Fiscally-informed planning, design, and community engagement to cultivate strong neighborhoods.
All tagged fiscal sustainability
We talk about Smart Growth America's fiscal sustainability research and its implications for communities of all sizes—with Chris Zimmerman, Jeri Mintzer, and Michael Rodriguez.
John Lettelleir on the explosive growth of Frisco (TX), the recent rejection of the Plano (TX) 2015 comprehensive plan, and navigating the challenges that come with managing growth.
Noel Bernal and Helen Ramirez, the city management duo from Brownsville, Texas, discuss fiscally sustainable decision-making and leadership team building.
Patrick Lawler and Chad Janicek, co-founders of ZacTax, join us to talk about fiscal sustainability, city management, and how they aim to make use of data to better inform decisions.
Fiscal policy expert & journalist Liz Farmer joins the show to talk about the current recession and the impact it's having on the fiscal situation at all levels of government.
It's a crossover episode! Kevin Shepherd and Monte Anderson talk affordable housing, incremental development, and more on the Chaffee Housing Report.
Chuck Marohn of Strong Towns stops by to talk about what's keeping our cities from building prosperity, and what regular citizens and professionals can do about it.
Engineer Mike McKay Mike joins the show for a wide-ranging discussion on the past, present, and future of the engineering profession—and its role in the way we’ve built our cities.
We talk with Michael Kovacs and Justin Weiss from Fate, Texas, about their city's unique approach to steering development in a way that strengthens their financial future, rather than jeopardizing it. It does involve math, but it turns out to be actually pretty simple!
In this episode, we follow up on last week's chat on the crucial challenge facing city administrators across the country—their city's resource gap. We talk about how city leaders can understand whether their current processes and daily decisions are moving them toward or away from long-term fiscal health.
Running a city is hard work, and it’s even harder when there aren’t enough resources to cover basic service and infrastructure needs. More and more cities are finding themselves in this tricky spot, and it’s easy for city leaders to feel overwhelmed.
In this episode, we talk about the challenges facing city administrators (as well as their staff) who are increasingly stretched thin by their city's growing resource gap. Then we discuss what they can do about it.
This is the second of a short series on city growth. Are there good ways or bad ways to grow? In this episode, we're asking: What should a city's relationship with debt look like? Are there bad debts? Are there good debts for a city to take on?
This is the first of a short series on city growth. Are there good ways or bad ways to grow? In this episode, we're asking whether there is such a thing as growing too fast or too slow.
Kevin and Jordan discuss the beginnings of a framework for getting any city in better fiscal shape – all while building trust and collaboration with residents of all neighborhoods. Buckle in! We made Kevin the mayor of a city for this episode.
Many citizens think their local government has enough money to maintain its infrastructure and keep up services, because they pay taxes. The reality is most cities do not, and it can be challenging for city leadership to communicate this to citizens. Today's guests are bucking that trend of silence. We talk to three key leaders (Mayor Connie Schroeder, City Manager Lynda Humble, and Hospitality & Downtown Director Sarah O'Brien) from the City of Bastrop, TX, about what managed growth means to the future of their city.
An in-depth discussion with VERDUNITY's Kevin Shepherd, P.E., on the past, present, and future of the civil engineering profession—and the lasting fiscal and social impacts their work has on communities.
