Questions Administration Flashcards
The three C’s of a good staff report are:
(A) Consistency, Compatibility, Comprehensive
(B) Compliance, Consistency, Compatibility
(C) Compliance, Consistency, Comprehensive
(D) Comprehensive, Consistency, Compatibility
The correct answer is (B)
Compliance, Consistency, Compatibility
Your small town needs to undertake an extensive citizen involvement process to help develop a
vision for the community and lacks the needed in-house expertise to know how to effectively
accomplish this. In your role as the Planning Director, you determine that the best option available is:
(A) Define required services and carry out a two-step RFQ-RFP process
(B) Seek advice from the regional planning council
(C) Assign your best senior planner to educate himself in citizen involvement techniques
(D) A
Ask your local citizen groups for advise
(A) Define required services and carry out a two-step RFQ-RFP process
Although the regional planning council may be able to provide “advice” on how to effectively accomplish
a visioning process, it is often best to augment staff expertise through the hiring of expert consultants
where detailed technical or subject matter knowledge on a specific planning process is required.
Consultants are typically skilled at facilitating the extensive public outreach and involvement required in
major planning projects. Outside experts can also bring credibility and a sense of objectivity to planning
processes.
What are the three legs of Collaborative rationality
diversity, interdependence, and authentic
dialogue (DIAD). Collaboratively rational processes are about engaging with other members of a
community to jointly learn and work out how to get better together in the face of conflict, complex
changing conditions and multiple conflicting sources of information. DIVERSITY: The inclusion of all
agents (i.e. full participation of all relevant stakeholders) is required for coherent and novel patterns of
action to emerge. INTERDEPENDENCE: The condition of interdependence holds that agents must
depend to a significant degree on other agents. That is, as is true in all successful negotiations, each
agent (or stakeholder) has something that the others want. AUTHENIC DIALOGUE: Deliberations must
be characterized by direct engagement so that the parties can test to be sure that claims are accurate,
comprehensible, and sincere, and everyone involved must have equal access to all the relevant
information and an equal ability to speak and be listened to
