[Solved] Preparing a Hypothetical Springfield City Budget Summary
Review the City Budget Spreadsheet.
Consider yourself as the city manager as you prepare this document. Prepare a 2,500-word paper that provides an executive summary of a hypothetical city budget. Ensure you explain revenue and expenditure trends, fund balances, and what the change in fund balance might mean to future requests for citizen services.
Provide at least four charts and/or graphs to supplement your written material.
Remember this document is meant to provide information to the city council and local citizens about city spending. As an example, the amount of money spent on public safety, library services, city staff salaries, and other matters speaks volumes as to the priorities of the city council. It is your job to explain these spending decisions.
Review the budget revenues and expenditures, including their trends, to gain a more thorough understanding of how future year city services might be affected if these trends continue.
Explain in your document any citizen involvement with the budget process, any requests for new funding of major projects, and remember to provide an overview of the proposed capital budget (any projects that cost more than $25,000 and have a useful life of more than one year).
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[Solved] BUSS 5143 – Assignment #1 Contracts (Legal) Analysis
Read the following factual account and answer all the questions at the end:
Kangaroo Island Council has been successful in obtaining funding from State and Commonwealth Government to implement the $18M Kangaroo Island Airport Upgrade Project. The objective of the project is to establish regular, sustainable air access to/from Australia’s east coast and from there to/from international markets. Essential to the delivery of this project on time, in scope, quality and cost the Kangaroo Island Council has advertised a Request for Tender on the SA Tenders & Contracts website to identify and secure the services of a suitably qualified, experienced independent project management specialist. The Request for Tender document includes the following excerpt: ‘The project is to commence on confirmation of signed funding agreements with State and Commonwealth Governments and it is anticipated that this will be achieved by the end of February. To this end any successful tenderer will be required to start work almost immediately. The Project Manager minimum requirements:
1. Significant organisational aviation experience (including new and refurbished terminal experience) including recent regional aviation project experience.
2. Aviation experience of proposed team members.
3. Aviation/Airport programming capabilities within the company
4. Federally funded project experience.
5. Local Government Project Experience 5. South Australian-based project management organisation.
6. Fully independent project management companies only. All tenders will be considered, amongst other criteria, in accordance to satisfying all the minimum requirements.’
Although your company, ‘UniSA Projects R Us’ have had aviation experience with managing airport runway extensions, overlay and associated airside works, it has never had experience with terminal upgrades. Your company submits its tender in accordance with the Request for Tender instructions. Your tender is competitive with respect to the fixed lump sum fee for the scope of services and is awarded the tender. Boot Projects Australia is a Project Management company who were commissioned to undertake the expansion of Melbourne Airport including the runway extensions, overlay, associated airside works as well as terminal works. Boot Projects Australia also submitted a tender and spent $25,000.00 to prepare and submit the tender. UniSA Projects R Us circulate a Request for Tender for the New Terminal IT infrastructure. A tender is submitted by a local Kangaroo Island business, Rexell Consultants to fit the New Terminal with all the Information Technology and cabling requirements for $4,075,987. On August 10 UniSA Projects R Us’ representative informed Rexell Consultants that they would be prepared to pay $3, 567,567 for the work proposed in Rexell’s tender. Rexell’s manager asked UniSA Projects R Us’ representative if they would keep the deal open until the end of the month to give Rexell time to see if this would be financially viable. UniSA Projects R Us’ representative replied that he didn’t think this would be a problem. On August 17 Rexell wrote to UniSA Projects R Us: While we are interested in performing the work to fit out the New Terminal, we are of the opinion that the price you are proposing is too low. Would you be prepared to accept $3,900,000?
