Bloomberg Mayors Challenge

[Gaspar]

We just got some great recognition.
http://mayorschallenge.bloomberg.org/index.cfm?objectid=F250D910-9EA6-11E1-823A000C29C7CA2F


"Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett learned on his first day in office in 2009 that his city needed to identify at least $10 million in cost savings to keep Tulsa up and running.

Rather than resorting exclusively to traditional saving strategies, Mayor Bartlett and his team adopted an innovative strategy that combined managed competition and gain sharing to help the city capture efficiencies while keeping morale high."

[carltonplace]

We just got some great recognition.
http://mayorschallenge.bloomberg.org/index.cfm?objectid=F250D910-9EA6-11E1-823A000C29C7CA2F


"Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett learned on his first day in office in 2009 that his city needed to identify at least $10 million in cost savings to keep Tulsa up and running.

Rather than resorting exclusively to traditional saving strategies, Mayor Bartlett and his team adopted an innovative strategy that combined managed competition and gain sharing to help the city capture efficiencies while keeping morale high."

Ooh, corporate non sequitur double speak. That is indeed high praise.

[Townsend]

Ooh, corporate non sequitur double speak. That is indeed high praise.

No kidding.  What the hell was that?

[heironymouspasparagus]

Jibber jabber.

Anyone know for sure - contacts with city personnel (real workers, not management) is morale is high?

[carltonplace]

No kidding.  What the hell was that?

You can do it yourself, just string words together.

Facing a budgetary parallax Mayor Dewey activated secondary-actual mayor Terry Simonson to meaningfully engage representative parties resulting in self termination under the wheels of the vehicle of public opinion.

[Gaspar]

Face it, the city of Tulsa has come to know how to benchmark proactively. What do we actualize? Anything and everything, regardless of obscureness! The metrics for obfuscation are more well-understood if they are not virally-distributed. The mayor believes that most robust portals use far too much synergy, and not enough energy. What does the term "real-time" really mean? We will step up our power to envisioneer without devaluing the power to expedite. The ability to multi-task strategically leads to the power to generate virally. The ability to leverage strategically leads to the capacity to target virtually. . .and that is exactly what we have done!

[tulsa_fan]

Did he really cut savings or did he just enjoy an increase in revenues?  The police got hired back not because of cost savings, but because of federal grant money . . . have any of the employees seen any of their cuts in pay restored?  And he's presented the largest budget in history, that's not being resourceful, from what I'm seeing it's spending all the $$ you have on short term deals, not investing in long term eficiency.

[carltonplace]

Face it, the city of Tulsa has come to know how to benchmark proactively. What do we actualize? Anything and everything, regardless of obscureness! The metrics for obfuscation are more well-understood if they are not virally-distributed. The mayor believes that most robust portals use far too much synergy, and not enough energy. What does the term "real-time" really mean? We will step up our power to envisioneer without devaluing the power to expedite. The ability to multi-task strategically leads to the power to generate virally. The ability to leverage strategically leads to the capacity to target virtually. . .and that is exactly what we have done!

"envisioneer" <- = awesomesque