Service
municipal consulting
Serving Cities, Counties, Schools, and special districts
build a high performing Organization
Get government “done right” with our suite of planning, project management, and implementation strategies for the operational side of your municipal organization. Are your Mission, Vision, and Strategic Priorities clearly articulated? Are your budget and operating procedures consistent with your mission, vision, and priorities? Can you prove with measurable results that you are leaving the legacy you promised?
Our services span the whole process of building a high performing organization, including strategic planning, tactical budgeting, capital development, short-term special projects, long-term initiatives, and workforce strategies.
Workforce strategies include leadership development, succession planning, system design and integrity, holistic performance evaluation and accountability, culture development, team building, recruitment, and retention. Discover how to improve your organization structure, culture, and health to embrace equity, diversity, inclusion, and social justice through a process of policy and procedure development, adoption, and implementation.
governance
Your government’s structure and design defines the relationship between you and your citizens. Often initiatives for change are politically driven and frequently fail to consider “unintended consequences”. Our expertise will guide you through the nuances and hazards of any process that seeks to make material changes to your governing charter and ordinances. Find valuable answers to your questions about forms of government, charter amendments, public projects, or bond initiatives and how public information campaigns may be effectively deployed in your community without bias.
organization Transparency for Better Management
Our Evaluations, Studies and Reports will provide you with the deep insights into your organization’s structure and operations to discover opportunities for optimization and innovation with the tools of Performance Audits, Wage and Compensation Studies, Policy and Process Evaluations, Program Analysis, and Risk Assessments.
Models of success
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;” – Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence.
Every city, town and village has a few big aspirations that they have been yearning to see realized for years and even decades.
Between the strong consensus and desire of the community for a particular project and the successful completion of that project is a gap that GovGurus turns into action.
Let us help you spark the initiative, manage the process and bring the project to completion!
Case Study – The RR Xing
THE STRATEGIC PLAN:
FROM AMBIVELANCE TO ORDER
The “City of Almost Utopia” operated in a stable and consistent manner for many years. Even though strong revenues, low taxes and robust services demonstrated the success of the community, notable deficiencies in the performance of the organization raised valid concerns.
Ten years of recurring budget deficits in excess of $1,000,000 and the diminishing of operating reserves (from $6,000,000 down to below $3,000,000) challenged the governing body to think critically about how to improve the city’s performance. . .
CHARTER REFORM:
THE ROGUE COMMISSION
Following the third successive failure to get a budget passed and approved by the electorate in one year (required by municipal charter) the Council decided it was time to look at amending the charter. . .