The Charter Commission presented recommendations to the City Council and County Commission for a new consolidated Metro government structure for Memphis and Shelby County. Key recommendations included establishing an elected Mayor and Council, centralized departments, a strong ethics code, limitations on tax increases, and merging duplicative services. The Commission found that the current two separate governments impede cooperation and cost taxpayers more due to inefficiencies. The proposed new structure aims to improve services, economic growth, and quality of life through a more streamlined and collaborative government.
This is a recap of the Franklin County, FL budget process and other initiatives undertaken by the CCFC on behalf of the citizens and taxpayers of Franklin County, FL
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GROUP 5
Police Outsourcing/Contracting Police Services
Proposal to Town Council: River City Police and Sheriff Services Merger
Background
Several months ago, the Town Council approved the first steps into investigating the cost effectiveness of maintaining the River City Policy Department. The City Manager was approved to begin an audit due to the financial challenges our small town is facing. River City is a small community formed over 25 years. Most citizens earn below the median income; it is a retirement community with a population of less than 40,000 people.
River City Police Department was formed to provide immediate services to its community rather than contracting out to another agency. At the time, this provided employment opportunities for residents.
During the course of this meeting, we will hear from the City Manager, and the Finance Director to receive findings regarding the financial findings from recent audits of the department, and recommendations on how to proceed.
River City Community Members
Mayor of River City
Dennis
City Manager
Jessica
Finance Director
Andy
Chamber of Commerce Member
Iwona
Resident- Against the outsourcing
Supports the outsourcing
Arthur
Sara
Other Considerations: Mayor- Dennis
Pension liability along with the maintenance costs for equipment, buildings, and training has led to a growing crisis in state, local, and county government. As new employees are hired and older employees stay on the payrolls, the governments continue to run in the red. This has led to a trend of state, county, and local governments to contracting out services that once were held in their sphere. According to Jepson, Ruddy, and Salerno, “Despite using aggressive return and discount rate assumptions, defined benefit pension plans of government entities in the U.S. currently have an estimated pension liability of over $1 trillion (Jeppson, 2018).”
Usually the fiscally responsible thing to do is to contract out emergency services. This will lesson or even out right terminate the cost. Unfortunately, when it comes to local government issues, the choices made to cut or terminate positions can lead to strife and outright hostility between neighbors and friends. There is a political cost to making cuts as families and traditional ways of doing things are turned upside down. Since the beginning of the United States, clusters of citizens that incorporated became towns and bigger groups. These groups have had a common bond through trials and tribulation and society interactions. According to Bourns and Nelligan, “The political history and geography of the United States promoted the development of decentralized government and the establishment of thousands of cities and towns during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sometimes these population clusters were widely spaced, but often they grew up closely bunched into “metropolitan” areas (Nelligan & & Bourns, 2011).”
Outsourcing can negatively affect these b ...
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GROUP 5Police OutsourcingContracting Police Services.docxshericehewat
GROUP 5
Police Outsourcing/Contracting Police Services
Proposal to Town Council: River City Police and Sheriff Services Merger
Background
Several months ago, the Town Council approved the first steps into investigating the cost effectiveness of maintaining the River City Policy Department. The City Manager was approved to begin an audit due to the financial challenges our small town is facing. River City is a small community formed over 25 years. Most citizens earn below the median income; it is a retirement community with a population of less than 40,000 people.
River City Police Department was formed to provide immediate services to its community rather than contracting out to another agency. At the time, this provided employment opportunities for residents.
During the course of this meeting, we will hear from the City Manager, and the Finance Director to receive findings regarding the financial findings from recent audits of the department, and recommendations on how to proceed.
River City Community Members
Mayor of River City
Dennis
City Manager
Jessica
Finance Director
Andy
Chamber of Commerce Member
Iwona
Resident- Against the outsourcing
Supports the outsourcing
Arthur
Sara
Other Considerations: Mayor- Dennis
Pension liability along with the maintenance costs for equipment, buildings, and training has led to a growing crisis in state, local, and county government. As new employees are hired and older employees stay on the payrolls, the governments continue to run in the red. This has led to a trend of state, county, and local governments to contracting out services that once were held in their sphere. According to Jepson, Ruddy, and Salerno, “Despite using aggressive return and discount rate assumptions, defined benefit pension plans of government entities in the U.S. currently have an estimated pension liability of over $1 trillion (Jeppson, 2018).”
