|
Collins Center to Exhibit at the MMA Annual Meeting and Trade Show
| | Please stop by Booth 706 and Say Hello
 The Collins Center will participate this year at the Massachusetts Municipal Association's 2012 Annual Meeting and Trade Show being held at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston this Friday and Saturday, January 20 and 21. The theme of this year's meeting, which is the largest regular gathering of Massachusetts municipal officials, is: Recovery, Reinvestment and Renewal: Cities and Towns Look Ahead.
Collins Center experts in municipal charter reform, regionalization, performance management, including CitiStat, municipal management and finance, as well as the Center's executive recruitment and professional development staff, will be available to answer questions and provide you with information about the many services the Center offers cities and towns.
|
|
Center Hosting Major Conference on Performance Management
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 from 9:00 to 5:00 at UMB's Campus Center
|  The Collins Center is proud to announce that it will be hosting an important conference next month, Delivering Results: Implementing Performance Management in Massachusetts. The all-day event will be held on February 14th in UMass Boston's harbor view Campus Center. Governor Deval Patrick, the members of his Cabinet and the country's highest-ranking performance management official are expected to participate.
Never before have states been under greater pressure to make government more efficient and effective. In today's environment, government has to stretch every tax dollar to provide its citizens with needed services. This conference will bring together a broad mix of Massachusetts government leaders, as well as municipal and federal officials, legislators, academics, officials from other states, representatives of public policy foundations and institutes to review how the Commonwealth is using the techniques of Performance Management to accomplish the Administration's goals.
The Center has been working for over a year with the Administration to coordinate the design and implementation of a performance management system for the Commonwealth. This system, when fully operational, will be one of the most sophisticated and rigorous in the country and is already attracting serious interest from a number of other states.
Participants will hear from experts in the field as well as seasoned practitioners, and learn how to use a series of common sense practices to improve government performance and enhance public trust. Attendees will learn how to establish measureable goals and objectives; how to drive goals and strategies through all levels of their agencies; how to measure outcomes against goals; and how to use date in real time to identify and fix problems.
If you have any questions or need further information on the Conference, please contact Kathleen Corrigan at 617-287-4824 or kathleen.corrigan@umb.edu.
|
|
Center Associate Serving as Interim Town Administrator in Sherborn
| |
 James Purcell, a Collins Center Associate, has been named interim Town Administrator in Sherborn by that community's Board of Selectmen. As part of his new responsibilities in Sherborn, Purcell was charged with implementing several changes in the Town's operations recommended by a recent Collins Center management review. Purcell takes on the interim appointment in Sherborn, having recently completed his work as Interim Town Manager in North Andover.
Before joining the Collins Center, Purcell had a long career in municipal management. He was the Town Manager of Norton for eight years, Leicester Town Administrator for eight years prior to that and also served as Worcester County Manager for nine years.
For further information about the Center's interim municipal management services, please contact Deputy Director Stephen McGoldrick at stephen.mcgoldrick@umb.edu or by calling 617.287.4824.
|
|
Center Retained to Recruit New Town Managers in Burlington and Hanover
|  The Burlington Board of Selectmen recently voted to use the Executive Recruitment Services of the Collins Center in their search for the town's next Town Administrator, a position that will be vacant due to the impending retirement of twelve year incumbent Bob Mercier. Burlington, with a population of 24,000, is well known for its dense combination of retail, office and high tech activities as well as its residential neighborhoods. The Town operates under a Board of Selectmen, Town Administrator, and a Representative Town Meeting governance structure. A Profile of the Town and a description of the position will be posted later this month on the Collins Center's website. An appointment is expected in April or May.
 The Center is also assisting Hanover, which has a population of approximately 14,000, recruit a Town Manager, a new position that was created in 2010 by a special act of the legislature. Applications for this position closed on January 6th and an appointment, as in Burlington, is expected in the spring.
The Center has provided these services to a number of the Commonwealth's cities and towns. For more information about the Center's executive recruitment and interim management services, please contact Richard Kobayashi at richard.koyabashi@umb.edu or call 617.489.8812.
|
|
New England StatNet to Hold Winter Meeting on Dispatch
| |
New England StatNet (StatNet) will host its winter meeting at Worcester City Hall on Friday, February 3. The meeting's topic will be dispatch operations.
Now into its third year of existence, StatNet is a network of municipalities in New England using CitiStat or other data-driven Performance Management approaches. The group is coordinated by the Collins Center and gathers three times a year for in-depth discussion of municipal governance issues and also works on other collaborative efforts.
Prior StatNet meeting topics have included public works, human resources, inspections, customer service/constituent relations, police, and CitiStat itself. In May 2011, StatNet hosted its first all-day Performance Management training, drawing a standing room only crowd. More than 120 representatives from New England municipalities, state agencies and non-profit organizations attended the event, held at UMass Boston's Healey Library conference center. StatNet is beginning to plan a second training for the spring or summer of 2012.
If you are interested in attending or learning more about StatNet or any of its initiatives, please contact Amy Dain at Amy.Dain@umb.edu .
|
|
Collins Center Hiring Professional Staff
|  The Collins Center is hiring professional staff to work full or part-time on Center projects including performance management, municipal consulting and other efforts. A full description of the two levels of positions - Government Services Specialist and Senior Government Services Specialist can be found here: http://www.umb.edu/hr/jobs/. All applications must be submitted through the University's on-line system.
If you have questions, please contact Monica Lamboy at monica.lamboy@umb.edu or by calling 617-287-7488.
|
|
Online Performance Management Course to Begin Later this Month
|  The next offering of the Center's online course, Performance Management for Government and Non-Profits, starts on January 29, 2012. Go to the website and register by Monday, January 23, 2012 to ensure a place.
For more information on the course, please contact Education Program Developer Sandra Blanchette at sandra.blanchette@umb.edu or by calling 617.287.5534.
|
|
The Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management
100 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125
Phone: 617. 287.4824
FAX: 617.287.5566
|
|
|
Volume 4 Issue 1
January 2012
|
|
Collins Center in the News
Northampton charter panel wants mayor to serve four years
Daily Hampshire Gazette, January 17, 2012
New Belmont Town Administrator Will Have More Authority, Higher Pay Range
The Boston Globe, January 10, 2012
Town Administrator Search Update
Wicked Local Burlington, January 3, 2011
Hawke Wants Gardner's Century-old Charter Reviewed
Worcester Telegram & Gazette, January 2, 2011
Continuing Events in Hanover in 2012
Wicked Local Hanover, December 28, 2011 |
 | McCormack School Dean Steve Crosby
on the Collins Center |
|
| About Ed Collins
|
Throughout his outstanding public career, Edward J. Collins, Jr. epitomized the spirit and goals of the Center that now bears his name. We at the Collins Center are proud to continue the work of Ed's life - helping governments work effectively and productively for the benefit of their citizens. More about Ed
|
|
|
