Dan Koh

So I said, if we were going to do that, we need to put clear goals openly that every single pothole in the city will be filled within 48 hours or that graffiti will be cleaned up around the same time frame.

And we also shouldn't be afraid.

Same reason why I like to go to unfriendly places in the media to put our money where our mouth is and make it public about how we're performing.

And so we came up with this dashboard called City Score.

We made the dashboard look like the green monster because I'm a Red Sox fan.

So is the mayor and everyone in Boston's obsessed with the Red Sox.

And we made that public.

And you can still go to Boston.gov City Score right now.

Mayor Wu has continued this practice.

And you know what?

People appreciate the transparency.

We don't always had hit our marks in City Hall, but at least people knew what we were striving towards and what we were going to.

And what's so sad about the whole Doge initiative with Elon Musk is that I think both sides of the aisle should want to see more efficiency in the government.

But Elon Musk was just doing it for stagecraft and theater.

You know, he said that $2 trillion will be cut from the government under his watch.

The research showed that it ended up costing taxpayers $10 billion in back pay because of the recklessness of what he was doing.

So, of course, we want to make sure every single taxpayer dollar goes to people and to helping people.

But we need to do it with a heart and we need to do it in the right ways.

I feel like every single time someone reaches out to their government, it's a leap of faith.

It's a leap of faith against the stereotype that government isn't there to help people in the hopes that they will be proven wrong.