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This episode provides the results from La Plata's 2024 National Community Survey, presented to the Town Council at our September 20, 2024, meeting. In April 2024, the Town engaged Polco to conduct the National Community Survey (NCS) to ascertain public perceptions of La Plata and its general livability. The NCS consists of standard questions asked of all municipalities and a limited number of custom questions provided by the client which may be tailored to ongoing or anticipated conditions affecting the municipality. The last such survey was conducted for La Plata by Polco's parent company, the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), in 2016. The questions were largely the same in both surveys.Polco randomly identified 3,500 residents for initial survey participation, after which the survey was opened to the general public. Between online surveys and paper surveys, Polco received 426 responses. Results were weighted to reflect La Plata's adult demographic profile (see p. 2 of the 2024 survey analysis). Possible applications for data collected in this survey: • Clearer perspective on community priorities • Review and adjustment of Town FY 26 and future budgets, staffing, and operations to better address community priorities • Guidance for Town Council following the May 2025 Town elections • Revision of 2022 Town Strategic Plan to foster community sustainability YouTube Video LinkLa Plata, MD The National Community Survey Report of Results 2024 

Earlier today Prescott City Council reviewed results of the 2023 Community Wide Survey conducted by national polling firm Polco. Polco representatives gave an overview of their 120-page report, with three key findings to City Council at a study session on Tuesday, January 23. The findings are that residents value the natural environment, Prescott residents feel safe and indicate support for additional investment in public safety, and some aspects of mobility could present opportunities for the city. Here are the three key findings and a brief description from the report: The city's natural environment is valued by residents According to the... For the written story, read here >> https://www.signalsaz.com/articles/city-of-prescott-announces-results-of-citizen-survey/Check out the CAST11.com Website at: https://CAST11.com Follow the CAST11 Podcast Network on Facebook at: https://Facebook.com/CAST11AZFollow Cast11 Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/cast11_podcast_network

The City of Prescott has contracted with Polco to participate in the National Community Survey (NCS). This will be a community-wide survey, designed to identify clear priorities for use in strategic planning and budget setting. There will be a two-part survey. First, 3,000 citizens from the City of Prescott will be randomly selected to take part in a survey. The survey will be mailed to those citizens with a unique link that only they can use. Then, there will be an open survey, available on the City's website. The information received from these surveys will help the City elected officials... For the written story, read here >> https://www.signalsaz.com/articles/city-of-prescott-to-conduct-city-wide-citizen-survey/Follow the CAST11 Podcast Network on Facebook at: https://Facebook.com/CAST11AZFollow Cast11 Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/cast11_podcast_network

Joel Rogers, Co-Founder of Government Performance Action & Learning (GPAL), and Michelle Kobayashi, the Senior VP of Innovation at Polco, joined the ProGov Podcast to talk about the use of data to evaluate government performance and how GPAL can be an asset to cities looking to improve the quality of life for their residents. 

Law enforcement officers are tasked with a difficult mission that, different from so many other professions, causes them to be exposed to the risk of trauma, injury, or even death. Often, the public is unaware of acts of selflessness, courage, resilience and heroism by those who dedicate their lives to protecting and serving their communities.  In this episode of Policing Matters, host Jim Dudley speaks with Donna Brown, a 26-year veteran of the Tallahassee Police Department in Florida who since her retirement, has dedicated herself to chronicling acts of officer heroism. Donna is the author of the Behind and Beyond the Badge series, which helps drive negative conversations around policing toward a positive outlook on law enforcement. Volume I was published in 2017 and won two gold medals in the Florida Authors and Publishers (FAPA) International book awards contest. Donna Brown graduated from Florida State University with a bachelor of science in criminology in 1979. A few months later, she was hired by the Tallahassee Police Department, one of only five women on the force at the time. Her assignments were patrol officer, field training officer, training unit, patrol sergeant, FTO sergeant, detective bureau where she supervised the burglary/financial crimes unit, sex crimes unit, victim advocate unit and 10 years supervising the homicide unit. Sgt. Donna Brown retired after 26 years of service. This episode of the Policing Matters Podcast is sponsored by Polco. Polco's National Law Enforcement Survey provides a comprehensive, accurate and representative picture of resident opinions related to police services. Compare your results with other agencies around the nation. Align your priorities with community sentiment, build trust, and improve safety services. Visit info.polco.us to learn more. 

