Sentences with phrase «public management systems»

In short, we have arrived at a point where the challenges of sustainable development — including public health, infrastructure, energy and national security — require changes not only to policy but also to basic public management systems.

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The startup provides a cloud - based records management system for incident logging, and it currently works with 13 public safety agencies across the U.S. CEO Scott Crouch said the company will use the funding for international expansion.
And the public system in the U.S. is the safest and busiest air traffic control management in the world.
Ride - hailing offers a new option for the movement of people around the province and Lower Mainland and could serve as an integral tool in the management of road congestion and a complementary element to a public transit system that is nearing capacity in many communities.
Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.
In particular, we must perform system and process evaluation and testing of our internal control over financial reporting to allow management and, to the extent that we are no longer an «emerging growth company» as defined in the JOBS Act, our independent registered public accounting firm to report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, as required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes - Oxley Act.
The Indian public sector banking system is also in urgent need of reforms to governance, management appointment processes, and decision making.
Another point of vulnerability in the system is the industry «s own defensiveness and sense of guilt which sometimes is expressed in management «s desire to produce a few quality programs even at the expense of achieving maximum profits, in order to project a «quality» or public - service image to the populace.
If we start this season with those two in our starting 11 it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... neither one of these players should still be with our club at this point because they represent the settling half - measures that have plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams don't have enough talented young players, unlike a Monaco or Dortmund, because they have lost the plot from an organizational standpoint... they are so reliant on one individual to run the whole operation that their once relevant scouting department has become so antiquated that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once had... furthermore, when you leave all decision - making to a manager who despises any dissenting opinions, your management team becomes little more than a stagnant group of «yes men» and no new ideas emerge... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases year after year to stifle dissent from the ticket - buying public, then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again
Whitfield County Schools (Also a USDA Southeast Region Award Winner) Implementation of the New Meal Pattern and Increasing Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Seaborn Lee Elementary / Fulton County School Nutrition (Also a USDA Southeast Region Award Winner) Liberty County Schools (Also a USDA Southeast Region Award Winner) Promoting a Healthy School Environment Atlanta Public Schools Nutrition Department Savannah — Chatham County Public Schools (Also a USDA Southeast Region Award Winner) Walton County Public Schools Farm to School Programs Commerce City Schools DeKalb County Schools Sharon Elementary School — Forsyth County Schools (Also a USDA Southeast Region Award Winner) Jackson County Schools Pierce County Schools (Also a USDA Southeast Region Award Winner) Fiscal Management Thomaston - Upson School System (Also a USDA Southeast Region Award Winner) Food Safety (HACCP Implementation) Gwinnett County Schools (Also a USDA Southeast Region Award Winner) Increasing Participation in School Lunch, School Breakfast, or Afterschool Snacks Bibb County School Nutrition Butts County School System Tri-Cities High School, Fulton County School Nutrition Program Leadership, Development and Program Management Cobb County School District Jackson County Schools School Breakfast and School Lunch Week Events Dublin City Schools Jackson County Schools Pierce County Schools (Also a USDA Southeast Region Award Winner)
A more effective system of public financial management could reduce corruption without necessarily triggering any democratic gain.
The update of the social security information of employees on the payroll system was aimed at cleaning the mechanized payroll database, which forms part of the Public Financial Management Reform program
The NDC government in 2013 signed a Public Private Partnership agreement with the Margins Group of Companies to register foreigners in the country under a project called «Foreigners Identity Management System (FIMS).
Upstate New York Power, whose largest stockholders are the California Public Employees» Retirement System (CalPERS), Carlyle Strategic Partners, J.P. Morgan Investment Management and Marathon Asset Management, asked for FERC approval of the deal by Nov. 24 (EC15 - 214).
Thumbs Up for «NY Performs» Public Online Performance Management System Reinvent Albany supports many of the December 15, 2011 recommendations recently approved by Governor Cuomo's SAGE commission.
