Says Brooks, “Washington
paralysis is already leading to a power inversion. As the federal government
becomes less energetic, city governments become more so.”
ICMA Executive Director Bob O’Neill has been arguing this
same point, as he described in "The
Coming Decade of Local Government".
Says O’Neill, “the next decade will be a time in which the fiscal
woes of federal and state governments will leave local and regional governments
on their own, struggling to balance the need for innovation against the
necessity of making tough choices… it will also be a decade in which local government
will lead the way in developing creative solutions to extraordinary problems.
There are a number of reasons to be optimistic about this coming decade of
local government”
In our work at the Center for Priority Based Budgeting, we see this
idea playing out in a major way, and it is bringing up a very interesting
challenge. If the Federal Government is less effective in achieving the results
that our citizens desire, does this mean that the pressure increases on local
government to “do more with less?” Or, is the opportunity in front of local
government to conduct a departure from the status quo, harnessing the power of
local partnerships, reallocating resources to top priority programs (while
divesting ourselves of lower priority investments), and permanently increasing
our ability to improve the lives of our citizens?
We invite you to see examples of the Power Inversion at play:
Douglas County,
Nevada has reallocated resources to increase transportation funding my
millions of dollars – all local dollars at play!
City of Boulder,
Colorado has focused resource reallocation opportunities to fund high-priority
energy initiatives in the City. No Federal dollars here.
City of Fort Collins,
Colorado has partnered in a start-up incubator project to launch small
businesses and super-charge the local economy.
In all of these organizations, the Power Inversion and Priority Based
Budgeting come together to demonstrate the ability to accomplish what was once
only possible with the resources of the Federal Government. These organizations
haven’t waited for Federal resources to make incredible progress. The decade of
local government is indeed underway!
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