| SELECT CITIES, COUNTIES, AND SCHOOLS WILL BE RECOGNIZED FOR INNOVATION AND EFFICIENCY AT THE HUMPHREY INSTITUTE
To honor innovative practices at the local level, the Humphrey Institute’s Public and Nonprofit Leadership Center (PNLC)—in collaboration with the Association of Minnesota Counties, the League of Minnesota Cities, and the Minnesota School Boards Association—will host the annual Local Government Innovation (LGI) Awards to recognize outstanding cities, counties, and schools that have used inventive practices to improve local services. Sixteen projects will be recognized at the LGI awards ceremony from 2 to 5 p.m. on Monday, April 21, at the Humphrey Institute, 301 19th Ave. S., Minneapolis.
“The proposals submitted this year demonstrate that local government continues to be the best place for innovation in the public sector,” says Jay Kiedrowski, PNLC senior fellow. “A committee of peers had a difficult time selecting the winners.”
The award recipients were selected in one of three categories: collaborations among public/nonprofit/private organizations (P/NP); efficiency/cost effectiveness (E/E); and management process improvement (MPI).
The awards ceremony is free and open to the public, but registration is requested. To attend, please RSVP to Susan Earle at earle030@umn.edu.
The 2007–08 LGI award winners and their innovative practices are as follows (partners listed as appropriate):
Cities
Aurora, Biwabik, Hoyt Lakes, and Mesabi East School District, East Range cable access channel (MPI)
Farmington, Pollution Prevention Day (P/NP)
North Mankato, North Mankato soccer fields (P/NP)
St. Louis Park, University of Park, a comprehensive training program for new and emerging leaders (MPI)
St. Michael, Albertville, STMA schools (District 885), St. Michael-Albertville Family Youth Community Connections (E/E)
Woodbury, emergency response agencies fully integrated (E/E)
Counties
Carver County, automated external defibrillator (AED) management application (P/NP)
Dakota County, Dakota County Criminal Justice Information Integration Network (E/E)
Hennepin County and City of Minneapolis, merger of Minneapolis Public Library and Hennepin County Library (MPI)
Olmsted County, online marriage application system (E/E)
St. Louis County, NEMESIS (North East Minnesota Enforcement and Safety Information System) (P/NP)
Yellow Medicine County, community justice sentencing (MPI)
Schools
Anoka-Hennepin School District and TIES School District, collaborative document-management system (E/E)
Intermediate District 287 in Plymouth, Minn., and Bloomington Public Health, implemented successful health services model to meet the needs of at-risk high school students, (MPI)
Redwood County PTO, Fresh Fruit for Students program (E/E)
Stillwater Area Public Schools, Innovative Programs in Education: Career Strategies in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (P/NP)
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