Download this week's episode on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Stitcher, Spotify or via RSS feed. Policing is stressful business. It's been described as hours of sheer boredom interrupted by minutes of sheer terror. Unfortunately, the moments of terror where officers see horrific trauma and witness death carry a heavy toll. Over the past few years, we have seen some relief in the forms of behavioral science, peer support groups and even officer wellness apps like Cordico. Experiencing relief in a tangible way is also important and that may be achieved through comfort animals. In public safety, there is a great organization called “Crisis Response Canines” whose mission is to provide emotional support to individuals, families, communities and first responders in the aftermath of critical incidents using therapy dogs. In this episode of Policing Matters, host Jim Dudley speaks with John Hunt, co-founder and COO of Crisis Response Canines. John is a 27-year veteran of the New Jersey State Police where he achieved the rank of major. John was the Homeland Security – Special Operations Section Commanding Officer. He also served as the Deputy Director of the New Jersey Office of Emergency Management. This episode of the Policing Matters Podcast is sponsored by Polco. Polco's National Law Enforcement Survey provides a comprehensive, accurate and representative picture of resident opinions related to police services. Compare your results with other agencies around the nation. Align your priorities with community sentiment, build trust, and improve safety services. Visit info.polco.us to learn more.  

Autonomous cars are no longer futuristic dreams, they are operating on America's roads today. Police have already been recorded stopping autonomous cars with people literally asleep at the wheel and at least once, without any live occupants on board. Autonomous commercial vehicles will also soon be operating, from passenger vehicles to large semi-trucks with huge payloads, potentially presenting many new issues for law enforcement.  In this episode of Policing Matters, host Jim Dudley speaks with Brett Fabbri, Head of Law Enforcement Policy and Roadway Safety for Kodiak Robotics, about law enforcement considerations regarding commercial autonomous vehicles and officer safety. Kodiak was founded by a group of self-driving industry veterans intent on bringing self-driving technology to the trucking industry.  Assistant Chief Fabbri spent more than two decades working for the California Highway Patrol (CHP), most recently serving as the Assistant Division Commander for the Enforcement and Planning Division at CHP headquarters. In this role, he oversaw the Commercial Vehicle Section and Collision Investigation Unit of CHP, which is responsible for autonomous vehicle technology for heavy-duty, light-duty and passenger vehicles. This episode of the Policing Matters Podcast is sponsored by Polco. Polco's National Law Enforcement Survey provides a comprehensive, accurate and representative picture of resident opinions related to police services. Compare your results with other agencies around the nation. Align your priorities with community sentiment, build trust, and improve safety services. Visit info.polco.us to learn more.  

Over the past few years, we have heard about the need to reform and/or overhaul the criminal justice system. Unfortunately, some of the unintended consequences of reforms put into action have included rising crime and homicide rates. In this episode of Policing Matters, host Jim Dudley speaks with Rafael Mangual, a senior fellow and head of research for the Policing and Public Safety Initiative at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor at "City Journal," about his recently released book, “Criminal (In) Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most." In his book, Rafael offers a more balanced understanding of American criminal justice, and cautions against discarding traditional crime control measures: “After a summer of violent protests in 2020 – sparked by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks – a dangerously false narrative gained mainstream acceptance: Criminal justice in the United States is overly punitive and racially oppressive. But, the harshest and loudest condemnations of incarceration, policing, and prosecution are often shallow and at odds with the available data. And the significant harms caused by this false narrative are borne by those who can least afford them: black and brown people who are disproportionally the victims of serious crimes.” Click here for more information on "Criminal (In) Justice" and follow Rafael Mangual on Twitter. This episode of the Policing Matters Podcast is sponsored by Polco. Polco's National Law Enforcement Survey provides a comprehensive, accurate and representative picture of resident opinions related to police services. Compare your results with other agencies around the nation. Align your priorities with community sentiment, build trust, and improve safety services. Visit info.polco.us to learn more.  

