Case – Recreational Park Project

The public has recognized the benefits of recreation and parks as essential to their health and quality of life. A recent survey conducted in 2016 found that the construction of more recreational facilities was a top priority among residents in Lazarette Town (in the Caribbean).

As such, the town council in Lazarette, with the help of other key stakeholders, has sourced and secured three (3) million dollars of grant funds from the Caribbean Wellness Community (CWC) for the development of a mini outdoor recreational park on three (3) acres of land donated by a benevolent resident of the town.

The park will contain sporting facilities among other recreational facilities (e.g. walking trails, children playground, tennis court, basketball court, work out stations, benches, shower facilities, rest rooms etc.). All major key stakeholders and sponsors have unanimously agreed that that the facility should cater for residents of all ages. Additionally, a group of minority stakeholders has expressed their requirements of having an eco-friendly and climate resilient facility. The park should be completed and ready for use by 2022, i.e. the project duration should not exceed two years.

To ensure that the project is completed on time, within scope and on budget, the funding agency and the Lazarette Town Council require that a dedicated and knowledgeable project team is assigned to the project. CWC has expressed the need for the project deliverables to be of ‘high’ quality to guarantee stakeholders’ satisfaction and safety. The CWC requires that ‘tight’ procurement processes should be followed to ensure transparency, accountability and economy. It is anticipated that most of the goods, works and services for building the park will be procured from vendors, suppliers and contractors in the town. In addition, CWC has detailed the need for both positive and negative projects risk to be properly managed throughout the project.

In response to CWC implied and expressed requirements, the Lazarette Town Council has selected and appointed your team to provide project management services for the Recreational Park Project. As a proactive team, your team has decided to use ‘best practices’ in project management to plan project activities and get approval from key project stakeholders before constructing or building the facility. Give the type and nature of the project, the intention is to use a traditional/waterfall approach to project management activities instead of the largely popular and contemporary agile methodology used other industries.

Your team understands the value of planning before doing, and the council’s concerns of not losing the grant funding from CWC. In addition, your team is keen on building a good reputation in the

town. With a can do attitude and the need to increase the chances of the project success, the project management team (your 5-member group) is determined to ensure that the team utilizes the ‘best practices’ for planning, executing and controlling this valuable community based project.

1. Justify the need to effectively manage quality for the project.

Case – Recreational Park Project

The public has recognized the benefits of recreation and parks as essential to their health and quality of life. A recent survey conducted in 2016 found that the construction of more recreational facilities was a top priority among residents in Lazarette Town (in the Caribbean).

As such, the town council in Lazarette, with the help of other key stakeholders, has sourced and secured three (3) million dollars of grant funds from the Caribbean Wellness Community (CWC) for the development of a mini outdoor recreational park on three (3) acres of land donated by a benevolent resident of the town.

The park will contain sporting facilities among other recreational facilities (e.g. walking trails, children playground, tennis court, basketball court, work out stations, benches, shower facilities, rest rooms etc.). All major key stakeholders and sponsors have unanimously agreed that that the facility should cater for residents of all ages. Additionally, a group of minority stakeholders has expressed their requirements of having an eco-friendly and climate resilient facility. The park should be completed and ready for use by 2022, i.e. the project duration should not exceed two years.

To ensure that the project is completed on time, within scope and on budget, the funding agency and the Lazarette Town Council require that a dedicated and knowledgeable project team is assigned to the project. CWC has expressed the need for the project deliverables to be of ‘high’ quality to guarantee stakeholders’ satisfaction and safety. The CWC requires that ‘tight’ procurement processes should be followed to ensure transparency, accountability and economy. It is anticipated that most of the goods, works and services for building the park will be procured from vendors, suppliers and contractors in the town. In addition, CWC has detailed the need for both positive and negative projects risk to be properly managed throughout the project.

In response to CWC implied and expressed requirements, the Lazarette Town Council has selected and appointed your team to provide project management services for the Recreational Park Project. As a proactive team, your team has decided to use ‘best practices’ in project management to plan project activities and get approval from key project stakeholders before constructing or building the facility. Give the type and nature of the project, the intention is to use a traditional/waterfall approach to project management activities instead of the largely popular and contemporary agile methodology used other industries.

Your team understands the value of planning before doing, and the council’s concerns of not losing the grant funding from CWC. In addition, your team is keen on building a good reputation in the

town. With a can do attitude and the need to increase the chances of the project success, the project management team (your 5-member group) is determined to ensure that the team utilizes the ‘best practices’ for planning, executing and controlling this valuable community based project.

