Transportation Unit Cuts Costs
An innovative approach escalating costs is paying off faced with maintaining
to the problem of meeting for the Jewish Welfare Fed- transportation for clients
communal transportation eration and its local while equipment was aging
needs in the face of rapidly member agencies. The and repair-replacement
newly formed Transporta- costs were rising.
tion Committee — the out-
Mark E. Schlussel,
growth of a year-long study headed the study com-
by a Federation Culture and mittee, which found that
Education Division sub- Federation's member
TO
committee — is creating ef- agencies were generally
ficient, cost-effective opera- offering effective trans-
HOPE LEE STOCKER
tion.
portation services. But it
The centrally coordinated was felt that the costs for
On her confirmation
system will serve more than each agency would be-
4,500 people with a proj- come overwhelming as
ected first-year savings of inflation continued to
Grandma Fran &
$50,000. It was created to rise and equipment be-
Grandpa Hank Weitz
remove the burden from in- came increasingly out-
dividual agencies who were moded.
In 1980-1981, for exam-
ple, the agencies spent more
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than $650,000 for delivery
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of transportation services,
with a capital investment of
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facilities. The study com-
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mittee found that, at 10 per-
cent annual inflation, oper-
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ational costs would exceed
$1 million by 1985.
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In dealing with this prob-
lem, a number of ap-
proaches were considered
by Schlussel and study
committee members James
M. August, Joseph B. Col-
ten, Stanley D. Frankel and
Herbert S. Sillman.
Schlussel noted that the
solution — a central plan-
ning entity — maximized
matching available re-
sources to community
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needs.
Headed by Milton
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Lucow, the Transporta-
tion Committee will re-
view the needs and
recommendations of
such member agencies as
United Hebrew Schools,
Jewish Federation
Made To Order and Remade
Apartments and the
Jewish Community Cen-
ter. A transportation
committee within each
agency will study costs
relative to programs
served, while consider-
ing intermediate and
long-range options.
The committee is already
achieving cost savings.
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Outmoded equipment is
being replaced with a mix-
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committee is also seeking
ways to consolidate service.
Serving with Lucow on
the Transportation Com-
mittee are Sol Colton,
Henry Dorfman, Harold El-
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son, Donald Fox, Jerome
Lamplight
Voltage
Glassman, Henry Leopold
Lighting
and I. William Sherr. Isa-
dore Goldstein is director of
transportation services.
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Humble Beginnings Recalled
Editor, The Jewish News:
A wealthy widow, whose
deceased husband had been
a close friend of mine,
brought along her top busi-
ness executive to dine with
us. In the course of conver-
sation I brought up the fact
that when she and I were
children we played together
in the slums of St. Louis.
The following day, over
the telephone, she repri-
manded me for referring to
her childhood and extracted
a promise from me that
never again would I men-
tion her impoverished
background.
On the other hand, I re-
call the time I had dinner at
the home of Barney Bala-
ban, head of Paramount
Films. This man of wealth
has spend a fortune buying
papers that have great
value and importance to our
government. Then he pre-
sents them as gifts to the
country he is so proud to
serve. The original manu-
script of the Star Spangled
Banner by Francis Scott
Key is one of the items he
purchased.
I saw copies of the var-
ious items he gave to the
United States of America.
In the same beautiful li-
brary he proudly shows
the pictures of his Or-
thodox Jewish - parents
and the place of his birth
... the second floor of a
wooden shack, the
ground floor of which
served as the family
grocery store. This was in
the heart of Chicago's
ghetto.
The mature and inte-
grated man is proud of his
humble origin and wants
always to be reminded of it,
as in the story of King
David.
It is said that visiting
dignitaries visiting King
David invariably asked,
"Why is it that all over the
world palaces are repos-
itories for trophies won in
battle, beautiful jewels,
colorful tapestries and other
rare phenomena? Your
Majesty's walls are adorned
only with rams' horns."
King David's simple reply
was, "As I sit on my throne,
high above the populace, it
is easy for me to have my
ego inflated. That is why
wherever I cast my eyes I
want to see rams' horns to
remind me that I was once a
shepherd."
The smaller the person,
the bigger the ego; the big-
ger the person, the more
humble and grateful he is.
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