Montgomery County Civic Federation Delegate's Meeting
Monday, June 14th, 7:45
Third Floor Hearing Room of the County Office Building, Rockville, Maryland
Please try and arrive a few minutes before the meeting to make sure you can collect materials, sign in, and find a seat prior to the meeting.
Agenda (Tentative)
| 7:15 | Refreshments |
| 7:45 | Call to order, Cary Lamari presiding Announcements and introductions |
| 7:47 | Adoption of agenda |
| 7:50 | Approval of minutes |
| 7:55 | Program: CITISTAT, Honorable Martin O'Malley Presenting |
| 9:25 | Annual Awards
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| 9:45 | Old Business/ Officers Report |
| 9:50 | Election reforms sub-committee/ Dale Tibbitts |
| 9:55 | Housing sub-committee |
| 10:00 | new business |
| 10:10 | by-laws amendments |
| 10:20 | Election of Officers |
| 10:30 |
Adjournment |
Meeting Minutes
Special Programs
Contact: Wayne Goldstein 301-942-8079, waynemgoldstein@hotmail.com
Baltimore Mayor Martin J. O'Malley is coming to Montgomery County to talk about his nationally-renown Citistat program and the equally important 3-1-1 call system. While delegations from cities across North America are beating a path to Baltimore to learn about this increasingly popular way to make government more accountable and effective, Mayor O'Malley has graciously accepted the invitation of the Montgomery County Civic Federation to come to our June Delegates Meeting and Awards Ceremony.
This is a unique opportunity for state, county, and municipal public officials and employees, and the people they represent and work for, to hear about how all of us can become part of team working together to identify and solve problems large and small in Montgomery County and the Washington region.
Monday, June 14th at 7:45 pm in the Third Floor Hearing Room of the County Office Building (COB), 100 Maryland Avenue in Rockville. Parking is available in the parking garage behind the COB.
Here is some background on how Citistat works in Baltimore, its history, and what other governments and professionals are saying about it: Baltimore Citistat:
"CitiStat is an accountability tool based on the CompStat program pioneered in the New York City Police Department by Jack Maple. CompStat, utilizing computer pin mapping and weekly accountability sessions, helped the NYPD dramatically reduce crime and is employed today by several police departments around the world."
Jack Maple - "Crimefighter
from Richmond Hill"
Crime
Fighter: How You Can Make Your Community Crime-Free; Jack Maple, With
Chris Mitchell
"As a young officer, he constantly got in trouble for making too many
arrests (too much paperwork, said the bosses), and as a transit detective
he pioneered the fabled decoy squad that drove criminals out of the subways
in the 1980s."
Government Technology, April 1999, Jack Maple: Betting
on Intelligence. by Raymond Dussault Justice & Technology Editor "Former
NYPD map master Jack Maple puts his money where his crime stats are."
"The caves are the New York subways -- once considered as dangerous a
place as any in the world. In the 1980s, Maple was an aggressive transit cop
who moved up to the rank of transit lieutenant. When he got tired of responding
to crime instead of fighting it, he went home and put his unschooled but analytical
mind to work.
" 'I called them the Charts of the Future. On 55 feet of wall space,
I mapped every train station in New York City and every train,' Maple recently
explained. 'Then I used crayons to mark every violent crime, robbery and grand
larceny that occurred. I mapped the solved vs. the unsolved.' Later, when
William Bratton was hired by the Transit Police to cut crime, Maple showed
him the charts, and between 1990 and 1992 they cut felonies in the caves by
27 percent and robberies by a third."
Ford Foundation Report, Winter 2001. Crime Control by the Numbers. Compstat yields new lessons for the police-and the replication of a good idea. by David C. Anderson
"…The most aggressive expansion of Compstat may already be in place in Baltimore, where Mayor Martin O'Malley, impressed with police use of the idea, decided to create CitiStat for the whole city. "Mayor O'Malley is convinced that this same process can be used not only for crime but for every City agency from Public Works to Health," reads a description of CitiStat on Baltimore's Web site. "In short, CitiStat is how the Mayor runs the city."
