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Liberata, Local Government Association sign 10-year outsourcing deal
2008-05-12 13:32:00 Liberata has signed a 10-year outsourcing deal with the Local Government Association (LGA), that aims to save £29m over the lifetime of the contract. The switch will see a number of business support services inc
House Approves Local Government Real Estate Investing Venture
2008-05-08 19:26:00 Real estate investors may find it harder to buy foreclosed, particularly the fixer-uppers, due to an unexpected entrant, the state government. It hasn’t become law, so there is still time to grab up those properties now, but if the bill passes, local governments will be allowed to buy foreclosed properties and start their real estate investing venture, of course, at the taxpayers expense. The House approved sending states $15 billion to buy and fix up foreclosed properties, passing by a vote of 239-188, with most republicans voting against. The bill will provide loans and grants to areas hit hardest by the housing crisis, so not all neighborhoods will be treated the same. in fact, I am guessing that the government will pick those areas that they can gain the most from. This is a separate bill from the Barney Frank fiasco (HR 5830) that is set for vote later today. The only good news is that President Bush has vowed to veto both if they make it to his desk.
No Property Tax Relief In Sight
2008-04-30 22:37:00 More bad news, American homeowners. Just when you thought there might be a silver lining to declining home prices in that property taxes would be lower, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that local governments throughout the United States are raising property tax rates to compensate for revenue shortfalls. These taxes serve as ...
Kamal no more chairman of KWSB, KBCA
2008-04-24 22:27:00 CNews Karachi:City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal is no more a chairman of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) and Karachi Building Control Authority (KBCA).According to sources the Sindh government on Thursday terminated office of the city nazim as chairman of the two major city institutions, a development which sources said is likely to give a fresh setback to the ongoing reconciliation process between the ruling Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).They said the PPP-led Sindh government dissolved the administrative Board and Authority of the KWSB and KBCA, of which the Karachi Nazim was a chairman.They said Agha Siraj Khan Durrani, Provincial Minister for Local Government, would take over chairmanship of the two institutions.When contacted spokesman of Sindh Information Department said his office had nor received any notification and officials in Chief Minister House were may confirm the development.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
Looking for UK local government communicators
2008-04-16 18:00:00 I'm looking for UK local government communicators to help with my CIPR Diploma research project.
Local Government Responses to HIV/AIDS: A Handbook
2008-04-12 19:23:00 HIV/AIDS has emerged as one of the foremost challenges for poverty alleviation and development. While sub-Saharan Africa is home to nearly 30 million of the world’s 42 million people living with HIV/AIDS, it is not only an African epidemic. The Caribbean region has the second highest prevalence and Eastern and Central Europe are showing the fastest increase. Absolute numbers per...
By: Asiaing.com
Nice to see local government offices adopting technology
2008-04-12 14:05:00 I was pleasantly surprised to see our local Pune Municipal corporation site getting a nice revamp and adding tons of new features making life of average citizens dealing with local authorities much easier. Very recently they launched a "better roads" initiative. The unique thing about this project is that it is a wonderful blend of NGO, technology and PMC coming together to work for a social cause. Any web user can go and register complaints using Google maps. If you have a road dug up, potholes or any other road related complaints just find your area on the map and register the complaint. Nice !
Economists Predict 6% Jobless Rate, 2 Million Lost Jobs
2008-04-08 00:47:00 Earlier today I read an interesting article that discussed the U.S. employment outlook and which jobs may or may not be good bets in a deteriorating economy. Martin Crutsinger of the Associated Press wrote: While the downturn is expected to be short and mild, economists are still forecasting the unemployment rate, which jumped to 5.1 ...
Draft of Guidelines for Local Government Sustainability
2008-02-12 04:04:00 ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability has released a DRAFT version of the International Local Government Greenhouse Gas Protocol for public review and comment. The protocol consists of two component documents: the Emissions Analysis Protocol provides guidance on inventorying and reporting greenhouse gas emissions and the Measures Analysis Protocol provides guidance on quantifying the emission reduction benefits of ...
Using plain English in local government communications
2008-02-11 21:36:00 Last week the Local Government Association published its list of banned words in an attempt to highlight the use of poor language by local authorities.
