Deparment of
General Services
What the Department Does and for Whom
The Department of General Services (DGS) proactively serves the diverse business and service requirements of all County departments, providing a single point of government to government service, enabling departments to successfully complete their respective missions and, thereby, adding value to the services performed by Montgomery County to County residents.
Department Performance Measures
Montgomery County departments are broken out into discrete programs for the purposes of Outcome Based Budgeting.
A program is an activity or set of activities performed by County government that has:
A program is an activity or set of activities performed by County government that has:
- identifiable costs for budgeting purposes
- a clear public purpose and measurable results, and
- clear lines of accountability for its performance and financial management
The following are the performance measures for programs within the Department of General Services. In our performance framework there are three categories of measures:
- How much did we do? (quantity)
- How well did we do it? (quality)
- Is anyone better off? (effect or impact)