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2020 Crown Communities winner: El Paso County, Texas’ pretrial justice modernization

Since 2015, El Paso County, Texas, has undertaken a massive modernization of its pretrial justice programs. This overhaul consists of eight reforms, each of which targets a different part of the pretrial justice system. Not only are the reforms diverse; each one has had a quantifiable impact on El Paso County’s justice system. The county […]

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A city’s innovative downtown master plan sees future in local, inclusive placemaking

Over the past two decades, as superstar cities like New York and San Francisco have concentrated much of the nation’s wealth, jobs and attention, small and mid-size cities have quietly flipped the script on strategic economic investment, placing renewed focus on local talent and inclusive placemaking. The resource they are focused on: their downtowns. In […]

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2020 Crown Communities winner: Gainesville, Fla. closes Dignity Village and houses its homeless population

Gainesville, Fla., won its 2020 Crown Communities Award for leveraging local partnerships to thoroughly address a major homelessness issue, all while under the pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic. The issue had no easy solution. Dignity Village, a local, 25-acre homeless encampment, had started out as an effort to help people who had been displaced by […]

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2020 Crown Communities Winner: South Bay Cities Council of Governments’ South Bay Fiber Network

American City & County traditionally awards its Crown Communities Awards to the exemplary projects of municipalities, counties, and subdivisions of local government like precincts or water districts. However, we felt that California joint powers authority South Bay Cities Council of Governments (SBCCOG)’s impressive South Bay Fiber Network (SBFN) — which is benefiting its 16 member […]

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Updating the assessor report: A new approach

Ramsey County, Minn.’s new guiding practice is that any dataset available on its open data portal must include a data story

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Rethinking worker’s compensation with alternative dispute resolution

Worker’s compensation can be a significant expense area for municipal employers and the taxpayers they represent. In addition to high premium rates, the individual claim expenses, litigation costs and extended periods of absence for injured workers rack up hefty price tags. Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) programs are an effective strategy for addressing the high costs […]

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2020 Crown Communities winner: Phases 2 and 3 of Minot, N.D.’s Mouse River Enhanced Flood Protection Plan

Phases 2 and 3 of Minot, N.D.’s Mouse River Enhanced Flood Protection Plan involved numerous federal, state and local entities, several setbacks, years to complete and $40 million. But the result was a multi-faceted flooding defense that Minot was able to make its own. Historic flooding of the Mouse River in June 2011 created the […]

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2020 Crown Communities winner: Harris County, Texas, Precinct 2’s ACCESS2HEALTH SmartPod

Precinct 2 of Harris County, Texas, implemented a medical college’s innovative epidemiological technology to bring COVID-19 testing to its vulnerable residents. However, the precinct’s initiative and this technology could influence pandemic response across the country. Of all four precincts in Harris County, Texas, Precinct 2 has the lowest median life expectancy, the highest percentage of […]

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American City & County’s 2020 Exemplary Public Servant of the Year Award

Nominees for American City & County’s Exemplary Public Servant of the Year award are judged on their recent accomplishments and the impact these actions had on their communities

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American City & County’s 2020 Crown Communities Awards

Projects nominated for American City & County’s annual Crown Communities Awards are judged on uniqueness, short- and long-term value to the community and effective/innovative financing.

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2020 Crown Communities winner: El Paso County, Texas’ pretrial justice modernization

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A city’s innovative downtown master plan sees future in local, inclusive placemaking

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2020 Crown Communities winner: Gainesville, Fla. closes Dignity Village and houses its homeless population

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2020 Crown Communities Winner: South Bay Cities Council of Governments’ South Bay Fiber Network

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Updating the assessor report: A new approach

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Rethinking worker’s compensation with alternative dispute resolution

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2020 Crown Communities winner: Phases 2 and 3 of Minot, N.D.’s Mouse River Enhanced Flood Protection Plan

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2020 Crown Communities winner: Harris County, Texas, Precinct 2’s ACCESS2HEALTH SmartPod

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American City & County’s 2020 Exemplary Public Servant of the Year Award

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American City & County’s 2020 Crown Communities Awards

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