Syracuse achieves Gold Certification as part of Bloomberg Philanthropies What Works Cities Certification.

Syracuse achieves Silver Certification as part of Bloomberg Philanthropies What Works Cities Certification.

The Plowing Through the Data hackathon makes data available from the City of Syracuse's fleet of 37 snowplows. Data Hackathon on City Snow Removal

The permitting process impacts many different community stakeholders. Residents go through it to make updates to their homes, and businesses go through it to open their doors. We want to create a seamless permitting process where people can easily obtain the proper approvals to make building improvements.

Mayor Stephanie Miner unveiled the City of Syracuse’s new open data portal. More information can be viewed here: Lauch of "DataCuse" Open Data Portal

Many of our residents experience a high frequency of forced moves, triggered by poor housing quality, unstable neighborhood conditions, and high costs of housing in relation to income. All of these conditions can contribute to doubling up and overcrowding in housing units, chronic homelessness, and a high rate of unplanned residential mobility. Frequent forced moves have damaging financial and health impacts on our residents and neighborhoods, especially on our school-aged children. The City and i-team worked on ways to reduce transiency and improve stability for our residents.

Individuals in our most impoverished neighborhoods struggle to find opportunities to improve quality of life for themselves and their families. One of the first steps to address this issue is to ensure that safe, healthy, affordable housing is available to residents. The i-team worked with the Division of Code Enforcement to launch the TOP Pilot Program and create a Bureau of Administrative Adjudication. They are also in the process of establishing a Financial Empowerment Center for the City.

A vexing obstacle for Syracuse, and other cities like it across the nation, is the challenge of maintaining 20th century infrastructure that is often at the end of its useful life. Roads and bridges are but the most obvious examples of infrastructure systems in dire need of repair and modernization. The hidden nature of underground infrastructure, like water and sewer lines, has led to decades of deferred maintenance enabled by relative obscurity.

The Syracuse i-team, under the direction of former Mayor Stephanie A. Miner, worked to develop a series of initiatives to improve the city’s water and road infrastructure, as well as help departments better coordinate and communicate infrastructure projects.

The was established through an Innovation Delivery grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies for up to $1.35 million. The award provided funding to establish an office and hire personnel from 2015 through December 31, 2020. The grant also provided additional funding to research best practices in other cities. Learn more about Bloomberg Philanthropies' i-teams program here.