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GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY
ASSESSMENTS, AUDITS & IMPLEMENTATION
Organizational Efficiency & Change
Understanding the6 Ps
All public agencies face significant risk associated with one or more of the "P-Issues":
People, Planning, Policies, Processes, Procedures, and Paperwork.
Operational, Performance, and Forensic Audits are necessary to identify waste and fraud to attain efficiency and innovation within your organization while minimizing the negative impacts that revenue reduction can have on service quality. These risks compound in the absence of trained experts who identify and remedy these issues, risks and liabilities. Comprehensive Operations Efficiency Audits can empower decision-makers and provide the following potential benefits:
• Elimination of Waste
• Validation of Best Practices
• Reduction of Fraud & Legal Risk
• Discovery of Uncollected Revenues
• Efficient Asset Management
• Reduction and Reallocation of Personnel
• Efficient Technology Integration & Planning
• Reduction of expenditures
• Identify public-private partnerships
• Privatization / Consolidation alternatives
• Maximize your agency’s revenues
Our team of experts would be happy to discuss your situatuation.
Increase Revenues
A Revenue & Expenditure Analysis can be highly productive and result in identification of over or over-utilized revenue streams. It can also identify the availability, feasibility and implementation aspects of grants and other alternative financial resources needed for both current and future programs.
A Revenue and Expenditure Analysis carefully examines:
• Alternative funding strategies
- Consolidation vs. Privatization
- User Fees vs. Taxes
- privatization & competition
• Cost center comparative analysis
• Development Agreements
• Franchise Audits & Non-compliance
• Fleet Management
• Fuel Consumption / Alternatives
• Grant Funding options
• Impact / User Fee Analysis
• Legal taxing / funding alternatives
• Procurement Standards & Limits
• Mutual-aid Agreements
Avoid negative attention for your community
Public servants deserve good press! Most City Managers, Elected Officials and Department Heads work diligently to serve the public and delivery quality pubic services. Our consultants understand the need to help find greater efficiencies without the ‘drama’ or ‘scandal’.
Improve Performance of Public Servants
Our Performance Audits can include a comprehensive examination of one individual department or multiple departments which perform related tasks and functions. Our experience conducting Individual Department Audits includes reviews of:
Peace of Mind for your Community
Effective and efficient local government managers view services through the lens of four groups: residents, local businesses, employees & elected officials. When we identify and respond to the changing needs of your dynamic community, the most important obligation of a public administrator is fulfilled.
Identifying the most desired services can assure the highest quality in service delivery and can assure peace of mind, economic prosperity, and quality of life.
Every government agency faces two realities: risk and the opportunity for greater efficiency. Our consultants have empowered many teams to achieve results, discovering $340,000,000 in revenue and savings.
How can you face political and economic uncertainty and achieve comfort, safety and security?
Over the past 10 years, our consultants have advised over 435 large and small Local Governments, 50 Provincial Governments and more than 14,000 Civil Servants in 60 countries. We have helped public these agencies discover more than $521,109,000 in uncollected revenue, inefficiencies and spending reductions through Forensic Audits, Comprehensive Organizational Assessments, Compensation Studies, Organizational Realignments, Process Re-Engineering, Policy Manual revisions and effective implementation. Because of our methods, public administrators have realized greater revenue collections, improved efficiency, reduced fraud and better public access to public services.
Results:
• $47,109,000 in uncollected driving license fees
• $2,000,000 in unaccounted for utility customers
• $1,053,000 unpaid Franchise Fee liquidated damages
• $650,000 in uncollected debt from delinquent utility bills
• $600,000 in underperforming software inefficiencies
• $600,000 in underpaid Franchises Fees
• $500,000 in Uncollected Revenue from bad water meters
• $450,000 in Overstaffing
• $429,000 in overpayment of Software Licenses& fees
• $400,000 saved through consolidation
• $240,000 in excess Fleet Management expenses
• $101,000 in reductions of pay periods from 52 to 26
• $50,000 in elimination of bi-annual elections
• $29,600 per vehicle through fleet conversion to bio-diesel
and gas-electric hybrids.
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Dispatch
Accounting / Finance
Airports
Administration
Ambulance
Development Services
City Clerk’s Office
Cemeteries
Fire Department
Fleet Management
Facilities Maintenance
Golf Courses
Human Resources
Legal Services
Library Services
Parks Maintenance
Marinas
Public Health
Information Technology
Planning Services
Public Information
Public Safety / Police
Public Transportation
Public Works
Recreation Services
Risk Management
Street Construction
Street Maintenance
Stormwater
Water & Wastewater
Traffic Safety
Urban Planning
Zoo
With our Cross-departmental Audits, we examine the critical relationships which exist between departments which (if unaddressed) keep your organization from delivering the services your residents expect.
Accounting & Budgeting
Business Processes & Procedures
Procurement & Purchasing
Customer Service
Consolidation & Privatization
IT Hardware & Software
Collections & Delinquencies
Development & Franchise Agreements
Organizational Structure
Records Retention / Storage
Legal Compliance
Litigation Analysis
Risk Management Analysis
Operational Policies
Staffing Skills & Staffing Levels
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