Oakdale Case Study Liberty University PADM – 501 – B06

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Oakdale Case Study




Liberty University

PADM – 501 – B06

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Oakdale Case Study



Across the United States smaller municipalities must come up with creative ways to keep

city services up and running all while trying to keep their residents happy and within

budget. City administrators from smaller municipalities have the responsibility of managing

all day to day functions of the city for which they serve even though they may lack the

resources that many larger municipalities have. As we will see in this paper the City of

Oakdale is faced with a major ethical dilemma within its city government. This paper will

also examine the political trade-offs that must be made in order to restore the City of

Oakdale to fiscal stability. The Institute for Local Government states that “Local elected

and agency officials – and the agencies in which they serve – face a complex array of

ethics-related laws. While some of these requirements may seem intuitive, others can be

fairly characterized as traps for the unwary public official. Moreover, missteps, even

inadvertent ones, can seriously undermine the public ‘s trust and confidence in their local

government and those associated with it” (INSTITUTE for LOCAL GOVERNMENT, 2005).




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