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Secondly, I find that this project lacked oversight of a strong panel / board / committee to check the progress along with expenditures vs. budget. This was public money that was budgeted for a project and yet, there was no clear division between the payer and the decider as Rubin explains in “The Politics of Public Budgets”. As she states there are two critical characteristics of public

Funding for projects is always a topic of discussion, payments for a sculptor to sculpt a statue, and hiring wrecking crews for doing their job are just small examples. The funding cost for Light Rail is extremely high when it comes to construction, these prices are something that a any+ billionaire can personally handle. These prices are always subject to change because of materials used and the constant change of technology. Through the talks of this new transit system coming to San Antonio, different funding options have been suggested, raising taxes,

Proposition 35 simply gives state and local government the flexibility to use private sector engineers and architects to complete long overdue highway, rail transit and other projects sooner, safely, and at $2.5 billion savings to taxpayers. Supporters of Proposition 35 highlight a few important points, including thousands of overdue highway and rail transit projects that must be completed to alleviate traffic and prepare us for the next quake. In order to complete these thousands of projects both Caltrans and private sector engineers and architects are needed to complete those projects. However, Caltrans bureaucrats stand in the way of accomplishing this by severely restricting government's ability to contract with the private sector. Proposition 35 is the answer to these problems. Proposition 35 is

Introduction: Federal grant agendas offer state and local governments varying steps of flexibility over the use of grant funds. For example, block grants provide only extensive factors for using those funds, leaving state and local government’s significant liberty when they make spending results. By contrast, state and local governments face more spending limitations on how they use categorical formula grants. For example, definite standards govern the types of roads that state governments may improve using federal highway grant funds. Though, among all probable road schemes that meet the recognized standards, states are normally able to select which ones to fund. Project grants deliver state and local governments the minimum tractability over

In order to create realistic solutions, it is essential to see how Californians have funded infrastructure projects in the past. Before California became the populous state it is today; not much infrastructure was built because the demand was not set in place. As more people moved to California as a result of the California Gold Rush, roads were cleared to make commutes easier. Property tax mostly funded these projects. It was not until the creation of the 1909 State Highway Act that significant infrastructure was established which included a 34-route 3,000-mile system. Although this highway act lead to a substantial creation of highway infrastructure, “initial estimates proved inadequate, and the state required additional highway bond measures

With the upcoming presidential election, this year there is one very unnerving fact that has received overwhelming bipartisan recognition; America has a serious problem with infrastructure and something must be done. Across the country, dams, roads, sewage systems and bridges were built with Works Progress Administration funds in the 1930s. Seventy years later, they are in despair. As a nation, we must address Americas’ failing infrastructure and close the ever-increasing infrastructure deficit before the backbone of America crumbles right under our own two feet. To do so U.S. policymakers must act now to raise funds, without increasing our national debt. No intervention by the government will lead to a continuance of deteriorating the health

This is what tax dollars should be used for, improvements for the city and all the people of the city, not just

It is interesting to highlight that Australia’s population will grow by the size of Canberra each year for next 30 years. Infrastructure Australia has warned that the growth of size will transform Australia’s cities . And its the time to take some serious action on this issue . But the great thing is that government is unable to hear itself. How long should we wait for that exceptional situation when government realises its duty ?

According to many community members, the state government should do a better job of allocating their funds. They seem to spend it on senseless projects that are just not working. Most of taxpayers’ money in Hawaii is now going to the Rail Transit Project. It’s a multibillion dollar project to build a public train transit to alleviate the traffic in Hawaii (HART). Many Hawaii residents believe that this is a waste of the state’s money. The train will little to no effect on the traffic in Hawaii, yet most of the local tax money is going towards that (LWV). Brook Parker, a resident of Hawaii for over 50 years stated, “The rail project is stupid. Tax payer dollars could go to something so much more beneficial like building more public housing, getting homeless off the street, or making cities safer. The state needs to wise up with their funds.”

First, the BID should re-visit its District Plan and focus on Tier I activities, especially sanitation, to change the look and negative perception on the area. Close to 3.5 million people visit the Yankee games annually (Records), and they should have a positive impression when visiting the area. Currently the BID uses only 20% of its budget for the Tier I activities, and as Gopal and Hoyt pointed out in their study, majority of the successful BID used over 50% of their budget for these activities. For a small BID it may not be possible to allocate such a large percentage towards those activities, but some re-allocation is possible. Of the six BIDs analyzed, 161st Street BID had the highest percentage (55%) allocated to general and administrative expenses (Table 6).Two of the six BIDs I analyzed closely had over 30% allocated to Tier I activities and another two had over 40% allocated to them. However, one had only 4%. For example, the Southern Boulevard BID had 36.1% of its budget allocated to sanitation compared to 20.4% of the 161st Street BID. Even though the 161st Street BID had secured funding for clean streets initiative for 2015 but it is not clear how efficiently the funds were used.

Federal construction contracting practices, governed by the Federal Acquisitions Regulations (FAR), have a duty to uphold the integrity in the process of selecting sources to perform the requirements of the government through contracts. The duty is to the people of the union and those who pay into the system of government. The FAR and the institution of contract professionals within federal service take this duty very seriously and enact processes that uphold their obligations. Regarding infrastructure projects in the federal government, it is customary to see authorization from congress to a particular department to exhaust funds in support of a particular mission or requirement. Within the Department of Defense these funds are requested

New York City is made up of five boroughs, which include the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. Within these boroughs, there are high and low-income neighborhoods that contain either high or low status organizational structures or facilities. Each division has their own characteristics and top attractions, such as the Empire State building, Central Park, or Times Square. As New York City may be known for great food and fun attractions, New York faces infrastructure problems within each borough. New York City’s infrastructure funding is limited in lower income neighborhoods, where money needed to upkeep the city goes toward prime tourist’s areas or residents living in high status neighborhoods, such as The Upper East Side of Manhattan, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, and Lenox Hill, Manhattan. Moreover, abandoned buildings, poor sewage conditions, and rocky roads and streets are examples of low-income area infrastructure problems that may hinder neighborhood growth both structurally and economically. Harlem, East Brooklyn, and South Bronx are low-income parts of New York that lack new and refined facilities, roads, plumbing, and fundamental structures, which contribute to high crime and arrests.

To prevent these kinds of issues, most cities need to focus on effective planning and innovative practices. This will create more stable economic growth and ensure that every part of the city receives the same kind of services. To achieve these objectives requires examining the various components and players involved in the process. Together, these elements will offer the greatest insights as to how cities should strategize and

Public-Private Partnership (PPP) practice has been increasingly prevalent in modern infrastructure delivery and public service provision, such as in transportation, electric power, waste management, health care, and other industries (Broadbent and Iaughlin, 2004; Essig and Batran, 2005; Hodge and Greve, 2007; Wang, 2015; Zhang et al., 2015). Popularity of PPPs is mainly attributed to some inherent efficiency advantages (Grimsey and Lewis, 2007; Hart, 2003; Yang and Wang, 2013). Unlike conventional public procurement, PPP takes an integration of financing, construction, operation and maintenance that granted to private sector. This internalizes previous stage’s external effect to subsequent one, since the private is responsible for the additional

There however are challenges in the industry occasioned by uncertainty on future spending on construction projects by the government. Moreover, the cost of doing business and the ability to increasingly make revenue have created a challenging environment for the construction firms. Therefore stakeholders in the construction industry are concerned with whether the government would increase its spending and whether the public construction projects will be available in the future since less than 10 percent are currently financing their clients.