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What Performance Information is Included?
The performance information presented in the FY2007 Performance Report and the Citizen’s Guide to Metro’s Performance does not, of course, cover everything the Metro Government does. This information has been carefully selected to provide a concise, easy to read and understand, and fair and unbiased overview of performance.
Specific factors that influenced the content of this report and website are:
Alignment with Nashville’s Priorities. The performance information in this report is structured within the framework of Nashville’s FY07 priorities
- Funding Public Education
- Assuring Public Safety
- Providing a Quality of Life That Enhances Our Community and Neighborhoods
- Ensuring Efficient and Effective Government
- Valuing Our Employees
Connection with planning and performance measurement. Departmental strategic business plans provide the mechanism for the identification, collection and reporting of almost all of the performance data used in this report. Departmental performance profiles are based on results those departments identified as “key results” for their programs, along with supporting output information. As other departments create their strategic business plans and report their performance information, they will be included.
Representation of “best practice” measures. Staff of the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Internal Audit, both part of the Department of Finance, reviewed a number of high quality performance reports from other local governments across the country to create a set of “best practice” measures – that is, those measures that were often reported by other local governments and that would be of greatest interest to the citizens of Nashville. This will provide the basis for future reporting and help ensure consistency.
Additional Metro Government performance information is available:
- Since FY2004 Metro has presented an increasingly large portion of its operating budget with a direct connection to a clear purpose and performance information. This helps better inform policymakers as they make their decisions. Department budgets are presented on the web via the Citizen’s Guide to the Metro Budget, which can be found at www.nashville.gov/citizens_budget.
- Beginning in FY2005 Metro began producing monthly budget variance performance reports for its various departments and major funds. The Budget Accountability Report (BAR) was placed online beginning with the April 2005 edition. Copies of these monthly reports are available at http://www.nashville.gov/finance/omb/budget_reports.asp.