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Montclair Holiday Party to Honor Town Manager Raises Eyebrows

Montclair Holiday Party to Honor Town Manager Raises Eyebrows

“On this surface, this appears to strike a balance. It’s something they’ve done before,” Pfeiffer said. The employees likely have been buffeted by management changes with the governing body changes over the last year. You always have some people who may not like the idea. But here, the phrase ‘don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good applies.”

Pfeiffer Discusses Modernizing Legal Notice Requirements

Pfeiffer Discusses Modernizing Legal Notice Requirements

Without a usable plan, you can’t manage your agency’s technology needs, resources, and risks. How you develop this plan depends on your specific circumstances, but it should balance spending, available time and effort, and competing priorities.

Tech Updates: Local Government Technology Policy

Tech Updates: Local Government Technology Policy

Without a usable plan, you can’t manage your agency’s technology needs, resources, and risks. How you develop this plan depends on your specific circumstances, but it should balance spending, available time and effort, and competing priorities.

Tech Updates: Essential Technology Budgeting

Tech Updates: Essential Technology Budgeting

Budgeting for technology requires careful planning, clear priorities, and hard decision-making. This guide will walk you through the key steps to creating an effective technology budget process for your municipality.

Promoting Business-Friendly Regulations

Promoting Business-Friendly Regulations

But specifically adding criminal matters is “unusual,” said Marc Pfieffer, associate director of Rutgers University’s Center for Planning and Public Policy at Bloustein Local.

“But these are also unusual circumstances in Camden,” Pfieffer said.

Residents compare Clifton council members fighting over seats to preschoolers

Residents compare Clifton council members fighting over seats to preschoolers

A longtime observer of New Jersey’s local governments, Marc Pfeiffer, a researcher at Rutgers’ Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, said part of the problem can be attributed to the recent member turnover on the City Council, with the exit of James Anzaldi as mayor after more than 30 years and the deaths of members Peter Eagler and Lauren Murphy.

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