GM CEO asks car dealerships to lobby state, local government against regula
2008-02-11 01:34:00 Say hello to the newest government lobbying group: car salesmen! The AP is reporting that GM CEO Rick Wagoner asked car dealerships to lobby their state and local governments to not regulate tailpipe emissions. Here is exactly what Rick said in a speech at the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) meeting in San Francisco attended by about 10,000 dealers and their spouses:We're not going to be able to accomplish everything that we otherwise could. ... We need to work together to educate policymakers at the state and local levels on the importance of tough but national standards. ... Dealers are very effective in the political process because we don't have a plant in every state. ... We have dealers in every state.Last year, Congress passed a new CAFE standard but California was denied a waiver to regulate tailpipe emissions in its state. California and other states are still fighting to get the waiver to regulate tailpipe emissions and if that happens, Rick says automaker...
Local government minister pledges extra funds to help cash-strapped council
2008-02-07 11:27:00 Councils are to get more support to held them tackle the
State Budgets Hit Hard By Housing Bust, Slowing Economy
2008-02-07 00:17:00 Back on January 28, I read in Bloomberg that the Washington D.C.-based research group The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities announced half of all U.S. states were projecting budget deficits for the next fiscal year as the U.S. economy slows and tax revenue disappears. According to their report (revised on February 1): At least ...
Local government strikes back against tobacco...
2008-01-02 00:49:00 The county government in Marion County, Florida (which includes Ocala, for the geographically challenged) will no longer hire people who use tobacco in any form. Potential employees must sign an affidavit swearing they have not used tobacco products within a year prior to employment. The rule applies to all departments under county government but does not apply to current employees of the county government or current/future employees of the county's constitutional offices (such as the Sheriff's office, tax collector's office, etc).The powers that be say this is being done to cut health insurance costs. Ok fine, I can go along with that but I'd actually like to see the data. Are health insurance premiums for companies and government agencies actually reduced if the employees do not smoke? What about people who drink? Smoking is becoming less frequent these days but people still drink. And drinking can cause problems just like tobacco. Are weWhen will it end? And what IF a perso...
Orange County Joining FL, others in Local Government Subprime Crisis?
2007-12-05 18:19:00 From the “When will they ever learn?” files, Orange County, CA, joins Florida, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Montana, Maine and King County, Washington in disclosing problems related to massive SIV losses. Reports Bloomberg, Twenty percent, or $460 million, of the county’s $2.3 billion Extended Fund is invested in so-called SIVs that may face ...
U.S. Property Values May Take $233 Billion Hit
2007-11-14 02:12:00 Back on June 5, I wrote that the Center for Responsible Lending was predicting 2.4 million foreclosures nationwide will take place before the U.S. housing bust is done. This figure exceeds the 2 million homeowners thought to have been created by the housing boom (2 million being the most optimistic estimate). The Center is a ...
Tap Into Your Local Government Advisory Service
2007-11-13 00:00:00 If you have been hoping to start a new venture in the near future, you are going to be looking into a number of different financing options to get the funds you need. Every business owner can tell you that it takes a good chunk of liquid money to start any kind of company, regardless ...
Local Government and their Lust For Property Taxes
2007-11-04 17:21:00 The lust of government for your money is a known fact. They tax our income, our savings, our property, and our death. Nothing is sacred to these folks as long as they get their money. But one of the biggest cash cows for local governments has been the property tax. This allows the local governments ...
Local Governments
2007-10-20 18:47:00 Seymour Government First selectman Melanie Kalako - D Robert J. Koskelowski - R Current William T. Kovacs - I Board of Selectmen Ann Marie Drugonis - R Colleen Fries - D David Coe - D Francis Conroy Jr. - D John Conroy Jr. - R John Putorti - R Paul Roy - D Roberta King - R Board of Finance Alfred Yagovane - R Eugene Stec - D Kenneth Lignelli - D Lisa Hassenfeldt - D Peter Jezierny - R William Paecht - R Board of Finance alternate Arthur Berardi - D Carolyn Beck - D Michael Magut - D Board of Education Bruce Baker - R Jason Buchsbaum - R Jason Weaving - D Jeanne Loda - D Judith Flood - D Rhonda Geffert - R Board of Assessment Appeals Anthony LoPresti John Greco Sr. Mark Thompson Ugo Zullo Board of Police Commissioners Frank Loda - D Howard Simpson - D Lucy McConologue - R Stephen Chucta - R...
