Capital Strategic Solutions News
Talking Trash: How Communities Are Adapting to Budget Shortfalls by Rethinking Sanitation Services
Across the country, municipalities are facing a familiar but intensifying challenge: doing more with less. Budget shortfalls—driven by inflation, reduced revenues, rising labor costs, and aging infrastructure—are forcing local governments to reevaluate core services. Among the most visible and essential of these is sanitation.
Rolling Into Town Meeting A Survival Guide for Municipal Staff
There are few experiences in local government more sacred, more unpredictable, and more faintly terrifying than town meeting. It is democracy in its purest form: neighbors, folding chairs, procedural rules nobody fully understands, and at least one person who has been waiting all year to talk about drainage.
Grant Watch Wednesday
Explore this week’s featured grants and upcoming deadlines for municipalities and public...
Astro-Strategic Solutions: Weekly Municipal Horoscope
Town Meeting energy is here… This week’s reminder: “Quick question” is a state of mind.
This week’s theme? Stay Calm and Pass the Article.
Employee Spotlight: Meet Staci Figueiredo
While consultants are out serving municipalities, someone is ensuring payroll is processed, invoices are accurate, onboarding runs smoothly, and the office stays organized. That behind-the-scenes leadership belongs to Staci Figueiredo, Executive Administrator at Capital Strategic Solutions.
CSS Joins Regional Leaders at NEWWA Spring Conference 2026
CSS will be exhibiting at the 2026 New England Water Works Association (NEWWA) Spring Joint Regional Conference & Exhibition this April!
Grant Watch Wednesday
Explore this week’s featured grants and upcoming deadlines for municipalities and public...
Government Shouldn’t Be Anti-AI—It Should Be Pro-Policy
AI is not going away. It’s already shaping how work gets done across every sector, including government. Staff are using it to draft content, summarize information, and improve efficiency in ways that are hard to ignore.
Astro-Strategic Solutions: Weekly Municipal Horoscope
It’s Spring Pothole Season – The True Fifth Season in New England!
CSS Welcomes International Communications Leader Christine Townsend as Senior Project Manager
CSS today announced that Christine Townsend, an internationally recognized strategic communications expert, author, and trainer, has joined the firm as Senior Project Manager.