Vol. 26 No. 5, October 2010
Index
- New ways of thinking about economic development.
- Cities report on fiscal conditions.
- Economic trends.
- Jobs remain scarce in nation's cities, but signs of improvement exist.
- Survey reveals public attitudes about fiscal concerns.
- A new era of development: Rock Hill's Brownfield Renovation Project.
- Citizen attachment: building sustainable communities.
- Back to the base: citizen involvement and the budget process.
- Thinking strategically about recovery budgeting: a case study on public-private partnerships.
- Reorganization model: a new vision of Kelowna, British Columbia.
- Making sense of conflicting economic signals.
- Determining the purpose of the performance measurement system an important first step.
- Creating a proactive media plan: the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund sought to create a brand to educate the media and to promote the fund as a relevant, modem, and cost-efficient pension plan.
- Risk management: an unrealized opportunity for revenue.
- Federal agency implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
- GFOA takes position on proposed pension changes.
- The eye of the hurricane.
- GFOA events.
- State and provincial association events.
- Transparency breeds self-correcting behavior: the more an agency can make information transparent, the more it will breed change into an organization.