DQ 5-2

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DQ 5-2

DQ5-2Responses

1.Public-Private Partnership (PPP) that is necessary – United States Infrastructure

The U.S. infrastructure is falling behind other industrialized countries because PPP is not functioning as well as it should. In the U.S., there are many roads, bridges, tunnels, and water systems that are deteriorating at an alarming rate (Geddes & Casady, 2016). For this PPP to work, end-to-end management is imperative, and it must include relationship improvements addressing design, maintenance, operation, and finance. The problem begins with poorly set life cycles and counteracted with poor planning. Contract negotiations are incompetently carried out and the execution process is too slow and inadequately financed. Most all industrialized countries are utilizing the PPP method to confront their infrastructure challenges, America should take a hard look at how other countries are progressing.

Public-Private Partnership that not necessary – World Bank

The World Bank, opened in 1946 as a post-World War II program that was initiated to help rebuild the global economy. However, today the world economy runs quite differently, and many question whether it is necessary since private sectors can raise funds for countries that do not generate enough investment capital (Hutchinson, 2007). Transparency has never been a word that describes the World Bank, possessing a reputation of corruption over the years. On the flip side, many will argue the World Bank still has a prominent role in reducing global poverty (Clemons, 2016). For the World Bank to gain more significance, it is in desperate need of organizational reshaping that is comparable to the challenges of today.

 

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Reference

Clemons, M. (2016). The World Bank is turning 70. Do we still need it? Center of global development. Retrieved from https://www.cgdev.org/blog/world-bank-turning-70-do-we-still-need-it

Geddes, R.R. & Casady, C.B. (2016). Private participation in US infrastructure: American Enterprise Institute. The role of PPP units. Retrieved from http://www.aei.org/publication/private-participation-in-us-infrastructure-the-role-of-ppp-units/

Hutchinson, M. (2007). Rotting monopoly. Retrieved from https://www.breakingviews.com/considered-view/world-bank-has-become-useless-relic/

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Governments typically adopt public private partnerships (P3) to maximize existing financial resources and talents. Like any partnership, there is a gap and this partnership looks to fill this gap. Federal, state and local governments are finding it difficult to finance new projects on their own due to decreased tax revenue and shrinking budgets, thus the P3 is born (McNichol, n.d.). There are many P3’s that are considered necessary because the government simply does not have the funds to keep up. There is also rapid deterioration of nearly all types of infrastructure in every state and an increase in population. The government has to do something to keep up and maintain the safety of these infrastructures, this is where the P3 comes into play. One example of a necessary partnership is the Downtown and Midtown tunnels partnership. This partnership looks to update the aging Midtown Tunnel, revamp the Downtown Tunnel and improve and extend a major thoroughfare in Portsmouth (Murphy, 2015). The private company will finance, build, operate and maintain the facilities for the next 58 years and to receive their profit, they will include tolls to regain the money that they’ve invested (Murphy, 2015). Without this partnership, these improvements needed for the safety of the community would not be attainable but working with this private company, allows for these repairs to be accomplished.

An example of an unnecessary P3 is the partnership that was formed at my current court with a private agency to loan us their case processing system designed for the City of Scottsdale Court. At the time, we were operating a similar case processing system, AZTEC but the one in Scottsdale Court, AZTEC Wizard was designed to expedite case processing. While this case processing system was incredibly helpful and helped to streamline the work done by clerks, the system is very different from our current system that was mandatory for all Arizona courts, as of July 2017, the AJAC’s system. My court knew about this new system, they knew it would be implemented soon (although they didn’t have an exact time frame), yet they still took out a contract with AZTEC systems and trained the court staff on this new operating system which was only used for a couple of years before the new system was introduced. Of course the city signed a contract for the next five years and still has to pay for the use of this operating system, even though we are no longer using it. To top it off, it took the court staff almost six months to really learn the new system introduced in 2017 and work at the same pace we were before the change. Had we signed a smaller contract, we could have saved money. Had we taken the time to read the manuals before the new AJACS system was installed, we could’ve worked at a faster pace. The reason for signing the contract, was my current court didn’t believe the state would roll out the AZTEC system as fast as they did. The court clerks learned three operating systems in the past five years, making case processing a lengthy process. Had we just held out and operated with just AZTEC, instead of switching to AZTEC Wizard and then AJACS, the court would have saved money and the court employees wouldn’t have to learn so many new operating systems. 

Rescource

McNichol, D. (n.d.). The United States: The World’s Largest Emerging P3 Market Rebuilding America’s Infrastructure. Retrieved from https://www.aig.com/content/dam/aig/america-canada/us/documents/insights/final-p3-aig-whitepaper-brochure.pdf

 

Murphy, R. (2015). Examples of public-private partnerships. Retrieved from http://www.dailypress.com/news/newport-news/dp-nws-ppea-tech-center-sidebar-20150125-story.html