For Those Who See Things Differently - The 2014 CPBB "New Wave" of Local Government Conference

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A Revolution in how Community’s Leverage Resources! Leading the Way in Key "Result Areas" - Through the "New Lens" of Priority Based Budgeting, communities have unveiled an entirely unique understanding regarding the "Results of Government" that define the very role of modern local government.  The answer to the question "why do we exist" has focused on several key "Result" areas most relevant for our time. 

This year's conference will showcase leading public and private sector innovators who are inspiring an epic REVOLUTION in local government!

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• Redefining how to legitimately attain economic development and measurable local job creation through the use of incubators and partnerships

• Discover new models for achieving safer communities at lesser cost 

• Explore revenue generation strategies attainable to every local government that have to date remained hidden

• Dive into shared service models emerging to help local government redefine service levels in key public-public and public-private partnerships 

• Understand and digest the complex role of local government in long-term "sustainability"

• Advance past "performance measurement" to reveal a new component to priority based budgeting that includes "results measurement" strategies 

• Grasp how credit rating agencies assess municipal credit ratings and how the transparent concepts of fiscal health and priority based budgeting can assist in stabilizing and improving bond and credit ratings

• Expose your organization to the hands-on tools attainable to your community to fulfill the promise of reinventing government

• Bring to light how to harvest the skill sets of the next generation of emerging leaders

• Immerse yourself in the implementation strategies, shared experiences and lessons learned of the nearly 70 communities who have successfully brought the full potential of Fiscal Health and Priority Based Budgeting to their organizations

• And one more thing: the CPBB Conference just wouldn't be the same without a few surprises and unveilings!  

See the full CPBB "New Wave" of Local Government Conference Program!

REGISTER HERE!

 

Center for Priority Based Budgeting 

 

The "New Wave" of Local Government 

 

2014 Annual Conference

 

Denver, Colorado | August 5 - 7, 2014 

 

Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel 

 

Register Now and Book Your Hotel!

The "New Wave" of Local Government 2014 annual conference is brought to you by the Center for Priority Based Budgeting (CPBB) in partnership with the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), the Alliance for Innovation (AFI), Emerging Local Government Leaders (ELGL) and the National League of Cities (NLC).


The ICMA "Leading Practice" of Priority Based Budgeting is fundamentally changing the way local governments are approaching resource allocation, community partnerships, transparency in financial management and literacy, credit rating management, and our very understanding of the modern role of pro-active governance.

A Revolution In How Communities Leverage Resources

Building upon the excitement and enthusiasm from the CPBB 2013 "Summit of Leading Practices" Annual Conference, we'll be delivering even more success driven initiatives from the CPBB, our partners and your local government practitioner peers that will provide proven strategies designed to catapult your organization into the innovation stratosphere! REGISTER HERE!

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Click to register, book a room (discount room rates start at $159 per night) and discover more about the 2014 CPBB conference program! For conference sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities click here.

How Longmont, CO City Council Strategically Utilizes Priority Based Budgeting

In a recent post, the Center for Priority Based Budgeting highlighted the fantastic work the City of Longmont, Colorado has performed as they implement priority based budgeting in their community (Longmont, CO City Council Steps into Priority Based Budgeting). During this City Council session, Chris Fabian, Jon Johnson and Kathy Novak, along with City of Longmont Mayor and senior leadership, discussed the principles of priority based budgeting to kickstart Longmont's efforts.

As CPBB Senior Adviser Kathy Novak explained, "priority based budgeting is a process and a set of tools that can really help communities and elected officials change the way they talk about making financial decisions and how they achieve the results that the community is really looking for."

Sandra Seader, City of Longmont Assistant City Manager, added "today we are talking about priority based budgeting and what that really is is taking a look at our entire budget and start to prioritize what things are the most important to our residents, things we really need to make sure we are focusing on, and things we continue to do well as time continues to move forward."

See the full 3-minute video here Longmont City Council Reviewing Priority Based Budgeting.


Now in their second year of implementing priority based budgeting, the City of Longmont
recently held a City Council retreat where CPBB delivered

the PBB Resource Allocation Model. Along with Council and senior staff, a reporter from the Longmont Times-Call was also in attendance. See Scott Rochat's article Longmont City Council asks for cuts in 2015 budget below.

Longmont's budget razor is getting sharpened. 

