Category: Law : Public administration

There are numerous topics in the world of budgeting that can give you an opportunity to get excited about the possibilities of budgeting.
The topic for this essay is Striking the Balance: Navigating the Interplay between Operating and Capital Budgets in Public Finance.
When it comes to public finance, the comparison of operating and capital budgets is a classic problem. It presents policymakers and budgetary planners with the difficult task of deciding how to divide resources between short-term operations and long-term investments. The dynamics, intricacies, and ramifications of managing operating and capital budgets within the context of public administration are thoroughly examined in this study. This study attempts to provide a comprehensive knowledge of the trade-offs, obstacles, and strategic considerations involved in balancing long-term asset purchase and infrastructure development with short-term operating efficiency by breaking down the subtleties of budgetary decision-making.
The following document describes your final project assignment:Think about the critical issues facing our Governments (Federal, State, or Local Government), and pick one issue you decide to analyze in detail.Your project is expected to be completed with passion for public service, prudence for problem identification, and excellent analyses to suggest solutions.    One key point is that the problem that you identify should be related to our everyday lives, and related to one or more of the Chapters of the textbook and any other resources.You should use data to show the problem, and then based on your study and analysis of the issue, propose solution(s).12 to 15 pages, double space.   The Research Project will be evaluated based on:
Whether the problem is clearly identified and stated? The problem must be relevant to this course. In other words, it relates to the Administration of Financial Resources (Budgeting) in the public sector.
Whether the proposed solution(s) are relevant and reasonable in a way that showcases your research efforts?
Whether the project uses budgetary information to support problem identification and proposed solutions?

You will write a three- to five-page paper on policy alternatives for this assignment. You will need to use academic sources to help you in the writing process and provide support for the solutions you are presenting. You will also need to list and describe three feasible policy alternatives that could be used to solve the policy problem identified in the proposal. Within each policy alternative, you need to identify who is impacted by each potential solution. The who may be a person, group of selected people, company, or a specific product a company sells. You must also identify who will support and oppose the solutions you present for each alternative. This support or opposition can come from the public, political parties, and interest groups. Is there a divide in an organization as to what solutions are possible, i.e., management supports these issues, but employees do not? What criteria will you use to provide for evaluation for each possible solution in the determination of which policy you will use? Finally, make the case as to which solution you are choosing. Why have you made this choice? What is the analysis or supporting academic evidence made you reach this conclusion?
SB57 research paper is the original paper.
Academy resource:
Bardach, David L. and Vining, Aidan, R. Policy Analysis Concepts and Practice Sixth Edition ISBN 9781138216518.
Bardach, Eugene A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem-Solving Sixth Edition.

Objective: For your second paper I want you to concentrate on some very specific topic areas of performance measurement: 1) Mission Statements; 2) Logic Models; and 3) Performance Indicators.
To write your second paper, carry out the following steps: 
Step One: Choose a NYC government agency and one of its programs to work on. You can find a listing of NYC agencies at www.NYC.gov. Or you are free to choose a government agency and program beyond New York City, if you like.

Step Two: Describe the agency and program you are reviewing in the paper. 
Step Three: Create a Mission Statement for the program you are reviewing if one does not exist. To do this use Hatry’s equation provided in the lecture notes for the ninth discussion board.  If a Mission Statement for the program already exists, determine if you can use Hatry’s equation provided in the lecture notes from the ninth discussion board to improve it. Explain what needs to change, or does not need to change, and why. 
Step Four: Build a Logic Model for the program. 
Step Five: Create some performance measurement indicators to support the Logic Model you  have built for the program.
Examples of New York City Government Agency Programs
NYPD: Law Enforcement Explorers
HRA: Special One Time Assistance (SOTA)
DFTA: Senior Citizen Rent Increase (SCRIE)

Please write the pages for Robbins Illinois for topics titled Strategic Issues, Strategic Formulation, and Strategic Plan & Review. After writing the topics please summarize each one in PowerPoint slides.

