2015 Annual Budget Volume I

The Recommended Budget also carries forward Boulder’s conservative fiscal approach that earned its AAA rating for general obligation bonds issued by the city and maintains needed resources to sustain operations during emergencies. Each year, the budget process includes evaluation of reserve levels to ensure that sufficient fund balances are available to provide necessary funding for unanticipated needs and to ensure continued long-term stability. In 2014, the City Manager’s Recommended Budget included an ongoing 15 percent fund balance in the General Fund. This alignment with best practices proved timely and helped the city respond to the immediate emergency and ongoing recovery needs of the September 2013 flood. Reserves across the city have been applied to flood response and recovery.

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Ramsey County

Ramsey County, home to Minnesota's state capital and more than 540,000 residents, is known for vibrant neighborhoods, parks and abundant family activities. Ramsey County employs more than 4,000 people in full and part-time positions in a variety of fields related to Health and Wellness, Safety and Justice, Information and Public Records, Economic Growth and Community Investment and more.

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Atlassian success for Western Australian Government Agencies

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whitePaper | May 25, 2022

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Zoom and Zoom for Government

whitePaper | September 15, 2022

Entities around the globe are using collaboration solutions to evolve the way they do business. From schools to financial institutions to government agencies, organizations everywhere rely on solutions like the Zoom platform for collaboration and communication.

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whitePaper | May 15, 2022

Long before the pandemic created a worldwide retreat from physical workplaces, governments around the world recognised the need to undertake a digital transformation of some kind. Many governments had started to build transformation strategies that would support the gradual adoption of digital technologies to improve efficiency, increase productivity and enable better resource management. The main goal behind these strategies was to create the next generation digital infrastructure that would improve the delivery of services to citizens, from personalised administrative services to tailored health services, safer care for all and customised education. Some governments had started the transformation process. Then the pandemic changed everything. Almost overnight, governments were forced into a new reality that didn’t fit with mid- and long-term digital transformation objectives. Shutdowns changed the world from a largely in-person experience to a virtual experience for government workers and citizens. Government workforces had to quickly move entirely to remote working and governments had to adapt to find new ways to deliver services to citizens. Luckily, the availability of digital tools made the shift possible. So, while the pandemic continued to impact society, governments at all levels were able to shift operations and service delivery online.

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How System Integrators address evolving Government ICT

whitePaper | December 1, 2022

The business of providing information and communications technology (ICT) integrations to governments has changed significantly over the past five years. Before the disruptions caused by the pandemic, government ICT requirements were well-understood. Most government departments were in the process of either starting or planning for a cloud-centric digital transformation that would enable more efficient operations and a more effective delivery of services to citizens. However, the onset of the pandemic derailed most of those plans when the key priority shifted to finding ways for government employees to continue to do their jobs remotely

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Appian Government Cloud Security and Availability

whitePaper | March 14, 2022

Appian Government Cloud (AGC) is a cloud service offering with a DISA Provisional Authorization (PA) at Impact Level 5 (IL5). US Department of Defense Mission Owners can leverage the AGC PA to reduce their security responsibilities and accelerate their Authority to Operate (ATO) for cloud applications. Applications deployed on AGC are built using the Appian Low-Code Platform

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Ramsey County

Ramsey County, home to Minnesota's state capital and more than 540,000 residents, is known for vibrant neighborhoods, parks and abundant family activities. Ramsey County employs more than 4,000 people in full and part-time positions in a variety of fields related to Health and Wellness, Safety and Justice, Information and Public Records, Economic Growth and Community Investment and more.

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