The Colorado Department of Treasury unveiled a new feature this week designed to help Coloradans understand how their state tax dollars are spent on an individual or household level. State Treasurer Cary Kennedy told CivSource that the interactive website is intended to show taxpayers a clear line from their paycheck to their communities.
The National Association of Counties (NACo) held its annual Legislative Summit in Washington, D.C. this week, focusing on the economy and health care reform. During a keynote speech Tuesday morning, US Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius praised local officials for their help in deploying millions of H1N1 vaccinations and promised to keep a [...]
Last Thursday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that his company was going “all in” when it came to building software and hardware solutions for the cloud. He said a concerted effort was underway to have 90 percent of Microsoft’s 40,000 workforce focused on solutions related to cloud computing over the next year. CivSource spoke to [...]
According to two policy letters issued over the last week, California’s Office of the State Chief Information Officer (OCIO) has amended the state’s Statewide Information Management Manual (SIMM) to include social media and teleworking standards. The letters are the latest in a string of policies being issued OCIO, including open source, green IT use and [...]
Talent management is not something that most government employees think about on a daily basis. But during the last several months, the ranks of state and local government employees have given human resource managers a multitude of new challenges. Furloughs and early retirement offers are shifting the demographics of the government workforce, opening lanes for younger [...]
Last week, Microsoft held its eighth annual US Public Sector CIO Summit in Redmond, Washington where company officials unveiled enhanced certification and security capabilities for cloud users in government. According to the Microsoft vice president responsible for state and local governments, last week’s announcements were significant not just for federal customers, but also for states [...]
According to the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, recipients of 1,036 awards representing $583 million dollars in stimulus funds failed to submit reports for the quarter that ended December 31, 2009. And the Recovery Board is calling them out on it.
A coalition of governors led by Washington Governor Chris Gregoire gathered yesterday at the National Press Club to lobby for Boeing and the thousands of jobs that would be created if the Air Force awards the KC-45 refueling tanker contract to the company. The twice-disputed contract is worth over $35 billion to the winning manufacturer, [...]
The National Governors Association (NGA) met this weekend in Washington, D.C. to discuss the changing landscape of state economies. In the challenging fiscal climate of the “post-recession” era, leaders warned that changes to Medicaid and declining revenue streams would further delay economic recovery in the states.
Over the last several weeks, one segment of government technology projects has caught the attention of mainstream media outlets from California to Columbus, Ohio. Computer systems designed to dole out benefits and entitlements have long-known to be outdated. And the economy, which has led to an increased reliance on mainframe systems that distribute food stamps, [...]