Usually the fiscally responsible thing to do is to contract out emergency services. This will lesson or even out right terminate the cost. Unfortunately, when it comes to local government issues, the choices made to cut or terminate positions can lead to strife and outright hostility between neighbors and friends. There is a political cost to making cuts as families and traditional ways of doing things are turned upside down. Since the beginning of the United States, clusters of citizens that incorporated became towns and bigger groups. These groups have had a common bond through trials and tribulation and society interactions. According to Bourns and Nelligan, “The political history and geography of the United States promoted the development of decentralized government and the establishment of thousands of cities and towns during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sometimes these population clusters were widely spaced, but often they grew up closely bunched into “metropolitan” areas (Nelligan & & Bourns, 2011).”
Outsourcing can negatively affect these b ...
PUA 6304, Local Government 1 Course Learning Outcomes.docxaryan532920
PUA 6304, Local Government 1
Course Learning Outcomes for Unit IV
Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:
1. Identify the concept of local government service.
2. Examine the functions of local government.
Reading Assignment
State and Local Government:
Chapter 10:
Local Government: Types and Functions
Unit Lesson
Local governments have a long history in this country. As settlements began to develop there were common
or public needs that were identified. These local needs included the provision of potable water sources,
managing waste water, building roads and bridges and protective services like fire and police. Clearly, the
adoption of the services were aimed at providing local services. To identify and respond to these local needs
the US adopted a model that was far different than the central government model that was prevalent in
Europe. In particular, the US model of governance is based on two tiers in the Constitution (federal and state).
Local governments (which are not specifically identified in the Constitution) are under the jurisdiction of the
states and the state legislature.
As communities developed in the US the model included the use of regular, public gatherings of citizens to
consider the types of services and functions that the community was prepared to initiate. These "town hall"
meetings became a hallmark of American democracy in action. Over time, the increasing complexities in
development patterns required more formal structures and organizations to manage communities properly.
For a more detailed discussion of some of the current challenges and solutions related to local government,
see the National League of Cities (NLC) web site at http://www.nlc.org/. The NLC represents more than
19,000 towns and cities across the US.
Local Councils
On a practical basis, most communities have a physical Town Hall which serves as the operational center for
a local government. As we see in the readings, the role of the local government is to provide local services
that serve the best interest of a community from the perspective of both property related services and
services of benefit to the residents. Of course, this part of the system using locally elected officials is very
similar to that used in state legislatures and the federal system. The main difference is that local officials live
in the communities that they govern full time. Hence, they are more readily available to their friends,
neighbors, and citizens. In many cases, local officials are elected on a district or ward basis allowing them to
represent a specific sub-area of the community. Alternatively, we do see some communities where officials
may be elected at-large, representing the entire city.
Practically, decisions are made by locally-elected officials operating as boards or councils. The spokesperson
for local governments usually takes the role of mayor. Again, this is an elected positi ...
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Certainly, public administrators have contributed to the creation of public goods, they have helped to transform public policies to offer better services to the public. In fact, they have developed and cultivated public goods and services balance in the private and public sectors. Public administrators have planned and implemented ideas and strategies that have resulted in positive outcomes.
Public goods and services are provided to the public by the government. The government finances public goods and services. This function of the government increment economy. Therefore, politicians feel responsible for improving public goods and services. In the same way, manager’s accountability and outcomes are critical in public administration. Accordingly, domestics services, improve individuals’ health and the quality of life. Some household services include transport services, water supply, sanitation, education, crime prevention and many others. Some
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Truly, all persons benefit from public goods. However, some people have more needs than others, for example, wealthy people would not need to apply for welfare service; other people should pay school tax event though they have no children in school. The issue has created an argument about paying for public goods or tax. Certainly, public good and services are provided to the public because citizens are not able to pay for roads, libraries, streets, sanitation and so on. The government provides the public services because they are used for all citizens. Indeed, public goods and services must promote health, safety, welfare, and many others. Basically, many services may be provided by the private sector, but they are better provided for the public sector. For example, private education may be efficiently and cheaply, however, public provision serves the community better (
The Social Study Help Center, 2017).
Communities are affected by the three levels of government, people behavior can be pursued, if the government is organized and work toward the community wellbeing. The government system helps to educate the community about health, child development and many others. Truly, the government concerns about recycling, toxic waste deposit and many more. Positively, the government system’s policies are widely extended to different departments, including public administration (
James2004).
References
Lall, S. V. & Lundberg, M., (2017). What are public services worth, and to whom? Non-
parametric estimation of capitalization in Pune
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhe.2007.07.001
James
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(2004).
