San Mateo County 2002 - 2003
Performance Budgeting

This is the second year of a three year rollout of San Mateo County's new approach to budgeting for county agencies. This is one of the best examples of a performance budget which is complete, yet simple, meaningful and useful to decision makers. These budget examples show the introduction of the three performance measurement categories:

How much did we do?
How well did we do it?
Is anyone better off?

The excerpts are used here with the kind permission of John Maltbie, County Manager and Reyna Farrales, Deputy County Manager.

Click here to download an Adobe Acrobat file (25 pages) of selected budget excerpts from the following programs:

The Elections Program
Controller Information Systems Program
Internal Audit Program
Payroll Services Program
Family Support Program
Adult Alternatives Program
Environmental Protection Program
Road Maintenance Program