Agenda 2001: Mastermind Behind Sweeping Change; the Mayor of Baltimore Doesn't Suffer Slackers Easily. Martin O'Malley Has Made Everybody, from Roadsweepers to Policemen in His American City, Smarten Up Their Act and Now He's Coming to Northern Ireland to Tell Administration Chiefs Here Just How He Did It. IAN STARRETT Reports on the Man Who Has Made an Astonishing Impact on the Streets of Baltimore

Byline: Ian Starrett

MARTIN O'Malley doesn't suffer the workshy or the incompetent easily. But if you think that would make him unpopular how wrong you would be.

In fact he was elected the youngest mayor in Baltimore's history with an overwhelming 91 per cent of the vote.

He is coming to Belfast and Londonderry to tell public sector institutions interested in the delivery of better local government services just how to go about it.

He will be talking about CitiStat, the innovative local government reform programme that quite literally has made his own US city sit up and take notice.

CitiStat is Baltimore's ambitious new effort to gather …

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Publication information: Article title: Agenda 2001: Mastermind Behind Sweeping Change; the Mayor of Baltimore Doesn't Suffer Slackers Easily. Martin O'Malley Has Made Everybody, from Roadsweepers to Policemen in His American City, Smarten Up Their Act and Now He's Coming to Northern Ireland to Tell Administration Chiefs Here Just How He Did It. IAN STARRETT Reports on the Man Who Has Made an Astonishing Impact on the Streets of Baltimore. Contributors: Not available. Newspaper title: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland). Publication date: August 7, 2001. Page number: 12. © 2006 Johnston Publishing Ltd. COPYRIGHT 2001 Gale Group.

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