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Tempe outlines Start tool and TAP acceleration to align priorities with budget

Tempe City Council · November 24, 2025
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Summary

City strategic management director described the Start performance-led budgeting tool, the TAP acceleration program for performance measures, and staff plans to release the Start tool to council Nov. 14 with results to be discussed Dec. 11.

Waddell Holmes, Tempe's Strategic Management and Innovation Director, presented the Start performance-led budgeting tool and the TAP (Team Acceleration Program) model the city uses to accelerate priority performance measures. Holmes described Start as a point-distribution exercise ("not an allocation of funding") in which council members will receive a theoretical $100 to…

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