Title

Municipal Resource Guide to Leading Practices in Cost Savings

Authors

Martin Horak, Western UniversityFollow
Andrew Sancton, Western UniversityFollow
Rachna Goswami, Western University
Umera Ali, Western University

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Description

Ontario municipalities of all sizes face pressure to “do more with less.” Commissioned by the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs, this Resource Guide provides municipal officials with single-source information about a range of current leading practices in cost savings in small and mid-sized Ontario municipalities. Municipalities across the province are continually developing innovative practices that save costs without incurring service level reductions. Most of these practices involve small-scale initiatives that result in modest savings. Yet even modest savings add up over time, and multiple small initiatives in a single municipality can make a big difference. In addition, by providing an opportunity to re-think established service provision practices, these initiatives often have significant non-monetary benefits as well.

This Guide, based on a year of research by a team at Western University, presents detailed profiles of 14 selected cases of leading practices in cost savings. The case studies come from municipalities of varying sizes in all regions of the province, and profile leading practices in a wide variety of service fields. In addition to these cases, the Guide presents a reference compendium of 159 cost-savings recommendations from recent Municipal Service Delivery Reviews. The Guide is intended to serve as a source of ideas and inspiration for Ontario’s local officials as they seek to provide the best possible services to their residents in challenging fiscal times.

Publication Date

5-3-2017

Publisher

Centre for Urban Policy and Local Governance, Western University

City

London, Ontario, Canada

Keywords

local government, public administration, efficiency, cost savings, Ontario

Disciplines

Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation | Public Administration | Public Policy | Urban Studies | Urban Studies and Planning

Comments

Centre for Urban Policy and Local Governance, Research Report #2

Recommended Citation

Horak, Martin; Sancton, Andrew; Goswami, Rachna; and Ali, Umera, "Municipal Resource Guide to Leading Practices in Cost Savings" (2017). Centre for Urban Policy and Local Governance – Publications. 1.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/urbancentre-reports/1