On August 20 UniSA Projects R Us replied by letter as follows: Thank you for expression of interest. Unfortunately, the price you have proposed does not make sound economic sense to us in view of other proposals we received. Our price stands and if you change your mind, the New Terminal project would be awarded to you as we are particularly looking at utilising local businesses where possible. We wish you success building your business in South Australia. This letter arrived on August 23. On August 24 Rexell lost a contract with the local hospital and in turn decided they would have the available resources to perform the work at lower cost. They immediately posted a letter agreeing to the price that UniSA Projects R Us proposed to pay for IT project works. This letter arrived at UniSA Projects R Us’ office on August 27. On August 26 UniSA Projects R Us was approached by Boots IT brothers, enquiring about the progress of the tender they submitted for the IT works in the New Terminal and said they would be prepared to now do the work for $3,440,000.00. UniSA Projects R Us immediately accepted. On August 27 Rexell contacted UniSA Projects R Us to arrange execution of the contract, only to be informed that the tender had been awarded to another party. Since August 20, Rexell have employed a further 3 employees on a fixed 12-month contract. They are now claiming that UniSA Projects R Us should compensate them for the extra cost of paying redundancy pay for the surplus workers. Construction of the New Terminal commenced in March 2017. All going to plan, construction was scheduled to be completed by August 2018. The contract completion date for the New Terminal was Monday 13 August 2018 to enable the ‘fit-out’ to commence and be completed in time for the start of the summer tourism season. The New Terminal would be officially opened by the Premier and it was expected that the occasion would also be attended by various high-profile members of the community. In mid-July 2018 Westside Building Services (WBS) asked the City’s project manager if the completion date for the contract could be extended by several weeks. WBS was experiencing a cash flow problem since a client for whom they had completed a large refurbishment went into liquidation resulting in a huge loss in revenue to WBS. After consulting with Kangaroo Island Council, UniSA Projects R US notified WBS that it was unable extend the completion date for the contract owing to the scheduled events for the opening date and that the New Terminal had to open before the summer tourism season. Instead, Kangaroo Island Council agreed to pay WBS an extra $450,000 if they guaranteed completion by the contract date. WBS agreed and hired the extra labour and purchased the extra supplies they needed to meet the contract deadline. WBS completed the New Terminal by the date agreed in their contract. Kangaroo Island Council is now refusing to pay the extra $450,000 that they promised for completion by that date claiming that Westside Building Services were always obligated to complete by the agreed contract date.
Answer ALL the following Questions
Question 1
Boot Projects Australia are threatening to take legal action against Kangaroo Island Council claiming that they should have accepted their tender before UniSA Projects R Us, since they have had previous aviation project management experience with expanding the T2 terminal at Melbourne Airport. Advise Boots Projects Australia.
Question 2
Rexell claim that they have a binding agreement to perform the IT project works in the New Terminal. They are now claiming the extra cost of having to hire and terminate the 3 employees hired to assist with the New Terminal project. Advise Rexell.
Question 3
Westside Building Services claim to be entitled to the extra $450,000 promised by the Kangaroo Island Council for completing the project on time. Advise Westside Building Services
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Solution
Advise to Boots Project Australia.
In this regard, a determination has to be made as to whether there exists a valid contract between Kangaroo Island Council and Boots Project Australia ……..
[Solved] Program effectiveness is difficult to prove, even when ample quantitative and qualitative data are available
Program effectiveness is difficult to prove, even when ample quantitative and qualitative data are available. Just because information is easy to count or describe does not mean that it provides insight. For example, a health promotion program that seeks to teach adults in a community to eat fewer fatty foods in order to avoid heart disease. A report about how many heart attacks occurred in the community might provide some insight on overall cardiac health, but there is no way to collect data on the number of heart attacks that did not happen as a result of the program. Moreover, the number of heart attacks alone will not be a relevant data point without being linked to fatty food consumption. However, it may be helpful to look at trends in eating habits as well as trends in heart disease and heart attacks over a 10-year period.
As a public health professional, you may be asked to determine what needs to be evaluated (what is being measured) and why, and what data will yield relevant information. For this week’s Discussion, you will practice planning data collection for effective evaluation using a scenario before collecting data for your own programs.
Select one of the following four hypothetical public health programs. Consider the methods and data points that would be the most appropriate in order to evaluate its effectiveness.