Local Governments and Sustainability: The Power of Public Goods. PA
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1. 1 MEMPHIS-SHELBY COUNTYMETROPOLITAN GOVERNMENTCHARTER COMMISSIONPRESENTATION TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE COUNTY COMMISSION ON THECONTENTS OF THE CHARTERJune 24, 2010
2. 2 “The citizens are concerned about the direction of their community and are demanding an ethical, efficient, effective, and streamlined government that prepares and positions Memphis and Shelby County to address current economic crises and the increasing competition for new jobs and economic expansion.” City and County Resolutions Creating the Metro Charter Commission (September 2009)
3. 3 Who We Are How We Operated What We Learned Commission Recommendations What’s NEW? Council and Commission Input
4. 4 Who We Are/Introductions: Members of the Commission Chair: Julie Ellis, Memphis, Attorney-Butler, Snow, O’Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC Vice Chair: Andre Fowlkes, Memphis, Executive Director Small Business Chamber Secretary Treasurer: LouEtta Burkins, County (Unincorporated) Project Engineer-Global Trade Services, FedEx Damon Griffin, Memphis, Assistant District Attorney General J.W. Gibson, Memphis, County Commissioner Mayor Richard Hodges, Millington, Mayor of Millington Linda Kerley, Collierville, Former Mayor of Collierville Billy Orgel, Memphis, Business Owner, Tower Ventures Chris Patterson, Germantown, Attorney-Wiseman Bray, LLC Richard Smith, Memphis, Managing Director, Life Sciences, FedEx Express Jim Strickland, Memphis, City Council and Attorney-Kustoff & Strickland PLLC Carmen Sandoval, Memphis, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Rev. Randolph Meade Walker, Memphis, Visiting Professor, LeMoyne-Owen College, Pastor, Castalia Baptist Church Rufus Washington, County (Unincorporated) Retired US Marine, FedEx Ground and President of Southeast Shelby County Coalition Rev. Ralph White, Memphis, Pastor Bloomfield Full Gospel Baptist Church, Chairman Memphis Law Enforcement Review Board
14. 9 Established Benchmark Cities and used others to evaluate effective governments and their charter authority: Charlotte (functionally consolidated) Established our Commission Timeline
16. 11 What We Learned The two government structures impede cooperation and collaboration with one another to reduce duplication of government services. There is no structural incentive to innovating, sharing people or sharing knowledge between the City and County governments to improve services and lower costs to all citizens. There is a tremendous economic opportunity for our community to unite and operate more efficiently and inclusively, if framed utilizing the Commission recommendation for the Charter.
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18. Shelby County lost 20,000 households and $1.2 billion in income to MSA counties
21. 14 Why Does Government Cost LessRight Down I-40? Our two governments spend $31 M a year for information technology - Nashville spends $14.5 M Our two governments spend $19 M a year for attorneys-Nashville spends $5M Our two governments spend $12M a year for human resources department - Nashville spends $4.2M Combined tax rate for Memphis and Shelby County is the highest in the state at $7.22 - Nashville’s is $4.13
22. 15 TAKE AWAYS We are competing with each other when we need to be competing with other communities for business. The demand by our citizens for “no excuses” public services already exceeds our capacity and citizens are “voting with their taillights”. The time expended by everyone to accommodate the “two government process” represents money wasted and opportunity lost. Time is something you never get back.
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25. Voter approval for annexation by the urban service district is required.
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27. Forbidden are gifts, solicitations, doing business with the government, family members doing business with government. It includes a nepotism policy and requires demonstrated integrity and professionalism.
28. The Ethics Commission is independent and oversees ethics in all Metro Government, including the constitutional officers and courts/clerks offices.
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30. Retirement benefits of all current employees are fully protected with rights guaranteed by Tennessee law “not to be impaired or diminished”.
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32. 21 The Legislative Branch The Metro Council: Government’s Legislative body Term limited to two 4-year terms. Council levies taxes, makes appropriations, funds public schools, approves appointments of Mayor, contracts over a set amount, and approves MLGW rates. Ineligible for office if delinquent in their metro taxes. A two-thirds vote of the Metro Council is needed to override Mayor’s veto and to increase taxes over 10 percent. The Judicial Branch General Sessions Court: Government’s Judicial Branch The authority of today’s city courts are elevated by merging their authority with that of the current General Sessions Court . All court clerks are required to use centralized metro IT and Purchasing. Subject to Inspector General review and audit and Strategic Planning process.
