Model City Charter Revision Project - Eighth Edition
Option Memo
Issue: Performance Measurement
Seventh Edition: There is no reference to performance measurement
in the Seventh Edition. Performance measurement would be a new topic
in the Eighth Edition.
Rationale: Model City Charter Revision Committee members at
the first meeting introduced performance measurement as a topic for
potential inclusion in the Eighth Edition. The practice of performance
measurement is an accepted and advanced management tool that helps ensure
accountability of local government both internally across departments
and externally with constituents. Encouraging the employment of performance
measurement in local government ensures that the Eighth Edition of the
Model City Charter is inclusive of cutting edge practices.
Proposal: Performance measurement is a specific and specialized
tool that may take different forms and approaches depending on the unique
factors of each community and local government. Articulating specific
requirements could limit the community's and local government's ability
to develop a system that fits their specific needs.
Therefore, we propose introducing a new section in Article IV, entitled
"Performance Measurement" that incorporates language that
could be phrased as follows:
Performance Measurement
The City is encouraged to develop and implement a performance
measurement system as a management and accountability tool, where
citizens, council, and management undertake it subject to the year-to-year
needs and demands of the community.
The commentary for the new section would describe the rationale for
performance measurement. In the Appendix, references for the topic would
be listed along with various factors to be considered when developing
and maintaining a performance measurement project. Included in these
factors would be the roles of citizens, uses of performance measurement,
and ways to disseminate the performance measurement information to the
community.
Two Options: The Committee should adopt one of the following
positions by the end of the June 12-13 meeting:
- The Model should include language re: Performance Measurement in
Article IV, Article IV commentary, and in the Appendix.
- The Model should not include language re: Performance Measurement.
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