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Midterm exam
Answer two of the questions below. Cite all of your sources using APA format. Submit your exam in one document using the Turnitin portal.
Question #1 Read the case example and draft an administrative memo in response to the prompt.
Haley Crews is the Executive Director at The Shelter, a nonprofit organization serving the homeless in Birmingham, AL. The organization receives private and public (local, state, and federal) funding and has a staff of 20. The State of Alabama has just awarded the nonprofit a contract to provide housing management in Jefferson County. The Shelter will continue to provide emergency shelter, but will now add a five-person department to manage the Section 8 housing in Jefferson County. This state funding is supplemented by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) dollars. The Shelter will be required to implement new standards of service that are in compliance with the local, state, and federal funding. The federal dollars are nonrestrictive and allow leeway in service provision for long term housing solutions. The state dollars are restricted to populations living in severe poverty. The local dollars are also restrictive, limiting the types of services provided only to emergency shelter services.
a. Based on your readings and prior knowledge of intergovernmental relations, pick out from the list below the relevant intergovernmental issues involved:
· cooperative federalism
· opportunistic federalism
· intergovernmental relations
· dual federalism
· categorical grants
· block grants
· OMB
· project grants
· performance management
· crosscutting requirements
· cooperative state policymaking
· fiscal disregard
· unfunded mandates
· intergovernmental analysis
· program waivers
· third-party governance
b. Draft a memo from Ms. Crews to her staff announcing the new funding stream and new department. This memo should guide staff in understanding the benefits of the new funding and the potential challenges. Include explanation for the concepts you have chosen as they relate to intergovernmental relations in the case of The Shelter.
Question #2 Apply a public administration concept to a case example. (Word Limit: 500)
a. Choose one of the following concepts and one of the following cases.
Concepts: (1) Bureaucracy according to Weber, (2) Ecology according to Gaus, and (3) Incremental choice according to Lindblom
Cases: (1) The Blast in Centralia No. 5, (2) The Columbia Accident, and (3) American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
b. Use the concept to explain the conflict or resolution in the case. Start with a strong thesis statement and support your thesis with at least three forms of evidence.
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