From reducing the time it takes for a candidate to go through the recruitment process to profiling the unique backgrounds of CHP officers, the nation's largest state police agency is taking a proactive approach to recruiting the next generation of cops.   In this episode of Policing Matters, host Jim Dudley speaks with Recruitment Officer Caleb Benefiel about the police recruitment best practices that are seeing success in the Golden State. Visit the CHP's recruitment website here. This episode of the Policing Matters Podcast is sponsored by Polco. Polco's National Law Enforcement Survey provides a comprehensive, accurate and representative picture of resident opinions related to police services. Compare your results with other agencies around the nation. Align your priorities with community sentiment, build trust, and improve safety services. Visit info.polco.us to learn more.  

Alex Pederson  (USAFA ‘08) is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Polco, an online platform that supports community engagement in local government.  Alex and his partner built Polco because they found that government officials, specifically those at the local level, have difficulty getting real-time and reliable input from their communities.    In this episode, Alex and I discuss: How direct feedback from a city manager led to a pivot in his business A success story with a small town 90-year old constituent that illustrates how Polco gives community members a chance to share their voices Why he thinks working with another Academy graduate or military veteran makes for a strong business partnership The key skills and lessons learned from his time at the Air Force Academy and in the Air Force that are helping him today as an entrepreneur   Connect with Alex: Alex Pederson Polco If you found this episode valuable, please share it with a friend or colleague. If you are a Service Academy graduate and want to take your business to the next level, you can join our supportive community and get started today. Subscribe and help out the show: Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Also available on Google Podcasts, Spotify & Stitcher Leave us a 5-star review! Special thanks to Alex for joining me this week.  Until next time! -Scott Mackes, USNA ’01

In this short series, we’re talking all about Citizen Engagement. I’ll be highlighting some of the innovators in local government leveraging available tools to better engage with the communities they serve. Our goal is to expose more local governments to the tools available to help by efficiently providing useful information about some of the leading products out there. We’d love it if you could spend less time finding and researching products and hopefully get to launching your digital efforts to engage with your residents more quickly. Stay tuned for more episodes on innovators in local government across the globe. Read the Guide.More info: Featured government:  Eden Prairie, MinnesotaGovernment Guest: Rick Getschow, City ManagerFeatured Maker: PolcoMaker Guests: Matt Fulton and Michelle KobayashiVisit govlaunch.com for more stories and examples of local government innovation.

