The Clerk of The Board tracks the number of assessment appeals applications submitted online in the first 30 days of the filing period and the number of applicants with the ability to self-edit and track the status of their online applications submitted during the regular filing period.

The Department of Family and Children Services (DFCS) mission is to keep the children safe, families strong, and ensure that any child or youth who is at risk or has suffered abuse or neglect is safe, cared for, and grows up in a stable, loving family. DFCS records the total number of children served in out-of-home placements.

Valley Health Plan (VHP) records and collects the vacancy and retention rate of its staff to as part of its resources improvement, recruitment, and retention goals.

This measure displays current ambulance patient offload time in all County hospitals. The Department will reduce current ambulance patient offload time in all hospitals to 20 minutes or less (measured at the 90th percentile) by June 2023. This will improve the customer experience, the efficient allocation of resources, and timely access to EMS services. On a monthly basis, the Department will determine the 90th percentile for all ambulance offload times in the County by measuring time from the ambulance arrival at the hospital until the hospital assumes care.

In an effort to reduce the population of homeless pets entering local animal shelters, the Department of Agriculture and Environmental Management aims to increase the accessibility of affordable spay/neuter services for both owned and homeless pets in the county. The Department generates and reports the numbers of surgeries performed by County staff to determine the percent change from the prior year.

The Medical Examiner-Coroner (ME-C) continues to measure the percentage of autopsy cases closed within 60 days as part of the accreditation process by the National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) standards for autopsy reports.

County 9-1-1 Communications continues to exceed the State’s mandated response time by answering better than 95% of 9-1-1 calls in 15 seconds or less. While the mandated response times are being exceeded, County 9-1-1 Communications strives to increase the percentage of calls answered within 15 seconds to better serve the public and first responders. Call answer times are measured using data from California’s 9-1-1 Emergency Call Tracking System (ECaTS).

Santa Clara County Library District tracks and measures the percentage of the Santa Clara County Library District residents who have a Santa Clara County Library District (SCCLD) library card. Data will be collected from the Integrated Library System determining the number of cardholders within the County Library District boundaries. The data collected will then be divided by the County Library District population of all eligible residents age 5 and above, which is received from the State Department of Finance. This calculation will result in the percentage of Santa Clara County residents who have a SCCLD library card.
Additional Notes: Every year, the library removes from our records any cardholder who has not used their library card in the past 3 years. However, the library has not removed inactive cardholders since 2014 due to two system migrations in 2015 and 2016 that affected the accuracy of the cardholder last activity date. The projected number of card holders in 2020/2021 will show an unusually high reduction in inactive cardholders as we remove the accounts that have not been used since 2016.

The County Registrar of Voters measures the use and effectiveness of alternative voting options designed to encourage voter participation by making the process of casting a ballot more convenient, from ballot drop-off sites to Vote Centers (formerly known as Polling Places) to paid postage on mail ballots.

County Procurement records reported total cost savings through negotiated contractual agreements in non-competitive and competitive contract awards.