"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." - Steve Jobs
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| 150+ local government "Summit" attendee rock-stars can't be wrong!!!! |
What an exciting CPBB 2013 "Summit of Leading Practices" Annual Conference! I know we are still riding high from the creative energy and innovative concepts discussed during the two day "Summit." We hope you're feeling the "local government high" and take this energy home and apply it in your organization! Thanks to all conference attendees, sponsors, exhibitors, partners and friends!
Beyond the "high", we also left the "Summit" full of innovative "Leading Practice" inspiration and we're hungry for more! To satisfy your infectious cravings, the CPBB has revisited each conference session on this blog. The intent is to recap the energetic session presentation(s) and reinforce the innovative "leading practice" concepts discussed at the "Summit!"
As the final post in this blog series, we will review the electric Day 2 afternoon conference sessions featuring pioneering local government experts from across the country who have successfully implemented Leading Practices. ENJOY!
Case Study #1 — Douglas County, Nevada: Online Citizen Engagement
and Use of PBB in the Bond Rating Process
Stephen Mokohrosky, Kathy Lewis & Christine Vuletich, Douglas County, Nevada
Stephen Mokohrosky, Kathy Lewis & Christine Vuletich, Douglas County, Nevada
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| Stephen Mokohrosky, Douglas County, NV Case Study |
Citizen engagement in the budget process has been increasingly of interest in local government budgeting. The logic follows that the more citizens can authentically contribute and influence the decisions being made by their government, the more ownership they might take in their community. Trust increases with transparency. Compassion comes with trust. The benefits are undeniable.
Still, organizations ask us, "but what about the risks inherent in citizen engagement? What is the right role for citizens?" We're asked, "to what degree is it appropriate, safe, meaningful, realistic and effective to have citizens participate in decision making?" In our work, we continue to strive for answers to these questions—they are the right questions. With the potential for such great outcomes, if we can answer those questions correctly, and involve citizens in more meaningful and influential ways, our communities can achieve everything they hope for!
Douglas County, Nevada has put citizens in the driver's seat of their Priority Based Budgeting process. Special thanks to Peak Democracy—our partners in the development of the "County Budget Challenge."
Read full Douglas County, NV PBB & Citizen Engagement study here.
See the full Douglas County, NV slide presentation here.
Presenters:
Stephen Mokohrosky
County Manager, Douglas County, Nevada
Stephen Mokohrosky
County Manager, Douglas County, Nevada
Kathy Lewis
Budget Manager, Douglas County, Nevada
Budget Manager, Douglas County, Nevada
Christine Vuletich
Assistant County Manager/ Chief Financial Officer, Douglas County, Nevada
Assistant County Manager/ Chief Financial Officer, Douglas County, Nevada
Case Study #2 — City of Wheat Ridge, Colorado: Ideal Implementation
of the Entire Fiscal Health and Wellness through Priority Based
Budgeting Model
Patrick Goff, Heather Geyer & Nathan Mosley, City of Wheat Ridge, Colorado
Patrick Goff, Heather Geyer & Nathan Mosley, City of Wheat Ridge, Colorado
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| Wheat Ridge's Patrick Goff, Nathan Mosley & Heather Geyer |
"PBB is truly more than just a way to address your 'budget woes.' The great thing about Priority Based Budgeting is it can help support the type of culture an organization desires by not simply viewing this process as a budget tool when it is really so much more. PBB is helping us further our culture in areas where we know we have room for improvement. PBB is more than being about the state of your budget, it is about the state of your organization..."
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| Wheat Ridge, CO City Manager Patrick Goff- Case Study |
Presenters:
Patrick Goff
City Manager,
City of Wheat Ridge, Colorado
Heather Geyer
Administrative Services Director, City of Wheat Ridge, Colorado
Administrative Services Director, City of Wheat Ridge, Colorado
Nathan Mosley
Management Analyst, City of Wheat Ridge, Colorado
Management Analyst, City of Wheat Ridge, Colorado
See the full City of Wheat Ridge, CO slide presentation here.
Case Study #3 — City of Cincinnati, Ohio, Guiding Elected Officials
to Policy Questions Using the Resource Alignment Diagnostic Tool
Lea Eriksen, City of Cincinnati, Ohio
The City of Cincinnati’s use of Priority Based Budgeting (through their "Priority
Driven Budgeting"
initiative) establishes one of the greatest advancements in
the use of the process to guide policy direction. The organization's response to
Council’s policy direction provides one of the most comprehensive evaluations
of city services across the entire organization.
Many organizations have approached us with a strong desire to bring their elected officials into a constructive and transparent discussion about the budget—Cincinnati has set the bar high in this respect. In the most direct way possible, the City used Priority Based Budgeting to guide policy-oriented discussions. One of the benefits of the process is that it creates specific roles for elected officials to participate and succeed. When elected officials can focus on key policy questions that impact resource allocation, when they’re provided input and transparency in the way their policy questions are answered, and when they can make decisions based on policy impacts, then they’ve played a successful role in budgeting.
Click to read more about Cincinnati's Priority-Driven Budget Initiative with the CPBB.
Many organizations have approached us with a strong desire to bring their elected officials into a constructive and transparent discussion about the budget—Cincinnati has set the bar high in this respect. In the most direct way possible, the City used Priority Based Budgeting to guide policy-oriented discussions. One of the benefits of the process is that it creates specific roles for elected officials to participate and succeed. When elected officials can focus on key policy questions that impact resource allocation, when they’re provided input and transparency in the way their policy questions are answered, and when they can make decisions based on policy impacts, then they’ve played a successful role in budgeting.
Click to read more about Cincinnati's Priority-Driven Budget Initiative with the CPBB.
See the full City of Cincinnati, OH slide presentation here.
