City North Team Proposal Exercise
Abstract
This paper focuses on the City North Council Budget and
is a collaborative team approach to a budget issue. In this paper, the reader
will view the strategic outline and explanation of the team’s proposed strategy
to cut the city’s budget by 7% by considering the overall criminal justice
scope along with community and stakeholder elements.
This proposal is the result of a collaborative leadership
team effort and has resulted in a balanced approach to the service provision
that was supported by the entire team. City North is a growing city with a
population of 200,000 people and facing a budget crisis. This team assigned by
the Chief of Police presents a budget proposal outlining the minimum 7% budget
cut of City North Police Department. In reviewing the fiscal year budget, this
team’s recommendations are to decrease expenditures without sacrificing sworn
officers and civilians; however, cutting overtime for civilians and sworn
officers creates an addition $280,000. Presently, City North has 55 officers
with a mandatory 48 per district required for safe practices. The budget has
allocated $4,000,000 for overtime of police officers and civilian employees. It
may be necessary to implement shift changes; for instance, 10-hour work shifts
to accommodate areas of the city.
Strategic Point Outline
The staffing analysis for City North indicates that we have
10 sworn officers assigned to the aviation unit. To cut overtime cost and immediately reduce
the amount of resources provided to this unit we will need to:
i. Review
specialized units for staffing requirements and for temporary or permanent
reassignment to patrol operations.
ii.
Make
cuts to the aviation unit by 50%
iii.
Reduce
the number of units in the air; increase coverage for assignments
iv.
Detail
the six members of the gang unit and to regular bureau operations which will
eliminate any funding or resources that are being provided to this unit.
v.
Consolidate
the gang unit and the violent crime unit to save cost.
vi.
Adding
more detectives to the daily operations allow more contributions to processing
of arrests to possibly reducing the amount of overtime spent.
vii. Place additional personnel that are
assigned to administrative and specialized units back to patrol. Filling
the vacancies in patrol will officers from specialized units will put a
temporary freeze with hiring five personnel saving at least $500,000.
viii.
Consolidating
units within the detective bureau will place a temporary freeze with new
staffing freeing up $720,000 that is for six out of the eight vacancies or
$160,000 for lateral transfers from patrol for eight additional personnel.
ix.
These
actions will place personnel in the much-needed areas to service the
communities while continuing to focus on crime trends increasing the quality of
life for the 200,000 people living in City North.
Explanation of Team
Proposal Strategy
By implementing
this plan everything should run smoothly, and this way are able to keep the
communities we serve safe. These actions will place personnel in the
much-needed areas to service the communities while continuing to focus on crime
trends increasing the quality of life for the 200,000 people living in City
North.
Finding new ways to help cover the deficit with budget cuts
will help to fill in this gap. All funding that is replenished can help start a
rainy-day fund. By cutting cost in aviation, we replace high pension workers
with the lower pension workers that are still trained and qualified to complete
the task in a safe and efficient manner. With consolidating the gang and
violent crime units, they can work interchangeable to one another when they are
not working on cases within their field.
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