The delivery of services through public private partnerships will impact many existing policies of local government. It will also require the establishment of new policies to address issues unique to public private partnerships. There are many reasons for local governments to establish policies for public private partnerships, as well as to identify the objectives which they hope to achieve through their involvement in public private partnerships.
Important reasons include:
• There is a need for a formal policy to provide guidance to local government staff in initiating and evaluating public private partnership proposals. A formal policy adopted by Council or the Board will set out the broad direction as
well as some of the ground rules to guide staff in achieving the local government's objectives as they relate to service delivery.
A formal policy will allow local government to communicate its position on public private partnership to other interested parties, including potential partners, labour unions, other interest groups and the public.