Fiscally-informed planning, design, and community engagement to cultivate strong neighborhoods.
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Kevin sits down with Mayor Brandt Rydell and Assistant City Manager Tom Yantis from Taylor, Texas to discuss how and why a fiscally-informed comprehensive planning process can align varying interests in a community and provide a roadmap for growth and development that is financially resilient. The group also explores how education focused engagement efforts can benefit any planning process.
Kevin sits down with Mayor Brandt Rydell and Assistant City Manager Tom Yantis from Taylor, Texas to discuss how and why a fiscally-informed comprehensive planning process can align varying interests in a community and provide a roadmap for growth and development that is financially resilient. The group also explores how education focused engagement efforts can benefit any planning process.
Kevin sits down with Mayor Brandt Rydell and Assistant City Manager Tom Yantis from Taylor, Texas to discuss how and why a fiscally-informed comprehensive planning process can align varying interests in a community and provide a roadmap for growth and development that is financially resilient. The group also explores how education focused engagement efforts can benefit any planning process.
The Go Cultivate! podcast is back! Today's episode: an interview with Chuck Marohn and Kevin Shepherd, and as it turns out a critical conversation between two engineers recovering from the dogma of their chosen profession. Don't miss out on the advice Kevin and Chuck have for young engineers.
2020 is almost over, and it's time for our annual assessment of how we're doing and what we want to focus on in the upcoming year.
Andrew Kleine is the Former Chief Administrative Officer for Montgomery County, MD, and before that, he was the budget director for the City of Baltimore. He joins the show to talk the city's implementation of outcome-based budgeting during his time there.
Jim Proce, City Manager for the City of Anna, Texas, joins the show to talk about all things infrastructure funding.
John Lettelleir on the explosive growth of Frisco (TX), the recent rejection of the Plano (TX) 2015 comprehensive plan, and navigating the challenges that come with managing growth.
Noel Bernal and Helen Ramirez, the city management duo from Brownsville, Texas, discuss fiscally sustainable decision-making and leadership team building.
Patrick Lawler and Chad Janicek, co-founders of ZacTax, join us to talk about fiscal sustainability, city management, and how they aim to make use of data to better inform decisions.
Bastrop (TX) City Manager Lynda Humble rejoins the program to talk about learning that her city was on track to bankrupt itself by its own development pattern — and the big changes they're making to reverse that trend.
Texas is the latest state to pass or amend legislation capping the amount cities’ revenue from property taxes can increase year to year. In this episode, we discuss the fallout from this type of legislation in states across the country—and what cities can do in response.
We talk with Michael Kovacs and Justin Weiss from Fate, Texas, about their city's unique approach to steering development in a way that strengthens their financial future, rather than jeopardizing it. It does involve math, but it turns out to be actually pretty simple!
In this episode, we follow up on last week's chat on the crucial challenge facing city administrators across the country—their city's resource gap. We talk about how city leaders can understand whether their current processes and daily decisions are moving them toward or away from long-term fiscal health.
Running a city is hard work, and it’s even harder when there aren’t enough resources to cover basic service and infrastructure needs. More and more cities are finding themselves in this tricky spot, and it’s easy for city leaders to feel overwhelmed.
In this episode, we talk about the challenges facing city administrators (as well as their staff) who are increasingly stretched thin by their city's growing resource gap. Then we discuss what they can do about it.
Many citizens think their local government has enough money to maintain its infrastructure and keep up services, because they pay taxes. The reality is most cities do not, and it can be challenging for city leadership to communicate this to citizens. Today's guests are bucking that trend of silence. We talk to three key leaders (Mayor Connie Schroeder, City Manager Lynda Humble, and Hospitality & Downtown Director Sarah O'Brien) from the City of Bastrop, TX, about what managed growth means to the future of their city.
