The Alliance for Innovation has selected the City of Tulsa’s Management Review Office (MRO) to share their success story to government leaders at the Transforming Local Government Conference in Denver, CO in April 2014.
The Alliance for Innovation is an international network that works to transform local government and advance community excellence through the discovery and application of leading ideas and practices. Municipalities around the country will be attending the conference in April to hear firsthand how Tulsa is positively impacting city government.
“This is a great honor for Tulsa to be chosen as a leader in helping transform local government and I’m very proud of the cost-savings measures and efficiencies we are implementing that have a direct impact to our budget,” Mayor Dewey Bartlett said. “When I created the MRO, the sole intent was to seek new ways to spend taxpayer dollars more wisely and I am proud to say that we are accomplishing this goal.”
To date, the MRO has saved the city $4 million through various cost-savings and gain sharing measures working with employees in fleet management, the customer care center and building maintenance and operations. To see the milestones of the MRO, visit: https://www.cityoftulsa.org/our-city/management-review-office/milestones.aspx.
The MRO was created by Mayor Dewey Bartlett in 2010 to help City departments improve their daily operations by finding efficiencies and cost-savings. The MRO is responsible for reviewing and implementing KPMG recommendations and to identify opportunities for alternative service delivery methods and revenue generation/cost recovery initiatives throughout the city.
The Alliance for Innovation partners with the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) and Arizona State University to seek out the most innovative practices in governments around the world and hosts the prestigious Transforming Local Government Conference each year. For more information about the Alliance for Innovation and the Transforming Local Government Conference, visit: http://transformgov.org/en/home.