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  Survey results: Financial uncertainty troubles local government leaders
  To better understand the social and budgetary landscape of the post-COVID-19 world, American City & County has issued a series of surveys to take the pulse of its readership. Although the most recent results paint a picture of financial uncertainty, it also shows local government’s resolve to provide uninterrupted service. The results indicate that failing an influx of stimulus money, 68 percent of respondents would experience a budget shortfall between 1 and 25 percent. The...

  
  

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  Returning to (tele)work: Is the public sector ready for a more permanent work-from-home policy?
  Employers across the public and private sector are assessing the return-to-work situation while still in the throes of the pandemic. Should things return to normal? If so, when? What should the transition look like? Can we adopt some of the flexibly we learned during quarantine in the long term? There’s no manual to consult and guidelines don’t always provide insight into every unique scenario, so, why not ask the employees? The State of Maine did...

  
  

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  Knoxville upgrades 30,000 outdoor light fixtures, saves $3 million
  Knoxville, Tenn., city planners’ recently completed a city-wide street lighting upgrade, which involved more than 30,000 outdoor lighting fixtures aimed at achieving their sustainability objectives of reducing both energy usage and carbon emissions. This outdoor lighting upgrade plan had been years in the making. “When you look at the history of when we really started talking about streetlights, it goes back more than a decade to about the 2007 – 2008 timeframe, when the city...

  
  

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  Emerging from disruption, cities have an unprecedented opportunity to build better operational resilience
  Many cities are currently enduring the most significant period of disruption ever experienced globally in peacetime. Countless agencies have implemented rapid transformations to accommodate social distancing, staff or commodity shortages, and working from home where possible to continue providing public services. Some change has happened remarkably smoothly, while for others, it was remarkably difficult or even painful. In preparation for when the rate of COVID-19 infection slows, agencies and organizations across all sectors are trying...

  
  

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