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Part 5: The Challenge of Allocating Limited Resources to Growing Demand for Service in Fire, Police and Sanitation Departments

Published: Aug. 14, 2012, 6:57 p.m.

This video is part five of a multi-part series of a two-day symposium "Public Management and the Lindsay Years (1966-1973)", presented by Baruch College School of Public Affairs in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York on September 29 and 30, 2010.

This session addresses the challenge of allocating limited resources to growing demand for service in Fire, Police and Sanitation Departments. Specific initiatives in these departments were undertaken to address this issue; they were the use of Tactical Control Units in the Fire Department, the Fourth Platoon in the Police Department and a revised Chart Day System in the Sanitation Department.

Panelists include:

Steve Savas
Presidential Professor, Baruch College
First Deputy Administrator of NYC in Lindsay Administration;

Herbert Elish
Chief Operating Officer, The College Board
Sanitation Commissioner in Lindsay Administration;

Peter Kolesar
Professor Emeritus, Columbia University
Analyst, NYC Rand Institute during Lindsay Administration.

The speakers are introduced by Stan Altman, symposium organizer, Professor of School of Public Affairs and Director of American Humanics at Baruch College.