what are public private partnerships 
public private partnerships involve collaboration between a government agency and a private sector company that can be used to finance build and operate projects such as public transportation networks parks and convention centers financing a project through a public private partnership can allow a project to be completed sooner or make it a possibility in the first place public private partnerships often involve concessions of tax or other operating revenue protection from liability or partial ownership rights over nominally public services and property to private sector for profit entities 