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Commissioner Greenberger and Director Chafee discuss balancing budget transparency and flexibility through UA reform
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Commissioner Sharon Greenberger questions IBO Director Louisa Chafee on how to refine Units of Appropriation (UAs) for better budget transparency without creating excessive bureaucracy. Chafee acknowledges the need for a balance, using the NYPD's large, undifferentiated UA as an example of the current lack of granularity, and agrees to discuss the 'sweet spot' further.
- The goal is to find a middle ground between overly broad UAs (like the NYPD example grouping 23 precincts and other functions) and overly granular ones that hinder management flexibility.
Sharon Greenberger
0:16:37
Question about the UAs.
0:16:39
I mean, you talked about sort of how you would how you would increase flexibility within that, and this may be too
Julie Won
0:16:45
too long of an answer
Sharon Greenberger
0:16:46
to supply now.
0:16:47
But would you think
Julie Won
0:16:47
about and come back to
Sharon Greenberger
0:16:48
us with how you would do that without increasing bureaucracy on
Alicia Boyd
0:16:53
a tens
Louisa Chafee
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of basis?
0:16:54
I mean, I think there's a sweet spot between super granularity in the level of some of the UAs.
0:17:00
Moving pulled up with the most egregious, but, you know, the police department one is an excellent exam.
0:17:07
But I'm happy to talk more with you about that as I find your ways extremely interesting.