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Council shown new dashboard to track policy priorities; discussion focuses on measurable metrics
Summary
Staff presented a redesigned dashboard meant to add budget context and quantitative measures to the city's policy priorities and strategies; councilors asked for clearer, measurable outcomes and a plan for how often results will be reported.
City Manager Jesse Baker presented the council with an updated "annual policy priorities and strategies" report that includes a new dashboard-style layout intended to make progress easier to read. Baker said staff asked the data manager (Anna) to design the format so items are more "glanceable" and include budget and quantitative-measure fields so council and the public can track whether regulatory or program changes are meeting intended outcomes.
"We've tried to make Anna, our, our data manager who is online, spent a lot of time trying to make these more glanceable, more dashboard-esque so you could see quickly kind of where things were," Baker said. Councilors discussed what counts as a measurable outcome, whether the reporting cadence should be annual or more frequent, and which items (for example, parking management implementation items) are conceptual versus ordinance/implementation steps that will come back for council votes.
Staff said their near-term work will identify measurable indicators tied to city-plan goals and that they will incrementally report results as those metrics are established. The dashboard will be used to inform future budget discussions and to provide context for policy decisions, with staff returning to answer specific questions about how to measure outcomes for ordinances and programs.
