OKStateStat.ok.gov gets a new look
Website becomes more transparent and accessible
OKLAHOMA CITY — The State of Oklahoma officially launched today the new OKStateStat.ok.gov website, which looks
beyond the numbers to align state dollars with Oklahoma’s priorities.
“OKStateStat.ok.gov is a tremendous tool for Oklahomans to
hold us in state government accountable for performance in all areas of
government,” said Governor Mary Fallin. “We’ve set the bar high on our goals,
and we will be working hard to attain them. This website will help hold
ourselves accountable as a state government. Policymakers and the public can
visit OKStateStat.ok.gov to see where we need to go as a state and what
measurements will determine our success in getting there.”
OKStateStat.ok.gov
is Oklahoma’s performance-informed budgeting website, offering a unique
interactive view of how state government uses resources to achieve meaningful
results. In short, it helps show if the State of Oklahoma is using its money to
best achieve its goals.
“We’re moving forward with transparency and accountability
with OKStateStat.ok.gov,” said Secretary of Finance, Administration and
Information Technology Preston L. Doerflinger. “This is an important initiative
for government and Oklahomans to show exactly how we match the money to the
goals. People will get a good sense of how the state is performing and where it
needs to improve.”
Gov. Fallin and Secretary Doerflinger as her lead budget
negotiator and the other members of her Cabinet have been pushing this innovative
way of state budgeting for years as a fiscal philosophy that allocates funds
based on data-driven projections of measurable spending results.
“It’s been a major shift away from a traditional planning
and budgeting approach based on incremental changes to the previous year’s
budget,” said Doerflinger, who also serves as the director of OMES, the state’s
central finance and operations agency. “Instead of doing the same thing every
year and expecting a different result, performance-informed budgeting allows us
to look across programs throughout the state and make better informed decisions
about programs that are successful.”
Gov. Fallin in 2015 announced the strategic vision for
building responsible government by measuring the performance of state entities.
The effort to align budget dollars with measurable priorities so policymakers
can use performance measures to make informed decisions has been in the works
for some time.
Now, through the newest version of OKStateStat.ok.gov, all Oklahomans can do
the same comparisons and see what should be driving those decisions.
The website matches financial and performance information to
Gov. Fallin’s five statewide goals: Healthy Citizens and Strong Families, Safe Citizens
and Secure Communities, Educated Citizens and Exemplary Schools, Prosperous
Citizens and Thriving Economy, and Effective Services and Accountable
Government.
Users can click on one of the goals and drill down, looking
at how budgets match up with 52 statewide programs and more than 170
performance objectives. For example, users can select the goal of Healthy
Citizens and Strong Families, drill down to the statewide program of snuffing
out “Tobacco Use” and see how that goal is aligned with financial and
performance information.
The launch of the revamped OKStateStat.ok.gov is part of an
effort to publicly show how state money is aligned with state goals. As state
agencies become more aware of the website and learn how to report their budgets
so that priorities are clearly stated, the website will become more robust with
time.
OKStateStat.ok.gov was
developed and is administered by the Office of Management and Enterprise
Services under the leadership of Gov. Fallin and her Cabinet.
Media Contact
MICHAEL BAKER
Director of Public Affairs
(405) 522-4265 | michael.baker@omes.ok.gov
 About the Office of Management and Enterprise Services
The Office of Management and Enterprise Services
provides financial, property, purchasing, human resources and
information technology services to all state agencies, and assists the
Governor’s Office on budgetary policy matters. Our mission: Supporting our partners through unified business services. For more information, visit OMES.OK.gov.
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