New York’s new council speaker faces budget negotiation
New York’s new city council speaker is about to go head to head for the first time with Mayor Michael Bloomberg in negotiations over the city’s budget
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Cleveland’s new strategic plan focuses on making city government work better
As Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb stepped onto the Music Hall stage in the city’s Public Auditorium on March 5, 2024, it was hard not to lose your place on the continuum of past, present and future. The mayor’s purpose that day was to introduce his new 10-year operational strategic plan to an audience of some […]
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Securing cloud applications in government’s multi-cloud world
Local and state governments have increasingly embraced a multi-cloud strategy, providing them with greater resiliency than ever before and helping avoid vendor lock-in. However, while distributing agency application infrastructure and workloads among different cloud providers has distinct benefits, it also has specific drawbacks. Today, government IT teams find themselves navigating a labyrinth of security controls, […]
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The major challenges in government payment processes: Survey reveals critical inefficiencies
With local governments facing increasing pressure to modernize their revenue collection processes, the Autoagent 2024 Government Payment Processing survey presented to 2,500 government payment collections administrators and payment processing officials nationwide in July 2024 highlights the many significant challenges and inefficiencies plaguing current payment systems used by city and state governments. As six out of […]
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Emphasizing ‘people over position’: 2023 Exemplary Public Servant James Earp
Despite being voted “most likely to be president” in high school, James Earp’s path to public service wasn’t a direct one. But Earp, city manager for Hutto, Texas, and a recipient of this year’s American City & County Exemplary Public Service award, believes the winding road to his current role is evidence that he’s where […]
