Last week, Mayor Beach Pace participated in the Program for New Mayors: First 100 Days at the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University. This program assists mayors in gaining the tools and training to help them set strategic priorities and build an effective city hall organization through the first 100 days in office.
In this year’s class, 24 new mayors from 11 states across the country gathered together to receive world-class training from Harvard faculty, urban innovation and management experts, and other mayors on how to deliver for residents.
The following statement is attributable to James Anderson, who serves as the head of Government Innovation Programs at Bloomberg Philanthropies:
“The Bloomberg Center for Cities Program for New Mayors: First 100 Days equips newly elected U.S. mayors with the tools and techniques they need to lead as they begin their transition from campaigning to governing. You only get to be the new kid on the block once — and this program helps ensure these mayors have ready access to insights from seasoned mayors, evidence about what works in leadership and public management, and connections to a peer group that is going through the same things. Alongside the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard, our team at Bloomberg Philanthropies together with the Institute of Politics and the U.S. Conference of Mayors support these new mayors in building effective, talented teams, forging citywide coalitions, and injecting their city hall organization with a culture of innovation so that in their critical, early days in office, they can set ambitious priorities and deliver.”
The Herald has reached out to Beach but has not heard back as of yet. Her impressive resume, including being a Westpoint grad, will undoubtedly be more robust for having attended this course. Pace will take the helm the first week of January and lead the City of Hillsboro forward from that point on.
