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Analysis of Potential for County/City Shared Service Delivery: Police Department

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:39:35 +0000

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Analysis of Potential for County/City Shared Service Delivery: Public Works & Utilities

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:39:35 +0000

The Public Works & Utilities department plays an integral role in any municipal day to day operations. The following proposal details our plan for the combination of specific Public Works and Utilities services between Anne Arundel County and the City of Annapolis. A lay out of what the Public Works and Utilities department would look like after county and city services are combined is included. The reduction and combination of personnel, with a focus on ratios of outward-facing personnel to service needs, increases efficiency and minimizes unnecessary salary expenditures on employees with overlapping responsibilities.

Consolidating Public Services in Anne Arundel County and the City of Annapolis: Impacts and Expenses

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:39:35 +0000

This report is a collection of papers completed by students in the ECON454, Public Finance and Public Policy, who applied their students to a real world question as part of the PALS program. The classâ€s goal is understand the field of public finance and the relationship between economic theory and real world government policies. The goal of the PALS program is to use instructor expertise and student energy to advance sustainability in Maryland communities. In this effort, students explored the potential for consolidating public services in Anne Arundel County and the City of Annapolis, including the fiscal impacts and service level.

Analysis of Potential for County/City Shared Service Delivery: Board of Elections

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:39:35 +0000

As a group, we concentrated our efforts into setting an optimal resolution by merging the Board of Supervisors of Elections of Annapolis with the Board of Elections of Anne Arundel County. The objective of this department will be to provide efficiency for the tasks of providing and maintaining a properly administration for all federal, state [...]

Analysis of Potential for County/City Shared Service Delivery: Mass Transit

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:39:35 +0000

The public transit systems in Annapolis and Anne Arundel County can operate more efficiently and effectively as a combined entity. With fewer routes, increased route coverage, and a smaller payroll, the efficiency of the new organization will be greater than that of each of the current organizations independently. [...]

Analysis of Potential for County/City Shared Service Delivery: Parks and Recreation

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:39:35 +0000

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Policy Interventions to Address Poverty in Howard County, Maryland

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:39:34 +0000

This report comprises excerpts from the best ten reports submitted by students in the Public Finance and Public Policy class of the fall semester at the University of Maryland, College Park. In introducing these papers, I want to draw attention to what I consider to be the best program ideas to come out of the [...]