NPS Operation and Management: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Parks of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, First Session, to Review the National Park Service's Business Strategy for Operation and Management of the National Park System, Including Development and Implementation of Business Plans, Use of Business Consultants, and Incorporating Business Practices Into Day-to-day Operations, July 14, 2005U.S. Government Printing Office, 2005 - 34 pages |
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Page 31 - ... an overarching snapshot of each park's current situation by offering a way to analyze individual park needs and to compare these needs with those of other parks. Second, we have developed a core operations analysis process that integrates management tools to improve park efficiency. The process is designed to assist park management in making fully informed decisions on staffing and funding alternatives that tie to core mission goals. This will ensure that: funds are spent in support of a park's...
Page 6 - Tool (PART) is a systematic method of assessing the performance of program activities across the Federal government.
Page 6 - ... over $4 million in savings to the government. Finally, I would like to touch briefly on competitive sourcing, another part of the President's Management Agenda. Competitive sourcing is providing a means for NPS to evaluate its business practices and identify more effective ways to deliver service. One successful outcome of this process occurred at our Southeast Archeological Center, where operations were reconfigured to a more efficient workforce structure, saving an estimated $850,000 per year...
Page 13 - Thank you for the opportunity to testify. I am happy to answer any questions you may have.
Page 31 - ... management in making fully informed decisions on staffing and funding alternatives that tie to core mission goals. The process can also be considered as a precursor to other management planning efforts such as competitive sourcing and business plan development. The intent of the process is to ensure that funds are spent in support of a park's purpose and in an efficient manner, that a park's request for funding is credible and, most importantly, that there are adequate funds (allocated properly)...
Page 4 - ... improve our budget formulation process, particularly related to park specifics, by making it more transparent. We have initiated two new processes to meet this requirement. First, we have developed a park scorecard. The scorecard is an indicator of park financial, operational, and managerial health used to aid in the identification and evaluation of base budget increases for park units. It provides an overarching snapshot of each park's current situation by offering a way to analyze individual...
Page 6 - ... compliance with laws and regulations. In an attempt to move toward greater levels of budget and performance accountability, the NPS continues to expand the use of the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) activity-based costing, and preliminary planning efforts associated with competitive reviews. PART evaluations and recommendations continue to inform both budget formulation and program management decisions. We have been working to improve our budget formulation process, particularly related...
Page 5 - Business plans help parks to focus on operations, develop cost objectives, identify revenue sources beyond appropriated funds, and plan out the highest priority projects for the next three to five years. Our business planning has evolved and improved.
Page 30 - API, which assigns a priority rating to an asset in relation to its importance to the park mission, and the FCI, which quantifies the condition of a structure by dividing the deferred maintenance backlog of a facility by the current replacement value of the same facility.
Page 4 - Service (NPS) is pursuing more business-like practices is in our budget formulation process the process we use to determine the most effective and efficient allocation of funds requested in the President's budget and appropriated to NPS by Congress.