The Wichita City Council approved indicators for the five primary goals driving the City’s annual budget process, known also as Managing For Results. The 2006-07 indicators, which were approved during the Council meeting on Tuesday, are tools to help monitor progress toward the five primary goals. Following are the goals and their respective three indicators:
- Provide a safe and secure community
- Maintained and/or improved response time and crime rate
- Improved environmental health and community safety
- Maintained and improved citizen perception of public safety
- Promote economic vitality and affordable living
- Improved availability, quality and diversity of jobs
- Sustained affordable living
- Partnered with economic development and affordable living stakeholders
- Ensure efficient infrastructure
- Maintained safe and dependable transportation systems
- Provided reliable, compliant and secure utilities
- Maintained and optimized public facilities and assets
- Enhance the quality of life
- Citizens are retained in the community
- Citizens are satisfied with the quality of life
- Citizens receive a return on all of their quality of life investments
- Support a dynamic core area and vibrant neighborhoods
- Increased and sustained neighborhood vibrancy citywide
- Increased sense of community, neighborhood involvement and satisfaction
- Continued revitalization of the Core Area (as defined by WDDC boundaries)
"I like the indicators," Wichita Mayor Carlos Mayans said. "I think they’re a step in the right direction." Managing For Results is the budget component of Transforming Wichita, an initiative to transform City Government into a high-performing organization.
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