Vol. 28 No. 5, October 2012
Index
- Financing the future.
- Cities continue to cut jobs and infrastructure, study shows.
- Economic trends.
- All-America Cities projects address community challenges.
- Navigating the digital government roadmap.
- Structuring the revenue forecasting process.
- The City of Redmond: focuses on vision and fiscal sustainability.
- Calgary: 100 years of policies and plans.
- Getting past the quick fix: on the road to financial resiliency.
- Clarity: bringing focus to the new clarity.
- Sustainability through contract drafting and management: by improving drafting and management practices for vendor contracts, state and local governments ensure their continuing ability to provide all necessary and appropriate services to the public.
- Budgeting for outcomes: key findings from GFOA research.
- The finance director's role in helping public enterprises look their best: finance directors of public enterprises face special challenges; developing expertise in financial best management practices will help them keep the enterprise operationally and financially sustainable while minimizing user rate increases over the long term.
- How cities are assessing and generating new social media ideas: jurisdictions are carefully evaluating new social media applications before integrating them into their work process, and best-in-class cities have a number of tips and tricks for assessing new social media applications.
- SEC report makes case for muni oversight, despite opposition: the SEC completed its review of the municipal securities market and released its report, which makes more than a dozen recommendations for legislative and regulatory changes.
- Final GASB guidance on pensions for employers: GASB Statement No. 68, issued in June 2012, will primarily affect employers that participate in defined benefit pension plans. It will also change accounting and financial reporting for non-employer contributors in special funding situations.
- Understanding local public finance in California (and everywhere else).
- Calendar.
- The wrong--and right--way to build a strategic plan: done well, it can serve as the centerpiece of an organization's work, guiding it in ways both large and small.