Proposed Approach. The delivery of change in this area is a key objective. The proposal is to launch a joint Management/NITC review involving collaborative working between the parties, through the forum of the TNC, to develop a more flexible employment model based on an agreed set of design principles. The aim is to have the review completed and a new system in place by (date). Terms of Redundancy and Associated Costs over Previous Years Year Compensation Terms Number Of Teaching Redundancies At a Cost of £m 2010/11 up to 60 weeks (twice the statutory) 186 16.6 2011/12 up to 60 weeks (twice the statutory) 337 2012/13 up to 90 weeks (three times the statutory) 663 39.0 2013/14 up to 90 weeks (three times the statutory) 292 17.1 2014/15 up to 60 weeks (twice the statutory) 91 3.9 2015/16 up to 60 weeks (twice the statutory) 194 8.3 2016/17 up to 60 weeks (twice the statutory) 179 7.5 2017/18 Up to 52 weeks 155 5.7 2018/19 Up to 52 weeks 169 6.0 Total 2,266 £104.1m
Proposed Approach. A DE led review which will:
Proposed Approach. The following is a sample approach that Evergreen takes when conducting a performance audit for a public entity. Evergreen’s methodology is organized into study areas to ensure that the goals for a typical performance audit are met. Exhibit 2 provides a graphic illustration of Evergreen Solutions’ conceptual model of how we determine optimal performance in an organization. This service model is a functional mix of core units that the organization uses to meet its strategic needs. The analysis includes the functional areas, the scope of services, and the variety of services that are provided by the organization. Exhibit 2: Evergreen’s Conceptual Model for an Audit/Analysis Strategic needs should be the main driving force for any organization in examining its direction and alignment. Strategic needs include the expectations of citizens, the needs of the community, and the relative resources available to the city. The operational components of each service are the factors that determine the success of the individual service provision. These are organization and management, resource management, policies and procedures, and service delivery. The operational components not only drive the service model⎯in best practice organizations they lead to the following desired outcomes: • Efficiency – how well resources are being used in a process (input/output); • Effectiveness – how well a process produces the desired outcome (meets citizen needs and expectations); and • Productivity – how much is produced based on the capacity to produce (how much could be done in comparison to what is being done). The specific objectives for this performance audit would be to develop findings, commendations, and recommendations for containing costs and improving management strategies in each department, ultimately leading to better and more efficient expenditures of City funds. The foundation of Evergreen’s approach centers on the simple premise of aligning needs with resources in an optimal manner. Although this is one of the most obvious steps to creating a successful organization, it is one of the hardest to accomplish. Alignment by definition implies that communication, resources, processes, and organizational objectives come together in an efficient manner. When this does not occur, a “gap” is present. In order to assess the nature of the gap and find the optimal solution, some basic questions must be answered: • What are the needs of the organization? • How do those needs differ ...
Proposed Approach. The proposed key management system includes both the broadcast encryption systems [2] and group key management systems [1].
Proposed Approach. 1.5.1. Define requirements/setup weekly status calls
Proposed Approach. We propose up to three site visits by a Terracon representative (estimated as a project geotechnical engineer) during excavation work to evaluate the trenches for conformance with our recommendations, as laid out in our geotechnical evaluation. Following our site visit we will provide a short memorandum detailing our site observations. Estimated Fee: Our fee assumes one day for the site visit and one day for the memorandum for each site visit along with transportation costs, see the attached work hour fee justification for our estimated cost per visit. Based on an assumption of three visits, we estimate a fee of $9,000. Xx. Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, P.E. November 7, 2023 Park East Boulevard Extension – On-Call Services Task 2 – Excavation of Problem Soils Observations Task Understanding: In our geotechnical evaluation, we identified two locations where up to 5 feet of soft A-7-6 soils may be present that we recommended should be completely removed prior to the placement of any pipes, culverts, or road base. We understand that BF&S would like us onsite to observe the excavations to assess conformance with our recommendations, namely that the unsuitable soils have been removed and that the exposed grade appears to be adequate for the placement of the aforementioned project elements.
Proposed Approach. We propose up to a week for each location to have a Terracon representative on site to document the excavation and to visually evaluate if the resulting conditions are sufficient to reduce the concerns identified in the report. The Terracon representative will take photographs and at the end of the excavation for each location and will prepare a short memorandum detailing the work observed and include photographs taken.
Proposed Approach. Providing our customers with a positive experience is an integral part of SENTECH’s turnaround programme.
Proposed Approach. The main drawback of online Random Forests is that their structure strongly depends on the order in which the data samples are observed. As soon as a split is made at a given leaf node – thereby creating two new leaf nodes, this split decision can not be revised. Also, ORFs can only grow at the leaves, i.e. new samples can only refine the model, but it can not be made more general by a new sample. A novel algorithm that explicitly addresses these problems is the Mondrian Forest by Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx et al. [18]. In this section, we briefly review this algorithm and present some modifications for an improved performance. Then, we analyse it with respect to its tendency to associate wrong classifications with a high uncertainty [19], a key feature for application in Active Learning.
Proposed Approach. The proposed system performs social interaction detection by leveraging the Bluetooth RSSI from nearby Bluetooth devices. The proposed system is based only on commercial off the shelf smartphones and does not require any centralised coordinator to perform the inference. The Bluetooth RSSI is fed into machine-learning models that perform the social interaction detection. As the inference is performed on the smartphone device, the data are not transmitted to any third party, thus the privacy of the users’ is preserved. The logged data are available only at the user's disposal. Regarding the inference that is performed, it calculates the interpersonal distance with each user and finally performs classification, depending on the selected target class (proximity or interaction zone), about the occurrence of F2F interaction.
