vision2020@moscow.com: Re: 1% homepage

Re: 1% homepage

Steve Cooke (scooke@marvin.csrv.uidaho.edu)
Fri, 11 Oct 1996 14:06:08 PST8PDT

John,
Good point. I was implicitly assuming that cnty gov't was currently
working at a least cost pace. This is perhaps a heroic assumption.
The more local gov't can increase productivity, the better
the services and the lower the cost. Perhaps the 1% is intended to
encourage the pursuit of this kind of productivity increase in the public
sector.
Steve Cooke

> a good list. but a question? The list of services on the list says
> the service is required, but doesn't reflect the level of expendture
> needed to meet the "must be provided" requirement. That is, it is possible
> that a service like "Issue permits and licenses as required by law" might
> be met at a cost of less than current expendture levels (through magic or
> something) and still meet the requirement?
>
> If so, then your implication that the full 25% reduction has to come from
> the non-required things which are done by the county is not quite true. it
> may be that aportion of that can come from optimizations at the "required"
> level as well. If we save 10% in the overall required services, then only
> 15% must come from the rest etc.
>
> johnt
>
> >>>>> "Steve" == Steve Cooke <scooke@marvin.csrv.uidaho.edu> writes:
>
> > ....Therefore, the 25% reduction in county
> > revenues (state wide average) would fall disproportionately on
> > services not on this list ...
>
>
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