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Does Your Government Measure Up? - Basic Tools for Local Officials and Citizens (Paperback, 1st ed)
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Does Your Government Measure Up? - Basic Tools for Local Officials and Citizens (Paperback, 1st ed)
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A title for Americans who wish to improve the quality of their
local government. It introduces the bare essentials for good
government in areas of finance, public works, parks and recreation,
police, assessment, building codes, emergency medical services,
personnel, and Website development. If you want your local
government to be the best it can be, William D. Coplin and Carol
Dwyer will outfit you with the tools vou need to get started.
Whether your goal is making your assessor's office accurate and
citizen-friendly or ensuring that your police department is
cost-effective, you will learn how to ask the right questions and
encourage necessary change. Written for candidates, elected and
appointed government officials as well as concerned citizens in
small cities, towns, and villages, Does Your Government Measure Up?
is an indispensable tool for improving local government. In
accessible, straightforward language this book introduces the bare
essentials for good government in areas of finance, public works,
parks and recreation, police, assessment, building codes, emergency
medical services, personnel and even Web site development. The
authors show how to use benchmarking to increase government
efficiency and effectiveness. The tools presented in the book have
been developed by the Maxwell School at Syracuse University in
close cooperation with more than 100 government officials in
Central New York and throughout the United States. This book
contains: Checklists with 60 Bare Essentials for good governance in
nine areas More than 255 guidelines found in Beyond Bare Essential
Simple illustrations of how you can use benchmarking to make
decisions User-ready surveys to obtain citizen feedback
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