Public managers do not have the same luxury their counterparts in private industry have when it comes to dealing with personnel issues. When crisis hits in the public workplace, the matter can become very transparent and public managers have to contend with public outrage and stringent worker protections. When economic times are tough, it... »
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Education Tap Dance
Posted courtesy of Folio Weekly Last month, Floridians were regaled with education reform plans by the usual suspects. The Governor offered the decidedly underwhelming goal of bringing funding almost back to 2007 levels, the year in which education funding peaked in Florida. The legislature is... »
Accountability Forum Links Elected Leaders and Community
Members of two community groups had questions, and Jacksonville’s leaders had answers at this year’s first SFPPCA / COPOCA sponsored Local Leadership Accountability Forum. City Council Members Johnny Gaffney, John Crescimbeni, Ray Holt, Glorious Johnson, Reginald Brown, Warren Jones and Clay Yarborough were on... »
Revisionist Thinking
(Reprinted with permission from Folio Weekly) Sparks flew at the Dec. 17 Charter Revision Commission meeting when Duval County School Board Member Tommy Hazouri leaked the results of a mayoral... »
Accountability Forums; The New Political Report Card
Accountability is a buzzword usually bandied about in two settings; the campaign trail and the classroom. Two local coalitions are trying to change that when they host the first... »
Downtown; The Old Neighborhood
Perennial debate on what to do with downtown Jacksonville has become fashionable once again. How does the country’s largest city (which is really a county of 804 square miles)... »
