OPERATIONS MODEL FOR ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT Sample Clauses

OPERATIONS MODEL FOR ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT. 3 III. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 5 A. Security and Access Management 5

OPERATIONS MODEL FOR ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT. The parties acknowledge that to achieve their individual missions and common goals they must work well together. But they also acknowledge that not every activity of each party necessarily involves the other. Many of the current administrative and policy structures force this involvement even when it produces few real benefits for either agency or the public they serve, thus entailing inefficient expenditure of public funds. To address these issues, the agencies agree that future interactions should be designed around an operations model based on the following approaches and outcomes: • Organize roles and responsibilities into three broad categories: - Water Utility functions and needs; - Joint functions and needs; and - Forest Service functions and needs. • Align organizational authority, responsibility, and accountability, including responsibility for financing activities, to the agency whose function and needs the activity is serving; • Align and document commitments for environmental stewardship of the Bull Run Watershed Management Unit. Such commitments would be designed, to the extent practicable, to maximize the effectiveness of the efforts of both agencies and the community to achieve the stewardship mission for the management unit; and Joint Interest and Collaborative Action Water Bureau Interest and Action Water Bureau Action with Consultation Joint Action Forest Service Action with Consultation Forest Service Interest and Action • Improve organizational efficiency and effectiveness for both agencies by structuring administrative mechanisms to minimize transaction costs for activities that are clearly in the purview of one or the other agency. The basic operations model that emerges from applying these approaches and achieving these outcomes is illustrated below in Figure 1: Figure 1 Joint Interest and Collaborative Action Between the City and Forest Service At the extreme ends of the spectrum are the issues and functions that clearly belong to the named agency. For issues in this category, the named agency is the acknowledged decision- maker and has both responsibility and authority for the issue. Activities that are included under the “Joint Interests and Collaborative Action” umbrella of Figure 1 are those where the missions or interests of the two agencies overlap to some degree. An example of a joint interest activity is conservation and natural resource education. The parties have agreed that this new operations model should inform future i...