How to save money, liberally.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-0 ... ct-manager

tongue:

Some city residents wondered as much after Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake called for a new trash collection fee, a smaller city workforce and cuts to employee benefits as a way to deal with the projected $750 million, 10-year budget shortfall the consultants projected. For a city as financially strapped as Baltimore, couldn't that work have been done in house?

The answer, according to city budget director Andrew Kleine, is no.

Though the city's finance department makes three-year projections, it lacked both the manpower and the skill set to make long-term actuarial projections and propose reforms , Kleine said. Many of the more than 100 proposed reforms will be detailed Wednesday when Rawlings-Blake releases the full report, officials said.

Unqualified people are in the wrong city Gubment jobs so the right way to fix the problem is to fork over more cash to private industry to do a job Gubment workers have already been paid to do? How did these people land their jobs in city Gubment to begin with? Something is stinky in Helsinki!

otisptoadwater wrote:

Some city residents wondered as much after Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake called for a new trash collection fee, a smaller city workforce and cuts to employee benefits as a way to deal with the projected $750 million, 10-year budget shortfall the consultants projected. For a city as financially strapped as Baltimore, couldn't that work have been done in house?

The answer, according to city budget director Andrew Kleine, is no.

Though the city's finance department makes three-year projections, it lacked both the manpower and the skill set to make long-term actuarial projections and propose reforms , Kleine said. Many of the more than 100 proposed reforms will be detailed Wednesday when Rawlings-Blake releases the full report, officials said.

Unqualified people are in the wrong city Gubment jobs so the right way to fix the problem is to fork over more cash to private industry to do a job Gubment workers have already been paid to do? How did these people land their jobs in city Gubment to begin with? Something is stinky in Helsinki!

Precisely!

Or.....it was more cost effective to utilize outside consultants for this particular task than to hire employees....it was stated that the did not have the manpower, nor the skill set for this kind of actuarial work....why hire a highly paid employee for a one time job? What makes you think that the existing employees were already paid to do this work? .

Why have a city finance department at all then?

Since they are already willing to pay a private company to diagnose their financial problems why not contract out the entire job to professionals in private industry? Fire the city employees who can't/won't do the job they were getting paid to do in the first place and probably save money in the long run.

otisptoadwater wrote: Since they are already willing to pay a private company to diagnose their financial problems why not contract out the entire job to professionals in private industry? Fire the city employees who can't/won't do the job they were getting paid to do in the first place and probably save money in the long run.

Gee, since it's in Baltimore, why don't you call them up and ask them? I can certainly see where this would be an outrage...here in Colorado...

Science Chic wrote: Sometimes ya gotta spend money to save money! (BTW, shameless plug for a Strategic Planning expert, who can help do that for you, at a much lower cost ! )

OT

I just realized that what you said conceals a link. I thought it was just bolded and underlined. If I am the last one on the Internet to realize that, never mind.