Without a usable plan, you can’t manage your agency’s technology needs, resources, and risks. How you develop this plan depends on your specific circumstances, but it should balance spending, available time and effort, and competing priorities.
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Tech Updates: Essential Technology Budgeting
Without a usable plan, you can’t manage your agency’s technology needs, resources, and risks. How you develop this plan depends on your specific circumstances, but it should balance spending, available time and effort, and competing priorities.
Promoting Business-Friendly Regulations
“Local governments have been expanding their role into employee benefits and rights,” said Marc H. Pfeiffer, Assistant Director at the Bloustein Local Government Research Center. “In many cases, cities are establishing minimum wages.”
What is your Municipality’s Cybersecurity Posture?
In this latest installment of Tech Fitness for Local Elected Officials and Administrators, Marc Pfeiffer explains that there is no one-size-fits-all set of controls for every technology environment.
Promoting Business-Friendly Regulations
Municipal ordinances can touch business operations in a remarkable number of ways. A partial list includes taxation, business licensing, zoning laws, street and traffic patterns, parking regulations, building design and signage, environmental and health regulations and even the installation of unsightly utility poles and cell phone towers.
After ex-N.J. mayor’s indictment, city revising rules that could help pay for her defense
But specifically adding criminal matters is “unusual,” said Marc Pfieffer, associate director of Rutgers University’s Center for Planning and Public Policy at Bloustein Local.
“But these are also unusual circumstances in Camden,” Pfieffer said.
Residents compare Clifton council members fighting over seats to preschoolers
A longtime observer of New Jersey’s local governments, Marc Pfeiffer, a researcher at Rutgers’ Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, said part of the problem can be attributed to the recent member turnover on the City Council, with the exit of James Anzaldi as mayor after more than 30 years and the deaths of members Peter Eagler and Lauren Murphy.
American Dream says it’s 87% occupied. But Meadowlands towns are still owed $13 million
“Economic conditions change. Your expectations have to change,” said Marc Pfeiffer, associate director of the Bloustein Local Government Research Center at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. “They wouldn’t be able to cut that same type of deal today.”
Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Flooded Into Newark Schools From Covid. Where It All Landed Is Not So Clear
Some of that spending has raised the ire of elected officials in New Jersey–most recently a $50,000 “Superintendent Fun Day” that paid for staff and their families to party at an upscale suburban wedding venue. “The type of outing they do is often found in the private sector,” said Marc Pfeiffer
Promoting Business-Friendly Regulations: How to work productively with town officials
And that’s not all. “Local governments have been expanding their role into employee benefits and rights,” said Marc H. Pfeiffer, Assistant Director at the Bloustein Local Government Research Center. “In many cases, cities are establishing minimum wages.”
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