To hold the bureaucracy accountable, the City Council wants to resurrect CitiStat

The City Council last night delayed – at literally the last minute – passage of a bill that would establish CitiStat as a standalone agency. Until then, the measure, which would place an “Office of CitiStat” outside of the Mayor Brandon Scott’s Office of Performance and Innovation, had been steaming ahead, propelled by the promise of “better response times” for city services.