Vol. 24 No. 4, August 2008
Index
- GFOA, now more than ever.
- Metropolitan areas taking leadership role in reducing carbon emissions.
- Finances deteriorating for most states, but not all.
- Update provides emergency management strategies.
- GFOA's new president-elect and executive board.
- Building a sustainable future: 2008 Annual Conference Recap.
- Access to retirement, medical benefits better for government workers then private sector.
- Measuring for a purpose: trends in public-sector performance measurement and management practices.
- What gets measured sometimes gets managed.
- Sarasota County's GovMax application: aligning business need with technical value.
- Beyond the basics: Miami-Dade County's results-oriented government framework.
- Using 311 data to measure performance and manage city finances.
- Real information, real results: the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority uses a logic model to evaluate its operations and service delivery levels, determining if its performance measures are leading to the correct results.
- Utah elevates its performance: performance elevated is a management tool for improving performance and efficiency in state agencies.
- A golden opportunity: recruiting baby boomers into government: millions of baby boomers who are looking for new opportunities and challenges are considering "encore careers" in government.
- Expanding the scope of performance management: while performance management is often assumed to take place on a departmental or organizational level, it can also occur on a much smaller scale.
- Washington focuses on muni market: much legislative, regulatory, and judicial attention has been focused on the problems municipal bond issuers are facing as a result of disruption in the capital markets.
- GASB proposes to redefine its role in performance measurement: the GASB issued an exposure draft in April that proposes to clarify the board's vision of its current and future roles in regard to service efforts and accomplishments reporting.
- Fighting fears about performance measurement.
- GFOA events.
- State association events.
- Goal power: a well-framed goal unleashes people's instincts to do well and to contribute to something bigger than themselves.