1. Create an appropriate quality management plan for the project.

Recreational Park Project
The public has recognized the benefits of recreation and parks as essential to their health and quality of life. A recent survey conducted in 2016 found that the construction of more recreational facilities was a top priority among residents in Lazarette Town (in the Caribbean).
As such, the town council in Lazarette, with the help of other key stakeholders, has sourced and secured three (3) million dollars of grant funds from the Caribbean Wellness Community (CWC) for the development of a mini outdoor recreational park on three (3) acres of land donated by a benevolent resident of the town.   
The park will contain sporting facilities among other recreational facilities (e.g. walking trails, children playground, tennis court, basketball court, work out stations, benches, shower facilities, rest rooms etc.). All major key stakeholders and sponsors have unanimously agreed that that the facility should cater for residents of all ages. Additionally, a group of minority stakeholders has expressed their requirements of having an eco-friendly and climate resilient facility. The park should be completed and ready for use by 2022, i.e. the project duration should not exceed two years.
To ensure that the project is completed on time, within scope and on budget, the funding agency and the Lazarette Town Council require that a dedicated and knowledgeable project team is assigned to the project. CWC has expressed the need for the project deliverables to be of ‘high’ quality to guarantee stakeholders’ satisfaction and safety. The CWC requires that ‘tight’ procurement processes should be followed to ensure transparency, accountability and economy. It is anticipated that most of the goods, works and services for building the park will be procured from vendors, suppliers and contractors in the town. In addition, CWC has detailed the need for both positive and negative projects risk to be properly managed throughout the project.
In response to CWC implied and expressed requirements, the Lazarette Town Council has selected and appointed your team to provide project management services for the Recreational Park Project. As a proactive team, your team has decided to use ‘best practices’ in project management to plan project activities and get approval from key project stakeholders before constructing or building the facility. Give the type and nature of the project, the intention is to use a traditional/waterfall approach to project management activities instead of the largely popular and contemporary agile methodology used other industries.   
Your team understands the value of planning before doing, and the council’s concerns of not losing the grant funding from CWC. In addition, your team is keen on building a good reputation in the
town. With a can do attitude and the need to increase the chances of the project success, the project management team (your 5-member group) is determined to ensure that the team utilizes the ‘best practices’ for planning, executing and controlling this valuable community based project.

1. Create an appropriate quality management plan for the project.

2. Justify the need to effectively manage quality for the project.

Lafayette Public School System has three high schools to serve a district divided into five areas. The capacity of each high school, the student population in each area, and the distance (in miles) between each school and the center of each area are listed in the table below:

(Part a - 8 points) Formulate and list the linear program for the above problem to minimize the total student-miles traveled per day. You do NOT need to solve your listed linear program.  

(Part b - 2 points) If Capedot High School will be closed to conserve the school system’s resources and its budget, how will you efficiently revise your linear program to cope with this school closing?

A school district developed an after-school math tutoring program for high school students. To assess the effectiveness of the program, struggling students were randomly selected into treatment and control groups. A pre-test was given to both groups before the start of the program. A post-test assessing the same skills was given after the end of the program. The study team determined the effectiveness of the program by comparing the average change in pre- and post-test scores between the two groups. During the course of the program, some students in both the treatment and control groups either dropped out of school or they moved away with their families. Could this attrition potentially distort the estimated effectiveness of the tutoring program? Defend your answer.

As a head of school, draw a 3-year School Development Plan (School Improvement Plan), starting as from January 2020, which should include the following below (specify the rationale, implementation process and targets for achievement): a) vision and mission statement b) 3-year pedagogical planning starting from Grade 4 upto Grade 6 (same batch of pupils) c) human resource planning d) planning and provision for infrastructural and technological resources

Answer 2 of the following questions and relate your answers with other students’ answers when appropriate: 1. In California, farmers pay a lower price for water than do city residents. What is this method of allocation of water resources? Is this allocation of water efficient? Is this use of scarce water fair? Why or why not? 2. If farmers were charged the same price as city residents pay, how would the price of agricultural produce, the quantity of produce grown, consumer surplus, and producer surplus change? 3. New Zealand’s private forests In the early 1990s, the government auctioned half the national forests, converting these forests from public ownership to private ownership. The government’s decision was an incentive to get the owners to operate like farmers—that is, take care of the resource and to use it to make a profit. Source: Reuters, September 7, 2007 Was the timber industry efficient before the auction and did logging companies operate in the social interest or self-interest? What effect has private ownership had on efficiency of the timber industry?

