Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MAY 10, 2024
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports, " Mayor Parker’s budget slashes funding for Vision Zero, a program designed to end traffic deaths ," that the mayor has cut funding for Vision Zero programs, which are designed to reduce traffic fatalities. Other cities have had mixed to negative results from similar initiatives.
Partnership for Public Service
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
25, 2019—shows that when our government closes up shop, both the economy and the ability of agencies to serve the public suffers. The report also offers an ominous warning for what could lie ahead for the nation’s armed forces if Congress does not enact a budget before the next deadline. 22, 2018, until Jan.
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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
OCTOBER 10, 2021
New Mexico state government is a leader in the use of evidence, lead by its Legislative Finance Committee (LFC) that has been a catalyst for evidence-based budgeting , including through its participation in the Pew MacArthur Results First Initiative.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 11, 2024
Funny of course, because this is driven by the financial pressures faced by WMATA foremost (" Facing massive budget shortfall, Metro releases budget proposal that slashes service and increases fares ") but also other area transit providers, who've lost lots of riders in response to work from home. And financing.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
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.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MAY 9, 2023
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.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 4, 2024
The argument can be made that the tax abatement shouldn't be total, that it should be more measured, especially when it comes to funding local schools (" Students lose out as cities and states give billions in property tax breaks to businesses — draining school budgets and especially hurting the poorest students ," The Conversation).
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