At a Friday retreat in Lyons, the Longmont City Council asked for cuts to the 2015 budget to help close a $2.5 million gap in the general fund. That fund has usually been balanced with the help of one-time money, dollars that were left over from the previous year. 

The council's been working on a "reset" of the general fund since 2012, when the gap was over $3 million. This year, it has a little extra help. Every city program has been scored for use in a "priority based budgeting" system, with each score based on how well the program supports the city's goals.

The scores also account for details such as whether a program is mandated, how well it covers its costs, how many people it affects and whether someone else is already providing the service. That gave council members a chance to drill down, as they asked finance director Jim Golden to identify possible targets from the lowest priorities. 

"Let's look at the stuff that's not mandated, the stuff that very few people use, the stuff where there's duplication and cut as many of those as possible," Councilman Brian Bagley said. "But steer away from the ones that would be politically charged."

The tool for doing this is a spreadsheet created by the Center for Priority Based Budgeting in Lakewood. City staff hope to eventually make it publicly available, but the information is still being double-checked — the finance staff only received the latest version Friday morning — and the program itself is proprietary, meaning the city would have to negotiate with the company before it could be released for general use.

Councilwoman Sarah Levison said she hoped that could be soon.

"We need to have people as informed as we are, or at least have the ability to be, so we don't sound like we're talking down to them," she said.

Priority-based budgeting requires a city to decide what it wants, so that it can have a better idea of how to get there. In this case, Longmont officials set five goals which the community helped weigh by dividing an imaginary $1,000 between the categories of:

• A safe community
• A reliable, innovative and resilient infrastructure
• A thriving economic climate
• Vibrant amenities and opportunities for all
• Responsible internal operations and governance

The final result — based partly on the $1,000 exercise and partly on scores from city staff — pushes everything the city does into four "quartiles." An activity that fits the goals well goes into quartiles one or two; one that has less to do with them goes into quartiles three or four instead.

It's a long list. Longmont has 737 ongoing citywide programs totalling a little over $183 million, according to consultants Chris Fabian and Jon Johnson of the CPBB. And the list gets even longer since some of those programs come out of multiple city funds, making for a total of 1,286 entries.
Even so, Johnson noted, it makes for a simpler process because it gives a straight answer to the most basic question: "What are you spending my money on?"

"Think about it," he said. "We (normally) hand you a 600 pound book with all the budget data and say 'Lead us.' It's hard to sift through all that. This doesn't replace that budget book — but it does supplement it."

Of that $183 million, about $162.5 million is spent on services offered to the community while $20.7 million is spent on governance. That's about 11 percent for the machinery of government, which Johnson said was pretty low. 

"I've seen many communities that get perilously close to 20 percent," he said. "The lowest we've seen is 10 percent, so you're in a really good place."

No specific items were set aside to be cut or saved Friday. (That waits until the draft budget is presented this fall.) And even a fourth-quartile program isn't automatically a cut, the consultants said — but it is one that's a low enough priority that the city should at least discuss why it's being funded.
Councilwoman Polly Christensen urged care, saying that even a program with a small number of beneficiaries could have big ripple effects. 

"We have about 100 homeless people," she said as an example. "But if we cut a program for them, it doesn't just affect those 100. It affects the whole community."

In recent budgets, the City Council explicitly put layoffs off limits. This time, the message to Golden was softer but still clear — don't lay anybody off just to save money. 

"I think companies and organizations that do layoffs are unwise," Bagley said. "If you've got the right person, you don't let them go." 

An outline of the city's budget prioritization process can be found online at ci.longmont.co.us/finance/cip/cip.htm.

The draft 2015 budget must be presented to the City Council by Sept. 1; the council then has until Oct. 1 to hold a public hearing and until Dec. 15 to adopt the budget. 

We at the CPBB couldn’t be more pleased than to be part of the City’s evolution of the PBB process. Congratulations Longmont, Colorado!

Center for Priority Based Budgeting

 

The "New Wave" of Local Government 

2014 Annual Conference

 

Register Now and Book Your Hotel!

 

Conference Program! 

Denver, Colorado | August 5 - 7, 2014

Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

How Investing in Priorities Led to Budget Innovation in Nevada

Douglas County, Nevada has been one of the most successful implementers, and now practitioners, of Priority Based Budgeting. In fact, they were the first county in the nation to implement Priority Based Budgeting. Douglas County has also implemented a game-changing approach to citizen engagement. In 2012, the County embarked on the Priority Based Budgeting process with one of the primary objectives being to bring their community into an ownership position with respect to decision making. What unfolded in their groundbreaking use of an online tool to engage citizens sets the bar at a whole new level in participatory budgeting (see story here). Not only that, but the County's bond rating was affirmed as a result of their work. 

