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AUTHORIZATION TO ENTER INTO A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE CITY OF GLENDALE AND HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE LAB AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY FOR THE STUDY OF RESULTS DRIVEN CONTRACTING STRATEGIES
Staff Contact: Jean Moreno, Executive Officer Strategic Initiatives and Special Projects
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Purpose and Recommended Action
Recommendation
This is a request for City Council to authorize the City Manager to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab at Harvard University (GPL) for the study of results driven contracting strategies associated with the city's engagement in the Bloomberg Philanthropies What Works Cities program specifically focused on contracts for after school recreation center operators and open contracting data.
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Background
What Works Cities is a Bloomberg Philanthropies initiative that provides free technical assistance in focused content areas aimed at helping cities leverage data and evidence in the decision-making process. The What Works Cities initiative is specifically seeking to partner with 100 cities from around the nation with populations between 100,000 up to 1,000,000 before 2018. The What Works Cities program provides access to a network of technical experts and communities that have experienced improvements in specific content areas with the goal of scaling and duplicating those improvements across the nation.
Glendale submitted an application expressing interest in participating in the program and subsequently the City Council and executive team were invited to participate in a site visit and workshop presented by What Works Cities. This workshop provided the What Works Cities evaluation team with an opportunity to learn about the issues facing the community and to talk in detail about the What Works Cities program and expectations. Glendale was subsequently selected to continue moving forward in two content areas - Open Data and Results-...
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