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Fatigue in the Public Sector Workplace: Risks and Solutions

Aug 2
3 min

Fatigue in the Public Sector Workplace: Risks and Solutions

The following is excerpted from a new report, which we've written for UKG about the increasingly onerous issue of state and local...

Economic Development Spending: Let’s Find Out if It’s Effective

Jul 25
2 min

Economic Development Spending: Let’s Find Out if It’s Effective

In the June issue of Government Finance Review, we have a column titled “Are Tax Incentives Good for Cities and States?” Though the...

Hide and Seek: A Researcher’s Quest for Contact Information

Jun 29
2 min

Hide and Seek: A Researcher’s Quest for Contact Information

Leaders in state and local governments persistently claim that they want to be more transparent, and we believe that this is a sincere...

On the Road to a More Diverse Workforce

Feb 7
2 min

On the Road to a More Diverse Workforce

Cities, counties and states from coast to coast are cultivating efforts to create a more diverse workforce – one that mirrors the...

Nine New Governors and a Generational Shift

Jan 5
3 min

Nine New Governors and a Generational Shift

Out of the 36 gubernatorial elections last November, 26 resulted in the return of an incumbent while only one, Nevada’s Steve Sisolak,...

Let’s Talk Performance!

Dec 6, 2022
2 min

Let’s Talk Performance!

A couple of weeks ago, we were invited by the National Center for Public Performance to be the inaugural panelists in its series of...

Ensuring that Essential Goods and Services Are Available in Times of Crisis

Nov 2, 2022
4 min

Ensuring that Essential Goods and Services Are Available in Times of Crisis

by Stephen B. Gordon, lead coordinator of the Continuity of Supply Initiative (CoSI) For the past two and a half years, times have not...

Please Recommend a Book

Oct 27, 2022
2 min

Please Recommend a Book

We’ve recently been reading an advance copy of a book by Bill Leighty, former chief of staff under Governors Tim Kaine and Mark Warner of...

Fighting Fraud: Advice for Smaller Cities

Oct 18, 2022
2 min

Fighting Fraud: Advice for Smaller Cities

Whatever their size, all state and local governments must contend with the possibility that federal grant money or taxpayer revenues will...

The Non-Tech Problems with Public Sector Apps

Oct 11, 2022
2 min

The Non-Tech Problems with Public Sector Apps

With the advent of mobile apps and easily accessible web portals, there’s growing potential for improved communication between...

The Fight for Independent Oversight

Oct 6, 2022
3 min

The Fight for Independent Oversight

In 2018, a regional ballot measure in nine counties in the San Francisco area dedicated $500 million of $4.5 billion in increased...

Lagging Inspections: Will We Never Learn?

Oct 5, 2022
2 min

Lagging Inspections: Will We Never Learn?

We are, as readers of the B&G Report know, regular users of performance audits. In so doing, we're sometimes reminded about the Greek...

Getting Feedback From Residents: A New Survey

Sep 29, 2022
2 min

Getting Feedback From Residents: A New Survey

Increasingly, the old days of town hall meetings is giving way to electronic means for getting input from residents. Though this means of...

New, Up-to-date GUIDE TO BUDGET RESOURCES

Sep 27, 2022
1 min

New, Up-to-date GUIDE TO BUDGET RESOURCES

Several years ago, we worked with the Volcker Alliance to created a guide to resources about state budgeting intended for use by public...

Why hide from data?

Sep 22, 2022
3 min

Why hide from data?

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been doing research into the challenges municipalities face when they want to hire a diverse workforce....

Bringing Context to Quality of Life Ratings

Sep 20, 2022
1 min

Bringing Context to Quality of Life Ratings

Yesterday afternoon, at the #ICMA’s annual conference in Columbus Ohio, an announcement was made about an exciting collaboration to...

Engaging the Public on Climate Action

Sep 12, 2022
4 min

Engaging the Public on Climate Action

By Chris Adams, CEO of Balancing Act, a creator of simulation-based online engagement tools. With the recent passage of the...

Preparing for Risk: GASB-Style

Sep 1, 2022
1 min

Preparing for Risk: GASB-Style

In a day when one of the only sure things about the future of state and local finances is that they are unpredictable, a proposal issued...

Measuring Principals (not Principles)

Aug 30, 2022
2 min

Measuring Principals (not Principles)

Over the years in which we’ve been covering the evolution of performance management, it’s always been abundantly clear to us that great...

Five Key Benefits of Enterprise Risk Management for Government

Aug 24, 2022
4 min

Five Key Benefits of Enterprise Risk Management for Government

by Marty Benison, Industry Executive Director for State and Local Government, Oracle While the move to “Software as a Service” (SaaS)...

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