Worcester, MA Report on NYC Compstat and Baltimore Citistat - 2/18/03:
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom called it "Citistat + 311" in his winning campaign last year: "HOW CITISTAT WILL TRANSFORM SAN FRANCISCO. San Franciscans deserve a city government that is effective, cost-efficient, and responsive to their needs. A government that gets the job done right, on time, and within budget." See: http://www.smartvoter.org/2003/12/09/ca/sf/vote/newsom_g/paper3.html
Austin Officials came calling, looking for help in a hurry:
"City Officials Announce Trip to Baltimore As Part of Major Initiative to Reform City Services; Wednesday, October 8, 2003; With Austin government service the subject of recent critical reports by the City Auditor's Office and a national consulting firm, Austin City Council Member Brewster McCracken, City of Austin Acting Chief Information Officer Pete Collins and McCracken Policy Director Karen Gross will travel to Baltimore next week as part of a major initiative to reform and improve city services. McCracken, Collins and Gross will examine Baltimore's revolutionary technology-based CitiStat management system.
"Other cities are already following Baltimore's lead; McCracken, Collins and Gross will hardly be the first major American city delegation to travel to Baltimore for advice on improving government services. Over 50 North American cities-including Chicago, Columbus, Denver, Durham, Edmonton, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Little Rock, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and St. Louis-have sent officials to Baltimore to meet with Baltimore CitiStat officials. A number of these cities have subsequently implemented CitiStat to improve city services and save tax dollars.
"According to The Boston Globe, CitiStat 'gives the people who run Baltimore astonishing knowledge of their city. There is an immediacy to the program that no monthly or quarterly review in other cities can match. This kind of information will allow elected officials to make budgetary decisions based on statistical evidence as opposed to anecdotal evidence,' San Francisco Mayor's spokesman John Shanley said."
To learn more about the 3-1-1 system, go to: http://www.pscommllc.com/wwd_311.html
and to:
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/story/0%2C10801%2C77389%2C00.html
and to: http://www.motorola.com/cgiss/csr/csr_overview.shtml
The Guardian wrote this: "It's America, where you stand up to be accountable.
How can public bodies improve their services? Perri 6 considers performance
management US-style, which 'puts a face on the problem.' "
Wednesday March 24, 2004 The
Guardian
"When Martin O'Malley was elected mayor of Baltimore in 1999, he was a man in a hurry. Frustrated by what he regarded as the poor quality of public services, and suspicious of the calibre and commitment of service managers, he introduced CitiStat - a system of decision-making for improved performance management and resource allocation."
"The Honorable Martin J. O'Malley, Mayor of Baltimore Maryland, visited Ireland and Northern Ireland at the invitation of the Center for Irish Programs in August, 2001. Mayor O'Malley's visit was in support of the Irish Instiute's followup programming and included presentations to local government officials in Galway, Derry, Belfast and Dublin of his innovative local government, public sector reform 'CITISTAT.' "
Bringing CitiStat to Massachusetts: A Workshop for Public Officials
"On September 16, 2003, the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and the National Center for Digital Goverment convened a group of interested public officials from state and local departments to hear about the CitiStat data-driven management tool for government agencies. Modeled after CompStat, the program that New York City developed to attack crime with daily tracking of criminal behavior and neighborhood conditions, CitiStat enables Mayor Martin O'Malley and department heads to look at tangible data about government performance in Baltimore. Deputy Mayor of Baltimore, Michael Enright and Director of the CitiStat program, Matthew Gallagher presented the CitiStat program to 100 state and local officials."
Awards
The Sentinel Award is sponsored by the Montgomery Sentinel newspaper and is presented to an individual or group for a significant contribution to good government at the local level. This year we honor Ms. Martha Waddy for her down-county work in support of local government.
