Preparing to Plan
My main ingredients are:
Positive, present-tense language
Emphasis on the region’s uniqueness
Inclusiveness of the region’s diverse population
A depiction of the highest standards of excellence and achievement
A focus on people and quality of life
A stated time period
Visioning Statement
40 of the 50 states apply me in some form to determine the bounds of a municipal government's legal authority.
Dillon’s rule
The 2 main types of budgets
1. Line Item Budgets
2. Performance Budgets
I am a project management technique that:
-Graphically illustrates interrelationships of projects task
-Good choice when precise time estimates are not available
Program evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
I am an informal process that is flexible, low cost but also has No neutral 3rd party, is Harder to stay on track and can show Power imbalances
Negotiation
I am the 3 general steps in the planning process:
Stage 1: Pre-Planning
Stage 2: Planning
Stage 3: Post-Planning
While local government determines the location of cellular phone towers I am the other government agency involved
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
I am a quantified comparison of costs and benefits generally expressed in monetary or numerical terms
Cost-benefit analysis
I was/ am:
Focuses on sequence of task necessary for project completion.
Tasked are bars aligned on an X-Y chart, X is the time scale of the project, Y is the list of task.
Helps to show task dependency where one task cannot begin until another is completed
Developed in 1917 by Charles Gannt
Gannt chart
I am a simple way to gauge whether residents approve of the city's new recycling program. AN example of me is a survey asking residents to respond "yes" or "no" on the city's website. What am I?
binary variable
I am the 4 essential parts of the Strategic Planning Process
S-Strengths
W-Weaknesses
O-Opportunities
T-Threats
I grant police power to local governments (which allows them to zone); state governments also have a lot of influence over local government
State governments
I involve looking at
A city's property tax rate
The average cost of educating a child in the local school system
The average cost per square foot of constructing a public building
(it would not involve historic trends in assessed valuation)
fiscal impact analysis
What do the "Z.I.P." in ZIP Code stand for?
Zone Improvement Plan Code
I am a process most appropriate when maintaining ongoing relationships is important, emotions are high, issues are complex and often not stated explicitly, and novel solutions (as permitted by law) are useful
Mediation
How many acres are in the south 1/2 of the southeast 1/4 of the northwest 1/4 of Section 6?
20
I launched in 1992, with $5 billion in federal funds and represent a dramatic turnaround in public housing policy. I have been called one of the most ambitious urban redevelopment efforts in the nation’s history.
HOPE VI program
What type of tax do real estate owners pay based on the assessed value of their property?
property tax
I have both vertical and horizontal chains of command, fewer formal rules and levels of hierarchy, and I can slow down decision-making and create confusion. What organization style am I?
A matrix organization structure
As the director of a non-profit housing advocacy organization that is growing, you realize that your organization needs to transform. You want your staff to work together to discuss the organizational topics that are most relevant to them. Because you want this to be a staff-driven conversation, you choose which of the following participatory methods?
Open Space
2 biggest factors as part of Step 1 in the planning process
1. Community Diagnosis
2. Process Design
I am an independent unit of local government often created by referendum and organized to perform government functions in a specific geographic area. I also usually have the power to incur debt and levy taxes.
Special Districts
You have been asked you to undertake a fiscal analysis to determine if annexation of a 500-acre area makes sense. What type of fiscal analysis would be most appropriate?
Cost revenue analysis
I am a PM technique that:
-Is an analysis tool used to identify the Critical path of a project
- Shows task with a known length of time and dependencies, longest path is considered the critical path
Critical Path Method
I am a multi-day large events designed to bring people together to agree on changes that are needed in the community or organization. I can last from two to five days and have between 100 and 250 people.
Appreciative Inquiry Summit