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stores, and any other organization-public or private-that can provide the program. If there is a successful gymnastics
program operating in your municipality,
is it more economically feasible to offer
that program through the department?
Or to work on a partnership arrangement
that encourages a private business to remain solvent while insuring that the program remains available to the citizens?

Scalable
Scalable can be defined in two ways.
First, a leader must have the vision to
reduce the scale and scope of the department's operation-i.e., to retrench,
where necessary. He or she will investigate, research, poll, find efficiencies,
and (most critically), identify those core
areas of operation that should be maintained. Once the scale of the department
has been identified, he or she will lease,
sub-contract, gift, or otherwise divest
those areas that can no longer be afforded and are not part of the core operation.
And when the economy does rebound,
he will revert to his flexible side and regain and recoup those areas that were
leased and loaned.
The second is to find economies of
scale. The leader will look for opportunities to partner with neighboring agencies, as well as with YMCA's, Boys Clubs,
and other not-for-profits and quasi-not-for
profits, to economize and bring in economies of scale. The military uses the term
force multiplier to define a capability that
when used, enhances the effectiveness of
the organization.
Economizing scale in a community is
a force multiplier for the department and
the community. Two (or more) agencies
working together are more effective and
efficient than each agency working independently. Economies of scale can be
as simple as partnering with a neighboring department to allow them to perform
all mowing operations in both systems
if they have a more efficient or better equipped mowing operation, while
your agency provides all indoor maintenance for both departments. A successful

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