The Green Bay City Council on Dec. 16 heard a 30- to 40-minute presentation on "Connect Greenway," a new citywide performance-management plan that aims to unify departmental data, track a set of shared indicators and make public dashboards available to residents.

Ishu Gupta, a city hall fellow in the mayor's office, told the council Connect Greenway began after the city completed a data inventory and work with Bloomberg Philanthropies and the City Data Alliance. "Goals, measures, review cadence, and action are the core pillars of performance management," Gupta said, summarizing the framework and its intended results.

Gupta said the city's inventory has identified about 500 databases across departments, of which only 79 are currently accessible to other systems; he said roughly 40% of datasets are updated daily and that 60% contain more than 10,000 records. That inventory, he said, supports building about 200 KPIs mapped to five focus areas the administration prioritized: organizational excellence, fiscal responsibility and equitable community development, modern community-centered public safety, 21st-century infrastructure and amenities, and intentional employee recruitment and engagement.

City staffers said they have formed a data-governance committee of 23 stewards that has met roughly 21 times this year and that they plan to publish dashboards — a police clearance dashboard was shown as an example — so the council and public can track progress and align departmental actions with city priorities.

Council members asked how residents should request new visualizations and what the cadence of review would be. Gupta and department leads said requests can be routed through department contacts or the mayor's office, and that different KPIs will be reviewed on frequencies appropriate to the subject — some quarterly, some monthly. Valerie (DPW) explained how roadway-condition KPIs will use PASER ratings and reconstruction/milling metrics to track progress on streets.

The presentation concluded with staff saying the program is intended to improve transparency, inform decisions with data and create early warning systems to reduce surprises. Mayor Kendrick and several alderpersons thanked the presenters and encouraged public-facing dashboards once data quality checks and integrations are complete.

The council did not take formal action on Connect Greenway during the meeting; staff indicated further work, rollout and dashboard publication will follow in 2026.