What do you do when your city is looking at a million-dollar deficit in the current fiscal year?

Article Abstract:

A fictional public management case revolving around a city manager's handling of a million-dollar deficit in the public coffers is presented. During a meeting with his department heads, various solutions were proposed, including raising taxes, annexing additional property, and downsizing. When each solution presented created its own problems, the city manager decided to take the issue up with the mayor. Although the mayor was initially supportive of the city manager's views and plans, he later changed his mind after conferring with a councilman. With the situation clearly being guided by politics more than the need to bail the city out of bankruptcy, the city manager has to develop a winning strategy to address the problem.

Public Finance Activities, Municipal Govt Finance, Case studies, Local finance, Budget deficits

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Arts and managers and managerialism: a cross-sector analysis of CEOs orientations and skills

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Arts managers' orientations and skills across public, private nonprofit, and private for-profit sectors are found to have broad similarities, but with two major differences. Public sector art managers have more social orientation than private sector managers who have more aesthetic orientation. Public sector arts managers also have a greater use of political and lobbying skills than do private sector managers.

Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries, Arts, Social aspects, Australia, Social policy, Public sector

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