Introduction to the Performance Section

In fiscal year (FY) 2006, the Department accomplished its mission through three strategic goals and an overarching management integration goal that articulate long-term outcomes, as well as performance goals that represent shorter-term outcomes and priorities. Performance goals include specific targets designed to achieve specific performance results within a given fiscal year.

The Performance Section of the report comprises subsections for each of the strategic goals and is organized in the following manner:

PERFORMANCE SECTION SUBSECTIONS
Subsection	Purpose
Strategic Goal	Overall summary of the strategic goal.
Strategic Objective	Overall summary of outcomes, program obligations, and performance goals fall under each objective. The information contained in the objective provides the performance goals and the activities associated with them. At the end of the performance goal, discussions of the Challenges for the Future for the strategic objective conclude the section.
Performance Goal	Performance Goal Description, Achievements, Program Evaluations, Strategies, and Future Plans. The information contained in each performance goal is designed to provide the reader with the overall achievements of the performance goal and how those achievements support the objective, and in the larger-scale, how they support the furthering of the Department’s Strategic Goals.

Within each Strategic Goal section there are summary charts that provide the historical trend data for financial and full-time equivalents (FTE) resources, and overall performance results, using a stoplight coding system. At the beginning of each strategic goal section and each objective section is a table summarizing the performance goals. A goal is said to have been met if 100 percent of the targets of its corresponding measures were achieved, significantly met if 75 percent to 99 percent of its targets were achieved, and not met if less than 75 percent of its targets were achieved. The performance chart includes a quick summary of the status of the performance measures associated with Strategic Goal, Strategic Objective, or Performance Goal. The chart is color coded: red to indicate performance was not met, yellow to indicate that performance was slightly below target (95 percent - 99 percent of target), green to indicate that performance was met (100 percent - 124 percent of target), and blue to indicate that performance was exceeded (more than 125 percent of target). The numbers under the colors indicate the number of performance measures (or results) associated with the goal.

The same summary resource charts and performance results charts are used for each objective and performance goal under each strategic goal.

Details on each performance result are located in Appendix A, which provides individual measurement results and descriptions of actions to be taken if the measure does not achieve positive results. It includes explanations and strategies to address performance deficiencies.

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