CC MEETING: September 20, 2016
DATE: September 15, 2016
TO: Leonard Martin, City Manager
FROM: Laurie Garber, City Secretary/ Admin. Services Manager
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Receive Demo Of The Carrollton Open Data Platform.
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BACKGROUND:
In an effort to continue our commitment to transparency, staff created an Open Data Platform with Socrata, Inc. The platform provides citizens with an electronic dashboard for performance measurement. Citizens and staff can review, compare, visualize, and analyze data to see how the organization is performing.
The first four departments that have been deployed are Police, Fire, Building Inspection, and Finance. Council will receive a demo of Carrollton’s dashboard during the September 20, 2016 worksession.