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What’s the Best Approach to Managing E-Scooters in a City?

E-Scooters have taken over the streets in cities across the world and the US has been the epicenter of the e-scooter phenomenon where companies like Bird and Lime took disruptive measures to introduce their new services to the market. The...
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How to Provide Value For Residents?

The above is a question that comes to mind for many cities and city managers. The City of Fife, Washington, decided to tackle this question head-on. Fife is a city with a young, family-oriented population of 10,000 residents, many of whom commute...
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How to Effectively Engage With Your Citizens About City Proposed Ballot Measures

City-sponsored ballot measures and general obligation bonds are usually high stakes and often involve significant funding requests that can also influence the budget capacity of basic services within local government. With the use of technology, a...
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How to Transform Resident Feedback from Negative to Positive in Your City Using Technology

Cities are made by people and run by people. And because of that, not everything will run smoothly or according to plan. Often, it seems that the negative feedback from one standout incident or against one policy or project drowns out the rest of...
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How Civic Engagement Can Transform Community Relationships

Smart cities are no longer just about utilizing technology to increase operational efficiency such as optimizing traffic patterns, or parking management. Nowadays, it’s about leveraging communication technologies to bring residents on board with a...
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Hey City Managers! AI Might Be The Tool You’ve Been Looking For

If you’re looking for ways to help your teams become more productive and efficient as city managers, we’re on the same page.
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What To Be Thankful For This Thanksgiving - City Managers' Edition

It’s Thanksgiving and we’re not missing a moment to properly thank you, our awesome city managers, who do so many things to make the city run – from long-term strategic planning to implementing welfare policies, to making sure that the city’s...
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