CITIZENS PANEL ASKS FOR BUDGET AUSTERITY\Ventura County group pushes fiscal restraint.Byline: Kermit A file transfer protocol developed at Columbia University, noted for its adaptability to noisy lines, enabling transfers to succeed under the worst conditions. Kermit supports streaming over the Internet, sliding windows for links with long round-trip delays, record and character Pattison Pattison may refer to:
Faced with a citizens committee report urging the county to save millions through privatization privatization: see nationalization. privatization Transfer of government services or assets to the private sector. State-owned assets may be sold to private owners, or statutory restrictions on competition between privately and publicly owned , consolidation and slashing slash·ing adj. 1. Bitingly critical or satiric: slashing wit. 2. Dashing; pelting: a slashing hailstorm. 3. overhead, the Ventura Ventura (vĕnt  `rə), city (1990 pop. 92,575), seat of Ventura co., SW Calif., on the Pacific coast in a farm and oil region; inc. 1866. County Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject.Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. on Tuesday welcomed the suggestions for the upcoming budget. But the supervisors stopped short of endorsing specific items in the 26-page report released last week by the Citizens Mandate Review Committee. The supervisors referred the items to administrators for follow-up follow-up, n the process of monitoring the progress of a patient after a period of active treatment. follow-up subsequent. follow-up plan study. Dorothy Maron, a former Oxnard city councilwoman who chaired the committee, said it was still too early to see how many of the suggestions would win support of the supervisors. "They said when they do the budget, they're going to go through it," she said. "We'll see. But I was pleased with the reception of the report. They all seemed to have read it." The Board of Supervisors formed the eight-member panel last year to review the morass of federal and state mandates with which the county must comply. The committee met every other week from September through December then weekly during the first two months of this year. The committee found many programs lost sight of their original mandate and turned into self-perpetuating bureaucracies. Many times, the committee said, the programs failed to measure their success with benchmarks. The report also faulted county departments for failing to provide information on the mandated programs. The committee urged the county to consider privatizing 14 different areas such as the sheriff's helicopter, animal control, landscaping, janitorial service and crime and medical labs. It also encouraged the county to make sure fees recovered the full cost of providing services. It said fees were too low in areas like juvenile justice, planning permits and agricultural permits. And the committee suggested the county tighten the screws on finances by placing a ceiling on internal overhead charges, perform more frequent audits and set more precise performance goals. And it urged creation of a citizens group to oversee the budgets of public safety agencies, which were shielded from cuts by an ordinance A law, statute, or regulation enacted by a Municipal Corporation. An ordinance is a law passed by a municipal government. A municipality, such as a city, town, village, or borough, is a political subdivision of a state within which a municipal corporation has been passed by the supervisors last year. Bert Bigler, chief deputy administrative officer, said county officials will study the suggestions to see which show promise for saving money. "I expect all of them one way or another to be addressed," he said. "Whether or not they actually save money or are adopted remains to be seen." |
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