Author: OperationsManager
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Survey: Local Governments Facing Permanent Changes After Recession
A survey by Washington, DC-based International City/County Management Association (ICMA) indicates an overwhelming majority of the nation’s cities and counties are reporting that the recession is having moderate (44 percent) to significant (30 percent) impact on operations, and experts are predicting the changes in the way local governments do business will be permanent. The ICMA survey also…
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Using Parking Lots for Windmill Farms
Municipal leaders in many of the nation’s windswept cities have turned to an innovative way of allowing wind turbines to be erected without incurring the wrath of homeowners who complain they make too much noise. These officials are allowing the giant windmills to be installed on commercial parking lots in areas separated from residential neighborhoods…
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Report Says National Emergency Communication Plan Remains Unknown
Perhaps they need a basic course in how to communicate. The Department of Homeland Security National Emergency Communications Plan (NECP), published in 2008, is not known to many public safety communication professionals around the country, according to a study by CDW Government based in Herndon, Virginia. The NECP recommends a multi-faceted approach to strengthening emergency…
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Art Fettig’s Monday Morning Memo – October 26, 2009
I ordered some new business cards recently and they arrived in the mail yesterday and they sure brought back memories of long ago. It was in February, 1961 in Battle Creek, Michigan and I’d given up alcohol and purchased an old Underwood Typewriter.