A WELL RUN CITY:
A 21 CENTURY DEPARTMENT
ST
2015
2017
1. Prioritize Strategic Short- and Longer-Term Projects and Programs, and Streamline Project Delivery
Partners
Create a new Strategic
Capital Planning Group
within LADOT.
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Develop staffing and resources plan for
establishment of Strategic Capital Planning Group.
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Fully staff and maintain Strategic Capital Planning
Group.
CAO,
Personnel
Identify short-term and
long-term priority
projects.
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Determine list of priority projects and match to
funding sources.
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Establish detailed cost estimates and identify
funding sources to implement street improvement
projects.
DCP, BOE,
BSS, BSL
Implement a project
management tool.
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Scope and identify funding for development of
project management tool. Consider integration
with NavigateLA and MyLADOT platforms.
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Implement project management tool with the
related systems support resources. Integrate with
internal communication strategy.
BOE
Train employees to
become effective
project managers.
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Implement program and train all project
management staff.
BOE
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Scope and identify funding for development of
project management training program.
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2. Improve Communication and Access to Information to Support Decision-Making
Establish before and
after data collection
protocols for all
projects.
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Create dashboard to
track strategic plan
progress.
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Develop evaluation measures (e.g. vehicle counts,
speed surveys, pedestrian counts and bicycle
counts), determine gaps in data, identify resource
needs, and implement protocols.
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Create an implementation guide for Strategic Plan
leads and an internal tracking document.
• Hold quarterly meetings to track progress for each
goal.
• Update the Mayor's dashboard with metrics
consistent with Strategic Plan.
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Continue data collection and evaluate
effectiveness of protocols and process as needed.
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Refine metrics as evaluation improves.
Hold quarterly meetings to track progress for each
goal.
• Provide updates to the Mayor's dashboard.
• Create Strategic Plan progress report.
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Expand electronic
access to department
information and
materials for field staff.
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Scope and develop user profiles, business rules
and hardware/software support.
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Provide equipment and implement electronic
access.
Work with safety
experts in advance of
projects to enhance
decision making and
decrease risk aversion.
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Develop standard protocols for deviating from
design guidelines.
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Train all relevant staff in risk management and
best-practices re: engineering documentation and
decision-making.
City
Attorney,
CAO
Improve mechanisms to
communicate with City
Attorney's Office.
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Establish regular meetings with City Attorney's
office to discuss recent case law, new design
practices, and complex legal issues.
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Formalize regular meetings with City Attorney's
office, incorporate design and process
improvements, and evaluate effectiveness.
City
Attorney,
CAO
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Fully implement computerized accounting system.
Controller's
Office
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3. Improve Budget and Accounting Practices
Digitize all accounting
documentation and
reduce manual data
entry.
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Enlist Business Solutions Group to help reorganize
workflows to mesh with a digitized online system,
and enlist contractors to work with LADOT to
develop the digitized system.