M.S., Public Administration, University of Illinois, 1975
B.S., History, University of Illinois, 1973

For more than 25 years, Mr. Vine has strategically involved citizens and clients into decision making processes that effected their lives. These efforts resulted in over $900 million of funded projects for a wide range of public and non-profit projects, including community comprehensive plans, transportation plans, community and organizational strategic plans and visioning, utility studies, customer satisfaction surveys, parks and recreation master plans, non-profit and association strategic plans, and others.

Mr. Vine is skilled in both the use of quantitative phone and mail survey research efforts and as a facilitator for focus groups and stakeholder interviews. He has more than 15 years experience as a project manager, in a wide range of governmental, non-profit and private sector planning and management studies. He has been the project manager for market research assignments in over 40 states, with public sector clients ranging in size up to over 1 million populations.

Prior to starting work as a private consultant in 1989, Mr. Vine worked for 15 years in a series of high level governmental administrative positions, including serving as the Chief Administrative Officer for the City of Topeka, Kansas where he managed a work force of over 1,200 municipal employees as well as an operations and capital budget in excess of $200 million. In this position, he was one of the first municipal officials in the country to embrace the development of public/private and non-profit partnerships, and the establishment of creative funding strategies such as public foundations as a tool for addressing community needs. Mr. Vine’s unique experience in the public, non-profit, and private sectors have proven to be of tremendous benefits to his clients.

Mr. Vine has considerable experience conducting quantitative and qualitative research for large scale planning studies involving other design, planning and economics consultants. He is a recognized expert in the financial operations of public governments and non-profits and is particularly skilled in the development of innovative public private partnerships to provide needed customer services, while reducing the tax costs to construct and operate facilities.

Mr. Vine has managed Market Research Surveys for over 250 governmental organizations during the past five years including:

Mr. Vine is currently serving as a Vice-President of ETC Institute. Under his leadership, the firm has completed more than 450 surveys for public, non-profit, and private sector clients in 46 states across the country. The firm is recognized as a national leader in the strategic use of public input for performance measurements, funding decisions, benchmarking, and decision making.

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