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Athens-Clarke County proposes tailored engagement and faster project delivery with oversight dashboard
Summary
Staff proposed a capital project service-delivery plan to speed project delivery by tailoring public engagement to project type, shifting administrative milestone decisions to staff/oversight, building in-house project management, and adding a public dashboard; staff will return in December with a project manual and ordinance language for limited,
Athens-Clarke County staff presented a proposed capital project service-delivery plan on Nov. 12 that would accelerate project timelines by matching public-engagement techniques to project type, shifting administrative milestones to management/staff and an expanded oversight committee, and building more in‑house project-management capacity.
"For each project… we should select the level of public impact that we think is appropriate," Josh Hawkins said, describing a three-tier engagement framework (inform; inform+consult; involve/empower) intended to avoid applying the same, time‑consuming engagement model to every project.
Staff said the model would let commissioners assign an engagement category…
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