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PLAN MAKING AND IMPLEMENTATION
Question | Answer |
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AIRPORT NOISE: What are some of the available tools to local governments for managing the built environment within noise-sensitive areas? | Rezoning to make incompatible uses non-conforming (not effective for large areas); Purchase property around the airport to keep it or clear it (can be very expensive); Creation of a noise overlay district (the best planning technique). |
What is ASNA, when was it founded and what does it do? | Aviation Safety and Noise Abatement Act of 1979; Established a system of measuring airport-generated noise and determining the exposure of individuals; deveoped standardized airport noise compatibility planning program. |
Name 3 types of taxes? | 1) Property Tax: Largest source of funds for local gov'ts and receive taxes on real property. 2) Sales Tax: 2nd largest source of funds for local govt's and can skew land use decisions by favoring commercial, esp. regional shopping ctrs. 3) Income tax |
What are some other types of taxes? | Special Districts; user fees -- utilities, transit, bridges, tunnels, pkg, airports, sewage. Fees for bldg permits, zoning chgs, subdivision, business licenses, tobacco, alcohol, theaters and hotel rooms. |
Name 8 steps in the operating budget process. | 1) Fiscal analysis & policy choices. 2) expenditure estimates. 3) review of expenditure estimates. 4) revenue estimates. 5) budgetary forecasting. 6) budget document. 7) budget review & adoption. 8) budget execution. |
Budgets: Fiscal analysis & policy choices -- name the types of reviews that can take place. | Reviews of current local gov't finances, major jurisdictional programs (does the gov have to pay for health, welfare, criminal justic)?; and the review of labor relations, wage and price trends. |
Expenditure Estimates are...? | Detailed analysis of programs & services, staffing & organizational charts, salary costs, new equipment, new staff positions, operating costs of new capital facilities. |
Budgetary forecasting is .... | 4-5 year forecasts; identifies future problems in time to head them off and avoids commuting to new programs you may not be able to afford in years to come. |
Budget documents include what? | 1) accumulation of estimates, projections, administrative decisions & proposals; should have back up materials, policies, forecasts, to allow reader to reach independent judgement. |
PBBS is defined as? Who started it and what yr? Name some characteristics of PBBS. | Planning-Programming-Budgeting System (1960): 1st developed by the DOD. Based on systems analysis, ops research & decision-making theory. Characteristics: focus on ID fundamental objectives of program, ID implications for future years, considers costs. |
What is zero base budgeting, who developed it, what does it do? | ZBB developed by Tx instruments. ZBB starts from scratch rather than use last years budget as base. Prevents automatic budget increase, different levels of svcs defined for decision-makers to choose btwn, accomodates new alt approaches. |
What is the Dayton System? | Developed-Dayton, OH. Purpose was 2 describe municipal svcs in language elected officials & comm. can understand while allocating resources in classifications based on policies & programs; has categories of goals, objectives, key issues, a progress rpt. |
The Dayton System has what types of categories? | Goals, objectives, & key issues; a progress report; community conditions statement summarizing svc & demographic indicators; departmental priorities for current & next year; resource allocation & capital project tables. |