It said that the repositioning of the state will reduce the cost of governance by strengthening the state's public financial management system and ensure compliance with International Public Sector Accounting Stanpublic financial management system and ensure compliance with International Public Sector Accounting StanPublic Sector Accounting Standards.
Albanese also supports non-partisan elections and calls for pension system reform, to streamline management of the city's sizeable public pensions.
d. Dealing effectively with corruption in the management of public finances, especially by bringing to a halt the unbridled resort to restricted tendering and sole sourcing e. Undertaking a proper biometric - based payroll audit to eliminate ghost workers as well as implement biometric based payment system for all public sector workers to deal with fraud in government payroll.
During an interview on AM 1600 WWRL this morning Paterson said he's «a little skeptical» of the mayor's habit of picking chancellors from outside the education system who follow in his own pattern of moving from private sector media management to public service.
Members of the Public Accounts committee have been unhappy with the financial management system at the Health ministry particularly the Ghana Health Service.
Speaking at the one day National Security Summit organized by the Nigerian Police force and Sun Newspapers in Abuja with the theme «Community partnership approach to internal security and crime management» yesterday, Buhari said, «In order to further strengthen the security of the public space, consideration is being given to the expansion of the CCTV Monitoring System across major cities and towns in the country while police accountability mechanism will be strengthened».
Philosophy, Principle and Practice of Social Democracy Political Economy of Development Elections and Electoral Systems Gender Mainstreaming Youth Development Development and Environmental Sustainability Grassroots Political Mobilization and Activism Public Sector Management Public Policy Formulation and Implementation
These functions include a variety of activities which assist both governmental agencies and the general public, such as: (1) Review and approve and sign street acquisition and damage maps for Department of Transportation (DOT) and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP); (2) Review and approve street alteration maps; (3) Review and ensure the maintenance of survey monument information; (4) Review and ensure maintenance of street grade and elevation data for the Borough; (5) Issuance of street house numbers and the management of the topographical record room; (6) Present new revenue stream ideas and develop the fee structure for topography services and a system to collect, maintain and reconcile said fees; and (7) Work with the Office of Management and Budget, the Comptroller's Office and other Borough President's Offices to ensure that the fee structure and collection system is compatible and apmanagement of the topographical record room; (6) Present new revenue stream ideas and develop the fee structure for topography services and a system to collect, maintain and reconcile said fees; and (7) Work with the Office of Management and Budget, the Comptroller's Office and other Borough President's Offices to ensure that the fee structure and collection system is compatible and apManagement and Budget, the Comptroller's Office and other Borough President's Offices to ensure that the fee structure and collection system is compatible and appropriate.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that he has declared a state of emergency over New York City's troubled public transit system and has asked its new leader to complete a series of urgent reviews of the agency's management and aging infrastructure.
«The loss of heat and hot water is a humanitarian crisis, it's a state of emergency, it's a management failure of the highest magnitude,» said City Councilman Ritchie Torres, a Bronx Democrat who grew up in public housing in the 1990s and said he's never seen the system in worse shape than it is now.
We need to address the public financial management system, otherwise, we will find ourselves in the debt trap and leave huge debts for coming generations.»
Focus areas range from the molecular (genomics, proteomics) to individual (clinical research, health systems management) to populations (public health) and health care delivery.
«Among the 20 issues identified is the need to raise awareness of biosecurity across Europe and the implementation of European - wide legislation for this; the dedication of resources for the long - term management of invasive species; the development of new technology to detect new invasives, and early warning systems to alert EU states to their spread; new European - wide risk assessment methods; emergency powers to eradicate alien species once they become established; and effective communications to raise awareness of invasive species, so the public will know what to look for and how to report it.»
Singer said that Ebola czar Ron Klain has the right idea for fixing the system by creating a public health emergency management agency, which «would have the funding and expertise to respond to the increasing number of infectious disease crises.»
