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Citizen-Centric Reporting

AGA's Citizen-Centric Government Reporting Initiative

Chapter Challenge—Promote Government Accountability to the People
It’s Our Responsibility—
Earn Bonus Chapter Recognition Credits!

Thank you AGA for developing these tools to help governments be accountable to the citizens they serve!  Keep up the good work.” 

Christa Brooks,
Special Projects Coordinator,
Division of Administration
Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services

AGA still needs your help with encouraging governments to produce and publish four-page Citizen Centric Reports! The Citizen-Centric Reporting Initiative has become one of AGA’s hallmark programs. The reports, designed to be visually appealing, provide understandable information to citizens about the performance and financial condition of the government as well as demographics and future challenges--that answer the question, “Are we better off today than we were last year?”

“We are answering to the responsibility we have as financial managers to leave this world better than we found it. If we do not do this, no one will. We are calling on all governments to be accountable to the citizens they serve,” said Relmond Van Daniker, AGA’s Executive Director.

The City of Saco, Maine was the first entity to produce a citizen centric report in March 2007, and since then, upwards of forty governments have produced reports. The challenge remains to encourage more governments to adopt the four-page report for greater transparency and accountability. Five hundred and even one thousand reports do not sound out of reach.

View the completed reports here.

The League of Women Voters has endorsed this project and is calling on its local chapters to promote it in their areas. AGA is asking its chapters to do the same. Look around your own home and workplace for opportunities to sell the concept of citizen-centric reporting to officials in your area. Working together, we can make our governments more accountable to the people they serve!

Tools Make It Easy
AGA has developed a
Content Guidelines Template outlining what information should be included on each page as well as a Design Guidelines Template outlining the physical layout of the report.  

We know that governments have a reputation for being good at collecting taxes but not necessarily as good at being accountable for how those tax dollars are spent, Saco wants to change that. This report has both the good and the bad. And while I’m glad to say there’s more ‘good’ to report in Saco these days, this report is chock full of challenges coming down the pike. We’re hoping to inform a thoughtful debate on these issues.”

Mayor Mark Johnston

City of Saco, Maine

Last but Not Least—Bonus Credits!

Earn Chapter Recognition bonus credits for the 2008-2009 Year under Section V, Membership:

·         Make contact with a government, encourage them to produce and publish a four-page Citizen Centric Report—100 credits per contact made (please forward information to Susan Fritzlen)

·         Government that you contacted produces and publishes a four-page Citizen Centric Report—500 credits per published report (please forward pdf of published report to Susan Fritzlen)

 

 

 


 


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