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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA AND JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY AGREEMENT NO. SBIN - 082016 This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), is entered into by and between the City of South Bend, Indiana, having a location at 227 West Jefferson Blvd. Suite 1200 S, South Bend, Indiana 46601 (hereafter referenced as "South Bend" or "the City"), for a project designed to accelerate the use of data and evidence to improve the lives of its residents and Johns Hopkins University, a not for profit educational institution established under the laws of the State of Maryland having a location at 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218-2685 on behalf of the Center for Government Excellence (hereafter referenced as "GovEx"). The study is funded under prime award sponsored by The Bloomberg Family Foundation, Inc. which established the What Works Cities initiatives (hereafter referenced as "WWC or WWC Team"), This MOU contains the scopes of work for the project, the timeline, and the responsibilities of the various partners that will contribute to its success. 1. Summary of the Work Plan 1.1 Mayor Pete Buttigieg and his senior leadership team have crafted an ambitious agenda for South Bend centered around innovation, economic development, and partnerships between government and community institutions. The What Works Cities team, having reviewed South Bend's WWC statement of interest and self -assessment, and having conducted an on -site workshop with Mayor Buttigieg and his staff, have identified an opportunity GovEx can assist South Bend in advancing the commitments focused on performance management: • Performance and Analytics: South Bend will increase its performance management and analytics capabilities by developing a framework for performance analytics that will align departmental efforts with citywide goals. Increasing departmental capacity to focus on citywide goals, use data for decision -making, and align efforts with other departments through open data and performance management meetings will allow South Bend to build upon its strong foundation in analytics work. 1.2 All technical assistance described in this MOU and performed by GovEx is provided at no cost to South Bend. Additional scopes of work may be added to this MOU at a later date upon the written agreement of the parties. 1.3 To ensure that the time of all parties is used efficiently with respect to the MOU, GovEx will collaborate with South Bend via phone, video conference, and email, and on -site where appropriate. South Bend agrees to provide personnel and staff time, as further detailed below, and as determined necessary in consultation with GovEx. South Bend also agrees to designate a primary point of contact to coordinate between GovEx and the City.