Bright Ideas

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First Wednesday Food Trucks @ Lunch

An Inspired User 5 years ago in Innovative Ideas / Employee Engagement updated by Christopher Jordan (Leader) 5 years ago 1

It would be a nice treat if we could get 3-4 of the First Wednesday Food Trucks to come to City Hall at lunch so those of us tired of McDonald's and Sourdough and Co. can have something a little different. ​

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Staff Report Research Tool

A tool that quickly allows you to research City agendas and determine whether/when an item has ​gone before Council previously.

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Rumor Mill

Create an online anonymous submission tool for employees to submit questions about any city related topic.​

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Accepting Payments at 8400 Laguna Palms Way

I would like for the City to revisit a payment option to be available for the 8400 building. When we first started we had a cashier here to accept payments. The position was eliminated due to layoffs. Sending citizens across the street is an inconvenience, as half of the citizens paying for handicap placard admin fees are elderly citizens. This will also help on last minute tow releases where the citizen pays here at 455pm and then walks/drives over and the city doors close, and the citizen will accrue and additional day of storage because they did not receive the receipts. This will also help us post payments immediately rather than waiting for the receipt to route back to Records. Sometimes when the receipt is routed, a late fee is applied to parking citations or an alarm fee is charged due to non payment when in fact it was received, but we received the receipts days later. ​

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Spirit Days

An Inspired User 5 years ago in Innovative Ideas / Employee Engagement updated by Christopher Jordan (Leader) 5 years ago 2

​I propose we introduce Spirit Days in the office periodically to boost morale. Spirit days can be fun ways to engage in office silliness and create a positive atmosphere.

A possible Spirit Day could be Silly Hat Day, where even if you had a meeting later in the day, you could still particiapte and be work appropriate.

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Bike/Ped/ADA Coordinator

An Inspired User 5 years ago in Innovative Ideas / Environmental Impact updated by Christopher Jordan (Leader) 5 years ago 1

The City is in need of a Bike/Ped/ADA Coordinator. The City is currently covering this role with a variety of staff from the City Manager's Office, Planning, Development Engineering, and Public Works. This creates a variety of issues as you have no one person that fully understands the needs of the community and can propose the appropriate action, or educate staff.

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Shared autonomous vehicles or ride sharing services stations

An Inspired User 5 years ago in Innovative Ideas / Environmental Impact updated by Christopher Jordan (Leader) 5 years ago 2

The nation's transportation system is changing with the advent shared autonomous vehicles and ride sharing services. Accordingly, traditional parking lot designs, parking needs, and bus stops designs are not equipped to handle these transportation system changes.

The City should allow for a reduction in required parking spaces if a shared autonomous vehicles or ride sharing services station is included in parking lots. The City should accommodate this same approach in its own projects at the Civic Center and Old Town Plaza. A standard detail should be developed for this approach.

The City should allow for on street stations that are either separate or a part of transit bus stops. On street station design would likely need to two designs one for low stress and high stress routes. On high stress routes where vehicle speeds and traffic volume is high more separation may be required from the traveled way. Standard details should be developed for this approach. The City should allow for a reduction in required parking spaces if a shared autonomous vehicles or ride sharing services station is included

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This is being looked at as part of the AV Plan and will be looked at again in the future.

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Elk Grove Brand Consistency and Implementation Plan for Signage

An Inspired User 5 years ago in Innovative Ideas / Employee Engagement updated by Christopher Jordan (Leader) 5 years ago 2

Within the City of Elk Grove, we see the City Seal on public work projects and on business signs like the Elk Grove Auto Mall. You will also see the City Marketing Logo on public work projects. In addition, you will see elk themed signs on a variety of businesses. There is a lack of consistency in the use of the City Seal, City Marketing Logo, and Elk Themed signage. In addition, there are varieties of locations where you enter Elk Grove off SR 99 or I-5 with no signage. Having multiple people independently developing signage for a variety of uses has exasperated the problem.

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This already exists.  See Graphics for a copy.

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Keeping open possibly unnecessary doors

An Inspired User 5 years ago in Innovative Ideas / Employee Engagement updated by Christopher Jordan (Leader) 5 years ago 1

​Prop open the both sets of double doors by Public Works and the City Manager department, along with the unkeyed door to the bathroom hallway.

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Contract Management Software

*This idea was already conveyed to Jason during a staff meeting, however I thought it might be beneficial to add this suggestion into the queue.*

Given staff manages a multitude of contracts, it would be valuable to have a software system to assist us in managing contracts. Specifically a tool that will help us manage three major components of a contract: Term, Budget, Performance/Liquidated Damages. The R&W Divison currently uses ElkNet to manage LD's, however it's not as robust as we need it to be. For example, we need a tool that will remind us when we are getting close to the end of the term so that we can start the contract process on time. This will improve efficency across all lines of business that are involved in contracts. We need a tool that will allow us to record situations where expectations are not being met according to performance measures. Along that same line, we need a program that will assist us reporting unmet performance and calculate liquidated damages for us. Lastly, a program that will also help us manage budget, invoices, etc... that is contract specific would be ideal.