Assignments

Assignment Content#1

Catastrophic Events Presentation

Resource: https://www.fema.gov/

Choose: Midwest Floods widespread and covers Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas

Create a 2- to 4-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation that discusses how this major event impacted the local budget. 

Include the following in your presentation:

•    Costs during and after the event
•    The effects on public policy 

Assignment Content #2

Financial Contingency Planning: Sources of Funding Paper

Refer to the public safety program you selected for the Week 4 Influences Within Public Programs assignment.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you evaluate the possible sources of revenue, temporary assistance, and funding assets as part of financial contingency planning.

•  Address the following sources in your paper:
•  Public-private partners
•  Community-based organizations (nonprofit)
•  Bond issuance
•  Grants
•  Multi-level government financing

Explain the effects of taxation. 

Evaluate the role that financial efficiency will play in obtaining this funding at the state and local levels. 

Explain how you would identify the sources of funds for the project. 

Include: 

• An Introduction previewing all the major points listed in all of the areas listed above
• A Conclusion that recaps all of the paper's major points (listed above)

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Assignment Content#3

Government Overview Final Project

Use the entity selected in Week 2 as well as the information from the Weeks 2, 3, and 4 papers as a basis for this paper.

Complete a 600- to 650-word paper. The final project must cover the municipality as a whole and must combine concepts from the earlier assignments as well as the following topics:

•  Elements involved in the budget preparation, enactment, and execution

Include at least one or two references other than the text and lectures.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.