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Fulfilling one of her major campaign pledges, Mayor Shirley Franklin today unveiled her plans for process reviews of city government, which will focus on three citywide infrastructure processes - Human Resources, Procurement, and Information Technology.
“During my campaign for mayor, I pledged, within the first hundred days of my term, to initiate an audit of city government. I thought it was needed then, and I am convinced it is needed more today. These process reviews will give us the road map to make city government more efficient and more responsive to our citizens,” said Franklin.
The process reviews will not come at taxpayers’ expense. With assistance from the Greater Atlanta Chamber Foundation, private companies and foundations – in the spirit of private/public partnerships – will contribute the monies needed to conduct the reviews.
The vendors selected include:
Human Resources – CPS Human Resources Services (www.cps.ca.gov). CPS has been providing high-quality and cost-effective human resources services to government for over 65 years over 1,200 government and non-government organizations in the United States and Canada.
Thompson, Cobb, Bazilio & Associates (www.tcba.com) will conduct the Procurement process review. TCBA is a Washington, D.C. based, minority-owned certified public accounting, information technology, and management consulting firm. TCBA’s procurement-related engagements have included the US Census Bureau, the District and the Washington Sewer & Sanitary Commission.
Gartner Consulting (www.gartner.com) will conduct the Technology process review. Gartner is a research and advisory firm that helps more than 11,000 clients understand technology and drive business growth.
The Mayor praised the job of her transition team who began working on the management audit process in December. They include Marva Brooks, Charlie Fleming, Peggy McCormick, Ronald Moore, Teresa Wynn Roseborough and Betty Schmitz.
Franklin also announced that David Edwards has joined the City as the Program Management Officer. Edwards brings to the City nine years of consulting experience with the Boston Consulting Group and PricewaterhouseCoopers, and four years working in the Office of Management and Budget in the White House.
If the City Council authorizes the Mayor to enter into contract with the vendors selected on April 1, the Human Resources and Procurement reviews will commence by April 15. The Technology process review will commence on April 30, 2002. It is expected that the process reviews will take three months to conclude.
Franklin noted that much-needed reforms will likely result from these process reviews. “As a result of these projects, we will be able to re-organize and re-structure the major systems and processes in city government,” said Franklin.
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