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Show The National Enterprise, June 1, 1977 Government accountable to the people have deteriorated; 2) the governments have not spent money to upgrade equipment and, as a result, service delivery has become inefficient; 3) since neither government entity communicates properly with the public or r Page twenty-on- e Continued from page one have been ignored, at great public expense. intergovernmental cooperainformation to tion, exchange and coordinate mutual interests. For the city alone, the project recommended: Clean up your act In order to draw' their con- anaclusions. Touche-Ros- s lysts met with managers and supervisors at all levels and 1 . City commissioners should consider separating legislative and executive powers. 2. Policies and procedures of the personnel department should be reviewed Revenues in-dept- they may have been used as a stalling device to take the heat off top management, and which are usually put on the shelf to gather dust and never see the light of day. Cooke says the chamber is immediately starting to form a public opinion survey con- cerning several issues raised by the study. Not a plea for consolidation h. This is not a consolidation study! city-coun- Only one recommendation was made to the county alone: it should more fully utilize the financial knowledge of the county auditor. Hits a raw nerve The first city recommendation, to separate legislative and executive pow'ers, touches on a sore spot in city government. Other studies, as well, have recommended the citys elected officials devote themselves strictly to policy making, designating their administrative functions e to one or more administrators. Now', each commissioner has responsibility for administering a city department. ty pleads DeeDee Corradini, chairwoman of the chamber's Government Modernization Committee. Everyone keeps saying that it is, and it will do no good to keep evaluating it from that perspective. The studys few' comments on consolidation have so far drawn most of the public attention. In a section de voted to duplication of forts. the Touche-Ros- s report says government managers identified many areas of duplication. but only few were conflicts between city and Of the county functions. duplications identified, the bulk centered on the courts, police, and fire departments. city-coun- ty Further, explaining how the governments could reduce costs and improve efficiency in service delivery, the report numerous improvestates ments should be made in the individual departments and governments before the issue of consolidation is considered." That statement has put off Mayor Wilson, for one. who says I dont happen to share that particular view of consolidation. No significant gains will be made in efficiency and cost reduction until consolidation happens. full-tim- 10tal 100 each other, commissioners are unable to measure public satisfaction; 4) both governments needs to improve managers skills; 5) professional training, for both management and skilled employees, is seriously lacking; 6) inadequate personnel functions have resulted in insufficient screening of new hires, inequitable pay levels and inability to issue job classifications and descriptions; 7) combined administrative and legislative powers contribute to inefficiency; 8) recommendations made by government studies conducted in the past 100 100 100 J distributed questionnaires through both governments. In conclusion, they aimed the following recommendations at both city and county: Several proposals to end that Establish productivity improvement programs through internal analysis teams. situation suggest eliminating e the paid status of the mayor andor commissioners. Its not difficult to imagine why such proposals have not gotten very far. 2. Analyze policies, practices, To the Chamber of Commerce 1. and procedures in purchasing full-tim- Touchc-Ros- s and analyze public opinion through public forums and surveys. It also suggests the chamber monitor and promote implementation of some 30 past and present government studies, adding gather departments. 3. Increase budget allocations for both management and worker training. 4. Establish a committee for CHUCK-A-RAM- A Inside and outside service, employee parties or picnics. Catering service includes total food service for 30 or more with no buffet serving and minimum if customer picks up. Delivery, set-u- p, clean up (food service only). 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