Rules about the rules to drive the greatest public benefit
đź’ˇ Establish principles and procedures to ensure decisions are guided to enable communities to reach for and then achieve their highest goals
What local government officials can do
- Manage for outcomes rather than than earmarks
- Streamline community engagement processes for safety-enhancing transportation projects
- Center public service delivery that accountably achieves intended results while providing excellent experiences for uses
- Develop cost accounting and fee programs to allocate discretionary impacts to users and preserve public resources in a deliberate way
- Identify how the forces of inertia stand in the way of change, and considering change to begin with, then invest in structured innovation and change management
- Empower staff to work towards evidence-based public wellbeing while reducing the “vetocracy” that makes it easy for narrow groups to take them off track
What other leaders can do
- Contribute to policy and planning initiatives that seek to address chicken-egg problems
- Help elect local public officials who will prioritize development of community capacity
- Advocate for the above
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