Mayor Eric Garcetti urged city employees Thursday to come up with money-saving ideas to put his $1 million Innovation Fund to work.
Garcetti set aside $1 million in the city budget for implementing ideas aimed at helping city employees work faster, smarter and cheaper.
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“We’ve all had that moment at work — we do the job the way we’re told, but we’re thinking, ‘I know how to do this better,”‘ Garcetti said. “Now, I’m saying to the city’s workforce, ‘Tell us.’ Have an idea how to fill a pothole better? Know how to get a permit done faster? Know a piece of equipment that can do more at a lower cost? Tell us, and we’ll tap our new Innovation Fund to put your idea into practice to make government work better.”
Garcetti recently recognized Bureau of Sanitation employees with the first such award for switching paper maps to a cell phone app to help them with scheduling.
City Councilman Bob Blumenfield, whose employees will help judge ideas, said “by looking to the city family for innovative proposals, we are exponentially multiplying our ability to explore new ideas that can create efficiencies and save the taxpayer money.”
City employees are being asked to send their ideas to the mayor’s office to innovate@lacity.org or via the web-site innovate.lacity.org.
The ideas will be judged by staffers in the Mayor’s Office, Blumenfield’s office, the City Administrative Office and the Innovation and Performance Commission.
— City News Service.