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Originally Posted by NiklasSundblad
Just like to throw it out there that a municipality is a non-profit corporation. That was one of the most attractive things about Nenshi to me.
Left-right issues are almost completely irrelevant in city governance. Nenshi has business experience. However, running a city that delivers services to tax payers, and running a business that sells good/services to customers for a profit, or increasing share value are different things. Non Profits have a lot more in common with city governments than businesses do when it comes to budgeting and finances.
Calgary can't outsource garbage collection to India to cut costs.
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There a lot of things even a non-profit corporation such as the city can learn from for-profit businesses in finances. Processes that businesses use come to mind. Things like project cost controls and reductions, process improvement methods and merit based employee compensation would be immediately useful in controlling the costs for that new interchange, how not to make the mistakes with this interchange that we made with the last, etc.