Last month, New Mexico’s Legislative Finance Committee (LFC) did something that that possibly no other legislative committee in the U.S. has done to date: It launched a “PerformanceStat” initiative. As listeners to this podcast will know, the PerformanceStat process was pioneered in New York City for policing and then expanded to other government settings, as with Baltimore’s CitiStat and Maryland’s StateStat. The approach involves ongoing, data-driven performance reviews between leadership and departments or divisions.
New Mexico’s LFC adapted PerformanceStat to a legislative setting, dubbing it “LegisSTAT.” To learn more, we’re joined by Charles Sallee. For more than a decade he has served as the LFC’s Deputy Director.
Learn more: An op-ed in Governing, written by Charles Sallee, LFC Chair Patricia Lundstrom and Andy Feldman discusses the piloting of LegisSTAT in New Mexico.