More Performance Measurement

I have asked the Department Heads to work on a project with the UW-Extension Local Government Center and University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Center for Governmental Studies on producing both detail performance measurement and performance/outcome based budgeting educational materials and training as well as establishing a clearinghouse of performance measurement data for Wisconsin local governments. The clearinghouse will provide performance data collected from Wisconsin municipalities and counties to enable local governments to make more informed policy decisions.
In a nutshell, there has been interest expressed by municipal governments throughout the State and they have all had differences of opinion about particular measures. Eventually they settled on some good outcome and output measures for key services that have broad support.
They have asked us to provide the indicator information from the past 6 years. The Department Heads have filled out the indices and indicated how the indices were measured on the spreadsheet if they were different than requested. The UW-Extension Local Government Center and University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Center for Governmental Studies will probably need to do some data “cleaning” and will follow-up with questions. The more documentation we have up, the easier the cleaning will be.