Mansfield, CT's Parks and Recreation and Saving the World Spending Tsunami

 I'm diving into the deep end of Mansfield, CTs hydra of town committees, special interests, and origins of the Mansfield Parks & Rec (MP&R) master plan. I'm currently examining the February agenda document that has many fine details about the fiscal trajectory of the Mansfield Community Center (MCC).

None of the innumerable town committees (many dedicated to the elderly) seem to have any interest or input into the master plan. All of which implies to me that the assertion that the town politicians responsible for vetting the plan and ensuring that there was a rich and vested feedback loop are exaggerated [to be blunt, lying]. From page 49:

One of my favorite (because it works) management techniques is called Kanban. It is implemented using Kanban boards with some level of ToDo, InProcess, and Done columns of publicly visible tasks.
A legitimate ToDo prioritized list would never look like this. The MP&R so-called priorities are a magical thinking set of platitudes.

The acronym CIP stands for continuous improvement process. This is the mythological W.E. Deming methodology that reconstructed Japan's auto, electronics, and high tech industry after WWII. In the 21st century CIPs are a cautionary tale. The introduction of Apple's revolutionary Smart Phone was not the by-product of a CIP applied to a flip phone. It was a radical rethinking of what a phone might be.

So we already have a clue as to why the MCC is digging a fiscal hole.

Another indicator is shown on page 33:

61 new employees and contractors is a lot of wetware and from my experience at the MCC, they aren't dedicated to senior citizen participation. Just another clue as to Why the MCC may be in fiscal dire straits.

On page 34:

At face value it looks like spending is outpacing attendance increases. *That* certainly looks unsustainable.