Matt Mahan

So much of the implementation happens at the local level.

Every time

there is a negative story about something bad happening in the world, there is an impulse for a legislator to say, let's create a new rule.

It could always be a little bit safer.

Let's add another check, another balance, another process, another rule, another fee, whatever it is.

And the reason for that, in my view, is that we have not created an incentive structure in government to reward

actual performance and outcomes.

And so we are by default rewarding the performativeness of showing that we're doing such a lot of activity without a lot of impact.

And I think that we have to help voters

be smarter about analyzing what their elected officials are doing and whether or not it's working.

That's why I want to be held accountable.

I came into office running on dashboards.

I mean, I put up public facing dashboards and said, here's our baseline.

Here's how we compare to others.

Here's the goal we're setting.

We're going to reduce homelessness by 10% year over year.

We're going to reduce crime.

We're going to remove barriers and get housing built.

We're going to speed up permit reviews.

I want to be held publicly accountable because I would rather, frankly, have a feedback loop with the people whose doors I knocked on than whichever group doesn't like that we're trying to change something.