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Show 18th No building the bridge 3L TsV. iel:: QDLII by Robert R. Hawkins, C nos QEf J Community Services itrJi c3 H1:1 i j fiiir llrd ej: W Editor's Note: This article appeared in a recent issue of the Nation's Cities, a publication of the National League of Cities. MR LilJ LM flu fV . i;i CSl-- j j L..71 i7.i in53 . IfjJw U'!l!- governments to break up Model nr J yj l: n3 z a 03 s ai; l j Lit 1 non ' na a i nnncjnaDDn j I cl.'. r7 E rj R CU m eU 1no nJLj s ala n DreasasE n s J L! . i l rao ia 3 r El'-- QC r nriJl p- -7 JL nn - u r- .U t2 JJ r3 r. rr; rS r Ljl cp n CL JJ ska j). J irj jpju 3 y 7 PG 27 departments. Since revenue sharing legislation, by definition, won't influence existing agencies to spend those dollars like a Model Cities agency, the only way the Model Cities process is going to survive that kind of reorganization will be to change those various departments that the Model Cities is going into, before you break up the Model Cities agency. For instance, we're trying to impact our own city budgeting process. The world needs the . r l-- r JJInL u R JllL Ctft'i lSDC nr UUgu QC3i a nc Liu, G3 L1Sfc uJ clJuriiaQniblJliSEZiczz - .. -HCDgQCgS iUTIi discipline of accounting,but I hate to see "bean counters" in a BifJbl position of making policy J So to change the the line. Then you've got n; l--j l j od :j u cDUDnrnnaGO fn IfT: nnana c a a a put them in regular city I j 7y I' , Cities functional divisions and budgeting process, and change it permanently, you've got to get right into the fabric of the bureaucracy: how they make budgets, how they have meetings, who they talk to. And if you can do that then you can let your Model Cities budgeting function go into that department. You can budget your own Model Cities dollars through that process and have confidence in that process. Citizen participation doesn't go on in any city department I've ever heard of, so citizen participation has to be able to survive as a mayor's office or a city manager's office function. And really it ought to survive. You need a staff, think, to it it but protect ought to really survive in terms of changed attitudes and habits on the part of all your city departments down ii I , :J( ma n Jilu: jL rur-TU- J inrih f . j) JrtipI ncnrancrcanc if ( Based on our experience in Indianapolis, I believe revenue sharing may well encourage city judgments. c 1 Program Director - a L lil 'I U. ttzt, f c... Ub Iran 1 m JmiiraczjLn t5Sv3 If ; - . .IDS' a-- 1 LJL-- J NORTH liiiJfL SALT LAKE Model Cities Agency: base map no. LJIJLJ la-- -1 pm 35thSo y n lj no youiive in the Model Neighborhood? you are uncertain, call or Do If 467-801- 4 467-941- 6. somethingthat will last. It may be hard to measure the impact of spinning off Model Cities processes to other departments. Perhaps the measure of how well the system has digested these new processes how much heartburn we give them as we see change occur. (And how much continuous indigestion can we afford to give them, without achieving backlash.) If we've done nothing else in is Model Cities, we have at least identified some potentials for Want to participate on one of several Model Cities Task Forces building bridges in our community between the people and the institutions. By spinning off our successful processes to established departments, we can hope those bridges will stand there after Model Cities is gone and really continue to promote dialogue. That will be the test. That will be the yardstick to measure Model Cities impact in the future. dealing with Community problems? Call Faron Ith, for meeting dates and additional information. annum 467-941- 6 |