District of Columbia Code Division I. Government of District. § 2-1208. Performance measure requirements and strategic plan.

(1) Establish realistic and verifiable goals for economic development, including concrete performance measures for the following economic priorities:

(2) Incorporate data obtained from the Unified Economic Development Budget Report required by § 2-1208.02 to assess the success of the District's usage of economic development incentives in the past fiscal year to accomplish economic priorities and to relate how economic development incentives proposed as part of the upcoming fiscal year's budget will assist the District in meeting its goals and performance measures for economic development;

(3) Identify a cohort of relevant comparable economic analyses, considering efforts by neighboring jurisdictions and across the nation as examples;

(4) Evaluate other economic development benchmarking;

(5) Identify and evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities inherent in and available to the District economy as well as the mechanisms and leverage points where the District should invest additional resources to achieve the goals established in the strategic plan;  and

(6) Recommend policy initiatives designed to improve the relative ability of the District to achieve the goals identified in the strategic plan.