New Report Suggests Local Governments In Trouble Due to Housing Downturn
2007-10-20 00:00:00 A report released today by the National league of Cities, City Fiscal Conditions in 2007, offers both good and bad news about the fiscal conditions of local governments. The survey data in the report consists of 359 responses from city financial officers in all corners of the country, from April to June ...
Local government service to be created to step up development
2007-10-12 13:43:00 Nana Aboagye Dankwa, chairman of the Civil Service Council, on Thursday announced the inauguration of a new local government service by December this year, to enhance the decentralization process and development in the country. He observed that development at the district level was crucial and if the districts remained in their current state of development, Ghana ...
Local Government Employers fears for human resources when authorities merge
2007-10-05 09:58:00 Senior council HR staff have "major concerns" that top management positions will be available through open competition rather than internal transfer when 48 loc
Local Government Restructuring
2007-09-23 00:00:00 The Albany Project reports on some responses to Spitzer's call to reform local governments: Speaking to the New York State Association of Counties (NYSAC), Governor Eliot Spitzer today released a list of nearly 150 initiatives to improve the operation of local governments ranging from municipal consolidation and restructuring to the ...
By: BuffaloPundit
President Karzai Abandons Local Government to Military
2007-09-21 04:16:00 Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi, on the staff of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting depicts local government in Afghanistan as increasingly under the control of local military commanders. Habib Rassoul told him that his wife was kidnapped by a commander Piram Qul who refuses to release her back to the family. He complained to local ...
Local government unions to discuss improved pay offer for workers in the se
2007-09-04 10:58:00 Local government unions are due to meet today (Tuesday) to discuss an improved pay deal for more than one million workers in the sector. Last month, Local Government Employers (LGE) ? the negotiating body for employers in the sector ? upped its pay offer to unions in a last-ditch attempt to stave off industrial action. The improved deal offers a 3.4% pay rise to the poorest paid council workers, taking them to £6 an hour for the first time. All other local government staff would see 2.475% added to their pay packets, backdated to 1 April. Heather Wakefield, head of local government at Unison, said: "This is a welcome breakthrough for the lowest paid, and only came about as a result of very tough negotiations." However, the unions said the offer remained "disappointing", with inflation running at 3.8% and councils having exceeded their efficiency targets this year. LGE said the offer was made on an "exceptional basis" and recognised the contribution staff had made to local...
Local Government
2007-08-26 11:59:00 Good article from the recent Irish Times. Directly elected mayor desperately needed Local government reform has to include transferring more power to elected councillors, writes Dermot Lacey . The decision by Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government John Gormley to initiate a debate on local government reform is indeed most welcome. The tentative and insipid ...
By: EastMeath.Org
Local government strikes across England, Northern Ireland and Wales a step
2007-08-09 17:30:00 The threat of local government strikes across England, Northern Ireland and Wales has moved closer after workers voted overwhelmingly to reject a below-inflation pay offer of 2%. In a consultation with members, public sector union Unison said 81% voted to reject the offer, giving a major thumbs-down to the deal on the table. The union now looks set to proceed to an industrial action ballot. The GMB and Unite unions are also preparing to ballot their local government members on industrial action. The three unions, who between them represent more than one million council workers, registered a formal dispute over pay on 16 July. They are continuing to press for urgent talks with communities secretary Hazel Blears after pay talks stalled last week. Unison's head of local government, Heather Wakefield, said: "These low-paid women who are providing school dinners, home and residential care, are at the very bottom of the public sector pay scale. "Yet they, and all the other...