Another example of the County's success is how they prioritized spending to fund long-awaited transportation infrastructure needs with their shift to Priority Based Budgeting. See Douglas County newsletter article "Priority Budgeting Leads to $1 Million for Roads." Based on their progressive series of successes, the County was asked to present a case study at CPBB's "Summit of Leading Practices" conference held in July 2013. See the full Douglas County, NV slide presentation here.  

Former Douglas County Manager Steve Mokrohisky has been integral to the success of the County he served. Through his leadership, Douglas County continues to innovate and prioritize spending to the benefit of the citizens of the community. Steve is frequently called upon by his peers to outline how Douglas County has achieved Fiscal Health and the County was recently awarded a prestigious Good Governance Award.

This time, Steve wrote How Investing in Priorities Led to Budget Innovation in Nevada for the current issue of Public Sector Digest. This article (full article below) focuses on the success, challenges and process of implementing priority based budgeting in Douglas County, NV.

Thank you Steve for your amazing work leading Douglas County, NV to fiscal health! We have high confidence you'll achieve similar success in your new leadership role in Lane County, Oregon.

How Investing in Priorities Led to Budget Innovation in Nevada

The recent economic downturn and slow recovery, combined with spiraling salary and benefits costs for the last several years have forced local governments to make tough decisions to balance budgets. As a result of the uncertain financial picture, many local governments find themselves stuck in an annual budget process that either perpetuates the status quo or vacillates from one new process to another each year. Douglas County, Nevada, a quality organization and community nestled at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains found itself in both camps.  

After years of across the board budget cuts to programs, as well as regular attempts to implement the budget trend of the moment, the organization began a concerted effort to implement a consistent budget process that sought to invest limited taxpayer resources in the areas of highest value to the community.

In 2011, Douglas County implemented Priority Based Budgeting (PBB) as an objective and credible process for scoring and evaluating programs, building public trust, and creating buy-in from all stakeholders in a complex county government environment. The thoughtful and innovative practice was developed by the Center for Priority Based Budgeting (CPBB) and has been adopted by the International City/County Management Association and Alliance for Innovation as a leading practice for local government.

I. THE PROCESS

Successful implementation of PBB required the strong and consistent support of policy makers, internal staff and the community. All three groups had to support the new process to truly create transformative change in the organization. The County worked with CPBB to facilitate discussions with policy makers and staff to define the priorities and community results that were desired. The results became the basis for criteria to score specific programs that the County provides. 

II. THE CHALLENGES

Gaining trust and credibility with elected officials and the public regarding a new budget process was difficult, but key to the success of the new initiative. The County had to manage stakeholder perceptions that the new initiative was intended to make significant cuts to programs. The County worked to address these concerns and demonstrate that PBB is a thoughtful process to make responsible improvements and investments in programs that support community results. In addition, the County sought to achieve broad and active participation by residents to ensure the end product was representative of the community's priorities.

III. THE SUCCESSES 

As a result of its use of PBB, Douglas County's policy makers and residents identified preventative road maintenance as a high priority with critical funding needs, and annual funding was increased from $300,000 to $3,000,000 in Fiscal Year 2014-15. This successful shift of existing revenue from the general fund was achieved after 20 years of debate and did not require a tax increase or major cuts in services. In addition, new patrols were added to the Sheriff's Office, and additional prosecution and public defender services were added without significant increases to the General Fund, but rather through thoughtful prioritization of programs within the affected departments.

Several departments identified, recommended, and successfully eliminated lower priority programs, as well as reorganized their operations to shift resources from lower priority to higher priority programs, improve customer service and increase efficiency.

Finally, utilizing PBB has demonstrated a commitment to excellence and long-term financial stability. In 2014, Standard and Poor's upgraded Douglas County's underlying bond rating by two notches to "AA", the highest rating in the County's history and the first upgrade in 10 years. The County highlighted its PBB efforts during the bond rating agency review process. Also, Douglas County won the Nevada Taxpayers Association prestigious Good Governance Award and was selected to present a case study on PBB at the national Transforming Local Government conference in 2014.

