Government Finance Review articles from April 1995

Government Finance Review archives from April 1995

The flow control debate: a time to act. (Flow Control Act of 1994)
April 1, 1995... Over the years, many local governments have adopted flow control ordinances to facilitate the management of solid waste and to fulfill their duty to protect the health and welfare of their citizens. The constitutionality of these ordinances has...

The fiscal impacts of base closures: insights for rural local governments.
April 1, 1995... How do communities' revenues and expenditures fare after the military pulls out of a nearby installation? Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the Department of Defense (DOD) closed more than 100 military installations that were converted to...

Economy and efficiency auditing: difficult, doable and cost-effective in the State of Delaware.
April 1, 1995... The State Auditor in Delaware has made a successful transition from a financial compliance audit organization to an organization that has incorporated economy and efficiency auditing as an integral part of its activities. In 1989, the audit...

A study in reengineering: the Virginia Retirement System's integrated image processing.
April 1, 1995... The main benefits realized by the Virginia Retirement System came from reengineering, control, and customized case processing rather than from digitizing documents. Editor's note: Each year the Government Finance Officers Association awards...

Lessons learned in contracting for legal services. (ways to save on legal costs)
April 1, 1995... A well-written contract and careful continuing contract monitoring can mean big savings in legal costs. Litigation in the public sector, as well as in the private sector, has increased steadily. The associated legal costs have increased as...

Small business means big business for Illinois. (program to pump-prime small business)
April 1, 1995... A three-pronged program for stimulating small business in Illinois combines a program of educating lenders, a linked-deposits strategy, and a fund for purchasing pooled SBA and other federal agency loans on the secondary market. Editor's note:...

The federal budget. (excerpts from Alan Greenspan's testimony at a joint House and Senate Committees on the Budget hearing)
April 1, 1995... The following are excerpts from Chairman Greenspan's testimony at a joint hearing of the Senate and House Committees on the Budget, January 10, 1995. The budget process has improved significantly in recent years. The caps on discretionary...

The Speaker's office in action. (House Speaker Newt Gingrich attends to Cobb County, Georgia comptroller)
April 1, 1995... Virgil Moon, director of finance/comptroller, Cobb County, Georgia The State of Georgia and Cobb County, located in the northwest Metro Atlanta corridor, are blessed with knowledgeable, experienced and influential representation in Congress, a...

Managing risk in a growth environment: Lewisville, Texas.
April 1, 1995... Many small cities, towns and counties are currently facing one of the most significant challenges they will ever encounter. That challenge is growth. Each day more and more families leave the congestion and crime of big cities behind and head for...

Soft dollars: management required. (financial brokerage commissions)
April 1, 1995... The dollar amounts associated with brokerage commissions on securities transactions tend to pale in comparison to the total dollar amounts involved in those transactions and, by virtue of their relative size, easily may be overlooked. Small...

Securities litigation reform proposals affect state and local governments. (includes related article)
April 1, 1995... The issue of securities litigation reform has gained considerable attention in the new Congress. Interest was spurred by the introduction of the Common Sense Legal Reforms Act (H.R. 10), a component of the Republican Contract with America, and...

New Visions for Metropolitan America.
April 1, 1995... This book is about the heart and soul of America - her metropolitan areas. It is a sophisticated diagnosis of metropolitan area characteristics, conditions and ills and lays out public policy alternatives to restore such areas to healthier social...

Imposing Duties: Government's Changing Approach to Compliance.
April 1, 1995... Malcolm Sparrow, a former British police executive, uses cases from police, environmental protection and tax collection agencies to prove a broad point: all enforcement agencies are overburdened because they process increasing numbers of...

Managing Cities in Austerity: Urban Fiscal Stress in Ten Western Countries.
April 1, 1995... This book is one of the most recent summaries of information compiled from the ongoing Fiscal Austerity and Urban Innovation project, the largest and most extensive study of local government in the world. The project, which began in the summer of...