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Planning Work: The recommendations included (1) medical care for the children; (2) work with the father and older daughter in planning work the budget; (3) work with the older daughter, who at first resented the nurse, when the latter offered to teach her food-buying and planning work, and infant care; (4) with the school in securing consideration for all of the children, especially for the younger girl. Basic to this work was the need to establish a closer relationship with the mother and the eldest girl. The nurse was successful in carrying out these recommendations, with the result that the twins no longer showed the initial Signs of physical and emotional retardation (79,1957).
The real task of the planning work board therefore should be—and is, in those communities where planning work is taken seriously—to serve as a research arm to the executive. "Pure" planning work, planning work according to theory, is a practical impossibility, for every executive decision is weighted by many factors of politics, expediency, finance, and local pressure. A conscientious executive and legislative body, nevertheless, can be assisted greatly in making decisions, if presented with the full implications, city-wide, of the alternatives.
Because of limited powers planning work boards must work closely with city departments and seek to have them forward overall planning work objectives as part of their own departmental plans. The traffic problem involves, for example, a department of highways, the police department, and very often county, state, and federal departments or bureaus. These bodies may, and often do, have conflicting ideas, and the overall data of the planner may have significant effect on their determinations. |
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