Performance Measures

One City, One Future: Performance and Accountability in the City of Sacramento

One City, One Future is how the City of Sacramento connects its priorities, its plans, and its results so residents can see what we are working on, why it matters, and whether we are making progress.

The framework has three parts:

1. The priorities: what we are focused on. The City Council has set three resident-facing priorities: economic development, public safety, and homelessness. These set the direction for the City's work.
2. The strategic workplan: how we get there. The workplan translates each priority into clear objectives and the specific initiatives City departments are advancing. It answers a simple question: what are we doing, and why does it matter to residents?
3. SacramentoSTAT: how we hold ourselves accountable. SacramentoSTAT is the City's performance management system. Department leaders meet regularly to review data on whether their work is delivering results, answer questions, and follow up on commitments until they are resolved. It is built on a straightforward idea used by cities across the country: when leaders show up regularly with data and answer for the results, performance improves.

What residents can expect

The City is building a public dashboard that will let residents track progress on the Council's priorities in plain language: what we are trying to accomplish, how we are measuring it, and how we are doing. As the framework matures, the measures behind it will continue to be refined so that what we report reflects real outcomes for the community, not just activity.

This is a living plan. It will grow and improve over time, and it is designed to outlast any single budget cycle or administration.