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:: 12.29.2003 ::
Denver's New Mayor Shakes Up City Hall To accomplish his goals, the mayor who reveres the "best practices' of other cities has ignored a fundamental best practice in power politics: Hire people you know; pay back the people you owe.
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He has been recruiting experts, giving them the power to make independent decisions and holding them accountable for their choices.
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Hickenlooper, who collected $272,500 for Denver Public Schools by turning his inauguration into a fundraiser, clearly values education.
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So far, the key moves are reform actions: rewriting the rules for paying city workers, strengthening the training and discipline of police officers, altering the city's contract with the Metro Denver Convention & Visitors Bureau to allow public inspection of its spending of taxpayer money.
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Of the 42 appointees so far, 38 percent are men and 62 percent are women. Thirty-eight percent are white, 33 percent are Latino, 26 percent are African-American and 2 percent are Asian.
The average age of the Hickenlooper appointees is 40.5. There are eight appointees older than 50, 13 appointees in their 40s, 16 in their 30s and five in their 20s.
"He thinks the more diverse the assembly of people in the room, the better the decision that will be made,' Bennet said. "It is less likely that he will make a decision from a narrow perspective.' Full Story in the Denver Post. Link thanks to Fark.
Bonus - He's a Wesleyan alum! Go Wes!
Hey, anyone read these books: "Reinventing Government," "Banishing Bureaucracy' and "The Rise of the Creative Class"? Apparently Mr. Hickenlooper learned a lot from them.
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