Ideas Related to Efficiency

TITLE IDEA WHY CREATOR CREATION DATE AVERAGE RATING # OF RATINGS One of the biggest problems with Implemen ng Regional and County Newfoundland and Labrador's civic Government systems as opposed to the governance system is that every single current civic governance system of every city community is either a city or town, which is and town operating on its own will generate very inefficient and outdated method of many benefits to Newfoundlanders and governance. Labradorians including: In other words, all 240 cies and towns 1. Reduced costs of civic services due to have their own councils, staff members, increased economies of scale and less town/city clerks, maintenance crews, and duplicaon. infrastructure management crews. 2. Increased tax base as every single Furthermore, having every single city or resident within their own region or county town operate on their own, also known as have to pay taxes, including previous "Northern Ontarian Style" civic governance, unincorporated communies. also increases the costs of basic civic services such as water and sewage, road 3. Reduced bureaucrac duplicaon as maintenance, fire crews, sport and every single community will not need recreational facilities, emergency service, town/city clerks or management staff waste management, just to name a few. anymore. In addion, the costs of paying municipal 4. Less red tape and cliquish behaviour that grants go higher and higher as the Newfoundland and Labrador currently Newfoundland and Labrador Government experiences due to our current outdated has to pay municipal operating grants to all civic governance system. Implement Regional 240 communies. and County 5. Less money spent on municipal Governments In an effort to modernize Newfoundland operang grants. NLMoose 2016-01-12T15:06:37-04:30 4.015873016 63 Government services that are transaconal in nature (Motor Vehicle Registration, Land and Deeds Registries, Moose Licences, Birth Certificates, Joint Stock Registries, MCP, Student Loans, etc.) can be modernized and provided by the private sector at a lower cost while improving services to constituents. Many much larger governments in other jurisdictions have successfully done this and NL, with a population of under 550,000 people, can as well if government is willing to Leverage successful models already in use address what may be perceived as a in other jurisdicons politically sensitive situation. With a $2B deficit in the current fiscal year and a Look beyond Canada for successful looming increase in debt, the transformation implementaons; which models fit NL best? towards a truly digital government should be a priority. Cost reducon and improved service to constuents. For example vendors would certainly bid for the privilege of building a cloud based Move government towards a truly digital application to replace the current Motor environment. Vehicle Registrtion (MVR) system; under the Drive transactional right business model this could be secured Sta ff reducon. government services under a long term contract that would to the web and eliminate the bulk of current operating costs Supports the local ICT sector driving outsource how they and improve the service which garners so economic diversificaon. are provisioned to much criticism today. Concerns about privacy the private sector. and security with cloud based applications ThinkDigital 2016-01-12T17:37:06-04:30 3.5 14 There needs to be a triage approach to Provincial Services and programs. A review should be undertaken of all departments and services provided and what services are used the least and therefore could be removed completely. This review should be completed for every department and level of government, what they consume, what they provide and how they provide it. For example - Does every Provincial employee need a smartphone? It seems like everyone got one these days. The IT budget for the province to be supplying all these Overspending on data packages that are phones must be tremendous. unnecessary throughout the province. Smart phones and blackberry packages Control the IT spending and decide who should be reduced to upper management really needs to be contacted at all mes. only - everyone else who needs a phone can Review of All have any ordinary cellphone for afterhours Provincial IT Services services. This should reduce spending on and smartphone unnecessary data packages packages ConcernedNewfo 2016-01-12T19:34:10-04:30 3.411764706 17 There are way too many small communies that cannot afford any services because the population, tax base and average age is too old and small. Each community wants their own fire station and police station and water treatment plant, library, etc etc but do not There should be an immediate study have the tax base to Operate or Maintain any completed for small Newfoundland of these facilities. The result is decades of communities in close proximity to one Provincial substitutities basically to support another where regionalization makes sense. dying communies. Its time to increase thier tax bases and give some independence and pride back to these Just because a small town regionalizes with communities. They are stronger together other adjacent communities doesnt mean then apart. that that town will lose its identity - you can regionalize towns tax bases with close E fficiencies - for all services, O M of communities. This will mean that one region services, administraon, etc (comprise of many towns) will have one regional council, one library, one school, one Its me to implement this where it makes Regionalize small fire department, etc sense. communities ConcernedNewfo 2016-01-12T19:42:39-04:30 3.973684211 38 Ok since I have moved home from away there have been Provincial Departments that have changed their names at least half a dozen times. Each time this happens emails have to change, business cards have to change, promotional materials of the department needs to change, logos change. Etc. Pick the core government department Provincial IT me to change directories names and sck to them. Provincial IT me to change emails IF you merge departments pick one name and stick with it. As long as the department Provincial IT me to change prmoonal provides the services required I dont think material. the pubic really cares in the long run the name of the department. The IT time and Again all this adminstraon me and Stop changing expense to always be updating this must be funding spent with little real return on government staggering. services provided. department names ConcernedNewfo 2016-01-12T19:51:21-04:30 3.875 32 If the Cies and Towns are large enough administratively and prefer more automy let Less me for Municipal and them have more control of the provincial Intergovernmental affairs oversight of large cost shared funding decisions and funding communities that can administer their own transfers between projects funding programs. MIGA representaves should oversee the Less red tape regarding funding decisions = smaller towns who have no administration. faster project completions and more projects That is where their time would be best spent. completed on schedule therefore less delay claims, etc for larger communies. Give Large Cities and Towns greater control of Funding ConcernedNewfo 2016-01-12T20:00:51-04:30 3.333333333 9 Has anyone read this outdated Act! There is no provision for RFP's for Consultants There is no provision for RFP's for Design Build Projects In order to get any procurement with quotations only it has to be below $20 thousand dollars! For Cities and Towns $20 thousand dollars is extremely low it basically means you have to tender almost everything which means more administrative time, Again this forces all Newfoundland longer schedules, more paperwork, more red communities into tendering more and more tape. activities each year. The rest of Canada embraces all different types of procurement There isnt even inflaon factors built into but we seem to be a decade behind the rest the limits for tendering. So Towns and of the country. Municipalities are handcuffed for years abiding by these limits and in reality yearly If you want governments to be more inflation means you get less and less work efficient with work start here. Tonnes of completed without having to tender. Administration time can be saved if this ACT is update and allows inflation factors into Update the Public No secon to cover pilot projects funding limits. Tendering Act! ConcernedNewfo 2016-01-12T20:09:48-04:30 3.818181818 22 I believe there needs to be a complete review of the entire Nalcor/Newfoundland Hydro/Power departments and their funcons. Do we have a redundant level in this organizaon? Do we need to connue to pay exorbadant performance bonuses to executives while we are in financial crisis? Is a $600k to $700k salary a bit rich for our budget? I don't think our Premier makes that much. New thought: Mul level management at Eastern Health. I have seen floors particularly at St Clares where there are three and four managers on the same floor on the same shi. Thank you Mr Ball. I think you and your Government will restore lost confidence in our Govenment. I think we are spending large amounts of money on redundancy in government Review multi-level departments. governments BobA 2016-01-12T20:19:00-04:30 3.75 8 There are numerous facilies that sit unused and deteriorating around the Province that are being maintained for no purpose. Get an exit strategy, have some small departments work from home!!!!! The model of every department having their own facility no maer what size is outdated. Get an exit strategy on all these unused buildings eating public tax payer dollars (for Small departments can work from home Unused or O M, for rental contracts, leases, etc and sell which will save O M costs. underused them off or abandon them or tear them Government down.

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