The data that is the basis for the above is showm in Attachment A. The District does not say this table shows anything more than that employment to perform the District's functions is generally comparable with those of seven other major cities. The degree of quality and quantity of service offered by the various cities (through the various organizations offering services) is a matter which requires more thorough study as does the characteristics of the reporting systems that produced the data.

The challenge behind this task has been stated by the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations in October 1967 when it said, "here" (i.e., inter-city comparisons) "there is a general lack of any meaningful measures of the quality of urban governmental services. If the Nation is concerned about what is happening to the 'quality of urban life', then the Nation needs to be equally concerned with the inability of public or private agencies to measure this 'quality' and to draw meaningful intercommunity comparisons with any reasonable degree of objectivity".

Show that employment per population is in the range of comparability between the District and the other cities studied
Give full time employment (October 1968) for city, special district, county, and state organizations that the Bureau
of Census has in their data bank. Employment data are what organizations reported was their employment by function.
Show data for these organizations only for 16 major selected functions out of a normal 24. This generally leaves

out small and special functions.

What we did to get total all functions was to add,

Give data for organizations not in the Bureau of Census data bank (thus some special districts may be missed). Give any explanation of differences between cities because of workload, "presence of program", or quality of service. Show employment which is contractual in nature (private trash collection or Federal agency provisions such as Washington Aqueduct for District).

Review results with Bureau of Census, now and after: asking District subject agencies for reaction. asking cities for their reaction.

For (1) all state organizations and (2) for county and special district lines do not match the city's boundaries, it was necessary to establish an allocation formula.

A straight population relationship was used. Thus in the two following relationships, X is the unknown we need:

This is a simple and possible allocation system. The Bureau of Census and the District's Office of Budget and Executive Management believe we should explore a more sophisticated method. (The population method is probably distorted by the fact that equal effort is not applied throughout a state on a population basis for functions such as highways or welfare).

the increased cost of providing the same quantity and quality of government services.

the effort to meet the needs of a changing and growing service population.

the improvement of government services.

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