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Gary Cudney of CarlWalker Inc., and the IPI gave its Parking Pro- fessional of the Year award to Chance Management’s Barbara Chance. These two parking pros and many other consultants spend a tremendous amount of time promoting the industry. They are to be congratulated. November saw the “Consultants” issue of Parking Today.
I solicited some articles from consultants, and most are head- lined such as “Consultants: Useless, Waste of Money” or “12 Steps to Really Bad Customer Service” or my personal favorite: “Consult This!” Remember, these were written by consultants. One might get
the idea that they are feeling a tad put upon. Let’s look at their jobs, for a bit. Consultants design and ensure that garages are properly
built. They write specifications for PARCS, and then supervise their purchase and installation. They review management proce- dures and hopefully suggest ways to make a parking product better for less money. But those are the easy parts.What about, as one writer pointed
out in November’s PT, providing political cover? Especially in the current era of budget cuts and cost
reductions, departments, institutions and agencies are being asked to make harder, and less popular, policy decisions to make up for lost funding.Often, towns, schools, hospitals and other entities knowwhat they need to do, but are loath to add to the already considerable burden of their constituents.
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mployee parking lots. Aconsultant can provide both the impartial voice calling
for these changes and the focal point for community response. Change, as we all know, tends to be traumatic and emo-
tional; a good consultant can manage this process and also absorb much of the initial reaction from constituents. Agreat consultant can structure the process in such a way that your parking and transportation staff, who have to live with the newpolicy long afterwe are gone, are partnerswith your con- stituents in the process, rather than antagonists. That’s tough. City councils, university administrators and
boards of directors make the decisions; the consultants take the heat. I can imagine a scenario when a consultant’s client wants to do
“A,” but the consultant recommends “B.” The client is adamant. The consultant says, with reservation, that they will proceed with “B.”
A year later the job turns to dross. The client goes to his board
and says. “I hired the best consultant in the business, and he said ‘B’ was OK.” The consultant gets the blame; the client is saved. But often that’s what a consultant does. Projects sometimes
can’t be moved off dead center without someone who will accept responsibility if things go wrong. Politicians often aren’t willing to do that, but a consultant will provide them the cover they need to make hard, risky decisions. Our consultant-author is
right.Not only can a good consultant provide a process to get the project or policy underway, they also can
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