DOLLARS AND SENSE: HOW STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN MICHIGAN SPEND YOUR MONEY docx

... Rick Snyder Dollars and Sense: How State and Local Governments in Michigan Spend Your Money Michigan s Fiscal Health2011 Citizen’s Guide to Michigan s Financial Health 17PENSION AND RETIREE ... imbalance in the state s finances;• Many governments in Michigan are spending more than they are taking in. To support their spending, they have drained their savings, borrowed money, and failed ... Between Governments SERVICES THAT GOVERNMENTS PROVIDEWhere does this money go? In general, state and local governments collect money in the form of taxes and fees and use it to coordinate delivery...

... s-minute sampling frequency, we sub-divide thetrading day into s-minute bins, compute the average actual return (over all days in the sample) by bin and smooth the resulting time series using ... F., and S. Viswanathan, 1994, Strategic trading with asymmetrically informedinvestors and long-lived information, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis29, 499–518.Gomber, P. and U. ... Giot, and J. Grammig, 2002, Expected and unexpected cost of trading in the XETRA automated auction market, Mimeo, CORE.Biais, B., P. Hillion, and C. Spatt, 1999, Price discovery and learning during...

... In ordertounderstandtheeffectsofremovingonelaneofon‐streetparking,theresearchersneededtoknowthecurrentsupplyofpublicon‐street and off‐streetparking in thearea, and thecurrentratesofusage.Ifonelaneofparkingisremoved,merchants and Citydecision‐makerswillwanttoknowiftheexistingparkingdemandcanbeaccommodatedwiththeremainingsupply.(Itisimportanttonotethateveniftheremainingsupplycannotaccommodateexistingdemand,municipalitieshavetheoptionofconstructingnewmunicipalparkinglotsorconvertingsidestreetparkingtopayparking.Forexample,aspartofthenewlyconstructedSt.Clairstreetcarexclusiveright‐of‐way,TPAisbuildingnew‘GreenP’lotstomakeupforsomeoftheloston‐streetparking.)Ratherthanusingobservationaldata,parkingcapacity and usagedatawasrequestedfromtheTorontoParkingAuthority(TPA).BecausetheTPAnowexclusivelyemployspay and displayparkingmachinesforon‐streetparking and in mostmunicipalparkinglots(‘GreenP’lots),theTPAhasarobust,sophisticated, and reliablesystemfortrackingparkingusage. ... Surveyrespondentswerealsoasked how much money they spend in theBloorAnnex in atypicalmonth,withfivespendingrangesprovidedasoptions.Overall,thegreatestpercentageofrespondentsreportspendingbetween$100 and $499(41%).Amongthosewholiveorwork in thearea,50%reportspendingbetween$100 and $499,comparedto35%ofthosewhodonotliveorwork in thearea.Instead,thegreatestpercentageofthosewhodonotliveorwork in thearea spend between$25 and $99(35%).Lookingatspendingcategorizedbytherespondent’smodeoftravel,walkersseemto spend themost(definedasthegreatestpercentagespendingmorethan$100permonth),followedbybicyclists,thencardrivers, and finallypublictransitusers.The ... On-Street Parking and Business 18 twooptions(wideningthesidewalkorinstallingabikelane)wouldalsoresult in lesson‐streetparking.Thesurveyrespondentswereoverwhelmingly in favourofabikelane–62%ofthetotalsample,withsimilarnumbersforboththosewholive and thosewhodonotlive in thearea.Notsurprisingly,bicyclistsweremost in favourofabikelane(86%).However,allthegroupsfavouredthebikelane,includingdrivers(46%–thesamenumberwhopreferrednochange),walkers(63%), and publictransitusers(56%).Table...

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... wanted more joint operational training in preparing for and respond-ing to terrorist-related incidents. Local law enforcement agencies also desired training on evidence collection, how to conduct ... communications interoperability, and training on how to conduct lessons learned and on the use of the incident command system. In other areas, local law enforcement in large counties indicated an ... need for train-ing and equipment support than state law enforcement, particularly with respect to joint operational training, training on evidence col-lection and how to operate in hazardous...

... the matching grant.Education spending (in thousands)$0Private spending (in thousands)$1,000 $1,375Initially, the city faces a tradeoff between education and private goods. The price ratio ... currently enormous inequality in the ability and perhaps desire for communities to finance public goods.Gaps in per-pupil spending arise because of differences in the local property tax ... EvidenceEvidenceRedistribution in Action: School Finance EqualizationSchool finance equalizationlaws mandate redistribution across communities in a state to ensure more equal financing of schools. Local districts...

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... that this is being conveyed and monitoredis in Compstat recordings of complaints againstpolice officers. Precinct commanders are nowbeing held accountable, in Compstat data and meetings, for civilian ... Community policing con-tinues to ask officers to think and act in new and unaccustomed ways, and many of its presumedbenefits do not show up in police informationsystems. Community policing will ... assistance, identifying the causes that liebehind them, and designing tactics to deal with thesecauses. This involves training officers in methods ofidentifying and analyzing problems. As a...

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