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Best Practice Stories from New York’s counties
Winter 2008
- Partnerships Can Pave the Way to Cost Savings
"Managing County Government in New York State has never been easy and the state's financial condition over the next few years is likely to make county government finances even more difficult..." - Real Property Tax Leadership Summit in Wayne County
"In early summer 2008 Wayne County appeared in the New York State Commision on Property Tax Relief Report of FIndings and Recommendations to the Governer as one of the "best of the worst" regarding real property taxes..." - Cutting County Costs While Preserving Vital County Services
"This year will be a year of challenges for county governments across the state; Asking taxpayers to foot the bill for the shortfall of counties is not an option, but neither is abandoning the people who have come to rely on them for services..." - Redefining Government Processes with Lean Six Sigma
"Erie County is the first large county in the United States to implement Lean Six Sigma... realizing cost savings and improving the quality of services provided to the public..." - Regional Approach to Municipal Procurement Continues to Gain Momentum in the Hudson Valley
Regional Planning or Regional Cooperation is a success with the Hudson Valley Municipal Group(HVMPG). - Community-Driven Case Management Services: Monroe County’s Recovery Connection Program
"Do individuals with chronic substance use, including those with associated mental health diagnoses, "fail" to engage in the treatment system or does the system fail to develop person-centered programs to best meet their needs?"
Fall 2008
- Westchester Named to "Top 7" Progressive Community
"Westchester is continuing to gain recognition for its many innovative programs and services- most recently being names one of the world's Top Seven Intelligent Communities of the year..." - Ontario County's Partnerships for Economic Development
"Recognizing and responding to the rise of the global economy, Ontario County made a policy commitment to actively compete in this environment..." - Government - Fast and Paperless
Westchester County Clerk Idoni adds Uniform Comercial Code filings to his list of E-Initiatives
Summer 2008
- Creating an Innovative Cross-Systems, Tri-County Collaboration: The Child and Adolescent Mobile Team
"Until recently, children and adolescents with serious mental health and/or developmental disabilities had little or no access to effective services during times of crises..." - Consolidating Services in Broome County
"Many describe the State of New York's government oversized..." - Chemung County’s Collaboration that Works for Employers and Job Seekers
"After three years and considerable planning and hard work, the Academic Workforce Development Center opened in Elmira in August of 2007." - County Collaboration Helps Children
"Columbia County is celebrating twenty-years of operation of the School and Community Services Project, a unique collaboration that began with the Task Force on integrated Projects sponsored by Four State Agencies." - Municipal Consolidation— Practicality Over Parochialism
"In Genesee County what started out as a long and sometimes laborious process of replacing a 1902 vintage Sherriff's Administration/Communications building with a 21st century Administration Center and E911 state of the artcountywide services building also provided an opportunity for the City of Batavia and Genessee County to merge City Ploice and the County Sheriff's seperate dispatching services." - For Nassau County, Consolidation Means Savings
Merging services with other internals or municipalities could prove more efficient and less costly. - Cooperative Purchasing Saves Taxpayers
"Local governments and school districts in Westchester now have a new resource to save taxpayers money..." - Municipal Alliance Saving Counties Money
"When New York State decided to deregulate the market for electricty in 1997, county legislators in Tompkins and Tioga Counties Jumped ahead of the pack and began investing ways in which they could save money in te new market environment..."
Past Stories
- Bringing Measurement to Welfare Program Management
Chemung County has deployed Muni-Minder, from Salient Corporation, to use leverage performance management techniques to improve its Welfare to Work program. - Cattaraugus County Brings Real Property Information Directly to Taxpayers
The Cattaraugus County Real Property Service Department uses a new assessment system that enables its Town Assessors to access assessment files from any Web browser. - Rockland County’s Veterans Service Agency
Rockland County has recently expanded its programs and services offered to its more than 6,000 local veterans. - Nassau County’s No Wrong Door Policy Puts Residents First
Nassau County has created a single point of entry into any of its Health and Human Service programs. - The Western New York Care Coordination Program
This six county consortium has developed a mental health program that dramatically improves patient outcomes, reduces incidents of arrest and hospitalization and helps clients improve their own lives. - Fulton County Creates Consolidate Fuel Depot
Fulton County’s Consolidated Fuel Depot provided 64 different agencies with more than 300,000 gallons of fuel in 2005. - Fulton County Cooperative Planning Contracts
Fulton County’s Planning Department can provide cities, towns and villages with professional planning services.