One promise of civ-gov tech is that it helps optimize democratic government, particularly in the cities where most people live. This panel explores how well that promise is being kept and how to improve things if it's not. SPEAKERSAmanda Brink is a Wisconsin-based political operative with over 12 years of experience in the field. A utility infielder, happy to assist with campaign management, overall strategy, fundraising, organizing, operations, compliance, digital, press, training, recounts, logistics, advance, and more. Former O.F.A., H.F.A., Tony for WI, Burns for W.I., Dems in Philly, D.N.C., WisDems, Raj for Madison, and more. Currently working for Organizing Empowerment, helping organizations put relationships back into organizing. Michelle Kobayashi M.S.P.H. is the Senior Vice President for Innovation for Polco/National Research Center. She began her career as a research analyst for the City of Boulder in 1989 and then helped to found National Research Center (N.R.C.) in 1995. Michelle has 30 years of experience conducting research, surveys, and policy studies for local, state, and federal government. She has authored numerous journal articles, book chapters, and books on research techniques and trained hundreds of government and non-profit workers on evaluation methods, survey research, and uses of data for community decisionmaking and performance measurement. Last year, N.R.C. and Polco, a tech company providing a digital engagement platform, merged, creating new opportunities for Michelle to modernize her survey work and the methods she uses to bring residents and stakeholders' voices into local governing. Micah L. Sifry is the Founder and President of Civic Hall, curator of the annual Personal Democracy Forum, and editor of Civicist, Civic Hall's news site. From 2006-16 he was a senior adviser to the Sunlight Foundation, which he helped found. Micah currently serves on the boards of Consumer Reports and the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science. He is the author or editor of nine books, most recently Civic Tech in the Global South (co-edited with Tiago Peixoto) (World Bank, 2017); A Lever and a Place to Stand: How Civic Tech Can Move the World (PDM Books, 2015), with Jessica McKenzie; The Big Disconnect: Why the Internet Hasn't Transformed Politics (Yet) (OR Books, 2014); and Wikileaks and the Age of the Transparency (OR Books, 2011). In 2012, Micah taught "The Politics of the Internet" as a visiting lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School. From 1997-2006, he worked closely with Public Campaign, a non-profit, non-partisan organization focused on comprehensive campaign finance reform, as its senior analyst. Before that, Micah was an editor and writer with The Nation magazine for thirteen years. He is the author of Spoiling for a Fight: Third-Party Politics in America(Routledge, 2002), co-author with Nancy Watzman of Is That a Politician in Your Pocket? Washington on $2 Million a Day (John Wiley & Sons, 2004), co-editor of Rebooting America, and co-editor of The Iraq War Reader (Touchstone, 2003) and The Gulf War Reader (Times Books, 1991). MODERATORJoel Rogers is the Sewell-Bascom Professor of Law, Political Science, Public Affairs, and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also directs COWS, a national resource and strategy center on high-road development that also operates the Mayors Innovation Project, State Smart Transportation Initiative (with Smart Growth America), and ProGov21. Rogers has written widely on party politics, democratic theory, and cities and urban regions. Along with many scholarly and popular articles, his books include The Hidden Election, On Democracy, Right Turn, Metro Futures, Associations and Democracy, Works Councils, Working Capital, What Workers Want, Cites at Work, and American Society: How It Really Works. Joel is an active citizen as well as an academic. He has worked with and advised many politicians and social movement leaders and has initiated and helped lead several progressive N.G.O.s (including the New Party [now the Working Families Party], EARN, W.R.T.P., Apollo Alliance [now part of the Blue Green Alliance], Emerald Cities Collaborative, State Innovation Exchange, and EPIC-N (Educational Partnership for Innovation in Communities Network). He is a contributing editor of The Nation and Boston Review, a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and identified by Newsweek as one of the 100 living Americans most likely to shape U.S. politics and culture in the 21st century.

Moderator:Tom Wieczorek, Director, Center for Public Safety Management (CPSM)Panelists:Matt Fulton, Vice President, POLCO, National Citizen Survey/National Research CenterDeputy Chief Wayne Hiltz, B.S., former Interim Chief of Police, Pasadena and Irwindale Police Department, CaliforniaAngelica Wedell,  Director of Marketing and Communications,National Research Center (NRC)Chief John E. Perez, Chief of Police, City of Pasadena, California Matt Zavadsky, President, National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT)Powerpoint:PowerPoint Slides presentation that accompanied the July 15 Webinar: Transforming Law Enforcement to Address Public Health

(00:00) Local News Chat: Kurt Eggebrecht & Census Update (20:00) Your Take on Wisconsin Election Results & Uncertainty (43:00) Jason White, Greater Oshkosh EDC Supporting Business (64:30) Jessie Opoien, CapTimes, on Election, Data & Mental Health(97:30) The Takeaway: Our Politics are Rife with Rituals

WisPolitics.com's Midwest Polling Summit held Oct. 9 in Madison featured top experts talking about the issues and trends that will affect campaign 2020 and key Midwest battlegrounds, including Wisconsin. The afternoon began with a primer on Midwest views on health care issues from nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation polling expert Ashley Kirzinger Following Kirzinger's address, a panel focused on the political perspective and featured top campaign advisers with strong Midwest ties: Celinda Lake, Paul Maslin, B.J. Martino and Brian Reisinger. A “future of polling” panel followed, and was led by the director of the Marquette University Law School Poll Charles Franklin and include Mike Podhorzer, the former political director of AFL-CIO and now senior adviser to its president, Ashlee Rich Stephenson, vice president and national political director, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Nick Mastronardi, CEO of Polco, as well as Ray Block, associate professor of political science and African American studies at Pennsylvania State University. UW-Madison political scientist and author Katherine Cramer then provided closing remarks on public opinion research. This event was sponsored by the Outrider Foundation and The Capital Times. We thank them for their generous support.

