Public Works Group Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

I-Tree Logo The post How to Quantify Benefits of Trees first appeared on Public Works Group Blog.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

APRIL 4, 2024

Edward Filadelfia, Deputy Public Works Director, Riverside CA Movie comparisons aside, wastewater monitoring is an important public health tool for municipalities. “Wastewater monitoring is like the movie Minority Report, we know something is going to happen before it does.”

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

MAY 1, 2020

The post Reflections on government and COVID19: expertise, the role of government, the new public work, social imagination and beating the binary #3 appeared first on Public Purpose.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Cities, via their public works departments, are eligible recipients of these grants and are encouraged […] Source

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Public Works Group Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Being in public works, I can’t help but wonder about all the impacts to our industry So today I thought about using the ChatGPT tool to see if it could help me figure out how to fix a water main break. After all, this is a common issue that comes up in public works, and I was curious to see how AI would respond.

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State Tech Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

An early adopter of smart meters, Houston Public Works plans to install new smart sensors throughout its community to better track water usage and monitor and maintain the health of its water distribution system, including detecting leaks.

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GovLoop

JUNE 16, 2023

Capturing those locations for public works dispatchers in real time means knowing where the plows are and deploying them in response to residents’ complaints. It enables agencies to assess data as it comes in and use it to plan future responses. Buzzelli cites the example of snowplows equipped with location sensors.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

As they consider where to allocate these funds, public infrastructure owners, especially Department of Transportation (DOT) and public works agencies, have to assess the condition of their assets, determine what to prioritize while rebuilding, and identify what needs maintenance.

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PubWorks Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

What’s the right mix for Public Works? Public Works departments will always have demand maintenance issues to contend with and while most recognize the benefits of adopting a planned maintenance approach, it can be hard to implement.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

AUGUST 18, 2023

Nicknamed Justice40, this initiative challenges local governments and nonprofit agencies to actively engage people living in disadvantaged communities in participating in the planning of major infrastructure improvements such as bridges, public transportation, clean air and water initiatives, and more.

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Public Works Group Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

Yes construction can and does take place all year long. But in the Midwest where frost can get down to about three to five feet, activity tends to drop off as winter sets in.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 22, 2024

Imagine the director of public works, whose main task is not IT, and I come along and say, ‘We can connect all your traffic lights,’” Mayta said. On the other side, he can’t be an expert in managing the services those departments provide. It’s more of a partnership, an open discussion, that has to be continuing,” he said.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Working with AWS Partner OpenGov on a new solution, Grand Island’s finance department saved 1,000 hours of manual labor—equating to half the time of a full-time staffer.

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Public Works Group Blog

MAY 1, 2022

Well it’s here! Building Safety Month – a month to promote pretty much what it says: BUILDING SAFETY. And because all of us need to spend time in buildings or some sort of shelter, Building Safety Month is really for everyone.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

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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Public Works Group Blog

MAY 3, 2022

Did you know anyone with access to the internet can check out current building codes at the International Code Council (ICC) website? It’s true!

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Center for Community Progress

MARCH 28, 2024

Organize vacant lot cleanup and maintenance : If there’s a specific lot that’s consistently overgrown and accumulating litter, reach out to your local elected official, neighborhood group, or department of public works to organize a cleanup or ongoing volunteer property maintenance.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

“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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2023

Loch Raven Reservoir isn't a park per se, it's part of the regional water system, and owned and operated by the Baltimore City Department of Public Works. Cromwell Valley Park is a Baltimore County park.

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Death and Taxes

MAY 26, 2022

Lofton is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. Her research investigates public finance, public budgeting implementation, public working capital management, and fiscal institutions.

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Google Public Sector

APRIL 3, 2020

Using a Google Maps interface, residents and visitors can subscribe to a targeted area, like their neighborhoods or workplaces, and define what public works and event information they’d like to receive (and at what frequency).

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Public Works Group Blog

MAY 9, 2022

In a blog post the other day I shared information about the No Code No Confidence website where people can put in their zip code and find out the status of building codes in their area. Today I am going to introduce a similar site called the National Building Code Adoption Tracking (BCAT) Portal.

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Public Works Group Blog

MAY 7, 2022

While I encourage everyone to check out the publication, I thought I would summarize some of the main points here in addition to adding a few of my own suggestions. In June 2021 FEMA released a Building Codes Toolkit for Building Owners and Occupants. Why do we have modern building codes?

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Public Works Group Blog

MAY 4, 2022

Today I am sharing a few resources available to help people learn more about building safety: Interactive Building Safety Month Poster – by clicking on the green dots on this site you can find out the codes which ensure these building components are safe.

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Public Works Group Blog

MAY 2, 2022

Every good campaign is backed up with a series of related webinars, and Building Safety Month has a group of them ready for you. The first one will focus on Tiny Homes and Affordability and will be held May 3, 2022, at 3-4 pm ET. The International Code Council (ICC) will also host at least two Facebook live events.

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Public Works Group Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The other day a colleague told me about a bean field in Polk county, Minn. which catastrophically dropped 25 feet. After watching the video I noticed the land was located near a river, and the video points out that the land also seems to be pushing into the river.

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Public Works Group Blog

JUNE 7, 2021

Hinckley, MN, 1894. The top photo was taken before the fire consumed the town. The photo on the bottom was taken after the fire. Photos from A History of the Great Minnesota Forest Fires, Sandstone, Mission Creek, Hinckley, Pokegama, Skunk Lake by Elton T.

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State Tech Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

The Syracuse Department of Public Works manages a fleet of 150 snow removal vehicles to clear city streets. In Syracuse, N.Y., snow typically falls from November to April, dumping significant precipitation on the city for more than five months of the year.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JUNE 25, 2023

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.

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Public Works Group Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

We made it – National Preparedness Month is here, and we are prepared! If you followed along, congratulations to you too! Below is a photo of the result of our efforts in our household over the last 20 weeks.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

NIST launched the Generative AI Public Working Group in June 2023, with a short-term goal of developing a profile describing how the AI RMF may be used to support generative AI technologies. Cultivate trust in AI, looking ahead There is much more to be done to cultivate trust in AI.

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Public Works Group Blog

MARCH 29, 2020

Even those who still go to their workplace, like those in public works or emergency or medical services, are figuring out how to operate in a much changed work environment. We’ve mainly been figuring out how to establish a home base from which we can accomplish the things we need to do.

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AccessE11

JUNE 10, 2022

Almost all reported that the AccessE11 was deployed to handle requests for multiple departments, with a majority of customers leveraging it for public works, by-law/code enforcement, waste/garbage, water and animal control.

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zencity

JANUARY 18, 2022

You have staff who cannot work remotely: your police officers, firefighters and paramedics, your public works crews, your bus drivers, water and wastewater plant operators, and more. Your workforce is extremely important, and identifying the different challenges they are facing is a first step in supporting their mental health.

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Masters in Public Administration

JUNE 13, 2011

At the time, the Civil Rights Act is only implemented in the private sector work force. In 1972, the Civil Rights Act is passed for the public work sector as well. This protects disabled in the work place and applies the Civil Rights Act towards disabled people accessing public and private domains.

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