Scenarios:
- Boost Your Kids: A U.S. program sponsored by a local health department’s Injury Prevention program. The program seeks to inform parents about the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s recommendations regarding car seat usage.
- Babies Benefit: A program offered by an international relief organization in Myanmar to train health care providers to communicate about the use of vitamin A and other supplements during every health care visit and intervention.
- Slim Down City: A lifestyle health program aimed at urban residents in the United States, this programs sponsors weekly walks for 10 weeks to promote physical activity and prevent obesity.
- The Pink Bus: A program provided by an alliance between a local university health care system and a cancer center, this clinic on wheels provides free and low-cost mammograms to low-income women in Canada.
Homework
- Post the number of the scenario you selected (make sure to include the number of your chosen scenario in the subject line).
- Describe three types of quantitative and three types of qualitative data you want to collect about the public health program you chose, and explain why you would collect each.
- Then, explain one quantitative and one qualitative method that might be most appropriate to evaluate the program and why.
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[Solved] Best Practices Assignment- Inadequate Nutrition in Pregnancy
Best Practices Assignment
- How would you teach the topic to a patient?
- For the other listed conditions, these are abnormal findings or complications?
- It is important for the family to know to help cope with difficult health issues, prevent complications, and promote long term health and safety?
- How will you know that the family understood the teaching?
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[Solved] A 78-year old woman is admitted to a Medical unit directly from her physician’s office for evaluation and management of congestive heart failure
Your written assignment for this module should be a 2-3 page paper (not including title page and reference page).
A 78-year old woman is admitted to a Medical unit directly from her physician’s office for evaluation and management of congestive heart failure. She has a history of systemic hypertension.
The initial assessment completed by the RN of the assigned patient reveals a pulse rate that is rapid and very irregular. The patient is restless, her skin is pale and cool, she states she is dizzy when she stands up and she is slightly short of breath and anxious. Her BP is 106/88. Her ECG monitor pattern shows uncontrolled atrial fibrillation with a heart rate ranging from 150 -170 beats/min. Her respirations are 20/min and her O2 saturation is 90%.
- Given the findings, what should be the first action of the practical nurse?
- What additional data would the practical nurse collect?
- Discuss the potential complications of cardioversion and patient preparation for an elective cardioversion. Because the length of time the patient has been in atrial fibrillation is unknown, what adverse reaction may occur?
Later that evening the patient calls the nurse because she feels “like something terrible is going to happen.” She reports chest pain, has increased shortness of breath, and has coughed up blood-tinged sputum.
- Based on these symptoms, what might you suspect is happening?
- What is the first thing the practical nurse should do and what further information would you expect to be collected?
You should include a minimum of 3 references. Include a title page, in-text citations, and a reference page in APA format.
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[Solved] Apply appropriate nursing care interventions for clients during pregnancy, labor, and birth
Purpose of Assignment
- Utilize the appropriate technology and/or references/resources, demonstrating accurate use, in order to access reliable data and information that support evidence-based practice in the care of diverse clients during pregnancy.
- Differentiate the various components of basic physiological needs as it relates to pregnancy and health practices, including but not limited to associated concepts of.
- Evaluate data and information gathered during client care, simulated scenarios, and/or case studies related to promoting nutritional health during pregnancy, nursing care strategies to address the common discomforts of pregnancy, essential components and standards of prenatal care, fetal growth and development stages in order to determine knowledge and wisdom gained through critical thought processes to optimize client outcomes and quality improvement.
- Demonstrate a basic understanding of communication practices necessary for client-centered care and interdisciplinary collaboration in terms of knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
Competency
Apply appropriate nursing care interventions for clients during pregnancy, labor, and birth.
Scenario
You are a registered nurse (RN) working in a Women’s OB/GYN Clinic. Elizabeth Jones, 37 years old, presents to the prenatal clinic after missing her last 2 menstrual cycles. Her home pregnancy test was positive. An ultrasound at the clinic confirms pregnancy. Gestational age is calculated to be 10 weeks. An initial assessment of Ms. Jones’s medical and obstetrical history is as follows.
