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Collaborating, Creating and Choosing: An Exploration of Participatory Budgeting
The participatory budgeting process is a growing way to promote participation and reduce inequities within governments and schools. By creating participatory budgeting processes and by eliminating barriers to involvement, organizers…
Using Reflection to Transform the Public Sector Workforce
As a collective activity, team reflection turns the evaluation of a shared experience into learning by transforming personal insights into knowledge that can be applied to future desired behaviors or…
Acknowledging Appreciation in Our Teams
In a world where we’ve become distanced through virtual platforms, Public Service Recognition Week is an opportunity to bring our teams back together and build strong bonds between workers.…
Unlocking the Mysteries of Municipal Bonds and Bond Ratings
The municipal institutions of modern America continue to encourage the spirit of liberty by incurring public debt through constitutional limitations and other means. One way this occurs is through the…
Public Administration and Institutions that Commit Child Abuse or Neglect: Part 1 – Confronting the Problem
For more than a decade now, investigative journalism, and actions in various courts around the United States, have revealed systematic patterns of child abuse and neglect occurring within institutions that…
Disaster Accounting: The Reality of Federal Disaster Aid
Given the comments made by many in the aftermath of each disaster, it might be time to revisit these policies to determine if they meet the needs and expectations of…
Poverty in America…Still
Poverty is a condition defined by lack of income. The consequences for those that are poor, well documented in Desmond’s work, are pain and trauma and jail and hunger. We…
Public Private Partnership
The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ASPA as an organization. By Willie L. Patterson IIIApril 24, 2023 After decades of…
The Bond Prospectus: What Is It and What Does It Tell You?
While not exactly light reading, the OS is the most reliable, comprehensive, up-to-date, informative and easily available source of general and specific information about the finances and overall status of…
Public Sector Entrepreneurship III
It is our privilege, responsibility and even duty to continually look for options and opportunities that will extend the value of every public dollar and at the same time try…
When Your County Is No Longer Effective: Case Study of Broward County, FL Emergency Management Division
This article will discuss how the Emergency Management Division of Broward County, FL lacks an effective program to assist the 31 cities within its jurisdiction that encompass close to 1.9…
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