[tab name=”MEDIA COVERAGE”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”VIDEO”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”IMPACT”]Coming Soon[/tab] [end_tabset] In 2003, the Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAM) drafted legislation to accelerate the disposition of surplus state property. The new legislation eliminated two steps that had historically slowed the process: the need to get special legislation to sell any […]
[tab name=”MEDIA COVERAGE”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”VIDEO”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”IMPACT”]Coming Soon[/tab] [end_tabset] A steady, long-term rise in prices is the best evidence of the need for increased housing development in Massachusetts. Despite a doubling of multifamily housing starts in the past year, most experts believe overall housing development needs to increase dramatically for the market to […]
[tab name=”MEDIA COVERAGE”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”VIDEO”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”IMPACT”]Coming Soon[/tab] [end_tabset] Driver’s licenses are the most widely accepted form of identification in the country and are used in a wide range of everyday activities like banking, renting cars and apartments, and getting utilities turned on. Counterfeit driver’s licenses are a major concern. Several of the […]
[tab name=”MEDIA COVERAGE”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”VIDEO”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”IMPACT”]Coming Soon[/tab] [end_tabset] John P. O’Leary Former Chairman, Massachusetts Civil Service Commission The Problem The only thing more destructive than a line item budget system is a personnel system built around civil service. —David Osborne and Ted Gaebler, Reinventing Government The civil service system in Massachusetts is […]
[tab name=”MEDIA COVERAGE”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”VIDEO”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”IMPACT”]Coming Soon[/tab] [end_tabset] Jay Szklut Planning Director, Town of Hull, Massachusetts Town of Hull DCR Property Re-Use Study Committee Christopher Olivieri, Chairman The Problem The Nantasket Beach Reservation came into the state’s possession through an act of the legislature in 1899. Nantasket had long been a popular […]
[tab name=”Media Coverage”][/tab] [tab name=”Tab”]Videos[/tab] [tab name=”Tab”]Updates[/tab] [end_tabset] Miriam Kurtzig Freedman Attorney, Stoneman, Chandler & Miller, LLP Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University The Challenge Special education is at a crossroads. Policymakers must decide whether to continue under special education laws to provide extensive legal entitlements for due process and services to a select group […]
[tab name=”MEDIA COVERAGE”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”VIDEO”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”IMPACT”]Coming Soon[/tab] [end_tabset] West Roxbury Division, Massachusetts Trial Court Kathleen E. Coffey First Justice Robert C. Rufo Associate Justice The Problem The Massachusetts Trial Court Department must address three growing challenges if it is to ensure the public trust and confidence of its participants and properly meet […]
[tab name=”MEDIA COVERAGE”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”VIDEO”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”IMPACT”]Coming Soon[/tab] [end_tabset] Charles T. Robertson II Former Chief Judge, Cherokee Magistrate Court The Problem Massachusetts enjoys a process for adjudicating disputes for amounts of money less than $6,000 called Small Claims Court. This process involves some 100,000 claims and responses annually throughout the state, occupies enormous […]
[tab name=”MEDIA COVERAGE”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”VIDEO”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”IMPACT”]Coming Soon[/tab] Gloria Wernicki Homer Secretary of Administrative Services, State of Delaware Jack Markell Delaware State Treasurer Delaware’s Partner$ in Procurement, called “P2,” began as an effort to achieve bestin- class pricing and service quality in state purchasing contracts. Because they were not leveraging their “bulk purchasing […]
[tab name=”MEDIA COVERAGE”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”VIDEO”]Coming Soon[/tab] [tab name=”IMPACT”]Coming Soon[/tab] [end_tabset] Marc A. Slotnick and Paul McPartland Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development The Supportive Senior Housing program is a recent initiative designed to bring some of the essential benefits of assisted living developments to more than 3,000 residents of 22 selected state-funded elderly […]