Obstetric/Gynecologic (OB/GYN) history: Uncomplicated spontaneous vaginal delivery at 39.2 weeks (3 years ago); Cesarean section x 1 at 37.5 weeks for non-reassuring fetal heart tones (1.5 years ago); abnormal Papanicolau (PAP) smear x2, + human papilloma virus (HPV), colposcopy within normal limits
Medical history: Chronic hypertension (HTN) x 5 years;
Allergies: Penicillin
Social history:
- (+) tobacco, “occasional” per client (pt), <5 per/day currently, has smoked “off and on” for 15 years
- (+) cocaine use, states she has not used any cocaine/drugs for > 1 year; (-) alcohol use
- Abusive partner with first pregnancy, states she has a new partner x 4 years
- Depression, currently not taking meds for treatment (tx)
Medications: Prenatal vitamins; Labetalol 200mg BID;
Family history: Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (mother); HTN and heart disease (father); breast cancer (maternal grandmother, deceased)
Instructions
Write a two to three-page analysis of this scenario that answers the following questions:
- What should the nurse consider related to caring for a client with a history of domestic abuse, drug use, sexually transmitted diseases and depression?
- Document the considerations of yourself as the professional nurse in regards to self-awareness; be aware of attitudes, values and beliefs that you hold related to clients from different social backgrounds so that care is not affected negatively.
- What conditions are in Mrs. Jones history that would cause concern during pregnancy, labor, and birth?
- What concerns should be discussed with Ms. Jones before she leaves her appointment?
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[Solved] Improving Public Health Program Implementation Using Evaluations
A public health program is costly in time, expenditures, and effort. The stakes are high, and the aims are noble, often no less than improving the wellbeing of an entire community or group. The only way to determine whether the program has been worth these costs is to conduct thorough evaluations. In public health, as in most fields, researchers and experts have differing terms for similar concepts, and there is a lack of consistent labels that are used throughout a given discipline. For example, public health textbooks differ in how they categorize subtopics under the umbrella term of evaluation. This week’s course texts describe two differing ways to conceptualize the four types of evaluation on which you will focus this week: formative, process, impact, and outcome. Although they agree on formative and process evaluation, they give opposite explanations for impact and outcome evaluations. For the purposes of this week’s work, please use the Fertman text’s definitions.
For this week’s Discussion, review the media titled Evaluating Health Programs. Consider how Water Missions Belize co-founder Jennifer Harsta conducts program evaluation in a water sanitation program. Also, reflect on how she and her employees might improve her program based on the evaluation and how she might improve her evaluation methods. Then, using credible online sources, locate two examples of public health programs that have been thoroughly evaluated. One way to find examples of evaluations is to search for public health topics of interest to you. For example, the phrase “tobacco program outcomes” yields a good sample evaluation at Health Outcomes | Tobacco Use Cessation Evaluation Measures | Workplace Health Strategies by Condition | Workplace Health Promotion | CDC(Note: Please do not use this example for your post.)
Homework
- A summary of the evaluations of two public health programs that includes the evaluators, stakeholders, results, and unique features.
- For each program, explain one way in which you might use the evaluation results to improve the program.
- Finally, explain which program evaluation was more effective and why.
Use the bullet points above as subheading in the homework and format your homework using APA 7th Edition
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[Solved] Review the SHRM case, “The Reyes Fitness Centers, Inc.: The Strategic HR Opportunity”
Prepare a 4–6-page case analysis on the topic of strategic management and why it is critical to the success of an organization in meeting its goals and mission. In your analysis, respond to the following question: What is strategic management and why is it critical to the success of an organization in meeting its goals and mission?
Your analysis of this case and your written submission should reflect an understanding of the critical issues of the case, integrating the material covered in the text, and present concise and well-reasoned justifications for the stance that you take.
Case analysis criteria: Your case analysis should consist of:
- A brief analysis of the situation and pending decision problem, as presented in the case, and as relevant to your answer. This should be exceptionally brief and you should assume the person reading the Assignment is familiar with the details of the case.