For the past five years Martha Waddy has served as President of the New Hampshire Estates Civic Association. Her neighborhood is one of the most densely populated areas in the county and has a relatively high concentration of poverty and attendant social ills. Ms. Waddy has worked in many ways to reduce crime and bad housing, and has significantly heightened the morale of the local population.
Martha Waddy is also secretary of "Weed and Seed", the public-private partnership that uses federal grants and volunteer work by private citizens to reduce crime by cooperating with law enforcement on the one hand and initiating positive youth and social improvement programs on the other. She is a long-time member of the Long Branch Initiative, a down-county civic group that works to address problems and support the residents of the Long Branch and Flower Avenue communities. These communities have a high proportion of immigrants who are struggling to increase their opportunities and to improve their quality of life in our county.
Several years ago Martha Waddy was appointed to work on what has become the Takoma Park-Prince Georges-Montgomery County Crossroads Development Commission, an organization established by former Governor Parris Glendening and renewed recently after a two year hiatus by Governor Ehrlich. The Commission works to resolve public safety, education and transportation problems affecting all three jurisdictions. According to the Commission Director, Mr. Erwin Mack, Martha has been an outstanding representative of Montgomery County on the Commission.
Ms. Waddy also spends a good deal of time in counseling and providing moral support to patients undergoing treatment at nursing homes. With so much of her time and resources going into her civic work which she performs selflessly and with great dedication, it is fitting that we honor Martha Waddy with the 2004 Sentinel Award.
The Gazette Award is sponsored by the Montgomery Gazette Newspaper and awarded to an individual or group who performs exemplary volunteer service for the residents of the county. This year we recognize the volunteers from the County's 19 Volunteer Fire Companies.
Emergencies can strike any of us at any time: day-in and day-out, while driving,
in our home or office, working outside or undertaking a recreational activity.
The fire fighter, emergency medical technician (EMT) or paramedic answering
the "911" call may be either a career employee of the County's Department
of Fire and Rescue Services (DFRS) or a volunteer member of one of our 19
independent fire corporations. If the response is made during weekday hours,
the responders will most likely be career employees. But on weekends and evenings,
a volunteer may be the one answering the call. The Gazette Award recognizes
the daily and extraordinary contributions made by our volunteer responders.
They must meet the same training standards, spending many hours in the classroom
and in "hands on" exercises even before they graduate and become
"certified" to respond to our needs. They are on duty when we are
celebrating Thanksgiving, when we are away at the beach for the 4th of July,
or at 3:00 in the morning. They go whenever and wherever a call for assistance
takes them. They answer calls for help even at the risk to their own safety
and life, all without any monetary reward. For these reasons, the Civic Federation
and the Gazette Newspapers recognize and thank our volunteer responders for
outstanding service to the people of Montgomery County.
The Star Cup is awarded by the Montgomery County Civic Federation
to a delegate or committee for outstanding public service on behalf of Montgomery
County. The 2004 Star Cup is awarded to Cary Lamari, outgoing President of
the Montgomery County Civic Federation, for his great dedication, leadership
and skill in furthering the public welfare.
A general economic decline and constrained revenue growth at county, state and national levels led to curtailments in government services and difficulties in assigning priorities among segments of the county's population. Despite this situation, Mr. Lamari continued to stress support of the most vulnerable beneficiaries, especially the mentally ill. He also supervised the work of the Federation in its oversight of County services: transportation, education, land use, the environment, parks/recreation, and finances. He helped establish a new public safety committee to deal with natural disasters, potential epidemics and crime and terrorism. He worked to maintain a high quality fire and rescue service for county residents and the contribution to this service provided by volunteers. He championed our efforts to restructure the County Council into nine community-based districts. Cary's enthusiastic Italian personality has been most effective in the retention and increase in the Federation membership. And he has recognized and encouraged the work of other citizens by frequently giving our Community Hero Award.
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