

Evaluation of the Strong Cities, Strong Communities (SC2) Teams Pilot: Final Report. 5.2.1 Challenges of the SC2 Approach from the Perspective of the Cities
As discussed elsewhere in this report, cities experienced challenges with the pilot related to some team members’ skills not aligning well with city priority areas and the inability of some federal staff to move beyond a monitoring role with the city. In our discussions with city and federal stakeholders, two additional challenges were observed