Vol. 24 No. 6, December 2008
Index
- Leadership makes a difference.
- City of Vancouver, B.C., a top 100 employer and leader in green initiatives.
- Local government pension plans as well funded as state plans.
- The role of leadership in building high performing, sustainable organizations.
- Leading the way to fiscal health.
- Maricopa County's employee health-care initiative.
- Public stewardship: building a long-term funding policy for infrastructure maintenance.
- City fiscal conditions from Main Street to Wall Street.
- The power of we: using shared actuarial services to implement GASB 45: the Actuarial Shared Services Project provides Texas local government with access to hihg-quality low-cost actuarial valuations, without the need for writing individual RFPs.
- Effective management in troubled times: members of the Florida Benchmarking Consortium have joined forces to develop common performance measures for their highest-priority local government services..
- Plano's management preparation program: Preparing the next generation of leaders: the City of Plano embarked on a methodical journey to ensure it would always have capable, qualified employees to consistently provide the level of service to which its citizens were accustomed.
- Bank on San Francisco: welcoming all citizens into the financial mainstream: cities are well-positioned to play a catalytic role in working work with banks, community groups, and other stakeholders to build an inclusive financial system. Bank on San Francisco is one attempt to address a serious, yet solvable, social problem.
- Washington addresses the credit crisis: in addition to creating the Troubled Asset Relife Program, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 also contains tax and other provisions of interest to state and local governments.
- Final GASB guidance on derivatives: a number of arrangements that might otherwise qualify as derivatives have been excluded from the scope of GASB Statement No. 53.
- Risky business.
- Calendar.
- A push-pull strategy for change: one basic way to win followers is to articulate demand for change and put people in touch with their own discontent about the status quo.