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DHCD shows GO Virginia performance dashboard, highlights project achievement and leveraged funding
Summary
DHCD staff presented an interactive GO Virginia performance dashboard tracking committed versus achieved outcomes for 138 closed implementation projects, emphasized data on leveraged non-state funds and asked the committee for guidance on executive-summary views for board briefings.
Sarah, a Department of Housing and Community Development staffer, presented the GO Virginia performance dashboard at the committee meeting and said the tool was built in response to a legislative request to increase transparency around closed projects. The dashboard covers 138 closed implementation projects and allows board members to filter results by region, industry and investment strategy.
The dashboard shows committed outcomes (blue) versus achieved outcomes (green) and includes project-level drilldowns, Sarah said. "This is an interactive tool," she said, and demonstrated region and project filters that let users inspect achievement relative to applicant commitments. James Clemens, identified as an analyst in Sarah’s division, guided the committee through the visualization features.
The committee discussed metrics and display choices. Sarah explained the dashboard reports outcomes at project close to avoid skewing results from interim reports and noted staff capture interim reports separately. "We feel it's most fair to represent the project at the end because sometimes they don't report results until the end," she said.
Sarah and James highlighted leverage data staff is tracking: the presentation cited roughly $65 million in state GO Virginia investment for the sampled projects, about $75 million in additional non-state investment attributed to those awards and approximately $150 million in primarily federal awards that followed. Sarah described plans to link narrative closeout documents — project-authored summaries of outcomes and lessons learned — with the dashboard to surface qualitative success stories.
Committee members asked for a simpler front page or executive-summary view for use in board briefings and suggested staff prepare a short set of bullet points for the next state board meeting. Sarah agreed and said staff will continue iterating on scaling and usability.
