Local Government Dashboard, City of Howell Michigan

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City of Howell Dashboard

As part of the Governor’s “Economic Vitality Incentive Program”, local units of government are required to provide a Performance Dashboard and a Citizens Guide. By meeting this requirement, the City of Howell will be eligible to receive a percentage of its appropriated statutory revenue sharing.

Performance Dashboard
The dashboard includes performance and operating measures that track such areas as: fiscal stability, public safety, quality of life and economic strength. Trends are identified by arrows indicating if an area is improving, declining or remaining the same.

Citizens’ Guide
The purpose of the City of Howell Citizen's Guide (excel file format), is to provide citizens with a document that will help them to better understand the City’s finances. The guide presents in a simple graphical format important financial measures. The areas covered include, revenues, expenses, financial position and financial obligations such as debt and pensions. The guide provides 5 years of data and has various drop down features that let the reader drill down to specific areas.

Performance Dashboard

Fiscal Stability
	Prior	Current	Progress
Annual GF expenditures per capita	$604.00	$587.00
Fund balance as % of annual GF expenditures	59.00%	49.00%
Unfunded OPEB liability as a % of annual GF revenue	208.00%	227.00%
Debt burden per capita	$1,152.00	$1090.00
Ratio of employees to retirees	0.7	0.79
Number of services delivered via cooperative venture	3	4
Percentage of road funding provided by the general fund	17.10%	27.80%

* KEY: Arrows represent the change from prior year

to current year.

The color of the arrow represents if the change was

positive (GREEN) or negative (RED). A (BLACK) double or up arrow represents no change (NEUTRAL).

Economic Stength
	Prior	Current	Progress
% of community with access to high speed broadband	100%	100%
% of community age 25+ with BS or higher	24%	24%
Average age of critical infrastructure (in years)	11.1	10.5

Public Safety
	Prior	Current	Progress
Violent Crimes per thousand	3	3
Property Crimes per thousand	24	30
Traffic injuries or fatalities	69	60

Quality of Life
	Prior	Current	Progress
Miles of sidewalks and non motorized trails per mile of local roads	2	2
Percent of GF budget committed to arts, culture and recreation	9.00%	7.00%
Acres of park per thousand residents	5	5
Percent of community with curbside recycling	100.00%	100.00%

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