Performance Management Articles and Publications

Reporting reliable performance data is especially critical today as more government organizations publish external accountability reports toits citizens.

It is time to change the local government culture so local officials let data help dictate their decisions to help save taxpayer money. This would help make the need for many important reforms, such as cooperation between local governments, more evident to managers, politicians and residents. Transparency in government has to move beyond open meetings, audits and freedom of information; real transparency tells us how our tax dollars are used to deliver services and the impact of any changes in those operations.

Eric Scorsone is co-chair of the State and Local Government Program at Michigan State University in East Lansing.  scorsone@anr.msu.edu 

The publication outlines how the Stimulus Package seeks to sistribute the funding by Agency.  If you are interested in funding that is slated as pass-through (funding which will be awarded to your state for distibution to cities, ounties, and other entities), you are urged to find out the contact information for the person or agency which will likely be responsible for distribution of any pass-through funding.

Despite numerous efforts, the preparers of this document were able to find very little objective qualitative comparison between the Linux SuSE/SLES and Red Hat Operating Systems.  In an effort to fairly compare the technologies, two surveys were conducted.