John Herbst
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9,624 appearances
59 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 15 Sep
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You know, I I've been on the other end of this.
When I was in Jacksonville, I was the finance director for the Children's Services Council up there and we gave out tens of millions of dollars of grants.
That was our our function.
And we had a very robust, uh, structured program by which we did that.
And one of the things that's always struck me about Fort Lauderdale is that everything we do here is is ad hoc.
It's a popularity contest based on what commissioner happens to like, what not for profit.
And
And we don't open it up to the larger community.
We don't afford uh new not-for-profits an opportunity to bring their programs forward.
Um, and one of the things that's always concerned me the most is we've got no criteria for measuring outcomes.
I've I've talked about this repeatedly.
Um we don't measure outcomes, we measure inputs, uh, we measure activities, but we don't measure outcomes, and we certainly don't do it longitudinally.
So we have no way of gauging whether the money that we spent through the years has actually effectively accomplished anything.
What are the accomplishments?
And again, what we often do is we measure what's easy to measure, how many contact hours we've had.
We talk about a lot of our homeless programs, how many people have we talked to, but we haven't talked enough, as far as I'm concerned, about what success we've had in administering.
these programs.
And I know it's difficult to do that.
Again, I come out of the performance management arena, so I understand the difficulties in this.
But when we're giving out money, it seems to me we ought to be looking at the effectiveness of the money that we've given out over the years.
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