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| Presenter: Lea Eriksen, Budget Director, City of Cincinnati, OH Case Study |
“User Group Experience”/ Panel Discussion
Douglas County, NV / Wheat Ridge, CO / Cincinnati, OH / Fort Collins, CO / Walnut Creek, CA / Lakeland, FL / Tualatin, OR / Boone County, IL / Cary, NC
Douglas County, NV / Wheat Ridge, CO / Cincinnati, OH / Fort Collins, CO / Walnut Creek, CA / Lakeland, FL / Tualatin, OR / Boone County, IL / Cary, NC
Practitioners Panel Discussion
City of Fort Collins, Colorado
Fort Collins is one of the world’s leading experts in Results Based Budgeting—a pioneer in the implementation of “Budgeting for Outcomes” (BFO), having most recently integrated “Priority Based Budgeting” as a new layer to support decision making. Hear from the City as they describe what an unwavering commitment to “Results” has meant for their culture and their community.
See the full City of Fort Collins, CO slide presentation here.
Darin A. Atteberry
City Manager, City of Fort Collins, Colorado
City of Walnut Creek, California
Walnut Creek is one of the earliest implementers of Priority
Based Budgeting, having incorporated the process into
their culture first in FY 2009–10. Last year, the City spoke
about the "sustainability" of the process through changes
in leadership – turnover at both the Council and manager
levels. This year, come hear how the City has reinvented
their budget book for citizens, creating a one-of-a-kind,
magazine-style Budget Story to reach their citizens in an entirely new way. Presenting the budget as a story is
a game-changing leap in creating transparency in local
government budgeting.
See the full City of Walnut Creek, CA slide presentation here.
City of Lakeland, Florida
Lakeland, Florida was the first community to implement Priority Based Budgeting after the process was described in the 2008 edition of ICMA’s PM Magazine. Over the past 5-years, the City has successfully evolved the process, incorporating Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) to ensure that performance measures support the evaluation of services in the way they do business.
City of Fort Collins, Colorado
Fort Collins is one of the world’s leading experts in Results Based Budgeting—a pioneer in the implementation of “Budgeting for Outcomes” (BFO), having most recently integrated “Priority Based Budgeting” as a new layer to support decision making. Hear from the City as they describe what an unwavering commitment to “Results” has meant for their culture and their community.
See the full City of Fort Collins, CO slide presentation here.
Darin A. Atteberry
City Manager, City of Fort Collins, Colorado
City of Walnut Creek, California
Lorie Tinfow
Assistant City Manager
City of Walnut Creek, California
City of Walnut Creek, California
City of Lakeland, Florida
Lakeland, Florida was the first community to implement Priority Based Budgeting after the process was described in the 2008 edition of ICMA’s PM Magazine. Over the past 5-years, the City has successfully evolved the process, incorporating Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) to ensure that performance measures support the evaluation of services in the way they do business.
Doug Thomas
City Manager, City of Lakeland, FL
Kindle Bowden
Office of Management & Budget Manager, City of Lakeland, FL
See the full City of Lakeland, FL slide presentation here.
City of Tualatin, Oregon
The City of Tualatin, Oregon is among the very first to adopt the Fiscal Health
See the full City of Tualatin, OR slide presentation here.
Don Hudson
Finance Director,
City of Tualatin, Oregon
Boone County, Illinois
Boone County, Illinois provides a stunning illustration of how the principles of Fiscal Health can be used to strengthen a community's bond rating—a "Holy Grail" of sorts, in terms of using the principles in the most effective way possible!
In “Excelling in Times of Fiscal Distress,” an article Bob O'Neill wrote for Governing Magazine, about the time that Boone County was adopting Fiscal Health, he wrote “Most of us can articulate the early-warning signs that preceded the current economic downturn: Global forces that dramatically changed the local, state, and federal playing fields. Skyrocketing fuel costs. A failing housing market... property tax limitations. Yet, many of us failed to correctly interpret these early-warning signs in relation to their impact on our government organizations.”
Interpretation is the key! That is what Boone County has excelled in—both with their elected officials, and with the bond rating agencies.
See the full Boone County, IL slide presentation here.
Kenneth A. Terrinoni
County Administrator, Boone County, Illinois
Day 2 of the "Summit" was an enormous success highlighting three innovative and successful local government case studies in addition to hearing from local government expert practitioners and their experiences implementing "Leading Practices". Thanks to all who experienced this creative and energizing "Summit!" We look forward to seeing you all at next year's 3rd Annual CPBB Conference.
Finally, in an effort to ensure everybody has access to the conference session presentation slides, we've set up two additional folders within the ICMA Knowledge Network Center for Management Strategies Group and DropBox
to help those who don't have access to Google Docs. Both of these sites
will require people to sign-in (if they already have an account), or
create an account and then sign-in (if they don't already have an
account).
ICMA Center for Management Strategies Group
DropBox
See the following links to revisit prior CPBB "Summit of Leading Practices" conference blog recaps:
Explosive "Summit of Leading Practices" Day 1 Recap
The Innovation Tsunami of the CPBB 2013 "Summit of Leading Practices" Conference Wrap-Up
Feeding the CPBB "Summit" Inspired "Local Government High"
CPBB "Summit" Local Government High: ICMA & AFI Keynote Address Recap
CPBB "Summit" Local Government High: PBB from an Elected Officials Perspective, Civic Engagement and Citizen Surveys Recap
CPBB "Summit" Local Government High: Long Term Financial Planning, PBB as Civic Innovation and High Performance Organizations
If you're thinking of jumping into the world of Fiscal Health and Wellness through Priority Based Budgeting we would certainly like to be part of your efforts! Contact us to schedule a free webinar and identify the best CPBB service option(s) to meet your organization's particular needs.
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