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Strategic → CiTy of eusTis PerformanCe measuremenT sysTem anD buDgeT TrenDs
City of Eustis Performance Measurement System and Budget Trends
The City of Eustis seeks opportunities to promote operational excellence and performance measurement goals. A successful performance management system is driven by local needs and designed
to closely align with the City’s vision, mission, core values, priorities, goals and strategic plan
actions.
Operational excellence leads to reducing operating costs and increasing workplace productivity. It
also creates an organizational culture that allows the City to support and improve valuable services
for our community and achieve long-term sustainable goals and growth. The city of Eustis identifies performance measurement as an essential component of the budgeting process. It supports the
research on performance measurement provided by the City Finance Department, assuring financial statements are prepared by GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), which plays a
vital role in the development of performance measurement in the public sector overall.
The systematic approach to performance management will help improve the City’s daily decision-making effectiveness and efficiency.
Performance measurement is thoroughly integrated into a City’s budgetary process to be effective.
The natural relationship between performance measurement and budgeting can be briefly summarized as follows:
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The short-term goals are crucial in the City’s Strategic Plan and City’s Performance Measurement
System Framework. These short-term objectives provide actionable, measurable targets that can
be achieved in the near future, ensuring that the City is continuously moving forward and building
momentum. In essence, while the strategic plan paints the big picture of where the City wants to
be in the future, short-term goals provide a checklist of immediate actions to help get there. The
effective execution of these short-term goals ensures that the City stays on track, making consistent
progress towards realizing its strategic vision.
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Uses strategic planning to identify its broad organizational objectives, which it then translates
into specific goals and objectives (City of Eustis Strategic Plan, including Priorities, Strategic
Goals and Strategies).
Frames its budgetary decisions based on results and outcomes that are directly linked to these
specific goals and objectives (Annual City Budget Historical Data).
Compares actual and projected results and outcomes and uses this analysis to identify any
needed adjustments (Annual Budgeting Process).
Uses performance measures to monitor actual results and outcomes:
The Performance Management System Framework reflects the practices by which performance
management can be achieved. Continuous integration of these practices into the core operations
of the City of Eustis enables performance management to produce long-lasting benefits. The core
practices within the circle must be supported by visible leadership to sustain a culture of performance excellence.
The four components of Performance Management System are defined as:
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Results and Standards: Where do we want to be? City’s management’s commitment to a quality
culture that aligns performance management practices with the organization’s mission, vision
and core values. City regularly considers customer feedback and enables transparency about
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