The Mandate Chicago Is Afraid to Measure – Chicago Contrarian

"Chicago needs a public inventory of mandates. There is no table that lists which requirements impose recurring costs for the city. There is no annual accounting of how many full-time operations exist solely to satisfy external requirements. There is no systematic effort to compare mandates against outcomes or to sunset those that fail. ... A system so saturated with compliance obligations that it cannot describe its own compliance costs is not a sign of good governance."