As Yogi Berra once said, "The future isn't what it used to be." The way public services have been provided for the past 50 years inevitably must change. The reasons for that change are complex. They include cascading budget cuts from federal to state and local levels, increased regulatory demands, labor apathy, taxpayer revolt, and private sector pressure to take over traditional public services. Some communities have responded with aggressive cost cutting programs. Others are racheting budgets downward in small increments. Many have launched defensive programs designed to justify or stall current costs. A growing number have decided to package the use of a combination of public and private techniques in the form of what HDR has coined as " Public Contract Operations."
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