WisPolitics.com's Midwest Polling Summit held Oct. 9 in Madison featured top experts talking about the issues and trends that will affect campaign 2020 and key Midwest battlegrounds, including Wisconsin. The afternoon began with a primer on Midwest views on health care issues from nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation polling expert Ashley Kirzinger Following Kirzinger's address, a panel focused on the political perspective and featured top campaign advisers with strong Midwest ties: Celinda Lake, Paul Maslin, B.J. Martino and Brian Reisinger. A “future of polling” panel followed, and was led by the director of the Marquette University Law School Poll Charles Franklin and include Mike Podhorzer, the former political director of AFL-CIO and now senior adviser to its president, Ashlee Rich Stephenson, vice president and national political director, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Nick Mastronardi, CEO of Polco, as well as Ray Block, associate professor of political science and African American studies at Pennsylvania State University. UW-Madison political scientist and author Katherine Cramer then provided closing remarks on public opinion research. This event was sponsored by the Outrider Foundation and The Capital Times. We thank them for their generous support.

WisPolitics.com's Midwest Polling Summit held Oct. 9 in Madison featured top experts talking about the issues and trends that will affect campaign 2020 and key Midwest battlegrounds, including Wisconsin. The afternoon began with a primer on Midwest views on health care issues from nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation polling expert Ashley Kirzinger Following Kirzinger's address, a panel focused on the political perspective and featured top campaign advisers with strong Midwest ties: Celinda Lake, Paul Maslin, B.J. Martino and Brian Reisinger. A “future of polling” panel followed, and was led by the director of the Marquette University Law School Poll Charles Franklin and include Mike Podhorzer, the former political director of AFL-CIO and now senior adviser to its president, Ashlee Rich Stephenson, vice president and national political director, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Nick Mastronardi, CEO of Polco, as well as Ray Block, associate professor of political science and African American studies at Pennsylvania State University. UW-Madison political scientist and author Katherine Cramer then provided closing remarks on public opinion research. This event was sponsored by the Outrider Foundation and The Capital Times. We thank them for their generous support.

Civic Software with Alex Pedersen and Abhi Nemani Guests Alex Pedersen: Co-founder of Polco (https://info.polco.us/). Abhi Nemani (https://twitter.com/abhinemani) Founder of EthosLabs (https://ethoslabs.us/). Summary This week, we have Alex Pedersen of Polco and Abhi Nemani of EthosLabs. They're both involved in various uses of technology to increase civic engagement. We'll talk about how technology can improve the public sector and why technologists should be interested in public sector work. Notes 02:09 - Technology and Civic + Political Engagement 06:14 - Risks of Making the Government More Technological 10:01 - Balancing Conversations Amongst Citizens 12:18 - Building and Designing Software for Government vs Commercial Use 14:39 - Getting Involved in Government, Civic Engagement, and the Public Sector - Code For America (https://www.codeforamerica.org/) - Chi Hack Night (https://chihacknight.org/) - Abhi's Course Notes in Civic Tech (https://abhinemani.com/civictechcourse/lectures/) Special Guests: Abhi Nemani and Alex Pederson.

Boom di accessi e di vendite dalla Cina…Ma non è tutto rose e fiori, e Gualtiero lo sa sin troppo bene…La verità è che i cinesi si sono accorti dell’esistenza di BeatMark X, e stanno comunque facendo di tutto per crackarlo.E qui inizia la lotta, del bene contro il male, e Alex vi racconta in mezz’ora quello che le persone normali avrebbero detto in 90 secondi!Polco zio!Se volete donale dollali a un podcast di gente seria: http:// geekcooki.es/amazonAd ogni modo mi trovate qui:https://t.me/technopillzriothttps://twitter.com/alxgihttp://www.alexraccuglia.netSe volete sostenere l'Alex Raccuglia SENZA SPENDERE UN SOLDO ma regalando un 5 per mille, fate i vostri acquisti su Amazon partendo da questo link: http://bit.ly/RakkuAmazonSostenete Runtime Radio:http://runtimeradio.it/ancheio/

