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Salt Lake City Capital Improvement Program process allows for citizen initiated projects

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Citizen-initiated projects are managed and constructed by one of the four city divisions deemed the subject area for the project (Parks and Public Lands, Public Works and Transportation, Economic Development & Neighborhoods, etc.). Generally they are supposed to.

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How to Prevent and Reduce Illegal Dumping

Center for Community Progress

“Once, on a public street, someone dumped a 55-gallon drum of an extremely hazardous chemical right at the curb near a park within the city,” said Keith L. Walker, Director of the Department of Public Works in Camden, New Jersey. “It Illegal dumping also attracts rats and other vermin.

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One Working Capital Management Strategic Tool: Interfund Transfers

Death and Taxes

For instance, Dawson County, Georgia indicates in their 2019 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report that transfers are used to “1) supplement operating budgets, 2) help fund construction projects and debt service, and 3) move the County’s matching portion on federal and state grants.”.

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In extremis: what Ukraine 2.0 tells us about reforming government and the public sector

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

It is also a story freighted with insights about the way to conceive and prosecute systemic reform in governing and public work. The emergence of Ukraine 2.0 is not only an object lesson in silver linings in the darkest of clouds. reform movement. DIIA launched in 2020, was the centrepiece of this effort.