TO: Mayor and Members of City Council
THRU: Telly C. Whitfield, Ph.D., Assistant City Manager
FROM: Rebecca Jackson, Strategy and Performance Analytics Director
DATE: March 18, 2019
RE:
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Resolution of the Council of the City of Fayetteville, NC directing the City Manager to establish an open data program and supporting open data policy
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Relationship To Strategic Plan:
The Fayetteville City Council's open data resolution supports the City Council's Strategic Goal of Sustainable Organizational Capacity under Objective C to increase data- driven decisions.
Executive Summary:
The City of Fayetteville is working with Bloomberg Philanthropies' What Works City's (WWC) Initiative to progress our open data efforts and to develop a roadmap to deepen, scale and sustain the use of data informed practices within the City.
The attached resolution, developed in partnership with Sunlight Foundation, affirms City Council commitment to establishing an open data program. With the adoption of this resolution the City will establish of a formal open data program which will be designed to maximize transparency, access to public information, and coordination and efficiencies among organizations across the public, non-profit, and private sectors. The City Manager will work to establish and enforce administrative policies and staff responsibilities to support the operation of an Open Data Program.
Background:
The City Council finds that high performance and government innovation is grounded in transparency and accountability which are critical in the public sector for the effective and credible functioning of a healthy democracy, and in fulfilling the government's responsibility to citizens and taxpayers. In June 2018, City Council adopted a resolution to support high performance and government innovation with a foundation in open and transparent practices.
Embracing the culture of high performance, the ...
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