Boom di accessi e di vendite dalla Cina…Ma non è tutto rose e fiori, e Gualtiero lo sa sin troppo bene…La verità è che i cinesi si sono accorti dell’esistenza di BeatMark X, e stanno comunque facendo di tutto per crackarlo.E qui inizia la lotta, del bene contro il male, e Alex vi racconta in mezz’ora quello che le persone normali avrebbero detto in 90 secondi!Polco zio!Se volete donale dollali a un podcast di gente seria: http:// geekcooki.es/amazonAd ogni modo mi trovate qui:https://t.me/technopillzriothttps://twitter.com/alxgihttp://www.alexraccuglia.netSe volete sostenere l'Alex Raccuglia SENZA SPENDERE UN SOLDO ma regalando un 5 per mille, fate i vostri acquisti su Amazon partendo da questo link: http://bit.ly/RakkuAmazonSostenete Runtime Radio:http://runtimeradio.it/ancheio/

David Flint is joined by Nick Mastronardi, founder of POLCO, an innovative company working at the intersection of technology and community. POLCO provides a platform for civic engagement that empowers municipalities to engage citizens by giving them a venue to express opinions and respond to pols on local issues. POLCO provides verified user profiles and rich data without compromising the privacy of citizen participants. Already expanding throughout the US, Nick and his team are using V-REEL to remain aware of and defend against eroding factors like new entrants in the online polling space. To learn more about POLCO, visit polco.us. To learn more about the V-REEL Framework, visit my website at drdavidflint.com or check out my book Think Beyond Value: Building Strategy to Win. (link book title to: http://bit.ly/TBVkindle)https://archive.org/download/NickMastronardiwithDavidFlint/Nick%27s%20edit%20_mixdown.mp3

Local News Chat (0:00)The Takeaway: Who is Government?Polco: Connecting Citizens to Local Government (28:09)Kurt Kober, Democratic Lt Governor Candidate (56:43)RNC Spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany on Immigration (1:16:13)

Today’s guest is Alex Pedersen, an Air Force Academy graduate and veteran who is now the Chief Operating Officer at Polco, a civic engagement and analytics company. Its primary product is a web-based platform for local governments to get input from their communities and then use that data to drive decisions. Alex and I met at VETCON 2017 in March, where he competed against several other veteran entrepreneurs for $10,000 in funding.  It was his first "official" pitch but he's be informally promoting Polco for a few years now. Alex graduated high school in 2004 and driven by the events of 9/11 decided he wanted to serve his country.  After hearing about the Air Force academy from a friend he decided it would be the best place to challenge himself, not just physically but academically as well.  Once he graduated and was pinned a 2nd lieutenant in the Air Force he was accepted to grad school.  He attended Harvard's Kennedy School of Government where he earned his Masters in Public Policy, focusing on International and Global Affairs. He spent his operational time in the Air Force deployed to Germany where he acted in an advisory role to the Joint Terminal Attack Controllers stationed there within the US Army.  He later returned to the Air Force Academy as an instructor in Political Science.  It's here that he meets Nick Mastronardi, a fellow Air Force officer and instructor.  From their discussions while teaching at the academy the groundwork would be laid for developing the idea that turns into Polco. I'll let you listen to the rest of his story in the interview.  Some of the main topics we cover are: What it was like to attend and pitch his company at VETCON, a conference specifically for veteran entrepreneurs. The biggest strength he took from the military and applied to his civilian career and entrepreneurship. His decision to leave an amazing career at Google to join in on building a company from the ground up. How Polco educates city officials and helps bridge the divide between constituents and those making policy decisions. Examples of policies the Polco platform has helped cities develop and vote on. Much more... Links from the show: The Polco website - find out more, reach out, and try out a demo! Alex's book recommendation: Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise Purchase a Veteranology Challenge Coin! Veteranology on iTunes