PBB has brought a new perspective and understanding of the budget process to elected officials, staff, and the public. The process allows policy makers to focus on results as opposed to focusing on line items within the budget. Departments are now empowered to take ownership of critical funding decisions, rather than face pressure from others. The public is now part of the decision process in a meaningful way. PBB has helped manage the new normal, and as revenues stabilize the process can help manage requests for new spending to ensure they support high priority programs.

For Douglas County, Priority Based Budgeting has provided an innovative and consistent process to evaluate programs, improve services, and ensure value to taxpayers. The process has proved to provide a great way to build trust and credibility with all stakeholders involved in the budget process.

Center for Priority Based Budgeting

 

The "New Wave" of Local Government 

2014 Annual Conference

 

Register Now and Book Your Hotel!

 

Conference Program! 

Denver, Colorado | August 5 - 7, 2014

Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

App Envy, Testimonials & Mysterious CPBB Conference Unveilings!

Last year, at the 2013 Annual Priority Based Budgeting Conference in Washington, DC, we unveiled our very FIRST online tool: the web-based FISCAL HEALTH DIAGNOSTIC TOOL. It is the only tool of it's kind to allow elected officials, executives, staff and citizens to visibly examine and understand their organization's fiscal health - live economic modeling and forecasting in real-time! It has been referred to as the "Rosetta Stone for Fiscal Literacy" for illuminating deep insights into an organization's fiscal condition, and uncovering solutions. The tool, quite simply, is allowing unparalleled clarity to decision-makers mastering the complex fiscal impacts of policy making, within a dashboard so simple to understand, it's revolutionizing just how far we can really go in fulfilling the dream of "fiscal transparency."

And now, it's about to get even better...

This year, at our 2014 "New Wave" of Local Government Conference in Denver this August, we'll be unveiling a NEW online tool. For many of you, this has been a long time coming - you might even have a guess at what it is. For those of you who are new to Priority Based Budgeting, and even veteran implementers, think BIG! Your path to realizing the promise of aligning ALL of your community's resources with the results that matter most, through the unique lens and disruptive local government innovation of PBB, is about to get far easier and even more effective!

If the mystery unveiling isn't exciting enough for you, we're also rolling out our 2014 "New Wave" of Local Government Conference app. Click here to download the app to your mobile phone (send link to your phone first). The CPBB conference app provides instant access to the entire conference: day-by-day program schedule, detailed session descriptions, info on speakers (and their twitter accounts!), sponsor and exhibitor information and more. Download the app now! The app will automatically accept conference updates so you'll only have to download it once.


We're also thrilled to announce a CPBB & ELGL co-sponsored social mixer during the conference! Details are still emerging, but all attendees, sponsors and exhibitors will be invited to meet at one of Denver's fine taverns close to the conference hotel and enjoy free appetizers and a no host bar while meeting local government enthusiasts from across the country! Download and check out the app for further updates!

At the CPBB we love thoughtful, constructive feedback. So when the National League of Cities offered to provide us testimonials they received on our fiscal health through priority based budgeting session during their annual Congress of Cities Conference, we were very interested! And pleasantly surprised at the results (See a sample of testimonials below)!

And while this year's 2014 "New Wave" of Local Government Conference is much more than a forum for us to speak, we'll have the same quality of engaging, enthusiastic and knowledgeable speakers. Speakers with deep knowledge and experience in:     

A Revolution in how Community’s Leverage Resources! Leading the Way in Key "Result Areas" - Through the "new lens" of Priority Based Budgeting, communities have unveiled an entirely unique understanding regarding the "Results of Government" that define the very role of modern local government.  The answer to the question "why do we exist" has focused on several key "Result" areas most relevant for our time. 

This year's conference will showcase leading public and private sector innovators who are inspiring an epic REVOLUTION in local government!

• Redefining how to legitimately attain economic development and measurable local job creation through the use of incubators and partnerships
• Discover new models for achieving safer communities at lesser cost
• Explore revenue generation strategies attainable to every local government that have to date remained hidden
• Dive into shared service models emerging to help local government redefine service levels in key public-public and public-private partnerships
• Understand and digest the complex role of local government in long-term "sustainability"
  
• Advance past "performance measurement" to reveal a new component to priority based budgeting that includes "results measurement" strategies
• Grasp how credit rating agencies assess municipal credit ratings and how the transparent concepts of fiscal health and priority based budgeting can assist in stabilizing and improving bond and credit ratings
• Expose your organization to the hands-on tools attainable to your community to fulfill the promise of reinventing government
• Bring to light how to harvest the skill sets of the next generation of emerging leaders
• Immerse yourself in the implementation strategies, shared experiences and lessons learned of the nearly 70 communities who have successfully brought the full potential of Fiscal Health and Priority Based Budgeting to their organizations
• And one more thing: the CPBB Conference just wouldn't be the same without a few surprises and unveilings! 