In recent studies, some criminologists suggest that the "Broken Windows Theory" actually does not address the crime problem. A November 1, 2016 NPR podcast offers some background on the emergence of this theory in New York City in the early 1990s and the recent studies indicating the problems with the theory in practice; How A Theory Of Crime And Policing Was Born, And Went Terribly Wrong.

https://www.npr.org/2016/11/01/500104506/broken-windows-policing-and-the-origins-of-stop-and-frisk-and-how-it-went-wrong?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=202701

The following link also offers an article on the Business Insider that suggests that this model will continue and why. The most hotly debated policing strategy of the last 20 years is far from finished.

Based on the information presented in How A Theory Of Crime And Policing Was Born, And Went Terribly Wrong, as well as on any other research like that you'd like to visit, outline the pros and cons of “broken windows” policing.

The City of Pfeiffer starts the year of 2017 with the general fund and an enterprise fund. The general fund has two activities: education and parks/recreation. For convenience, assume that the general fund holds $144,000 cash and a new school building costing $1,180,000. The city utilizes straight-line depreciation. The building has a 20-year life and no salvage value. The enterprise fund has $65,000 cash and a new $360,000 civic auditorium with a 30-year life and no salvage value. The enterprise fund monitors just one activity, the rental of the civic auditorium for entertainment and other cultural affairs.

The following transactions for the city take place during 2017. Assume that the city’s fiscal year ends on December 31.

Decides to build a municipal park and transfers $72,000 into a capital projects fund and immediately expends $20,600 for a piece of land. The creation of this fund and this transfer were made by the highest level of government authority.

Borrows $113,400 cash on a long-term bond for use in creating the new municipal park.

Assesses property taxes on the first day of the year. The assessment, which is immediately enforceable, totals $618,600. Of this amount, $525,800 will be collected during 2017 and another $51,600 is expected in the first month of 2018. The remainder is expected about halfway through 2018.

Constructs a building in the park in (b) for $40,000 cash so that local citizens can play basketball and other sports. It is put into service on July 1 and should last 10 years with no salvage value.

Builds a sidewalk around the new park for $10,000 cash and puts it into service on July 1. It should last for 10 years, but the city plans to keep it up to a predetermined quality level so that it will last almost indefinitely.

Opens the park and charges an entrance fee of only a token amount so that it records the park, therefore, in the general fund. Collections during this first year total $4,000.

Buys a new parking deck for $220,000, paying $22,000 cash and signing a long-term note for the rest. The parking deck, which is to go into operation on July 1, is across the street from the civic auditorium and is considered part of that activity. It has a 20-year life and no salvage value.

Receives a $110,000 cash grant for the city school system that must be spent for school lunches for the poor. Appropriate spending of these funds is viewed as an eligibility requirement of this grant. During the current year, $40,700 of the amount received was properly spent.

Charges students in the school system a total fee of $6,600 for books and the like. Of this amount, 90 percent is collected during 2017 with the remainder expected to be collected in the first few weeks of 2018.

Buys school supplies for $23,000 cash and uses $17,800 of them. The general fund uses the purchases method.

Receives a painting by a local artist to be displayed in the local school. It qualifies as a work of art, and officials have chosen not to capitalize it. The painting has a value of $83,700. It is viewed as inexhaustible.

Transfers $20,600 cash from the general fund to the enterprise fund as a capital contribution.

Orders a school bus for $102,000.

Receives the school bus and pays an actual cost of $105,000. The bus is put into operation on October 1 and should last for five years with no salvage value.

Pays salaries of $247,000 to school teachers. In addition, owes and will pay $30,800 during the first two weeks of 2018. Vacations worth $23,600 have also been earned but will not be taken until July 2018.

Pays salaries of $43,000 to city auditorium workers. In addition, owes and will pay $3,500 in the first two weeks of 2018. Vacations worth $5,800 have also been earned but will not be taken until July 2018.

Charges customers $150,800 for the rental of the civic auditorium. Of this balance, collected $127,600 in cash and will collect the remainder in April 2018.

Pays $10,400 maintenance charges for the building and sidewalk in (d) and (e).

Pays $16,200 on the bond in (b) on the last day of 2017: $5,800 principal and $10,400 interest.

Accrues interest of $15,000 on the note in (g) as of the end of 2017, an amount that it will pay in June 2018.

Assumes that a museum that operates within the city is a component unit that will be discretely presented. The museum reports to city officials that it had $48,500 of direct expenses this past year and $57,700 in revenues from admission charges. The only assets that it had at year-end were cash of $27,700, building (net of depreciation) of $346,300, and a long-term liability of $242,400.

Prepare the 2017 government-wide financial statements for this city. Assume the use of the modified approach.

Prepare a statement of net position. (Amounts to be deducted should be indicatedby a minus sign.)