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Figure 3.2: Scott County and Three Rivers Parks District staff collaborate to install a fishing pier Scott County provided heavy equipment and Three Rivers provided staff expertise. Both agencies brought their resources together to construct and install the fishing pier at the lowest possible cost to taxpayers. (source: Mark Themig, Scott County-Three Rivers Parks District) 73 | The New Barn-Raising
Table 3.4: Efficiency measures used within local government departments Type of efficiency Specialisms in neighboring assets Use of mobile program and maintenance teams Flexibility from greater use of parttime staff Procurement Reduction in “stock” Self-service Equipment savings Energy-saving measures Greater use of assets Disposal of unneeded assets 45 Library use of a collection agency Maintenance of larger assets Example • In Minneapolis recreation centers are grouped into five Community Service Areas (CSAs). The aim with each CSA is to ensure that, between the centers in each CSA, there is a wide range of facilities and programs. The arrangement allows for specialisms and avoids duplication. • In St. Paul, the fields and play areas remain around several Rec Centers that have been demolished. Rather than invest in permanent equipment that is occasionally used, the Department of Parks and Recreation runs a mobile recreation program and hires college students to assist with this. There are four teams in operation throughout the summer that bring climbing walls, bouncy castles, small soccer goals, and other athletic equipment. Staff are busy and equipment is in use. • Increased use of part-time staff. • n.b. this is also likely to mean more staff with reduced employment conditions (compared to fulltime staff). • Amongst the efficiency measures employed by the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore is the use of the internet for their telephone system and negotiating discounts with book dealers. • One local authority interviewed has increased wild-space in its parks by 15 percent — allied to increased efforts to keep invasive species down. The reduced mowing also brings less carbon footprint and helps wildlife. 43 • Removal of print reference collections can save space in libraries as the material can all be held, and accessed, online. In January 2014 San Antonio County in Texas introduced the first all-digital library in the United States – all content is accessed either online or via e-readers. • Libraries can offer self-service kiosks, allowing members to check out materials themselves. At Baltimore County Public Library 90% of circulation is handled by self-checkout, thereby reducing the need for customer service staff (each machine costs $7000). • Maintain rather than replace mowing and other green-space management equipment • Libraries are increasingly cutting public computer terminals as more and more library-users bring their own lap-tops and smart-phones • In Indiana the Jennings County Public Library hopes to wipe out its $60,000 electricity bill by installing (bond-funded) solar roof paneling. • One of the interviews revealed that consideration was being given to adding retractable roofs and walls to make open air public swimming pools usable year-round – an idea already used in Las Vegas. 44 This will deliver more bang for the tax-payer buck and, if user charges/fees are involved, additional revenue. • In Baltimore a 2013 city-commissioned report recommended that the city could generate revenue by offering long-term retail and residential leases for 15 city historic properties and outright selling two others. • In Detroit, a decommissioned park with a defunct, graffiti-covered pool and a still-active playground was sold in April 2012 as part of a residential development in the city’s resurgent mid-town. The new development will have a play scape, and a local community development corporation will renovate a smaller park a half-mile away. • Since the beginning of 2013, the Detroit Public Library system has contracted with a collection agency 46 to assist in recovering non-returned library materials and unpaid fines (each year approximately, 40,000 items are checked out and never returned, an annual cost of roughly $500,000). • The City of Detroit focuses its mowing and maintenance efforts on larger city-owned parks. With scarce resources it is more efficient to focus efforts on large spaces than on the several hundred small parks. 43 For further details see the Michigan Department of Natural Resources “Grow not Mow” page http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-10365_37783-146674--,00.html. 44 Details can be found here http://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/Find/21065.htm. 45 The Appendix contains an account of strategies for a city faced with having to sell off valuable community and civic assets to ease wider city debt issues. 46 Unique Management, the largest provider of collection agency services to U.S. libraries. Raising Money | 74
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THE NEW BARN-RAISING A toolkit for
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CONTENTS Summaries ................
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STRATEGY #1 — Raising Awareness I
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STRATEGY #3 — Raising Help In the
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• non-profit bodies (from civic-s
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The “New Barn-Raising” refers t
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Theme 2 — Market your assets Mark
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The advantage of these different ta
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Theme 6 — Public fundraising can
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Theme 10 — Business can best supp
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Theme 12 — Volunteering with asse
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INTRODUCTION This toolkit is direct
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Certainly, businesses have been an
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Table 3.20: Examples of mutually be
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Several factors can help you in dev
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Having co-operatives in your busine
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Box 3.12: Secrets of their success
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Table 3.24: Encouraging customer gi
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Table 3.25: Comparing the fee and a
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RAISING HELP FOR YOUR ASSET The men
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Figure 4.1: User input — resident
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When resources for paid staff, whet
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There are physical/logistical reaso
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There is a range of mechanisms for
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The measures have been largely succ
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Figure 4.5: Inside the Baltimore Co
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Table 4.5: Understanding the busine
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Volunteer managers and non-profits
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There are some key practical tips t
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There are a range of measures you c
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As with donors of money and other r
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Table 4.9 outlines a range of natio
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Where does the New Barn Raising con
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APPENDIX The following section was
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If you decide that you do want to s
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City of Saint Paul (2010), Transfor
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Morrish, R. and Brown, C. (2000), P
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CGAP (2012), “Comparing U.S. and
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Sargeant, A. and Shang, J. (2010),
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS German Marshall Fu
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Rademacher, Jolyn * Rey, Vernon * R
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Roberson, Jr., Dalton * Russ, Cathl
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Reierson, Gary * Rhodes, Carleen *
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Iyer, Seema Jacob France Institute
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Referees for, and support with, the
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