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Real-Time Outdoor Communication for the City of Atlanta

Posted on August 2, 2018

This guest post is by ELGL member Ed Krafcik. Goal Enable real-time outdoor communication for the City of Atlanta's Customer Service Department (ATL 311), as well as the City's residents, neighborhood associations, and local businesses. Solution The City of Atlanta selected the Soofa Sign and Soofa Talk content management system to deliver important messages and share relevant...
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I Have to Ask: Civilians in the Police Department

Posted on August 2, 2018

In this series, guest columnists respond to one of three topics selected by ELGL co-founder Kent Wyatt. This week Cassie Johnson (LinkedIn & Twitter), Scottsdale (AZ) Police Department, Police Analyst II, provides a first hand account of working in a police department when you are not a police officer. Not just a career, but an...
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Diversity Dashboard Now Available

Posted on August 2, 2018

We are excited to announce that the first look at the Local Government Diversity Dashboard is now available. The Diversity Dashboard is a crowd-funded data collection effort managed by ELGL and hosted on the OpenGov platform. The data collection includes the self reported gender, race, age, and veteran status of Chief Administrative Officers and Assistant...
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Share: How Do You Forecast Personnel Costs?

Posted on August 2, 2018

This information request is by our good friends at OpenGov. Please take a minute and share your perspectives with them. Personnel is the largest expense in government, often comprising 70 percent of the operating budget. But calculating personnel costs can be extremely cumbersome because there are so many factors that influence compensation (from seniority to...
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