Capital Strategic Solutions News
If Residents Can’t Access Your Website, Can They Access Your Services?
For many residents, accessing services happens entirely online. When it works, it’s easy and straightforward. When it doesn’t, people notice right away…
Astro-Strategic Solutions: Weekly Municipal Horoscope
This week’s theme: Not everything needs to be perfect — it just needs to move forward.
Grant Watch
This week, we’re highlighting new funding opportunities to help communities protect critical resources, support agriculture, and invest in long-term resilience.
Five Signs Your Municipality Needs Operations Support
While many cities and towns pride themselves on doing more with less, there comes a point where operational strain begins to affect performance, staff morale, and public trust.
Astro-Strategic Solutions: Weekly Municipal Horoscope
This week’s theme? Clear Communication Wins.
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.