Obtain two comprehensive plans from two different local municipalities and critique the plans using Kelly (2010) text. This paper will examine the plans involving, topics covered in the text, for example: Land use planning, Transportation planning, Environmental planning, housing, Park and Open-Space Planning as well as other topics discussed in the text must be investigated. Your format will follow the outline of the plans that are being critiqued. The original plans which are being used for critique comparison and contrasting must be submitted along with the critique.
The critique of the two comprehensive plans will be assessed by the student’s ability to analyze the gaps found in the community plans. 
I a sample comparison contrast of Orland Park, Illinois and Tinley Park, Illinois is desired.
Link To Orland Park, Illinois Comprehensive Plan – https://www.orlandpark.org/government/comprehensive-plan
Link To Tinley Park, Illinois Comprehensive Plan – https://www.tinleypark.org/government/departments/community_development/planning/index.php

Obtain two comprehensive plans from two different local municipalities and critique the plans using Kelly (2010) text. This paper will examine the plans involving, topics covered in the text, for example: Land use planning, Transportation planning, Environmental planning, housing, Park and Open-Space Planning as well as other topics discussed in the text must be investigated. Your format will follow the outline of the plans that are being critiqued. The original plans which are being used for critique comparison and contrasting must be submitted along with the critique.
The critique of the two comprehensive plans will be assessed by the student’s ability to analyze the gaps found in the community plans. 
I a sample comparison contrast of Orland Park, Illinois and Tinley Park, Illinois is desired.
Link To Orland Park, Illinois Comprehensive Plan – https://www.orlandpark.org/government/comprehensive-plan
Link To Tinley Park, Illinois Comprehensive Plan – https://www.tinleypark.org/government/departments/community_development/planning/index.php

Question 1:
A number of websites, such as https://www.quickquote.com/Links to an external site., offer instant quotes for term life insurance. Use one such website to compare annual premiums for a $1 million, 10-year, term life insurance policy for a 50-year old man and a 50-year old woman. Assume each is in exceptional health and does not use tobacco. Explain the difference in quotes between the man and the woman. Suppose that the U.S. government were to pass a nondiscrimination law requiring insurers to offer the same prices for men and women. What effect would you expect this law to have on prices and insurance coverage?
https://www.quickquote.com/

Question 2:
According to Catlin & Cowan, over time the responsibility of healthcare expenditures shifted dramatically. Explain what shifts in spending responsibility are they referring to? What were the factors that led to this trend in the changing dynamic of healthcare spending?

1. Read the format and instructions.
2.  Read my response and my answers to the assignment.
3. See the feedback in the attached document to help you do this revision.
The sources I used for my assignment and you would need to use for this revision.
1. https://vimeo.com/355562641
2. https://vimeo.com/355575614
3. https://vimeo.com/362152897
4. https://vimeo.com/361846357
5. https://youtu.be/AXgM3DTyXFY
6. https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-law-disorder/

Attached is the directions and the format. This is based on Hurricane Katrina!
Here is a video tutorial – (https://vimeo.com/424278468)
Attached are the videos to watch for this assignment! Let me know if you can’t hear or see these videos. Please use the sources below.
Leadership and Decision Making Problems:
– Part 1 (https://vimeo.com/355562641)
– Part 2 (https://vimeo.com/355575614)
Exploring the Role of the President in Crisis:
– Discussing Organizational Culture/Crises ( https://vimeo.com/362152897 )
– Understanding Ethical Dilemmas (https://vimeo.com/361846357)
– https://youtu.be/AXgM3DTyXFY
– https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-law-disorder/

Considering what you’ve learned from our readings this week and what you’ve experienced in the public safety field, discuss the following:
•    What factors are most important to an individual considering entering a public safety discipline and why?
•    As an administrator, what factors are most important to you concerning the prospective employees and why?
•    Considering our reading about individuals being mentally fit for a job in public safety, what do you imagine it is that a public safety organization should be doing to ensure that they are hiring only those individuals who are mentally fit for the job.
o    Given the often-contentious relationship between employees and Human Resources, how do you imagine efforts to weed out mentally unfit candidates would be received by current employees?
o    What efforts would you argue go too far in that they are potentially discriminatory?