. Agencies just finished their FY2021 budget request and submissions, at the same time trying get a deal on FY2020 appropriiations. Tune in to hear more about what happens beyond the end of fiscal year.

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Community radio as an element of local cultural planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Also see " A comprehensive list of funding sources for arts and culture ," 2019. I'd argue that community/local radio independent of large organizations like the University of Utah should/could be an element of that funding stream. But the time to change that is not when an organization is about to fail, but long before.

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How Every Kid Outdoors is Increasing Access to Parks — Episode 079

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

Department of the Interior extended the 2019-2020 Every Kid Outdoors pass program through the 2020-2021 school year to help families that couldn’t use their passes due to COVID-19. How OAK’s work on Every Kid Outdoors has been pivoting during the pandemic to support park budgets, and more! Why the U.S.

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DC Public Safety Summit, Wednesday May 10th, 9am

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They were called Citizen Summits and were designed, theoretically, to get citizen insights into city policy and budget. But it also reminds me of something that Mayor Anthony Williams did two or three years running. They got more publicity, including in the planning press, than they deserved. And I don't see things changing.

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Connecting you with the Benefits of State Associations

Let's Talk Parks

She received the Distinguished Service award in 2019 from the Southern Illinois University Park and Recreation Department. She was 2018-2019 Chair of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) Ethics Committee. Debbie: My gosh, 2020 has been so difficult for our country, right! We have about 4,000 attendees each year.