GIS may enhance the tree inventory system with the application of mobile - based QR code technology, which could provide effective management of inventory elements, tree in particular, in urban areas to avoid project budget cutback, improve the efficiency of an existing program and educate and provide information to the public.
Though Martinsen and Schall are quick to note that they anticipate little danger to people from this newly discovered deer malaria, it does underline the fact that many human health concerns are connected to wider ecological systems — and that understanding the biology of other species is a foundation to both conservation and public health management.
«Other key public microbiome data management systems such as MG - RAST, IMG and GOLD have also adapted the MIxS standards,» said Nikos Kyrpides, head of the DOE JGI Prokaryote Super Program and GSC Board member.
Science - fisheries, natural resource management, fish behavior, fish biology, conservation; education - science, grades 6 - 12, biology, citizen science, public participation in research, model and systems thinking, evidence - based reasoning; social science - communication, anthropology, human dimensions, risk perception / communication.
Development and application of ocean observing systems, bio-physical interactions, circulation processes on continental shelves, impact of these processes on marine resource management, and extension of applicable research to broader audiences that include decision - makers and the general public.
Science Systems and Applications, Inc.: development, review and field testing of educational and outreach products; educator training; public events; management of social network sites.
Areas of expertise: Water management and policy; floodplain management and planning; interdisciplinary and multi-benefit decision support and analysis; operations and systems research; trade - off analysis; public finance mechanisms for water management
Led by James Pollard, UNLV's program director for the partnership, the joint venture ensures that 16 UNLV researchers can continue studying and developing the best information - management systems for collecting, compiling, and distrib - uting data to policy makers, researchers, inter-est groups, industry, and the general public.
Earthquake program coordinators from Oregon and Washington in coordination with CREW have finished work with hundreds of first responders and emergency management professionals in crafting a new strategy on how to effectively implement earthquake early warning systems when the strategy eventually goes public in the Pacific Northwest.
The extensive outreach opportunities to the general public provided by the National Park Service interpreters provide an opportunity to broaden public appreciation of the utility of these kinds of quantitative approaches in addressing issues of national concern related to natural system management.
He is an expert on Learning Management Systems and a well - known public speaker.
If you want more information, you can read the official state memo covering everything from the exemption of SGP scores from the state's Open Public Records Act and the process for administrators to access data through a centralized information - management system, to corrective action plans for low - rated educators and legal requirements for tenure cases, to the score certification process and accessing official course roster data.
A sustainable city should have clear policies and comprehensive sanitation, waste collection and treatment, water management, with the collection, treatment, reuse and economy; transportation systems that favor mass transit quality and safety; actions that preserve and expand green areas and use of clean and renewable energy, and finally, public administration transparent and shared with civil society organizations.
While it is tempting to trace Anderson's operations and systems management expertise to Harvard and her public policy and education degree, the true source of her proficiencies in those areas can probably be attributed to growing up in a family of 12 children.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Dzintra I. Janavs wrote in a 20 - page decision that the mayor's plan violates several provisions of the state constitution by shifting, in part, «management and control of the 708,000 - student Los Angeles Unified School District to entities and authorities... that are not part of the public school system
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But as that system is slowly replaced by one marked by an array of nongovernmental school providers, parental choice, and the «portfolio management» mindset, new policies (undergirded by a new understanding of the government's role in public schooling) are needed.
I think it confuses as much as it clarifies, puts more stress on primitive systems than they can bear, and promises to unnecessarily entangle a useful management tool in personalities and public reputations.
The Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS), TEA's statewide database, reports key demographic data, including race, ethnicity, and gender for students and school personnel, as well as student eligibility for subsidized lunch (a standard indicator of poverty).
I met Lee Ju - Ho, the former Minister of Education, Science, and Technology and now a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, to understand his efforts to improve the Korean education system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and delivered.
The RAND Corporation and the University of Washington's Institute for Public Policy and Management have jointly established a new center that will explore alternatives to the current system of education governance, particularly in urban areas.
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