Impact Of Property Tax Reform

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Impact Of Property Tax Reform

• Diane Reichard, Finance Director
• City of Temple Terrace
• Monday, May 19, 2008

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Can We Generate Life?

• Reduce Expenses
• Review Revenues
• Reinvent Government

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Reduce Expenses

• Even across the board 5, 10
• Capital impact of delay
• Personnel
• Merit
• Hours
• Scales
• Benefits
• Training

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Reduce Expenses (continued)

• Technology
• Programs
• Community pet projects
• Special interest groups

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Review Revenues

• Recreation fees set to pay for itself
• Library card fee
• Fire Service fee
• Impact fees
• DOR accurate database
• Utility tax monitor collection
• Population statistics
• Annexation

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Reinvent Government

• How can I perform more efficiently?
• What tasks are required?
• How can we meet the needs of our citizens?
• What are the Council goals?
• Can citizens help to accomplish improvements?
• What functions can be combined?

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Reinvent Government (continued)

• Are Cities and Counties doing the same thing and
  costing our citizens double?
• What are realistic benefits?
• Are we paying competitive salaries and receiving
  comparable results?
• What do we need to change?

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Efficiency vs. Effectiveness

• Efficiency measures process
• Effectiveness measures desired outcome
• Quantity without quality may not mean efficiency

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Empower Employees

• Break-up functional silos
• Eliminate process and job class that have
  functional specialization

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Effective Teams

• Trust
• Empower
• Aim
• Measure
• Support

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Evaluate Results

• Strategic management starts at the top
• Create vision that describes future of community
• Monitor progress through outcome goals

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Eliminate Process

• Eliminate functions that no longer contribute to
  goals (vision)
• Reassign employees to productive work when
  functions become obsolete

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Banish Bureaucracy

• Create public institution capable of solving
  problem
• Develop responsible citizens to strengthen
  democracy and revitalize community

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Establish Alternatives

• Quasi-privatization Methods
• Government owns asset
• Private sector operates

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Enterprise Management

• Functions like a business
• Success measured by how well they meet customers
  needs
• Competition is constant
• Held accountable to customers need

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Employees

• Emphasize productivity not performance
• Reward the exceptional
• Reduce mediocrity
• Results oriented pay scale

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Questions

• The Reinventors Field Book
• Tools For Transforming Your Government
• David Osborne Peter Plastrik

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Contact

• Diane Reichard
• Finance Director
• City of Temple Terrace
• 11250 N. 56th Street
• Temple Terrace, Florida 33617
• 813-989-7103
• dreichard_at_templeterrace.com