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Improve Your Grant Success with the Help of Elected Officials

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

But as I moved into work with nonprofits, I realized that outside of local governments, many organizations do not take advantage of the assistance provided by their elected officials.

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CISA issues cybersecurity toolkit for election officials

GCN

The toolkit helps state and local election officials identify their risks, make their infrastructure more resilient and protect voter information from attacks.

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Feds push local election officials to boost security ahead of 2024

GCN

Local election officials are encouraged to beef up their cybersecurity practices to safeguard their voting systems against potential threats heading into the 2024 presidential race.

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Local election officials brace for possible violence and threats

GCN

With worries over armed poll “monitors,” voter intimidation and risks to staff, some are coordinating with law enforcement or conducting special training ahead of Election Day.

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Election officials have been largely successful in deterring cyber threats, CISA official says

GCN

Public-private partnerships and enhanced resource sharing activities have been key to defending against outside threats to voting systems, according to the head of CISA’s National Risk Management Center. Cybersecurity

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Virginia election officials find 149K more unprocessed voter changes from DMV

GCN

Voter registration data was blocked from being transferred to local election offices due to computer coding issues, officials said. Data & Analytics

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Misinformation ‘harms nearly every element of election administration,’ committee report finds

GCN

State election officials said that they “need help at the federal level” to counter the threat. Cybersecurity

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Top Moments of City Summit 2022

NLC (National League of Cities)

This year, over 3,600 local elected officials, partners and municipal staff from 49 states, DC, and Puerto Rico traveled to Kansas City, MO for our first in-person City Summit since 2019.

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How states integrate GIS and elections

GCN

Despite accelerated timelines and lack of GIS-trained staff, states have geocoded voter addresses, assigned voters to newly redrawn precincts and improved transparency for voters and elections officials.

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Women’s History Month 2023: Our Responsibility to Lead by Example

NLC (National League of Cities)

March 2023 marks the 43rd annual celebration of Women’s History on a national level in the U.S.

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Georgia Moves Voter Registration to the Cloud

i360 Gov State & Local

Route Fifty - The Georgia Registered Voter Information System will be housed on servers that give election officials a more secure and user-friendly system

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5 Ways to Incorporate DEIA in Municipal Hiring to Improve Service Delivery

NLC (National League of Cities)

In response to these shifts, municipalities across the nation are working to ensure that elected officials and public administrators are representative of their constituencies to improve municipal service delivery.

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Election Security: 2020 and Beyond with FedInsider

CarahCast

Election officials throughout the country, armed with cyber-trooper support from Washington, went on the offensive this year and staved off significant cyber penetration of the election process. Election officials throughout the country, armed with cyber-trooper support from Washington, went on the offensive this year and staved off significant cyber penetration of the election process

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Walmart to close one of its three DC stores

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DC, not being particularly sophisticated politically, was ripe for the picking, and local elected officials welcomed them with open arms. But the elected officials wanted it to happen - - JOBS!

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Just “Prioritize Ridership”: Is it That Easy?

Human Transit

Those decisions are made by local elected officials or their appointees. Matthew Yglesias thinks more carefully about transit than any other US pundit I’ve encountered at his level of celebrity, so his takes are often useful.

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I can't help but laugh. DC Mayor's third term as a platform for transformation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From " Analytical myopia by politicians and the DC mayoral election " (2014): I had intended last week to write a scathing piece about Muriel Bowser, the Democratic candidate for Mayor, about her analytical myopia, an incredibly simplistic approach to complex issues, and a belief that any sort of development is "progress" and if you express any sort of opposition, even considered and measured, "you're against progress."

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The Tyranny of the “Community”: Transcending the Public Meeting

Human Transit

No matter how profoundly we are transforming access to opportunity in a city, most fortunate people, including most elected officials, only care if we propose to build something. (I My job as a public transit planner requires a lot of public engagement, as it should.

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What Homeowners Need to Know about Building Codes

Public Works Group Blog

If the codes are the most recent version, you could send a simple email like this to your elected officials: “I was on the No Code No Confidence website and noticed our community has adopted the most recent building codes.

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Washington Post editorializes about Purple Line cockups, inadequately attributes them to Larry Hogan

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Purple Line is a great lesson for me in how long projects take to achieve from conceptualization to realization. I first read about the idea--intended at the time to be heavy rail--in December 1987, shortly after I had moved to Washington, DC, as a cover story in the Washington City Paper.

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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

Ask just about anyone to name a few people they consider leaders and most likely you net an elected government official on that list.

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Writing Grants When You’re NOT a Grant Writer

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

They are firefighters, teachers, administrative assistants, program directors, accountants, and even elected officials and board members.

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Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: Metro’s prospects for replacing hundreds of millions of dollars in fare revenue that vanished during the pandemic appeared to be waning as stimulus money runs dry, particularly as weary elected officials watch the agency struggle during a year-long train shortage.

