Videos about Better, Faster, Cheaper Government
| By Rebuild Government on May 27th, 2010 | No Comments  |
Former Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith yesterday commended the Metro Charter Commission for its work so far in creating a government that is “better, faster, cheaper,” the qualities that he said are vital for governments to be effective.
In a presentation yesterday, he said innovations like metro government are needed to attack the “imbalance” caused by the cost of government outstripping the ability of the county to pay for the climbing costs. “There is a permanent structural imbalance between the cost of pensions, medical care, and services in every city in American that is not supported by enough revenues,” he said. It’s crucial to make government more efficient, because effective government produces economic development success, he said.
Mayor Goldsmith is taking a leave of absence from his post at Harvard University, where he heads up the innovations in government program, to become deputy city mayor in New York City under Mayor Bloomberg.
Rebuild Government asked Mayor Goldsmith some of your questions about efficiency, law enforcement, and 9-1-1, and the videos of his answers are posted here.
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