The Collins Center Report
Reminder: 4/30 Deadline for Massachusetts Cities and Towns to Apply for the FY15 Municipal Performance Management Program
Participants Receive Low-Cost Technical Assistance for Starting or Expanding Performance Management Efforts
With continued funding from the Executive Office for Administration and Finance (A&F), the Collins Center is preparing to launch a new round of municipalities into the Municipal Performance Management Program (MPMP) in FY15. This innovative program provides assistance to Massachusetts municipalities looking to tune up or establish a performance management program and to improve their use of data in management and policymaking. 

Participating municipalities will receive the assistance of a trained analyst for roughly one day per week for five months, as well as additional training and support. In return, those municipalities will be required to make certain commitments as part of the work and will pay a $1,000 participation fee. At the end of five months, municipalities have options for paying to continue the work at a variety of levels of service and prices. For more information, please review the MPMP FY15 Program Overview.

Municipalities will be selected based on their level of commitment to the work and based on the intent to create a set of municipalities that reflects the diversity of the Commonwealth's cities and towns, as well as the need to have a set of municipalities that fit together geographically. (Special consideration may be given to applicant municipalities not selected during the first three rounds.)

The complete application packet is available here and is due by April 30.  Selected municipalities will be notified by early June.

For further information, please contact Michael Ward at [email protected].
StatNet Meeting on DPW
REMINDER: Surveys for the DPW StatNet meeting are due by Monday, 4/28
N.E. StatNet Updated
StatNet on DPW
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
9:30 am - 2:30 pm
Worcester Technical High School
1 Skyline Drive, Worcester, MA
RSVP to [email protected], with names, titles, affiliations and
email addresses

Surveys due Monday, April 28, 5:00 p.m.
www.surveymonkey.com/s/StatNetDPW2014
 
No fee for participation. 

StatNet is a network of municipal managers, department heads, analysts, and staff interested in improving their use of data and evidence in management and policymaking. StatNet holds three meetings per year focused on different areas of municipal government. Before each meeting, participants fill out a survey to provide information to be discussed at the event. The survey for the May 6 meeting includes questions on fleet, work order tracking, and safety. 

StatNet is funded by the Massachusetts Executive Office for Administration and Finance as part of the Municipal Performance Management Program. 
Boston 101 Spring 2014 Events
Ending the Zero-Sum Game: Regionalizing Economic Development
Monday, April 28, 2014 at 8:30 a.m. Rapapport Inst
Alcott Room, Omni Parker House,
60 School Street, 
Boston, MA

Joe Curtatone, Mayor of Somerville
John Barros, Chief, City of Boston Economic Development Cabinet
Edward Glaeser, Glimp Professor of Economics, Harvard University and Director, Rappaport Institute and Taubman Center for State and Local Government

Moderated by Shirley Leung, Business Columnist, Boston Globe

The economy of Greater Boston has tremendous strengths and attracts businesses from around the world. Yet there is very little coordination of resources and activities around economic development among the municipalities that make up Greater Boston. In fact, many times they compete against each other for relocating firms. What would regional economic development look like and what structure would make it viable and durable?

Co-sponsored by the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, the Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management at the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies,  and the Taubman Center for State and Local Government.
Collins Center In the News
Dedham Selectmen to Review Town Manager Search -Dedham Patch, April 23, 2014
Consultant Hired to Aid Charter Change in Easton - Wicked Local, April 11, 2014
Salem May Hike Principal Salaries - The Salem News, March 20, 2014
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 Ed's legacy - helping governments work effectively and productively for the benefit of their citizens.
Contracting with the Collins Center  
CPM Logo Narrow Agreements between local governments and the Collins Center are exempt from the provisions of Chapter 30B, the Uniform Procurement Act, since the University of Massachusetts is an instrumentality of the Commonwealth. Municipalities may negotiate a scope of services and a price with the Collins Center directly, saving both time and money. Similarly, Massachusetts state agencies may enter into Interagency Service Agreements with the Collins Center. For further information, please contact Stephen McGoldrick at [email protected].

The Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management is dedicated to improving the efficiency and effectiveness of all levels of government, with a particular focus on state and local government. The Collins Center is part of the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

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