"My experience with the Priority Based Budgeting Session at the Congressional City Conference far exceeded my expectations. After a short amount of time with the CPBB, I felt equipped to start a conversation in my city about how we can implement Priority Based Budgeting."
- Alderman Maurice Cheeks, City of Madison WI








"Seminar packed with thought provoking questions elected officials need to ask to perform our

fiduciary responsibilities for our tax paying citizens. This is engagement, transparency and fiscal management at its best." - Councilmember Jeffrey D. Weisensel Rosemount MN

"Priority Based Budgeting is a more in-depth budgeting application. It goes far beyond a balanced budget -- it answers the question, is this budget sustainable and for how long?"
- Councilor Thomas Frank, City of West Linn OR

"The Priority Based Budgeting team is a dynamic force when we host their sessions at NLC's conferences. Their seminars are always packed, and we consistently receive favorable feedback from our members. They are a pleasure to work with."
- Senior Associate, NLC University Laura Lanford, National League of Cities

   

 

Center for Priority Based Budgeting

 

The "New Wave" of Local Government 

2014 Annual Conference

Register Now and Book Your Hotel!

Conference Program! 

Denver, Colorado | August 5 - 7, 2014

Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

Priority Based Budgeting: Budgets Guided by Community Values

On July 19, 2013, the Center for Priority Based Budgeting launched priority based budgeting with the City of Shawnee, Kansas. At that time we wrote.....

The CPBB kicks-off Priority Based Budgeting with the City of Shawnee, Kansas today!

The Center for Priority Based Budgeting is leading the City of Shawnee through a facilitated exercise to develop comprehensive definitions for the City's Results. These Results will define what every community must ask themselves: What are we here to do? See initial Shawnee PBB launch agenda packet here.

Participants in the "brainstorming" exercise will contribute by expressing all of the many ways that the organization's Results can be achieved, and then organizing all of those answers into similarly themed groups that form the basis for each of the Result definitions.

The technique is called Affinity Diagramming - a proven and powerful method that: a) gathers large and comprehensive amounts of information about all of the different ways the City¹s Results can be achieved, and b) does so in an extremely efficient manner that makes the most optimal use of the participant¹s time while still producing complete definitions.

City of Shawnee, KS City Hall

Following the exercise, CPBB will produce draft "Result Maps" for each of the City¹s stated Results. These "Result Maps" provide a simple, graphic way to organize and articulate the concepts identified in the facilitated exercise as the definitions around each Result. "Result Maps" serve as one of the key criteria for program scoring.

Now the City of Shawnee has published the culmination of their work. And by tying the city's work plan to their priority based budget, the City of Shawnee is taking priority based budgeting to new levels! Congratulations City of Shawnee on a superb implementation of priority based budgeting!

Budgets Guided by Community Values

Over the course of the last year, the City of Shawnee, Kansas began the Priority Based Budgeting (PBB) process with the Center for Priority Based Budgeting (CPBB). PBB is a process used to understand our larger community values, and then budget according to those values. This process will enable us to reassess our priorities and assist us in making sound, long-term funding decisions. As the PBB staff say, the PBB process provides a new lens for staff and the Governing Body to review expenditures by continuously focusing on the results that are most relevant to Shawnee and the programs that influence those results to the highest possible degree. 

What’s Already Happened?

On April 13, 2013, the Governing Body discussed community values and the priorities of our community. These priorities - or Results - were defined by staff and affirmed by the Governing Body. The Results identified are:

• Attractive, Healthy, and Well-Maintained Community
• Economic Growth and Vitality
• Effective Mobility and Reliable Infrastructure
• Environmentally Sustainable and Well-Planned Community
• Quality Cultural and Recreational Opportunities
• Safe Community
• Good Governance

Over the past months, a comprehensive review of existing services, or ‘programs’, was conducted, including allocating costs to each Program (based on the 2014 Budget). Then, each program was assigned a score based on a systematic scoring process and weighted on its contribution to desired Results and key Attributes of the program. To view a list and description of each city program, please visit our Program Inventory page.

