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TAGITM 2024: City Employees Embrace the Benefits of Cloud-Based Phone Systems

State Tech Magazine

The city of Benbrook moved its phone system to the cloud in 2019, he said, giving the government an opportunity to transition employees to a computer-based phone, or soft phone. But employees didn’t like the idea, so each Benbrook city employee retained a physical handset — a familiar…

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Sales Taxes from Non-Residents

Death and Taxes

Afonso and Moulton’s (2024) article, published in the journal of Public Budgeting & Finance , uses the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic as a natural experiment in order to understand the impacts of commuters, tourists, and college students on a county’s tax base. ” Public Budgeting & Finance (2024). 5: 1312–38.

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Downtown St. Paul needs 20,000 more people to thrive | implications for urban revitalization in the post covid city

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Downtown Action Plan highlights summary is available now, and the full Action Plan will be available in Spring 2024. Also see " What would be a "Transformational Projects Action Plan" for DC's cultural ecosystem ," 2019. The Downtown Public Realm Plan is online now. From DC's Downtown Public Realm Plan.

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November 2023 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter

Microsoft Public Sector

MC684222 — Video inline playback on Highlighted content web part 60 Days This message is intended to notify all customers utilizing social ratings APIs that Microsoft will start retiring a number of these APIs starting January 2024. When this will happen: January 1, 2024. will be returned. Action: Review and assess impact.

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How to Make Digital Documents Work for You

GovLoop

A 2019 memo from the National Archives and Records Administration and the White House mandated electronic recordkeeping by Dec. 31, 2022, although that will likely extend to June 2024. Adjudicators can quickly find what they need, clearing backlogs and moving application approvals and denials through faster. Defining Digital.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " What Richmond can't teach DC about bus services ," 2019 Brightline is a new railroad passenger service that started in South Florida, is expanding to Orlando and intends to expand to Tampa.

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Elections

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In the 2017 and 2019 elections, I thought Democratic wins in Virginia presaged a lot more. A Republican won the governorship in 2021 and that was a shock although Ralph Youngkin ran a better campaign than former Governor Terry McAuliffe along with lower Democratic turnout.