David CookIt’s been almost a year and City Hall still cannot produce any official report on the $7 million spent on its budgeting for outcomes pilot program.
For the life of me, I can’t understand why. And it’s driving me nuts. I want to use my Sam Kinison voice.
Last year, Mayor Andy Berke set aside $7 million for a test run at budgeting for outcomes, a process that measures the effectiveness of funded programs. Things that work get funded. Things that don’t, don’t. You establish a low-water mark of measurements, and then track your progress from there.
So last year’s initial $7 million pilot was “the first major step” in the process, then-Chief Operating Officer Andrew Kean told the City Council last August.
See? The. First. Major. Step. They took the $7 million and combined it with a document that lists 17 of City Hall’s top goals. Like decreasing the dropout rate. Or violent crime. Increasing the number of kids ready for kindergarten.