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Ted Shogry
Performance Improvement Manager
Office of Management and Budget
(505)768-3069
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Tips to Understanding the APR
- While the APR 2008 evaluates each Desired Community Condition individually, an important characteristic of many conditions is that they are interrelated. For example, economic conditions impact social conditions, which impact public safety conditions. Environmental conditions impact health conditions, which impact economic conditions. Public infrastructure conditions impact both economic and environmental conditions. Sustainable community development issues impact economic conditions (and vice versa) and environmental conditions.
- Desired Community Conditions are not merely the opposite of unwanted community characteristics, such as poverty or crime. Each is a positive statement of a desired future. Stating Desired Community Conditions in a positive way helps avoid focusing on the problem, which is limiting. However, indicator data are frequently only available for the negative aspects of the condition. Therefore, negative data are sometimes used to measure progress towards achieving a positive condition. For example, poverty data are used to measure if residents have a balance of means, opportunity, and support, and crime statistics are used to measure the public being safe.
- Albuquerque’s desired future, defined by the Goals and Desired Community Conditions and measured in the APR 2008, are outcomes, not the means used to achieve those outcomes. The City of Albuquerque and many other local, state, and national institutions develop strategies and actions to impact these conditions. For a comprehensive presentation of strategies and actions taken by the City of Albuquerque to impact these conditions, see the City’s current year budget, Volume II, Performance Plan.
- The APR 2008 is a fluid document and part of a four year cycle that includes redefining the desired future and measuring progress. It serves as an organizing framework and effective process for developing the City’s annual performance-based budgets. The Indicators Progress Commission (IPC) invites comments from citizens and other stakeholders in Albuquerque’s future and their participation in this process. The next Goals Forum, a key event in the four year cycle that welcomes citizen input into defining Albuquerque’s desired future, will be held in the summer of 2010.
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