Budget & Finance
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The chair of the City Council introduced a measure last month that would mandate using online software to enable better visibility into city and county budgets and finances. The bill passed its first of three Council readings. -
The renewal of a state grant program for local public agencies focuses on cybersecurity and other areas that involve gov tech. Officials encourage governments to partner on projects that could receive funding.
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Dinkler’s prior experience includes leadership of a software supplier for the energy industry. He replaces Robert Bonavito as the government technology company moves deeper into the cloud and AI.
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The San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System, the city workers’ pension fund, reported a data breach affecting around 74,000 members, and the data may have included some sensitive information.
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The New London, Conn., Police Department is planning to have every officer wearing body cameras by fall following a unanimous city council vote that authorized a $1.2 million contract to buy the cams and related tech.
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As retail businesses prepare for reopenings, business owners will be looking for ways to reduce the number of hand-to-hand transactions taking place in their stores. One step may be enacting no-cash policies.
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While Ohio’s stay-at-home order closed non-essential businesses and kept most people indoors, the opioid epidemic did not abate. Stats show drug overdose deaths have remained fairly steady over the past three months.
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The novel coronavirus shifted the nature of gov tech work virtually overnight, but its long-term impacts will bring even more changes as priorities change and tech offers opportunities to shape the future.
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Partnering with a cloud company and professional organization for distribution, the machine learning company says its business intelligence tool can find and flag redundancies in technology contracts.
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Budget cuts are coming, but uncertainty surrounds them. So now experts are weighing in on how much money states might lose, what it will mean for technology work and what we can learn from the Great Recession.
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Though work is moving forward on the rail project in the San Joaquin Valley, Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing dramatic cuts to 88 consultant positions. The cuts would save around $30 million annually.
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The Texas transit agency VIA faces a deficit of $126 million over the next five years, even including the $93 million it will receive this year in federal stimulus funds through the CARES Act.
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Officials with Harford County are extending the reach of public Wi-Fi so that residents can access the Internet while social distancing from their vehicles. The total cost of the expansion was approximately $17,000.
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If completed, the proposed hyperloop project connecting Ohio and Chicago could generate over $19 billion in direct transportation benefits and $300 billion in economic gains, according to a new feasibility study.
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The county has racked up nearly $590,000 in expenses recovering from the cyberattack to date. Most of the expense has been for experts required to unlock data and restore databases damaged by the attack.
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Years ago, Gonzales, Calif., couldn't get a good broadband deal for its residents. After aggressively taking initiative in a variety of ways, the city can now connect any household to high-speed Internet.
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South Carolina’s COVID-19 task force is proposing that state and federal funding be allocated toward a broadband plan. It proposes $80 million to go toward infrastructure improvements and $20 million for mobile hot spots.
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Because some unemployment insurance cases require human intervention, even states with updated technology can barely keep up with the surge of unemployment insurance claims caused by COVID-19.
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The move comes after a private equity firm acquired Ontario Systems, giving the company an infusion of capital to spend on mergers with other vendors. Now, it's bringing SwervePay into the fold.
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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has inspired the birth of new state broadband programs, but it has also raised questions about funding and the longer term future for other programs aimed at bolstering connectivity.
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The Federal Communications Commission grants follow an earlier round of funding aimed at buttressing telemedicine efforts as coronavirus-related social distancing spread across the country this spring.
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