Coalition for Collaborative Governance
Our Vision
We envision collaborative governance that empowers all stakeholders—residents, community organizations and businesses, and local government—to shape local governments’ policies, budgets, and outcomes.
Petition to Empower Lawrence Voices
The Coalition for Collaborative Governance requests that the City of Lawrence
Collaboratively engage with our community to drive their decision-making.
Transparently provide complete and easy-to-access information.
Be accountable to our community in their actions and practices.
Who We Are
The Coalition for Collaborative Governance is a group of actively engaged residents advocating for improvements in the cultures, policies, and practices of the governmental entities serving Lawrence, Kansas.
Our initial objective is to support the City of Lawrence in fulfilling its commitment to collaborative community engagement. We believe this type of engagement leads to optimal outcomes because it reflects the opinions and needs of community members and balances them with government staff expertise.
We have observed that local governmental decisions tend to be driven by City management and consultants, rather than by collaboration between residents, City management, and elected officials. In these decision-making processes, residents often experience
inadequate accountability from the City of Lawrence.
What We Do
We advocate for the City of Lawrence to fully align its culture, policies, and practices with its Strategic Plan and become more transparent, collaborative, and accountable in its relationship with its community members.
Our coalition will offer insightful resident analysis of several City projects to identify practices that need improvements and successful practices that could be employed across all government departments.
Our resident knowledge and analysis will provide a foundation for improvements in our City’s processes and in our community’s relationship with our government. We believe that complex problems are best solved when more people with different perspectives collaborate.
Our Goals
Develop more collaborative relationships between local government and its residents.
Identify recurrent issues and successful practices in local governmental processes.
Promote solutions to make our local governments’ cultures, policies, and practices more transparent, collaborative, and accountable.
