Overcoming Water Infrastructure Failings

Imagine you are a state or city government policy adviser. The governor or city mayor has asked your boss to brief them on a critical problem facing your community (and therefore one of your agency's top policy priorities). You need to develop a comprehensive policy memo that will give your boss: (1) the critical background information he/she needs on the issue at hand; (2) analysis of the influence of the state/city legislature, the judicial system, and other state/city government agencies on the formulation and implementation of a specific policy; (3) an evaluation of the influence that interest groups, political parties and the media have on the policy at hand; (4) a set of options/solutions for your boss to consider regarding a path forward with all these political players (including pros and cons for each option); and, (5) a recommended strategy that you want your boss to present to the governor or mayor to win support for your agency's policy agenda. To recap, your memo should: - Clearly and concisely state the problem yo​‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‌‌‌‍​u are trying to tackle - Provide a summary of the current policy context / relevant background - Analyze the influence of the state or city legislature, the judicial system, and other agencies - Evaluate the influence of interest groups, political parties, and the media - Present a set of solutions to the problem for your boss to consider, including pros and cons for each - Make a realistic recommendation of one of those options and provide further justification for why you are saying that option is the best. Formatting Guidelines: - No cover page; put your name and the subject line at the top with a date. - Minimum length of 2000 words, but do not exceed 6 single-spaced pages. (Most senior leaders wouldn't have time to read anything longer than this.) - Cite sources for your memo since this is an academic exercise (sources will not count toward the 6 page limit). - At minimum, your sources should include: one book besides the textbook, two articles from scholarly journals