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Enterprise funds provide one means by which cities provide municipal goods and services to their residents while generating revenues to augment cities' other revenue-generating activities or substitute for other forms of revenue. Because municipal enterprises are accounted for in separate proprietary funds, determining the extent to which the revenues they generate are actually usable by non-enterprise functions is somewhat more difficult than we have generally presumed. I use data from a recent national survey of cities to demonstrate how common measures of municipal enterprise revenue generation may be misleading and propose a measure that will provide more reliable data for both researchers and municipal decision makers.

This paper explores the issues of "privatization in place" versus public enterprise with regard to military base redevelopment. Three case studies are used to examine three research proposals having to do with public involvement, market solutions and policy outcomes. We find that while politically popular, privatization provides little in the way of civilian job creation and income replacement at former military bases. Instead, the case of Alexandria, Louisiana, supports the idea that public enterprise authorities can and do provide economic recovery for their communities. The federal government seems to agree given that privatization was not an option for base conversions in the 2005 closure round.

This paper explores the issues of "privatization in place" versus public enterprise with regard to military base redevelopment. Three case studies are used to examine three research proposals having to do with public involvement, market solutions & policy outcomes. We find that while politically popular, privatization provides little in the way of civilian job creation & income replacement at former military bases. Instead, the ease of Alexandria, Louisiana, supports the idea that public enterprise authorities can & do provide economic recovery for their communities. The federal government seems to agree given that privatization was not an option for base conversions in the 2005 closure round. Tables, References. Adapted from the source document.

Cities continue to struggle to provide the level of goods and services demanded by their residents while federal and state support dwindles. One proposal for resolving this dilemma is privatization because it is assumed that the private sector is more efficient, at least partly as a result of more readily adopting efficiency enhancing techniques such as TQM. The electric power industry provides an excellent comparison between the public and private sectors because its units of input and output are easily quantifiable in standard terms, and meaningful measures of efficiency can be developed. This study uses data from a comprehensive survey of Florida's electric power enterprises to determine the extent of TQM implementation; whether TQM has enhanced productivity; and whether there are measurable differences in efficiency between the state's private and public sector power producers. The results provide a benchmark of current practice and productivity standards for Florida's electric power industry.