State & Local Government Policy, Business and Technology

City Officials Highlight Innovative 'Ideas Worth Stealing'

Governing: Last week, city officials from around the country gathered in Los Angeles to share ideas about how government can be more data-driven, creative and effective in solving public problems. The raison d'etre for the Government Performance and Innovation Summit, an annual event hosted by Governing magazine and its nonprofit partner Living Cities, is to showcase, spread and scale up promising programs and practices in local government.

Over two days, more than a dozen city officials, including mayors, treasurers and innovation directors, sat down with Governing to highlight what ideas they’d like to steal from another jurisdiction and what other jurisdictions ought to steal from them.

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