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City auditor urges narrow, outcome-focused performance measures to guide Berkeley budgeting
Summary
The city auditor presented a guide recommending Berkeley adopt a small set of consistent performance metrics—one or two per department—to improve transparency and inform budget tradeoffs. Council members and public commenters broadly supported starting small and focusing on outcomes.
The city auditor presented 'A Guide to Measuring Performance in the City of Berkeley' during the Feb. 24 council meeting, urging the council to adopt a focused set of metrics the public can use to track results and inform budget choices. The auditor said the framework is intended to help staff and elected officials identify meaningful outcomes and avoid creating new, costly data burdens.
The auditor said a performance measure "is really just a qualitative or quantitative assessment of an agency's work," and recommended that the council start…
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