Engaging the Entire Community to Find the Ideal Candidate for City Manager
• About Cambridge City Manager Search | Current City Manager retiring in July 2022 | City Manager's daily decisions affect all Cambridge residents | City committed to gathering feedback and making the hiring process more open & transparent
• Launched a dedicated, dynamic project website in less than two weeks
• Collected nearly 5,000 comments from Cambridge residents, making the City Manager search process more inclusive than ever
• Incorporated qualitative feedback from stakeholders into a final job description for the position
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Bringing community engagement online
Think of coUrbanize as your project’s home base – the best place for community members to get project updates and participate in the process. People get accurate project information straight from the source instead of relying on information from their neighborhood Facebook group or NextDoor page.
And coUrbanize offers more than just a standard website. Our platform is designed to connect project teams with those who live, work and play near the project – to gather their feedback and capture their support. Our team will help you design poll questions and project updates that keep the conversation productive (and usually positive).
Residents have expressed that they have been so grateful to have new and accessible tools to communicate their thoughts and participate in this process. Participation has long been a function of privilege, and the way we were doing engagement before doesn’t feel right anymore…This was such a unique opportunity to make the process more honest, open, and transparent.