On May 6, 2014, The Center for Priority Based Budgeting presented the culmination of all of this work to the Council Committee. To view the PowerPoint and hear the presentation please visit our Agendas page. The resource allocation diagnostic tool that was presented will be used by staff and the Governing Body in the future to look at our Budget through different “lenses.” Please click on the icon at the top of this page to access the resource allocation diagnostic tool.

The City's Work Plan includes projects for 2014 and 2015 and ties together the City’s work with PBB as well as projects that move the City forward in meeting Results.

Center for Priority Based Budgeting 

The "New Wave" of Local Government

 

2014 Annual Conference

Register Now and Book Your Hotel!

Conference Program! 

Denver, Colorado | August 5 - 7, 2014

Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

Keep an eye on the CPBB blog for further updates. Sign-up for our social media pages so you stay connected with TEAM CPBB!

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.

 

"A Commitment to Investing Taxpayer Dollars in a Fiscally Prudent Manner." That's Priority Based Budgeting!

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The City of Roswell was the first city in Georgia to implement priority based budgeting in November 2013! At that time, the Roswell Patch reported:

The Roswell Mayor & Council will get an overview of priority-based budgeting Wednesday during a special called work session.

Last month, the Mayor & Council approved spending for consulting work from the Center for Priority-Based Budgeting, which will be introduced and whose representatives will outline the concept at the work session.

The Denver-based organization says that priority-based budgeting, which came into vogue four years ago, "aligns city services and programs," and that the concept has gained more interest from local governments since the recession.

Alliance for Innovation explains the concept this way:
 
"Priority-based budgeting is a way for local governments to spend within their means by continuously focusing on the results most relevant to their communities and the programs that influence those results to the highest possible degree. The process involves a systematic review of existing services, why they exist, what value they offer to citizens, how they benefit the community, what they cost, and what objectives and citizen demands they are achieving. Each service or program is assigned a score based on its contribution to desired results so that tax dollars can be allocated to those with the greatest impact."

The City of Roswell has now successfully implemented priority based budgeting into their annual

budget. And we couldn't be more excited with their results! Congratulations City of Roswell! Read more about how the city implemented priority based budgeting below.

From the City of Roswell, Georgia website:

Roswell's FY 2015 Budget

The goal of the City of Roswell’s FY 2015 budget is to provide high quality services and programs that enable the City to achieve results that reflect the priorities of the community. These results include:

• Safe and Secure Environment for People and Property
• Well-designed, Livable Community with Strong Neighborhoods
• Sustainable Infrastructure and Community Resources
• Access to Cultural, Historical, Recreational, and Leisure Opportunities
• Economic Development and Vitality
• Good Governance

The City of Roswell staff always strives to deliver responsive, respectful, and courteous service to all who live in or visit our community.

A New Approach – Priority-Based Budgeting

This year the City of Roswell is implementing a new method to develop its annual budget. Priority-Based Budgeting is an innovative approach to budgeting that is based on the idea that City resources should be allocated to those programs or services that best meet the City’s goals and objectives and that are the greatest value to our community. By using Priority Based Budgeting, the City continues its commitment to investing taxpayer dollars in a fiscally prudent manner.

Priority-Based Budgeting is a strategic and structured process that identifies and defines the results to be achieved based on the priorities of the community. Through the process, City staff will be evaluating City services and programs on the basis of how effectively they help the City achieve these results.

Quick Links

• Notice of FY 2015 Property Tax Increase
• FY 2015 Budget Work Session Presentation: May 19, 2014
• FY 2015 Proposed Budget Book
• FY 2015 Proposed Budget Presentation: May 12, 2014
• FY 2015 Budget Work Session Presentation: April 28, 2014
• FY 2015 Budget Work Session Presentation: April 14, 2014
• FY 2015 Budget Work Session Presentation: March 10, 2014: Revenues Compensation & Benefits
• FY 2015 Budget Work Session Presentation: February 24, 2014
• Economic Outlook with an Eye on Politics

 

Center for Priority Based Budgeting

 

The "New Wave" of Local Government 

2014 Annual Conference

Register Now and Book Your Hotel!

Conference Program! 

Denver, Colorado | August 5 - 7, 2014

Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel