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The Blueprint for Community Business Success

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Meeting Of The Minds

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Community Development, Economic Justice

America’s traditional economic development policy has raised important questions about equity, especially for new entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs and small businesses bring economic stability into communities. To encourage economic development brought, it is imperative that the impact...

The Financial Impact of COVID Licensing Standards on NJ Child Care Providers

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level State

State(s) New Jersey

Source National Institute for Early Education Research

Policy Areas Children & Families, Education

As New Jersey tentatively reopens K-12 schools after being closed for over five months, many of the state’s child care providers have remained open throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to serve the children of essential workers. Throughout this time, providers have been required to observe...

A Good Deal for Mississippi? A Report on Taxpayer Assistance to Nissan in Canton, Mississippi

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2013

Level County, County

State(s) Mississippi

Source Good Jobs First

Policy Areas Children & Families, Civil Rights

Over the past decade Nissan has created thousands of manufacturing jobs in Mississippi. While the company has spent considerable amounts of its own money, it has also received large amounts of financial assistance from taxpayers at the local and state levels. This report documents...

Model Local Open Government Directive

Type Model Law

Year 2011

Level City or Town, County

State(s) -

Source SiX Action

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance

This act, among other things: requires the online publication, preservation, and maintenance of certain information; requires the development of schedules for making information available to the public and indicating when information is updated; requires the city to establish a common...

2009 Santa Clara Big Box Ordinance 1843

Type Ordinance

Year 2009

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Santa Clara City Council

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Public Spaces

This ordinance requires that proposed large retail developments, or superstores, undergo a community impact review and obtain a conditional use permit. The cost of all independent studies and investigations required to complete the review are to be paid by the developer....

2012 Philadelphia Ordinance 120428-A

Type Ordinance

Year 2012

Level City or Town

State(s) Pennsylvania

Source Philadelphia City Council

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Public Spaces, Energy

The ordinance requires benchmarking of energy and water use for nonresidential buildings or spaces of 25,000 square feet or more in Philadelphia using a benchmarking application developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. The ordinance requires the seller or lessor...

Sinking Treasure: A Look at the Milwaukee County Parks’ Troubled Finances and Potential Solutions

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level County

State(s) Wisconsin

Source Wisconsin Policy Forum

Policy Areas Finance & Procurement, Public Spaces

Over the past thirty years, Milwaukee County Parks has struggled to stay on top of repairs and upkeep, citing the decrease in funding caused by their dependence on falling property tax levy allocations. In response to these challenges, this report explores peer park systems across...

2003 Milwaukee Ordinance 310-17

Type Ordinance

Year 2003

Level City or Town

State(s) Wisconsin

Source Milwaukee Common Council

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance

This ordinance provides that all contracting departments shall award contracts in excess of $5000 related to the purchasing, renting, laundering and dry cleaning of items of apparel to contractors and subcontractors who are able to provide for the fulfillment of the contracts from...

Show Us the Local Subsidies

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2013

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Good Jobs First

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance

This report explores disclosure practices for certain types of subsidies per locality and provides a grade for those programs based on the quality of company-specific disclosures. The report finds that two-thirds of the economic development subsidy programs run by the nation's largest...

The Revenue Impact of Corporate Tax Incentives on South Carolina Public Schools

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level County, State, School District

State(s) All States

Source Good Jobs First

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Education

Public school districts in South Carolina suffered a sharp increase in lost tax revenue in FY 2019 due to tax breaks granted to private corporations by county governments. The revenues of South Carolina’s school districts are reduced via state permitted programs that grant businesses...

A Guide to Evaluating Pay for Success Programs and Social Impact Bonds

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level City or Town, County, State

State(s) All States

Source In the Public Interest

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Finance & Procurement

Pay for Success (PFS), or Social Impact Bonds (SIBs), are an alternative private financing model often promoted as cost-free, risk-free silver bullets to support underfunded public services. In PFS and SIB funding models, investors provide the up-front funding for services with the...

Paying For Water Systems

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Finance & Procurement

Many public water utilities struggle to pay for repairs and upgrades necessary to improve energy efficiency, reduce leaks, and prevent infiltration. This brief outlines existing mechanisms to raise these funds as well as promising new methods for public officials to consider. Some...

Fiscal First Aid for School Districts: Additional Considerations for School Districts

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level School District

State(s) All States

Source Government Finance Officers Association

Policy Areas Health, Children & Families, Education

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, schools are tasked with providing a quality education to their students, along with ensuring their safety and welfare, regardless if classes are being held in-person or virtually. Additionally, schools must adjust to the economic ramifications brought...

2009 New York City Local Law 88 Energy Efficient Utilities

Type Ordinance

Year 2009

Level City or Town

State(s) New York

Source New York City Council

Policy Areas Public Spaces, Energy

This ordinance requires lighting systems to be upgraded and sub-meters to be installed in certain covered buildings based on square footage. It also requires that each tenant or subtenant within a covered tenant space that has a sub-meter to measure electrical consumption shall be...

2001 Wales First Source Hiring and Local Business Enterprise Policy

Type Act or Session Law

Year 2001

Level City or Town

State(s) New York

Source Wales Town Board

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Economic Justice, Civil Rights

An act requiring that for city-assisted development projects, developers and employers of the built business are required to hire 30% local residents, or make efforts to do so....

Saving Time and Making Cents: A Blueprint for Building Transit Better

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level City or Town, County, National, State

State(s) All States

Source Eno Center for Transportation

Policy Areas Finance & Procurement, Transportation & Mobility

Transit projects in the United States suffer from high costs and take longer to complete than they do abroad. After conducting 117 interviews with key stakeholders, this report finds that institutional structure and decision-making, procurement specifications, utility relocation,...

Memphis Blues: How Corporate Property Tax Breaks and Stadium Subsidies are Sapping the City’s Fiscal Strength

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) Tennessee

Source Good Jobs First

Policy Areas -

The City of Memphis has deliberately avoided its municipal pension obligations at the same time it has granted a series of costly property tax abatements, such as payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTs), to large corporations and sports franchises. For every year between 2009 and 2012,...

2013 San Francisco Ordinance 121017

Type Ordinance

Year 2013

Level City or Town, County

State(s) California

Source San Francisco Board Of Supervisors

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance

This ordinance amends a prior open data policy that empowered San Francisco's Committee on Information Technology to establish rules and standards applicable to all city departments regarding the release of data to the city's online data portal. This ordinance establishes the positions...

How Circular Economies Will Drive a New Urban Metabolism

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Meeting Of The Minds

Policy Areas Energy, Transportation & Mobility, Finance & Procurement

Although the traditional linear economy brought much prosperity, it has functioned by taking primary resources, turning them into products, and disposing of the waste. In the face of the global climate change crisis, cities need to transit to circular economy. In a city with a circular...

NACCHO’s 2019 Profile Study: Local Health Department Capacity to Prepare for and Respond to Public Health Threats

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source National Association of County & City Health Officials

Policy Areas Finance & Procurement, Health

Local health departments (LHDs) play a critical role in their communities during a national pandemic. However, LHD emergency preparedness and response programs have been chronically underfunded and understaffed, hindering their ability to quickly mobilize in times of crisis. This...

Willing to Work and Ready to Learn: More Adult Education Would Strengthen Michigan's Economy

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level State

State(s) Michigan

Source Michigan League for Public Policy

Policy Areas Community Development, Education

State policymakers consistently neglect adequately funding adult education, making it less accessible for low-skilled workers who want to build their skills, become financially self-sufficient and contribute to Michigan’s economy. Adult education is the key to preparing these workers...

The New Math on School Finance: Adding Up the First-Ever Disclosure of Corporate Tax Abatements’ Cost to Public Education

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level City or Town, State, School District

State(s) All States

Source Good Jobs First

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Education

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Statement 77 requires most state and local government bodies, including school districts, to annually disclose the costs of corporate tax abatements. As a result of the new rule, thousands of America’s public school districts are...

The Limits of Microtransit

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Transit Center

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility, Finance & Procurement

Microtransit involves running on-demand services with smaller vehicles that people can summon without walking to a fixed location like a bus stop. This brief argues that microtransit is incapable of serving the same scale of ridership as fixed-route buses and trains. Microtransit...

How Green Banks Help Cities Transition to Clean Energy

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Meeting Of The Minds

Policy Areas Energy

In the face of climate change crisis, it is urgent for policymakers at state, local, and city level to make transition to clean and renewable energy. However, the construction of renewable projects is usually capital-intensive and requires bank’s upfront investment. Green banks help...

Voting is the Easy Part: Why LA’s Measure M Hasn’t Led to Greater Transit Use

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Transit Center

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility, Finance & Procurement

In 2016, citizens of Los Angeles voted in favor of Measure M, a ½-cent sales tax increase that will raise $120 billion over forty years for transit expansion and maintenance, and traffic and street improvements. Despite this, transit ridership in Los Angeles has continued to fall....

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