A wide-ranging, 62-page report compiled by Mayor Cara Spencer’s transition team makes hundreds of recommendations for the city and its new mayor, including everything from better translation of city material into other languages to the need for “a bold ‘wow’ moment” to help change the prevailing narrative downtown.
The recently released report, which outlines a roadmap for reshaping city government under Spencer, was authored by dozens of people across business, law, education, and myriad other specialties, divided into six advisory committees. Their sweeping recommendations include improving basic delivery of city services, giving more money to neighborhood-based community development corporations, streamlining development processes, and modernizing data systems.
Spencer’s deputy chief of staff Emily Thenhaus says the mayoral administration plans to dive into the report this week and figure out which of its recommendations can be acted on relatively quickly. One theme from the report that Thenhaus says stuck out to her was the need to centralize and streamline processes related to housing and development, which are now “ping-ponging around different city departments.”…