Delivering
Results
MAYOR MATT is bringing greater accountability and transparency to our government. We need our city (and county and state) government to do a better job on the basics: transitioning our homeless residents off the streets, making every neighborhood safe, and cleaning up our city. But to get the job done, we need simple success metrics and the tools to share our performance with the entire community. And here is Mayor Matt’s plan to do just that.
Mayor Matt will create a public “Dashboard of Results” showing exactly what progress is being made — or not made — so the public always knows where the city stands. The city already tracks our progress on a number of issues, but we need to share this data in real-time with residents. At any moment, each of us should be able to quickly access information that shows exactly where our tax dollars are going, how much impact we’re having, and how close we are to solving our biggest issues. This will allow us to be agile in our efforts, and move our limited dollars around when necessary so that we make sure our “solutions” are in fact solutions in practice.
The City’s recently released Homelessness Dashboard is a first step towards the real-time, fully transparent data that policymakers and residents need to see in order to track our progress in reducing the level of street homelessness in San José. We need to improve this data collection and reporting tool to make it more useful both inside and outside of City Hall, and expand the scope so that it tracks all our core issues.
What our city needs, and what the public demands are results. And that starts with absolute transparency about goals, expenditures and program performance so that elected leaders and senior staff can be held accountable for making good decisions with our precious tax dollars.
INCREASING ACCOUNTABILITY IS ESSENTIAL FOR DELIVERING RESULTS, and by regularly reporting and analyzing our progress, we will ensure that City Hall is doing the utmost to move the needle on our most basic priorities. We love our city — we just want it to work better.
