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Citizen's Guide to Metro's Performance
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How Do You Know the Data is Right?

Metro Government has invested significant resources to assure that reported data is accurate and consistently reported, and can therefore be trusted for decision-making. Beginning in FY2004, the Performance Measurement Certification (PMC) effort reviewed the source data behind all “key result” measures from departmental strategic business plans to validate the reported data. These reviews checked to ensure the data was collected correctly; the result was calculated correctly; and that the result measure is consistent from year to year.

For FY2006, the PMC process reviewed 256 key results from 19 departments; each of those departments appears in this report. Those key results represented approximately $450 million in budgeted program expenses for FY2006; the PMC process was able to certify 82% of those 156 key results, representing $347 million. View the Performance Measure Certification report for FY06.

Performance data for FY06 was not reviewed by the PMC team in time for the creation of this report. The FY06 data presented here are the numbers reported by the departments/agencies.

Data presented in this report that has been certified by the PMC process will be noted with a special identifying mark:Certification Mark The authors of this report have made every effort to ensure that data that was not certified – that is, that was reviewed and could not be reproduced – has not been included. Data that was not collected through the strategic business plans was not eligible to be reviewed for certification.

Fiscal Year 2006

Fiscal Year 2005;77% Certified, 8% Reported and not certified, 15% not reported

  • 209 results certified, representing $451 million (77%)
  • 47 results reported but not certified, representing $46.7 million (8%)
  • 49 results not reported, representing $87.6 million (15%)
Fiscal Year 2005

Fiscal Year 2005;79% Certified, 6% Reported and not certified, 15% not reported

  • 193 results certified, representing $354 million (79%)
  • 34 results reported but not certified, representing $27 million (6%)
  • 15 results not reported, representing $67 million (15%)
Fiscal Year 2004

Fiscal Year 2004; 67% Ceritified; 9% Reported and not certified; 24% not reported

  • 118 results certified, representing $243 million (67%)
  • 37 results reported but not certified, representing $32 million (9%)
  • 40 results not reported, representing $87 million (24%)