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Isn't budgeting so much fun these days?
Kyle Lester, finance director for Colleyville, Texas, joins us again. Two years ago, he was on the pod to talk about building a budget under the looming cloud of Covid...
Open Mic Morning
It's another free-wheeling roundtable discussion, covering the economy, pro-family policymaking, housing, building new cities, internal audits, and much more.
Local impacts of Ukraine and the 2020 Census changes
Pat and Chad talk about local impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the anonymity changes to the 2020 Census
Software subscriptions and a stock market for cities
We welcome Doug Martella of GoVirtual CFO to chat about GASB 96, a new statement covering software subscription accounting, and to pontificate on the half-baked idea o...
A stemwinder on sales tax, staffing, supply chains, speed bumps, and scooters
Chad and Pat are back with a wide ranging discussion, including upcoming sales tax numbers, inflation's impact on pay, Austin's minimum PD staffing proposition, zoning...
What to expect when expecting to be a city manager
We turn away from current events and offer some advice for first time city manager job seekers. From understanding your own comfort level and skill set, to doing your ...
Don't buy AirPods at the airport
In this episode, we assess the state of post-Covid sales tax recovery in Texas, talk about proposals to replace property taxes with a value added tax, and wrap up with...
The sky probably isn't falling, and why a national infrastructure bank isn't helpful
After a brief hiatus, we're back talking about a proposal for a National Infrastructure Bank, and we revisit the recommendations GFOA made to help cities weather the f...
Sales Taxes and Covid Vaxxes
We debate the merits of Covid vaccine incentives; the Comptroller releases top-line sales tax numbers for March sales; an update on HB 4072; and some half-baked ideas ...
HB 4072 (and all-time great baseball movies)
We talk about HB 4072, a bill being considered in the Texas Legislature that would fundamentally alter the way sales taxes are allocated to local governments. Along th...
Dark Stores and Coachless Teams
On this supersized episode, more on the Dark Store appraisal theory, why we don't like property taxes, and is your organizational culture preventing you from hiring th...
Fighting the wrong fight on property tax reform
Texas cities have been fighting the state legislature over property tax revenue caps for years, but what if they've just been a symptom of the underlying problem? In t...
The one Patrick expects a lot of feedback on
In this grab bag episode: parking violation snitching, poo in the river, endangered affordable housing, Texas' convoluted property tax system, the City of Denton sues ...
Happy Texas Independence (from masks) Day!
On Tuesday, March 2, Texas Governor Abbott has declared an end to state mask mandates and a near-complete reopening of Texas business. We discuss whether this makes se...
Back in the saddle
After a brief podcasting break, Patrick and Chad return for a semi-random discussion about whatever was on our mind. Topics include property tax analytics, the upcomin...
Sales Tax (Post) Gameday - February 2021
After a brief hiatus, we're back with a somewhat meandering sales tax gameday. Join us as we dig into February sales tax allocations across the state of Texas and a wh...
Greg Abbott: City Manager
Texas Governor Greg Abbott wants to take over policing of downtown Austin. We talk about Texas' continuing shift away from limited government/local control and what it...
Czech yourself before you wreck yourself
In a special, barely-related-to-city-government episode, Cody Janicek joins us from Prague to talk Covid, living in Europe as an American, growing up with Chad, and co...
The "Chad's Mannerisms" episode
Google announces a "No-Meetings Week", and CityLab discusses the downsides of open floor plans.
Sales Tax Gameday - November 2020
Often imitated, never duplicated. It's the one and only Sales Tax Gameday! We dive into the highs and lows of a bounce back month, announce the first ever Sales Tax Ga...
Covid resurgence, broken ice cream, street grids, and murder hornets
In what might be our nerdiest episode yet, we talk about the recent surges of Covid-19 and street grids, a software engineer who hacked McDonald's to find out which ic...
Sales Tax Gameday - October 2020
We recap our TeamZac projections and then dive right in to October 2020's sales tax collections across the state of Texas. Who won? Who lost? Let's find out!
Round Robin - From AirBNB to our national treasure, Mike Leach
We're scattershooting today! AirBNB is piloting a new City Portal; CityLab analyzes whether cities defunded the police in FY21; a San Antonio billionaire wants to pay ...
Sales Tax Gameday - September 2020
Temperatures drop, and so does sales tax. Patrick and Chad continue the new monthly feature of totally on-the-fly exploratory analysis of city sales tax collections. C...
The Last Dance
In which Patrick and Chad try to apply leadership lessons from the totally unrelated topic of championship-level basketball to city management based on the ESPN docume...
Dataviz tips and dad jokes
We'll all be building our adopted budget books and sending them off to GFOA soon, so here's a few quick tips to maximize the impact of your data visualizations.
Sales Tax Gameday - August 2020
It's sales tax day, and since college football is in doubt for 2020, we do our best to provide you with some kind of game day experience. Come along as we look at how ...
Kevin Shepherd on fiscal sustainability, infrastructure gaps, and the future of development
Kevin Shepherd, founder and CEO of Verdunity, joins us to talk about the sustainability gap most cities don't even know they have.
A city used these easy steps to have a productive council meeting and you won't believe what happened next!
OK, so maybe the title is a bit hyperbolic. But everyone's been there: stuck in council chambers, time ticking away, missing your favorite show or maybe even Thursday ...
What's Proptech, and how has Covid affected sales tax?
In this episode, we talk about Proptech and how the Covid closures have impacted sales tax collections across Texas.