- Identification of the major issues surrounding the organization or individuals involved with the organization.
- Identification of alternate courses of action to address the issues identified.
- The decision or recommendation for action, with the appropriate supporting arguments.
- The case question is designed to guide the direction of your analysis in the case. Your analysis should address and ultimately answer the question.
You may discuss your case analysis Assignment with the class, but you must submit your own original work.
Case analysis tips: Avoid common errors in case analyses, such as:
- Focusing too heavily on minor issues.
- Lamenting because of insufficient data in the case and ignoring creative alternatives.
- Rehashing of case data — you should assume the reader knows the case.
- Not appropriately evaluating the quality of the case’s data.
- Obscuring the quantitative analysis or making it difficult to understand.
Typical “minus (–)” grades result from submissions that:
- Are late.
- Are not well integrated and lack clarity.
- Do not address timing issues.
- Do not recognize the cost implications or are not practical.
- Get carried away with personal biases and are not pertinent to the key issues.
- Are not thoroughly proofread and corrected.
Make sure your document includes:
• Your name
• Date
• Course name and section number
• Unit number
• Case name
• Page numbers
The case analysis should be a minimum of 4–6 pages long, double-spaced. Check for correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and usage. Citations should be in APA style.
Here is the Assignment grading rubric.
Assignment submission: Before you submit your Assignment, you should save your work on your computer in a location that you will remember. Save the document using the naming convention: Username_Unit2_Assignment.doc. Submit your file by selecting the Unit 2: Assignment Dropbox.
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[Solved] For this week’s Discussion, review the media from Week 7 titled Healthcare in Rural Communities.
Some health educators have observed that, for adults, the workplace provides a setting very similar to school for children: a place in which individuals spend a major part of their days and where they are often receptive to information. Unlike health care and community settings, school and workplace settings are generally based on specific grade levels, such as kindergarteners, or populations sharing a common purpose, such as factory workers. However, you can be creative and find applications for almost any program in almost any setting. For example, a program about safety seats for infants could be taken to employee groups to target working adults who may be new parents. An adult fitness program could be provided in an elementary school for the faculty, who may in turn model fitness principles for their students.
As you explore the possible outcomes in the two settings, it will become more obvious which of the settings will provide better results. Continuing with the same project you discussed in Week 7, you will explore what aspects would be appropriate in a school setting and in a workplace setting.
For this week’s Discussion, review the media from Week 7 titled Healthcare in Rural Communities. Consider how programs such as the sexually transmitted disease program described by Fanny Martinez might be different if implemented in a school or workplace setting. Then, using the same scenario you selected in Week 7 (repeated below), consider the intended outcomes for a school and workplace setting and how each setting would affect program implementation to ensure intended outcomes.
Scenario 1:
In Namibia, a country in South Africa, health care is provided through the government, mission facilities, and private agencies. The country is sparsely populated, and many people in rural communities have no transportation; as such, they walk to health care facilities. Imagine that you are a health educator who has been asked to address the high incidence children contracting malaria and other illnesses. You want to educate parents about what symptoms necessitate bringing a child in for care, and what to do in case they cannot bring the child in due to transportation or other issues.
Scenario 2:
Imagine that you are a family health advocate who wants to create a smoking prevention program to decrease the number of smokers in a community. You are asked to target your program primarily to teenagers in order to prevent young people from starting down the path to becoming smokers. Many individuals in the community are employed in tobacco farming and production. The economic reliance on tobacco has made many individuals in the community resistant to messages of abstinence from smoking, although a new study has shown an alarming increase in cancer rates of all types in the county.
Homework
- The number of the scenario you chose.
- Use the scenario you used last week, and make sure to include the number of your chosen scenario in the subject line.
- Explain how you might implement the public health program in the scenario in a school setting.
- Then, explain how you might implement the same program in a workplace setting. Include in your post how the implementation would differ based on each setting.
- Explain one potential strategy you would use in a school setting and one potential strategy you would use in a workplace setting to ensure that the public health program achieves the intended outcomes.
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