The County Clerk-Recorder records average customer wait-time for the official records, vital records, fictitious business name, marriages, passports, and other services the Clerk- Recorder provides to County residents.

Process improvement involves the business practice of identifying, analyzing and improving existing business processes to optimize performance, meet best practice standards or simply improve quality and the user experience for customers and end-users. Process improvement strategies strive to minimize errors, reduce waste, improve productivity and streamline efficiency.

The Pavement Condition measure is commonly used in the pavement maintenance profession to indicate the condition on roads for the purpose of usability, lifespan, programming capital investments, measuring the cost liability of the road system. County roads are graded using a standardized method consistently utilized throughout the Bay Area cities and counties. The data is recorded as Pavement Condition Index (PCI). The PCI numerical rating for the condition of the roads is on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is the worst possible condition and 100 is the best. PCI is used to develop budgets, identify preventive maintenance schedules and strategies, evaluate materials and designs, and provide a historical condition of the road.

This measure is part of Measures of Success Program (MOS). MOS is a client-centered approach to demonstrate the County's progress in meeting client needs. Selected measures are representative of County department’s core business and operations. The Controller-Treasurer Department records the County's bond rating for all debt issuances.

Reporting Period: Fiscal Year 2017-2023

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 total travel time measure illustrates the performance of the expressway system in moving traffic. The County invests in the expressway system through its Capital Improvement Program. Generally, capital investments in the expressway are either designed to improve safety for users and/or improve carrying capacity. County Roads records the sum of all travel time on all eight county expressways (in both directions) and total number of vehicle trips per day on expressways.

The County Clerk-Recorder records the time (days) to verify real estate recorded documents. The County Clerk-Recorder focuses on improving the verification time for real estate recorded documents. The goal is to reduce the time to verify the index. Although the documents are indexed within two business days, a verification of the index is performed to ensure its accuracy, because the index leads to the document.

The Department of Agriculture and Environmental Management protects the health and safety of people by addressing structure fire hazards existing on properties in the environments where people live, eat, and play. Inspections are done to ensure that there is safe defensible space to minimize the risk of fire spreading to a structure. If the property does not meet the established Minimum Fire Safety Standards, staff educates property owners and encourages voluntary compliance by clearing space around the structure. The number of inspections performed is an indicator of the potential risk to the general public. The compliance rate represents the percent of property owners that took positive action to make their property safe and the number of parcels abated represents the number pf properties in which the County stepped in as a result of non-compliance to oversee the application of mechanical abatement.

The Department of Planning and Development collects and records the time it takes to process planning land use entitlements/permit and building/grading permits (entitlements) from the date of application to approval, to issuance.

The Behavioral Health Services Department (BHSD) continues to work on reducing the use of inpatient psychiatric hospital services for adult and older adult consumers diagnosed with mental health related problems. The readmission rate measures the unplanned readmissions of clients who have been discharged from acute psychiatric hospitals within the past 30 days. BHSD has implemented a practice management solution to improve data captured at the Barbara Aarons Pavilion and contract hospitals to allow for more efficient intervention.