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34. If neither candidate receives a majority, a runoff election is held. (The Commission is reviewing instant run-off voting which was approved by the citizens of Memphis.)
37. Corrections: Elected Sheriff heads jails, court security, and warrants; adds the management of the corrections center to encourage efficiency and economy.
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40. The Economic Development Department will take the lead in seeking out economic opportunities either directly or indirectly in the public and private sectors; strengthening economic, social, and environmental assets that are the keys to regional vitality and quality of life.
41. All public and contract agencies dealing with economic development coordinated in this office where they support a shared vision that is tied to the strategic plan
42. Laser-like focus on jobs! Plan of action will be aimed at business investment throughout metro area.
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44. 27 Parks and Community Enhancement Department Countywide quality of life assets are the responsibility of the new department which will manage a network of countywide parks and recreation, Zoo, Pink Palace Museum, Botanic Gardens, and Brooks Museum of Art. Such community amenities, which form a network of quality of life assets county-wide, are essential to sustainability which calls for a balance of the economic, the environmental and the social issues. Office of Business Promotion Promotes, facilitates and expands business opportunities for small, women-owned and minority businesses doing business with metro government. Ensures streamlined access which is not artificially impeded by redundant registrations and certifications and institutes an outreach program to provide real opportunities for access and technical assistance.
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46. Representative of all modes to ensure unified transportation and multi-modal policies and plans exist to maximize competitive opportunities for Shelby County. Metro Agencies of Government MATA, Port Commission, MLGW, Memphis International Airport
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48. As required by the state law, there are three types of taxing districts: A “general” taxing district which is the equivalent of today’s countywide taxing district An “urban” taxing district which is today’s Memphis taxing district ”Special” taxing districts which may be established to accommodate specific urban-like needs of citizens in particular areas of the county. Parks, recreation, and zoo; economic and job development; health and welfare; roads and traffic; jails and courts are among the general services that are funded countywide. Urban services include fire and police protection.
49. 31 Three-year freeze on property tax rates. Property taxes are frozen for the first three years of the new government. Only public emergencies or a referendum by the citizens may alter this limitation. In freezing the tax rates, the new government must, from its beginning, identify and implement efficiencies such as reducing duplicative management and support services such as purchasing, finance, information technology. The Trustee collects all taxes and fees to streamline existing system. Debt and liabilities paid by authorizing body. Bond debt created by Memphis and Shelby County will be paid by the respective Urban and General Tax Districts.
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51. 33 Department of Strategic Planning & Quality Produces the five-year strategic financial and management plan for all metro, annually measured for accomplishment, working with Department of Finance. Requirements include all metro government participation in strategic budgeting, long-range planning which guides new government initiatives and short range planning to assess efficient practices and risks. Prepares project revenue trends, costs of government trends, and assesses all areas for efficiency. Requires citizen, vendor and employee involvement and input aligning public employees and the partners of metro government in pursuit of one vision for government. Provides data on which to manage metro government. Provides citizens with assessments of their government.
52. 34 Inspector General Full-time program of evaluation and fraud prevention New department reviews all internal controls to prevent waste, mistakes and inefficiency Ensures accounting accuracy Monitors compliance of policies and investigates contracts, grants, and agreements to prevent preferential treatment, and illegal acts. The inspector general protects and supports a professional environment for all metro public officials
53. 35 Professionalism: Required professional credentials for department heads and executive staff. All department heads and executive staff are required to have professional qualifications and substantial experience May be hired by contract Specific professional qualifications are required for positions such as: Chief Administrative Officer, who directs daily operations; the Chief of Information Technology , to ensure the most innovative applications of technology are available to metro government to increase productivity and cut costs, and the Chief Financial Officer.
54. 36 Intergovernmental Relations Commission Will bring local governments together to work on common issues that affect the future of the metro area. Initial representatives are the metro-wide mayors, which could be expanded to include regional partnerships. The mission is to build relationships of mutual trust and collaboration to resolve area-wide challenges and develop innovative solutions which protect the unique nature of each local government.
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56. May be extended initial terms to align with the election cycle, and if there is, subsequent terms will be four years.
57. Upon approval of the charter, a 15-member Transition Commission will be appointed by the Mayors of Memphis and Shelby County by December 2, 2010, to immediately assume the management of the transition to the new metro government.
58. The Transition budget must be approved by the City Council and County Commission to support the transition activities.
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60. The charter commission is working with a demographer and we expect to finalize recommendations on districting in early July.