IChange Justice podcast #25-"Understanding Public Sector Corporations"

Host Joy Gilfilen interviews guest Atul Deshmane about "Understanding Public Sector Corporations''. Atul speaks from personal experience in very clear language about how public and private sector corporations are structured and operate.

This opens the conversation where Atul and Joy discuss how this may be different still from how many other non-corporate business people believe they work. And then how this in turn creates a ripple effect and more confusion in civic conversations and politics and when talking about taxes, responsibilities, liabilities, and more.

For example, Whatcom County is a public sector corporation with a strong Executive branch that has three CEO's who control not only the legal and business affairs of the corporation, but also control the execution of the law, and how the management of the communities business affairs work (i.e. public tax monies). This chain of power and command becomes especially important to know when we are talking about the administration of justice, jails, law enforcement, emergency management and disaster services, the civil and criminal legal systems, etc.

Atul is uniquely qualified to speak about executive level biases and interests that often lead to confusion in public discussions for he has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Restorative CommUnity Coalition, serves as a Whatcom County Public Utility District Commissioner, is a Whatcom County Planning Commissioner and has been a private sector businessman in both small and large corporations, including working at Ford Motor Company in planning, testing and design using systems engineering principles.