The Center for State and Local Government Performance promotes excellence and innovation in state and local government by providing the latest tools and strategies for solving operational and managerial challenges in a number of relevant topic areas. The center identifies and disseminates the latest best practices and lessons-learned in management strategy and performance measurement to state and municipal managers.

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Massive Reform of California Government is Focus of Comprehensive Institute Forum

Four-hundred managers from California state government attended a Performance Institute-sponsored forum May 20 to hear updates on reform initiatives underway in the Schwarzenegger Administration.

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Four Local Governments Recognized for Management Excellence

The Performance Institute today recognized four local governments for innovative management practices that have led to increased transparency, accountability and program performance. “City and county governments have come up with creative and efficient solutions to their budget shortfalls and they deserve to be commended,” said Carl DeMaio, President of The Performance Institute, today at the 2004 City and County Innovations Summit. “More importantly, those solutions need to be shared with managers in other municipalities so they can be adapted and applied.”

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Institute Urges California Senate to Support Competitive Sourcing Amendment to Constitution

In testimony before the California Senate's Committee on Government Organization, Performance Institute President Carl DeMaio urged the support of Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 15, which provides California government the opportunity to “competitively source” government services that may be more efficiently performed by an outside provider.

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Independent Analysis by the Performance Institute Places San Diego's Budget Deficit at $80 to $100 Million

Preliminary findings of an independent analysis of the City of San Diego’s budget have projected an estimated deficit of $80 to $100 million for the coming fiscal year. Those findings were announced March 18 at the first public forum of the San Diego Citizens’ Budget project.

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Performance Institute Launches Citizens' Budget Project in San Diego

The San Diego Citizens' Budget project will conduct a comprehensive "performance audit" of each city agency and department and offer a real set of options for reforming the city government to reduce budget costs while improving the quality city services.

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Strategic Planning and Change Management in Chesterfield County, VA

As director of General Services in Chesterfield County, Fran Pitaro is responsible for providing timely services in a manner that is transparent, accountable and performance-based. Pitaro's presentation on "Strategic Planning and Change Management" focused on the successes seen in Chesterfield County, Virginia. These have led it to be a "best-practice" in state and local governments. He highlighted the successes in its performance goals, measures and services while also being an employee-friendly atmosphere.

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Turning into a Performance-Based Organization

State Auditor Lawrence Alwin gave a briefing on the successes that the state of Texas has had in being a truly performance-based organization. Alwin focused on the State Auditor's Office as they promote internal performance management so that they can truly hold other organizations accountable for their performance.

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Developing and Using Performance Measures in Arizona

David Jankofsky, Director at the Arizona Governor's Office of Strategic Planning and Budgeting, recently presented on Arizona's process of developing and implementing performance measures in the state government. This excellent slide presentation contains methods that can be adapted to any government's strategic planning process.

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We realize that bringing your whole office to a Performance Institute event is not always practical, which is why the Institute is proud to be able to customize its training programs and bring them directly to your office! Using our staff of experts and a faculty of instructors from government and the private sector, the Performance Institute can tailor the curriculum of any program to meet the specific needs of your department or agency.

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The Institute offers consulting to lead your program staff in applying the methodology framework for planning, managing, measuring and evaluating your educational programs. For more information on Institute consulting, please contact [email protected].