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According to my perspective I would identify the political tensions, Fiscal, and administrative tensions among the partners in the federal system have certainly not been eased and grown, since the destruction of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations in 1996. However, there is no governmental organization to address big intergovernmental questions in an ongoing manner through nonpartisan or bipartisan research, data collection, deliberation, and policy formulation. I would suggest not so long after the presidential election (2008), the Federal Systems Panel of the National Academy of Public Administration delivered an Intergovernmental Agenda to the incoming administration requiring a need to “restructure intergovernmental management across the federal system”. The agenda identified specific challenges such as health care access (e.g., Medicaid) and cost reductions, housing, natural disasters, terrorism, energy consumption, unemployment, and infrastructure. The first question I will address from the article is question two. Should local governments have a more prominent seat at the intergovernmental table? The next question is should federal categorical grants be consolidated to reduce or overlap and improve results? This question has certainly been addressed because I feel as though the relationship between the two has grown tremendously since the article's release but nowhere near answered. There have been many local mayors who sat next to federal officials for aid, resulting in direct flow of federal funding. However, even though they have drastically improved local governments are still not constitutional partners of the state or federal level. I remember for substantial amounts of time local personnel distrusted state governors, and they argued that federal funding needed equal distribution especially from to the poor urban community. There are ample examples where the federal funding has been sent to the state level and that is where they continue to remain depending on the relationship established through the local level. There should be something mandated throughout the process which instructs each state how to distribute the funds regardless of the relationship between the state and local departments. We move the learning literature forward by analyzing intergovernmental relationships during disaster recovery. The categorical grants still need to be addressed tremendously since the publication of this article. However, grants are offered to state and local areas with great intentions of avoiding the overlapping process to improve results. For example, most grants offered to state and local officials have an array of options. However, depending on the size of the municipalities its structure to dispense to the much-populated areas first before the at-risk departments have been allotted with funding. We find that learning within local governments is associated with higher level of resources flows from state agencies as well as collaborative intergovernmental relationships (Albright 2018). Although states have been collaborating more during COVID-19 the same has also been the case for local governments. In point of fact, the frequency of local government collaboration has grown exponentially over the last few months, as local officials realize that they will be dealing with issues that know no political boundaries and are likely to have significant spillover effects (Benton, J.E.(2020.Given the smaller populations within most rural RIGOs, this finding raises serious questions about how limited capacity is diffused and the need for multijurisdictional collaboration in rural areas. Second, I demonstrate that rural and
non-rural RIGOs do not substantially differ in the way representational rights are apportioned to local governments on RIGO governing boards (Rickabaugh, J.2021) Overall, the entire intergovernmental relationship between the federal, local, and state department needs a lot of dire revamping. The three areas should flow simultaneously resulting in great good for the America citizens. However, if we continue to base the working relationship solely on the different party lines etc. We will continue to see the decline of intergovernmental relationships. If the intergovernmental relationships between the three areas continue to decline, then that most certainly can result in destruction in which we the citizens certainly cannot afford to move forward. References: Rickabaugh, J. (2021). Regionalism With and Without Metropolitanism: Governance Structures of Rural and Non-Rural Regional Intergovernmental Organizations. The American Review of Public Administration, 51(2), 155–164. https://doi.org/10.1177/0275074020939883 Deserai A. Crow & Elizabeth A. Albright (2019) Intergovernmental relationships after disaster: state and local government learning during flood recovery in Colorado, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 21:3, 257-274, DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2019.1623660 Benton, J. E. (2020). Challenges to Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations and Takeaways Amid the COVID-19 Experience. The American Review of Public Administration, 50(6–7), 536–542. https://doi.org/10.1177/0275074020941698
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