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Editorials : Guest Opinion : When our leaders fail to measure up

Michael Brown, former county administrator for 14 years, did the public and the county supervisors a great service when he initiated a performance-based budget. Instead of publishing a budget document that simply announced the amount of money spent per year by each cost center, his administration published a very detailed accounting of every department, division and program, complete with meaningful performance measures, activity indicators and indices that allowed expenditures and efforts to be measured. Mr. Brown's postulate was "if you can't measure it, More»


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