[bouldercouncilhotline] FW: Recommended Resources from the Mayors Innovation Project Conference

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From: Jones, Suzanne
Sent: Sunday, September 3, 2017 1:49 PM
To: HOTLINE <HOTLINE at bouldercolorado.gov>
Subject: Recommended Resources from the Mayors Innovation Project Conference

Dear All-

Two weeks ago I was happy to be representing Boulder at the summer meeting of the Mayors Innovation Project in Burlington, VT.

The Mayors Innovation Project (MIP) provides a forum to connect mayors and senior city staff, along with select experts from the private, non-profit and academic sectors, to talk about cutting edge research on city policy issues, share expertise and successes, and swap lessons learned. At each meeting, MIP picks a few policy areas important to cities and puts together panels of electeds, city staff and national experts on the topic for an in-depth discussion about best-in-class strategies in these areas.

This meeting's topics were:

  1.  Municipal Responses to the Opiate Crisis
  2.  Six Months In: Cities Under Trump
  3.  Land Use & Inequality: What's the Connection?
  4.  21st Century Policing
  5.  Net Zero Cities

Here is the link to the briefing materials on each of these topics:
http://www.mayorsinnovation.org/events/summer-2017-meeting#Briefing
And find the link to presentations from the event here<https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/wX1DBwfRl13ik?domain=cts.vresp.com>. I recommend these materials to my colleagues - this is one of the more useful conferences I have attended in terms of learning from peer cities, and getting exposed to new ideas and approaches.

A few takeaways from the conference for me were:

  *   The  opiate crisis is really slamming many other cities, with some 30,000 people dying each year across the nation from opiate overdoses; it made me wonder what Boulder's stats are and if we need to do more in anticipation of what appears to be a growing national emergency.
  *   One of the biggest concerns under the new political situation is the growing trend of state pre-emption of progressive municipal policies in many other states (e.g., on minimum wage, immigrant policy/ICE deportations, even housing, and transgender bathrooms in NC).

  *   Seems like most cities are struggling with the issue of affordable housing and related land use issues, but no one seems to have any magic solutions, just a growing awareness of the trade-offs between various policy choices.
  *   The Burlington Chief of Police gave a thought-provoking presentation on their approach to policing, which includes a new "transparency portal" on their website where they post their policing data: https://www.burlingtonvt.gov/Police/Data
  *   Burlington, VT was the first U.S. city to go 100% renewable energy, and while they operate in a very different regulatory and geographic climate than Boulder (they get 44% of their energy from biomass and only 1% from solar), they are doing some pretty cool energy stuff. As is our neighbor Ft Collins, who also presented on their net zero cities efforts.

The meetings also featured a lightening round of 3-minute presentations of ideas to share:  I presented Boulder's Energy Challenge as a mechanism to engage our private sector in trying out new technologies to further our energy goals.

Worth noting -- the MIP website has information on new policy innovations, best practices, case studies, model legislation, background research, communication tools, and access to technical assistance. MIP also has a newsletter, Good Ideas for Cities<http://oi.vresp.com/?fid=f25af087ac>, as well as Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/mayorsinnovation/?ref=bookmarks> and Twitter<https://twitter.com/MayorInnovation> accounts where they share ideas and innovations from around the country.

Cheers,
Zan

Suzanne Jones
Mayor, City of Boulder
(720) 633-7388

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Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 7:41 AM
To: Jones, Suzanne<mailto:JonesS at bouldercolorado.gov>
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Thank you for joining us in Burlington!

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Dear friends,

Thank so much again for joining us in Burlington for a fantastic three days! We sincerely hope you left inspired and with new ideas to improve the quality of life in your own city. We also want to thank again our Summer Meeting hosts, Mayor Weinberger and his amazing team in Burlington, for showing us a great time and for leading the way on so many critical issues cities are facing.

Please find presentations from the event here<https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/wX1DBwfRl13ik?domain=cts.vresp.com>. Video coming soon.

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Finally, please save the dates for the Winter 2018 Meeting, Friday, January 26 - Saturday, January 27 in Washington, DC.

Sincerely,
[Satya Rhodes-Conway]
Satya Rhodes-Conway
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