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B&G REPORT.

The B&G Report features newsy items relating to a wide variety of state and local government management topics, including state and local performance audit, state and local performance management, government budgeting, state and local human resource issues, and a variety of other public sector issues.

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Getting Feedback From Residents: A New Survey

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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...

Why hide from data?

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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

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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...

Climate Action: Backed by Budget

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Climate Action: Backed by Budget

by Chris Fabian, CEO, ResourceX To prevent a “climate catastrophe,” the focus of local, regional, national, and international...

The Tower of State and Local Babel

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The Tower of State and Local Babel

Some years ago, when the phrase “big data,” was first gaining currency, we decided that before we embarked on any projects related to...

How To Use Data in Workforce Management

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How To Use Data in Workforce Management

Across the U.S., a growing number of cities, counties, and states are using data across agencies to improve management and make...

Disaggregating is King

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Disaggregating is King

Our friend and colleague Harry Hatry has long insisted that data is far more valuable when it’s disaggregated. In a January 2022 paper...

Where are the ARPA Funds Going in Large American Cities and Counties?

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Where are the ARPA Funds Going in Large American Cities and Counties?

There’s been a great deal written about the ways in which states and localities are spending the federal dollars they are receiving from...

Procurement Offices and the Environment

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Procurement Offices and the Environment

It would be a wonderful thing, we think, if the federal government could move forward on environmental issues. But as recently as a few...

Using Data to Build Trust in Government

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Using Data to Build Trust in Government

By Doug Criscitello, Managing Director, Grant Thornton Public Sector Trust, perhaps the most important ingredient to a well-functioning...

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