Governmental Excellence: An Oxymoron No More?
Posted byChris Thompson - 02.02.2012
Governmental excellence are two words one rarely sees together, but Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald paired them in his State of the County address this month, which Advance Northeast Ohio summarized here.
Many commentators might declare those two words to be an oxymoron. But they don't have to be and the partners of Advance Northeast Ohio share Mr. FitzGerald's desire to measure the effectiveness of government and spread best practices. Mr. FitzGerald called for the creation of a Center of Governmental Excellence that "would provide an outside, unbiased analysis of exactly how well we are actually progressing."
There is a great need for such a center to serve not only Cuyahoga County, but all of Northeast Ohio, as this editorial from the Warren Tribune Chronicle reminds us -- rasing taxes to pay for dispatch services that could be provided by others, really?
The EfficientGov Network of local government officials and business leaders has been pushing hard to promote more government collaboration in the region, and FitzGerald's call for a Center of Governmental Excellence should reinforce those efforts.
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