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Welcome to the Local Government Performance Index 2.0. In a sense, 2.0 should really be 3.0. The original LGPI was in paper format and can be found here. The LGPI continued to be a paper report in 2008 and 2009 (each report covering the previous financial year), but went to the web in 2010.

This site is the second iteration of that 2010 effort, with the site having been reformed to reflect feedback from the media, public, and local government practitioners.

In particular:

The site now has a feature to account for contributions residents pay to second tier local governments
The site has a dramatically streamlined set of line items, making the data easier to understand
The look and feel has been simplified for faster viewing.

Where mayors and councilors have taken it upon themselves to improve citizens' access to timely, reliable budget information, improvements in local-government services has followed. Fortunately, the Frontier Centre has decided to help kick-start the accountability process. At its local performance index website - www.lgpi.ca - the Centre lays out budget and efficiency indicators for scores of Canadian cities and lets voters compare their municipalities with others across the country, as well as against local averages for their province.

National Post, September 14, 2010

Last year, when students working for Newspaper Canada filed access to information requests to 39 municipalities, these New Brunswick cities met the requests promptly and in sufficient detail. Saint John did not. Moreover, the Port City has placed last in the Frontier Centre for Public Policy's survey of transparency in 133 municipalities, nationwide.