Budget & Performance Measurement
As performance measurement at King County develops and evolves, so does the ability to make more informed budget decisions. King County requires all Executive departments to develop and submit annual business plans to help facilitate that discussion. Business plans are designed to show the relationship between a department's vision, mission, goals, strategies, and performance.
Performance measures are used in the business plans to:
- Show through measures: how much work was done (output measures), the effectiveness of programs, program efficiency, and service quality
- Clearly identify targets that represent what performance is expected with current (or proposed) funding levels
- Connect, where possible, funding proposals with new levels of performance, new targets, or new measures to demonstrate program results.
Public Performance Reporting
For the past several years as part of the Executive's Proposed Budget, OMB has produced a report summarizing the performance results of the Executive departments called King County AIMs High: Annual Indicators and Measures. AIMs High includes a smaller set of performance data, organized by department, than is found on this website.
The county's 2007 AIMs High report was a recipient of the Association of Government Accountants' prestigious "Certificate of Excellence in Service Efforts and Accomplishments Reporting" for meeting all of the reporting guidelines (124KB PDF) for effective communication. These guidelines are based on suggested criteria identified by the Government Accounting Standards Board.
The online version of the report can be found here:
2007 report
(12.6MB PDF)
To request a hard copy of the report, please call (206) 296-4024 or email Michael.jacobson@kingcounty.gov.
Previous years' reports are here:
Full budget documents and more information about OMB are available on the OMB website.