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The impact of local radio news in England

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I can't imagine top elected officials in the US deigning to spend much time, even five minutes, with a local NPR affiliate, unscripted--leaving themselves vulnerable to real questioning.

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The Great American Outdoors Act Is Law, Part I — Episode 073

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

Last month, we witnessed history as the Great American Outdoors Act was officially signed into law. Tune in to today’s full episode below to learn: Why it’s so important that we make sure our voices are heard by our elected officials about these kinds of things. This legislation will definitively fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF).

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Fifth, that activists and elected officials sure didn't understand how to be proactive (" The Silver Line WMATA story that WJLA-TV missed ," 2014). But a key organizing principle was including items that had been officially recommended at some point.

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Connecting you with the Benefits of State Associations

Let's Talk Parks

They focus on lobbying for our industry and they primarily serve the agencies as a whole, the elected officials and the Executive Directors. I am so honored to have Debbie Trueblood, Executive Director of the Illinois Park and Recreation Association join us today.

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So, Your Jurisdiction is Thinking of Starting a Revenue Manual…

Death and Taxes

I show them an old clip from the 2012 Vice-Presidential election debate of then Vice President Biden saying “Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget and I will tell you what you value.”

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Remote workers: When do they count for local economic development incentives?

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

The shift to remote work, whether universal or not, represents a significant challenge for public officials focused on economic development. Local government elected officials and all attorneys have sworn an oath to uphold the state constitution, which is the supreme law of the land. “Remote work is here to stay,” says a 2022 Forbes article.

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Security, stability, and speed: Strategy essentials for your mission

AWS Public Sector Blog

This includes hands-on labs, as well as the Executive Education Program in Digital Transformation for the Public Sector , which equips senior public sector leaders and elected officials with the confidence and expertise they need to lead successful digital transformation.

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Public housing administration as a measure of government (in)competence

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It's also a failure of elected officials to not see themselves as "asset managers" and "risk managers." -- " Town-city management: "We are all asset managers now" ," 2015 -- " Municipal Natural Assets Planning Initiative, British Columbia ," 2018 What's up?

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How AWS supports the 10th anniversary of National Voter Registration Day with digital tools for civic engagement

AWS Public Sector Blog

On September 20, 2022, Americans celebrate National Voter Registration Day with a massive cross-country effort to register voters ahead of the federal midterm elections. elections. Educating and inspiring voters to get ready for the midterm elections. When is the election?,

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Scott County, MN Seeks to “Deliver What Matters” for its Citizens!

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

"What distinguishes Scott County among the 120+ implementers in the PBB community, is the organization’s commitment to being truly data-driven." Scott County, Minnesota has always been unique, but it’s rapidly becoming even more so.

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Policy Breakfast: The Future of 421-a and Housing Development

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

” Lander pushed State elected officials to let 421-a sunset in June and set an end-of-year deadline to accomplish property tax reform.

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V for Vagina: The Anniversary of Michigan Representative Lisa Brown’s Vagina Monologue

Public Policy Blog

Approximately one year ago, on June 13, 2012, Representative Lisa Brown (D-Bloomfield) uttered the word that runs ice through the veins and casts fear into the hearts of male elected officials: Vagina.

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21 August 2017 | Partisan Alignment and Delegation to the U.S. Bureaucracy, By Christine Palus & Susan Webb Yackee*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

As we all know, the legal authority of public bureaucrats to make decisions resides in the delegation of discretion from elected legislators and executives, such as the president or state governors, to administrative agents. In sum, a takeaway message from our findings, then, is that agency officials may feel pressure to conform, rather than discretion to innovate, when serving under politically like-minded elected officials.

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CPBB Teams with Toledo Regional Chamber to Bring Priority Based Budgeting to the City of Toledo, Ohio

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

This holistic approach helps to provide elected officials and other decision-makers with a "new lens" through which to frame better-informed financial and budgeting decisions and helps ensure that a community is able to identify and preserve those programs and services that are most highly valued.

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4 Things You'll Learn About Data, Leadership + Budgeting at the CPBB 2016 (Un)Conference!

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

"When analyzed, interpreted and explained well, data is the best tool to distinguish problems and actuate lasting change." The Center for Priority Based Budgeting 2016 "Prioritized World" (Un)Conference is just over a month away.

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Local Government Support for Privately Owned Affordable Housing

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Elected officials and attorneys, who took oaths to uphold the state constitution, understandably wish to tread carefully. By most accounts, the need for affordable housing across North Carolina is massive. According to 2019 census data, over a million North Carolina households are “cost burdened,” meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing. Almost half of those are “severely cost burdened,” meaning they spend more than 50% of their income on housing.

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Rio Grande Plan should be seized upon by UTA and state officials, alongside local officials, as a way to strengthen, extend, expand, and improve transit, in a generationally transformational manner. (I

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25 Exciting Career Paths in Public Administration

Masters in Public Administration

And the most likely employer can be the federal government, which has their official site here. They are chosen by elected officials and can work for small towns on a part time basis or for large cities. You can read more on their official site here.

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