LTC 189-2016 MetroLab Network MIAM1BEACH
OFFICE OF THE CITY MANAGER
NO. LTC # 189-2016 LETTER TO COMMISSION
To: Mayor Philip Levine and Members of t he City Co fission
From: Jimmy L. Morales, City Manager
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Date: April 27, 2016
Subject: MetroLab Network
The purpose of this Letter to Commission is to provide an update on the request to engage the
MetroLab Network to identify and form a city/university collaboration to focus on "research,
development, and deployment" (RD&D) projects that offer technologically- and analytically-
based solutions for challenges facing city infrastructure, services, and other public sector
priorities. City administration will be attending the upcoming summit in early May 2016 and is
working with local universities to determine partnership opportunities as it relates to planned
and/or current projects.
The Network was launched as part of the White House's Smart Cities Initiative and will leverage
university expertise to address challenges facing cities and regions across the country. The
goals of the Network are:
• Enable the city-university partnerships to share their projects to ensure their broad
dissemination and adoption, including the development and sharing of the infrastructural
tools required to support the scaling of promising solutions and deploying best practices
across the network.
• Identify common issues shared by multiple metro areas that can best be solved by multi-
city, multi-university collaboration.
• Create a platform for Network members to jointly plan and seek funding resources to
support multi-city projects.
Following the MetroLab Network Spring Summit, the deadline for the next application cycle will
be announced.
We will continue to update you on our progress. If you have any questions, please feel free to
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