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A WELL RUN CITY: CUSTOMER SERVICE 2015 1. Improve Agency Identity, Transparency and Customer Service Create a communication strategy and provide dedicated staff to implement it. • Create/reinstate LADOT liaisons to work with Council Offices, Mayor's Office, and other partners. • Develop LADOT branding strategy. • 2017 Partners • Hire staff and deploy enhanced strategies. CAO, Personnel Reinstate "Council Liaison" position inside LADOT and develop budget case for “community liaisons” assigned to district engineering offices. • Fully implement district community liaison function and integrate into communications plan. CAO, Personnel Ensure LADOT brand is incorporated visibly in every department program. • All external products include easily identifiable LADOT logos. Enhance existing communications strategy (press and outreach strategy). • Tailor communication to audiences and neighborhoods. Incorporate youth and older adults into strategies and messaging. • Identify workforce and resource issues, and establish one Principal Public Relations Representative and two Public Relations Specialists (one I and one II) positions for proactive media and community relations outreach. . . . 2. Improve the Dissemination of Information to Stakeholders Educate Council Offices, Mayor's Office and the public on what services LADOT provides. • Pilot LADOT presentations with stakeholders. Establish baseline measurements of effectiveness of external communications with stakeholders. • Formalize annual council office briefings on projects and priorities. Develop agency-wide, project-based outreach process. • Initiate project-based outreach. • Continue to initiate project outreach programs. Create models and templates for all LADOT public outreach materials. • • Continue to publish "one pagers," fact sheets, and other consistent briefing materials for all major LADOT projects and programs. Distribute through NavigateLA and LADOT Internet. Engage social media marketplace. • • Explore new advances in social media activities and establish a full-time position for social media. Use technology and social media to inform people about traffic. • Share necessary traffic data to develop and introduce "Apps" in conjunction with private partners. • Develop and test automated navigation tools to effectively route city fleet vehicles to minimize traffic delays, fuel consumption and emissions. Develop a parking data sharing policy. • Adopt LADOT internal policy on data sharing that takes into account the cost to provide the data and maintain the infrastructure. • Evaluate effectiveness of the policy and modify as necessary. . . Design LAD