DC: steep costs, poor quality are the rule
Before each government can wage and salary list, it must first participation. From Texas to New York after Montgomery County, general manager of one person per 504 employees to collect and review the time cards.
And they make errors of more than 3 percent of the time.
Washington has however, 4779 full-time positions, collect timecards - one for each of the eight employees. And they make errors of more than 5 percent of the time.
Thus, Washington spends $ 13 million more than cities of comparable size to enable it to keep labor each year - and receives more errors for their money.
“It is irrational,” said the DC-Chief Financial Officer Anthony A. Williams, plans to measure time on private contractors. “The point of this system is not accurate, but jobs.”
The Pro-head, Washington spends more money and more workers than any city in the USA.
This conclusion is based on an interview with the financial control of its members, former city officials and several national specialists in foreign cities. The “Washington Post” also information budget by 10 cities, data from the U.S. Commerce Department and a study prepared for the control board that a comparison of costs of services of the DC with other cities.
The idea that the borough is almost without resources, that the repeated reductions and a charge of public tasks, they have crippled, finds little support of most analysts.
“Waste and lack of creativity of their employees cost the city jobs,” said John W. Hill Jr., Executive Director of the panel. “We would not have nearly as many cuts, if it is a better management . ”
The problem, say critics, is that district officials and the Council of the DC are not covered costs, the size and purpose of the city, a few notable exceptions. And the stakes are considerable.
The attention of analysts urban Washington officials, he was a hard choice: more cut off from essential services to conclude a deficit yawns - reconfig ure or services, the extermination of mismanagement and programs to preserve the most poor.
Washington is located in an old era, “said ES Savas, a professor at Baruch College in New York and as a management consultant in a dozen cities and 43 countries. “Development of services and competitive tenders, trimming and monitoring of government contracts is not a breakthrough in Western thought. Many governments. It’s not just about events in the CC”
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