Outsourcing firm Mouchel Parkman buys local government BPO specialist HBS
2007-08-08 16:17:00 Support services group Mouchel Parkman has acquired business processing outsourcing (BPO) firm HBS for £46m, extending its presence in the government outsourcing market. The two companies already work together in a £300m 12-year strategic services partnership in Oldham through the Unity Partnership. They also recently won preferred bidder status for a 10-year ISiS partnership with Somerset County Council, both as subcontractors to IBM. HBS' managed service contracts will continue to be led by the existing HBS partnership directors, while the number of Mouchel Parkman employees will increase by 3,000 to about 11,000. Richard Cuthbert, chief executive of Mouchel Parkman, said: "The business process outsourcing market in the UK is currently worth more than £4bn, growing at nearly 10% per annum. We see great potential for increasing our market share, most obviously in the local government market, particularly as a result of the government's shared service agenda, but in other...
Local Government Employers plans to sharpen up its act after internal revie
2007-08-01 13:38:00 Local Government Employers has launched an action plan that aims to connect with local authorities and improve communication across the sector. The plans follows a period of consultation to mark the first anniversary of the creation of Local Government Employers, which represents employers on pay, pensions and employment issues. The consultation found levels of interaction with the organisation vary and that there was a need to raise its profile. It therefore plans to introduce a 'sounding board' with more than 40 members to act as a "'critical friend', as well as a programme of regular regional visits by senior Local Government Employers staff. It will also review its branding and website, and steps will be taken to improve communication. Jan Parkinson, managing director of Local Government Employers, said: "Raising the profile of the organisation will be a priority in the months to come. It is clear that people think there needs to be more dialogue and communication...
Department of Tourism urges Local Government Units to develop local tourist
2007-07-19 18:01:00 by Gay B. Gaspay Tacloban City, Leyte — The Department of Tourism Undersecretary Oscar Palabyab urges local government units in Eastern Visayas to develop local potential tourist sites in their respective areas in order to invite more tourist to visit their places. The statement was made during an interview with the Undersecretary at the Leyte Park Hotel, ...
Local Government?
2007-07-15 19:09:00 The minister for the environment is launching a review if local government and will be advertising for public submission soon. The performance of basket-case Meath County Council has long been a bugbear of this blog. So if you get the chance you could put down on paper how you think things should be run. According to ...
By: EastMeath.Org
Equal pay demands move to Parliament as local government workers lobby MPs
2007-07-11 14:01:00 Local government workers from across England and Wales lobbied Parliament yesterday (10 July) to demand equal pay compensation. Super union Unite claims that three in four female council employees are receiving less than their male equivalents. It is calling for pay reviews and compensatory payouts. Peter Allenson, national organiser at the Transport and General Workers? Union sector of Unite, said: ?The government must accept its responsibility to deal with the gender gap in local government and provide financial support to help councils meet their legal duties under equal pay legislation.? The total liability for equal pay compensation in local government is estimated to be between £3bn and £5bn.
Local Government in St. Paul
2007-06-30 04:32:00 This lovely mansion is in MY neighborhood. Obviously MY house looks like a shack next to this massive creation. Equally as obvious is that I don't OWN the neighborhood . . . but sometimes it feels like the block club...
N.Ireland Forms Local Government
2007-03-26 20:27:00 BELFAST, March 26 -- Northern Ireland's Catholics and Protestants agreed to a power-sharing local government Monday, following a deal stuck by two political leaders who had bitterly denounced each other for decades but never held a conversation.
By: Get rich
Home School Requirements Of Your Local Government
2007-03-14 00:00:00 Gives you information on the requirements of different states and what your local governemnt can do for your home schooling.
Karachi?s local government: A success?
2007-01-31 04:57:02 Here is a letter I wrote in Dawn on July 03, 2006. I talk about the Karachi’s government structure due to Musharraf’s devolution plan. At that time I was all praise for the city’s local government structure and how it had progressed in leaps and bounds. However, I stand corrected on that. Even though the government structure (explained breifly below) deserves praise I forgot that any kind of ‘democracy’, local or national, would mirror each other and the elections would always be a fraud. Today, we have in power Mr Mustafa Kamal of the ‘Haqparast’ group aka MQM. We all know why he is where he is and the page long newspaper adds and the ridiculous ‘Hamara Karachi Festival’ are a testament to his incompetence. Mr Cowasjee highlights what is really going on in the city and how the incompetent and corrupt rulers of the city are turning it into a very dangerous place. He talks about the illegal industrial workshops being allowed to op...
By: MicroPakistan
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