Committee Approved Recommendations
December 16, 1999

Performance Measurement
Recommendations

  1. The Office of Policy and Management shall be responsible for:
    1. assuring all budgeted state agencies develop strategic plans that identify the relevant benchmarks established by the Connecticut Progress Council and include goals, objectives, and performance measures for each program provided by such state agency;
    2. assuring the goals, objectives, and performance measures included in each budgeted state agency's strategic plan address performance information needs identified by the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations, government administration, or the subject matter addressed by the agency;
    3. assuring each budgeted state agency collects data on the performance measures and benchmarks included in the agency's strategic plan;
    4. assuring an annual report is prepared on each budgeted state agency and its programs based on an analysis of the benchmark and performance measurement data included in the agencies strategic plan and submitting such reports to the Program Review and Investigations Committee; and
    5. assuring access to all performance and benchmark data to the Program Review and Investigations Committee and to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations, government administration, or the subject matter addressed by the agency.
  2. The Program Review and Investigations Committee shall be responsible for:
    1. analyzing and commenting on the agency reports submitted by OPM;
    2. analyzing and commenting on the performance measurement and benchmark data made available by OPM including the relevance of the performance data related to each program's objectives; and
    3. distributing the reports submitted by OPM along with the committee's comments on the reports and data to the joint standing committees having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations, government administration, and the specific agency's operations.
  3. The Auditors of Public Accounts when conducting an agency or program audit shall be responsible for determining if:
    1. the agency's or program's strategic plan is current;
    2. the strategic plan contains all the required elements;
    3. the data pertaining to the performance measures and benchmarks are being collected; and
    4. the data being collected are reliable and valid.
  4. The Office of the State Comptroller shall pursue the development, funding, and implementation of a new state automated accounting system capable of providing performance data at the program level.
  5. Not later than 90 days after the effective date of the act, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall establish a schedule whereby each budgeted state agency shall biennially develop a strategic business plan. The schedule established by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall require at least 20 percent of the budgeted state agencies to develop such a plan by July 1, 2001, and no later than July 1, 2004, all budgeted state agencies shall be developing strategic plans biennially.
  6. Beginning September 1, 2002, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall submit to the Program Review and Investigations Committee a report on each budgeted state agency based on an analysis of the data associated with the benchmarks and performance measures included in the agency's strategic plan.
  7. Beginning January 1, 2003, and annually thereafter, the Program Review and Investigations Committee shall distribute the reports and data submitted to it by Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management along with the program review committee's comments to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations, government administration, and the subject matter addressed by the agency.
  8. Funding for five additional staff positions in the Office of Policy and Management and two additional staff positions in the Office of the Auditors of Public Accounts shall be phased in along with the implementation of the proposed performance measurement system.
  9. Repeal C.G.S. Title 2c "Connecticut Sunset Law."

 

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