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May 1, 2020 Podcast

#OpenTexas

It's May 1st, and Texas is officially reopened. Pat and Chad discuss Governor Abbott's order to reopen the state, whether the general public will jump at the chance to get back to normal, an...

covid19

Mar 27, 2020 Podcast

Budgeting under the cloud of COVID-19 with Kyle Lester

We chat with Kyle Lester, finance director for the City of Colleyville, Texas, about budgeting in uncertain times. How is the COVID-19 response impacting budget plans? How can finance professionals he...

covid19 budgeting

Mar 23, 2020

COVID-19 and your sales tax

In which we attempt, as best we can, to project the impact of COVID-19 on your sales tax collections

covid19 wayfair economics

Mar 23, 2020 Podcast

SCADA-as-a-service, appraisal mishaps, and time travel

We talk about the future of SCADA systems, a very unfortunate error in a Utah appraisal district, and differing movie-time-travel rules.

scada appraisal methods

Mar 14, 2020 Podcast

James Earp on the local response to COVID-19

James Earp, assistant city manager for the city of Kyle, Texas, joins us to talk emergency response, continuity of government, and keeping your staff healthy so they can serve the public in the midst...

covid19 emergency response

Mar 11, 2020 Podcast

Brittney Huff on things you don't learn in grad school (aka TYDLIGS)

Brittney Huff, director of operations for the City of Hudson Oaks, joins us to talk about some things you don't learn in grad school. Also introducing a new segment: I Literally Can't Even.-...

mpa

Feb 28, 2020

The "Leap-Year" school of management theory

Important decisions can be difficult to make. When you (or your organization) can't seem to make up your mind, just remember the leap year.

work management

Feb 25, 2020 Podcast

Lamentations on technology and Disney princesses

In this episode, Chad and Patrick talk about attending the Safe-D conference in Galveston, technological miscues at the Iowa Caucus, the end of Internet Explorer, and why Chad's least favorite Di...

safe-d

Feb 10, 2020 Podcast

The future of ZacTax, software spies, and zipper merges

In this episode of ZacCast, we talk about the future of ZacTax and our company, Eight20 Consulting. We also talk about software spying and why we wanted to remove third-party tracking software from Za...

traffic spyware

Jan 10, 2020 Podcast

Fresh Prince and Strong Towns

In this episode of ZacCast, from fresh prince to urban development patterns, it's things that make you reevaluate your entire existence. We dig in to some of the more controversial elements of th...

strong towns

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