{"47205":{"#nid":"47205","#data":{"type":"event","title":"\u0022Outsourcing Local Government Services: Does It Work?\u0022","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJames White, associate director of International Programs for the Center for Advanced Communications Policy, will use the city of Sandy Springs, Ga., as a test case to measure the economic and social efficacy of comprehensive municipal service outsourcing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFollowing\u0026nbsp;its establishment at the end of 2005, the city of Sandy Springs, Georgia, has quickly come to typify the concept of comprehensive municipal service outsourcing. In an attempt to measure both the economic and social efficacy of the concept, an original comparison between five \u201ccontract\u201d cities and five \u201ctraditional\u201d municipalities was completed in May, 2009, offering a view of the relative merits and demerits of outsourcing. This talk will outline the major findings of the research.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"James White, associate director of International Programs for the Center for Advanced Communications Policy, will use the city of Sandy Springs, Ga., as a test case to measure the economic and social efficacy of comprehensive municipal service outsourcing.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A lecture sponsored by Tech\u0027s Center for Advanced Communications Policy"}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2009-10-27 08:55:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:49:16","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2009-11-09T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2009-11-09T12:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2009-11-09T12:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2009-11-09 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2009-11-09 17:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2009-11-09 17:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cacp.gatech.edu\/","title":"CACP"}],"groups":[{"id":"1182","name":"General"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"3632","name":"CACP"},{"id":"1486","name":"government"},{"id":"5233","name":"outsourcing"},{"id":"626","name":"public policy"},{"id":"365","name":"Research"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENichole Moore\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECenter for Advanced Communications Policy\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-385-4614\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}