Establish that all public records be available online and accurate. Also that upon appropriating funds, there be established a rating method to evaluate the effectiveness of the investments of those funds. These parameters be evaluated every year, and perhaps more often the first year as being on track. Leaving Federal matching funds unmatched is usually a dreadful loss of public investment returns. Monitoring of the projects to their parameter goals yields improvements.
Federal Government value-engineering study
Office of Management and Budget
Office of Management and Budget