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1. AJS 574 Week 1 Expenditures and Revenue Paper For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com AJS 574 Week 1 Expenditures and Revenue Paper - Resources: A local or state police agency website; the FBI website (www.fbi.gov) Choose a local, state, or federal agency (such as a local police department or the FBI). Locate their most recent budget information. Identify one revenue source and three expenditures for that agency. Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word summary describing a revenue source within a criminal justice or security organization, and three expenditures for that revenue source. Additionally, address the following: • The impact of the expenditures on the revenue source • The key players involved • The influence of political and public policies • Recommended organizational financial analysis alternatives (what happens if you lose that revenue source?)

2. Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment. ============================================== AJS 574 Week 2 Policing in Kelsey Budget Report For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Resources: Review the City of Kelsey under the Government tab of the Virtual Organization site. Access the public records of Kelsey under the City Government to familiarize yourself with the city’s budget and financial report. Review the following scenario: You work as a budget director for the mayor of Kelsey and recently you have been getting numerous complaints from citizens about the increase in crime in the City of Kelsey and public demands for more police officers. The population of Kelsey has grown, creating increases in crime. The mayor has communicated to you as the budget director that this past year is the highest increase in crime in the city’s history. The federal government has reduced the federal pass-through money for the state, and the budgeting group needs to revamp the budget for the coming year. In addition to the limited budget, there has been a recent budgetary reform at the federal level, which has put additional pressure on local police agencies to use the federal money before it expires. The state Chief’s of

3. Police Association is lobbying the state for a 15% public safety tax for a temporary 3-year period in order to make up the deficit. The state legislature and local governments are wary of adding any additional new taxes on citizens. In addition, the state’s Sierra Club organization is putting pressure on state and local government to hire less police officers, build more prisons, and develop the state’s infrastructure. The mayor has pointed out that the likelihood of getting any increase in tax money from the state is slim. The mayor has called a meeting with your budget staff, the Chief of Police and staff to address the following issues and come up with a solution that is politically feasible. In the meeting, the mayor reminds them that if he or she is not re-elected the new incumbent will replace their jobs. Create a 1,400-1,750- word report in which you, as the budget officer, which details the following: • How the changes affect the fiscal cycle of your budgeting. • How the preparation, execution, and evaluation of the budgeting cycle would change. • Your budgeting approach based on the changes and the reasons. • Differences of the chosen budgeting approach from those not used. • A plan to address the crime issue. • Summary of the cost-benefit analysis of your plan. Format your paper according to APA standards. ==============================================

4. AJS 574 Week 3 Reforms and Shortcomings Presentation For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com AJS 574 Week 3 Reforms and Shortcomings Presentation - Use the City of Kelsey in the Virtual Organizations to evaluate how reform movements and financial shortcomings affect the city's operating budget. Create a 14- to 16-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with speaker notes that provides a brief description of the following: • Identify two major budgetary reform movements and their effects on the city's budget. • Explain how these two major movements would affect the state and local levels if given a decline in federal funding. How would this affect criminal justice organizations? • Compare and contrast the various methods of short-term financing. • Compare and contrast various budget management techniques. Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines. Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

5. ============================================== AJS 574 Week 4 Influences Within Public Safety or Security Programs Paper For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com AJS 574 Week 4 Influences Within Public Safety or Security Programs Paper - Resources: www.bjs.gov; www.bls.gov; www.fbi.gov; https://www.asisonline.org/ Choose a public safety or security program at the local, state, or federal level that has undergone a significant budgetary decrease. Have your instructor approve your choice. Some examples include: • State cuts to domestic violence program • Cuts for prison funding to reduce overcrowding • Decreased funds for technology upgrades Write a 1,400- to 2,100-word paper about how the political process and changing public policy at the federal, state, and municipal levels

6. influence budgeting. Provide details on how the change came about and its impact on the resulting program. Include the following in your paper: • Identify political, economic, social, cultural, and technological influences that caused the change in the budget. • Identify the interaction among the federal, state, and municipal levels with regard to your program. • Specify the limits of the agency budget office and how they may try to compensate for those limits. • Present strategies agencies and politicians might use to justify increasing or decreasing the budget for the program you selected. • Calculate present and project future costs. • List various cost control applications Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment. ============================================== AJS 574 Week 5 Financial Contingency Planning Sources of Funding Paper

7. For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com AJS 574 Week 5 Financial Contingency Planning Sources of Funding Paper - Resources: Previously selected public safety or security program from the Week Four Individual Assignment; Influences within the Public Safety or Security Programs. Write a 1,400- to 2,100-word paper in which you evaluate these possible sources of revenue, temporary assistance, and funding assets as part of financial contingency planning. Address the following sources in your paper: • Public-private partners • Community-based organizations (nonprofit) • Bond issuance • Grants • Multi-level government financing Explain the effects of taxation. Evaluate the role that financial efficiency will play in obtaining this funding at the state and local levels. Explain how you would go about identifying the sources of funds for the

8. project. Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment. ============================================== AJS 574 Week 6 Final Project Public Finance Proposal and Presentation For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com AJS 574 Week 6 Final Project Public Finance Proposal and Presentation - Resources: www.post.ca.gov or your local public safety agency website Select a city, county, or state budget for your final project. Use the Internet to access its prior year annual budget and Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. Write a 2,100- to 2,800-word paper in which you cover the organization as a whole, combine concepts from the class, as well as address the

9. following topics: • A description and summary of your choice including: • Demographics • Employment/unemployment data • Crime analysis data • Political, economic, social, and cultural influences to the public budget • The organization's current and future operational policy • Forecast approaches and rationale • The public policy and the political process affecting the city or town's budget • Elements involved in the budget preparation, enactment, and execution using some of the elements of new program budgeting techniques • Long-term financial alternatives Create a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with speaker notes reflecting the major points in your paper, as well as issues involving program budgeting. Format your paper and presentation consistent with APA guidelines. Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

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