Local governance model
The municipal control model ( KSM ) developed by KGSt in 2013 takes up the basic ideas of the new control model and assumes that all municipalities must constantly set priorities, set budgets and formulate goals .
In the 1990s, the new control model triggered a wave of reforms in the municipalities that changed the local world.
In the KGSt report No. 5/2013 "The municipal control model", the following requirements for a municipal control model were included:
- Strengthening a strategic and impact-oriented control .
- Strengthening the leadership skills and responsibility of municipal managers.
- Linking task and resource management: Strategic planning and budget decisions must be closely linked.
- Process-oriented control.
- Improving the interaction between political decisions and administrative action .
- Openness to participation and a new quality of transparency and opening of administrative action into society.
- Qualification of the control system for the control of performance processes in differentiated IT-supported production networks.
The KGSt report describes the five components of the municipal control model:
- Control structures,
- Control processes,
- Control instruments and
- Organizational culture and their
- Cooperation within the framework of municipal management.
The basis of the municipal control model is the link between strategic management and decentralized responsibility for results. The municipal control model relies on target-related budgeting and reporting with key figures. The navigation system of the municipal control model consists of the control structure of the strategic and operational management as well as the control cycle with inventory, target formulation, implementation of measures and evaluation.
The municipal control model distinguishes between three main control processes:
- Plan and implement overall strategy,
- Plan and implement product budget,
- Plan and implement product criticism.
These three control processes are intended to ensure that an overall strategy of the municipality forms the roof of the strategic and operational control of the product budget and that the municipal measures are coordinated with the overall strategy.
Building on this, the KGSt report "Paths to overall municipal strategy - seven steps in strategic control" was published in 2015, which shows how an overall municipal strategy can be developed and implemented in municipal control.