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David Anthony
- Jul 14
- 3 min
Be Early, Be Well Prepared, Be Successful
"This isn't your mother's grant application." One of the first questions we often hear from newly elected officials is: “How do we...
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David Anthony
- Jun 29
- 3 min
Beavers Can Teach us a Lot
Watching a colony of beavers working tirelessly to hold back a section of water to preserve their home and livelihood is something that I...
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David Anthony
- Jun 15
- 4 min
One Word Can Make All the Difference
Back in the early 70s, my township completed the construction of a new sewage treatment plant. The discharge point approved by the...
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David Anthony
- Jun 1
- 2 min
What’s in Your Capital Plan?
One of the many tools that a municipality has in its tool chest is the ability to implement a CIP (Capital Improvement Plan). The...
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Brooke Queenan
- Jun 1
- 2 min
Pennsylvania Borough Successfully Exits Financially Distressed Status With Help from KMS
by Dan Connelly and Brooke Queenan Even before the COVID pandemic crisis, many municipalities across the Commonwealth were coping with...
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David Kratzer
- May 26
- 1 min
Tri-County Regional Planning Commission Releases Smart Growth Toolkit
Land use control is jurisdictionally the purview of local government and represents one of its foundational responsibilities. To assist...
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David Kratzer
- May 24
- 2 min
KMS Develops Five Year Financial & Strategic Plan for Municipalities with Support from Grant Funds
Multi-year financial planning is a tool utilized by local governments to build fiscal capacity, avoid challenges, and communicate with...
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David Anthony
- May 17
- 3 min
Voting Time
In case you haven't noticed, it is election time. The local news channels bombard you with constant commercials expounding on the virtues...
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David Anthony
- May 4
- 3 min
Just What KMS Can Do For You
The challenge of municipal management is that significant change is almost always on the horizon. Given the state of employment in local...
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ARPA Reporting due April 30, 2022!
The American Rescue Plan Act (“ARPA”) was enacted in March 2021 providing an unprecedented $1.9 trillion in direct relief to combat the...
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David Anthony
- Apr 20
- 3 min
Neighbors Helping Neighbors
The daily news just isn't getting any better. Inflation and rising prices are hitting every home and business hard, and efforts to do...
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Adam Santucci
- Apr 19
- 1 min
2022 Department of Justice COPS Hiring Program Grant Funding Available
The United States Department of Justice has announced that it is now accepting grant applications for its Fiscal Year 2022 COPS Hiring...
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Timothy Horstmann
- Apr 8
- 1 min
Alternatives to Tax-Exempt Advance Refundings Continue to Proliferate in Municipal Bond Market
Our friends at the McNees Public Sector blog recently posted an interesting article on advanced refundings in the municipal bond market. ...
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David Anthony
- Apr 6
- 3 min
Can Your Municipality Transition Successfully?
When a municipality loses a key member of its administrative team, it can be devastating not only to the Board of Supervisors or Council...
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David Anthony
- Mar 23
- 4 min
How Are You Managed?
In northwest Pennsylvania, a township manager is an anomaly. If you look at the surrounding counties from Erie in any direction, you will...
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David Anthony
- Mar 9
- 4 min
You Can’t Win Them All
No matter how long you have served in some capacity for local government, at some point, you will undoubtedly make some residents...
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David Anthony
- Feb 23
- 4 min
Are You a Municipal Influencer?
Some of us older municipal managers may not know exactly what an influencer is nowadays. In days past, we might have considered them a...
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David Anthony
- Feb 9
- 4 min
Parking or Piled, You Have a Choice
From my perspective, at least, it appears that climate change may be having an impact on the weather and particularly snowfall. Northwest...
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David Anthony
- Jan 26
- 3 min
The New and Improved ARPA
by David Anthony Yes, there are more than 437 pages in the final rule distributed by the US Treasury regarding the implementation of the...
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