Alliance for Innovation CEO, Joel Carnes, spoke with Darrin Atteberry, City Manager of Fort Collins, CO, about the city’s journey in achieving high-speed municipal broadband.
Following a four year general budget deficit paired with financial scrutiny the Lower Providence Township had to declare the problems they were having and decide how to go about changing them.
The County of Navajo, Arizona requested the development of budgetary tools and long-term financial planning models that align with the County’s Strategic Plan in an effort to strengthen fiscal sustainability
A white paper written by The Government Finance Officers Association on how to effectively design and implement a priority-based budget plan for a given municipality.
Continuation of a series of basic diagnostic questions, the manager will gain a better
assessment of the positive signs
of the organization’s fiscal health and the root causes of the fiscal “dis-ease” impacting long-term financial sustainability.
This article from the September issue of PM Magazine discusses the basic diagnostic questions that a city manager must ask in order to gain a better understanding of the organization’s fiscal health.
PM Magazine discusses priority based budgeting and the financial crisis.
As the fiscal downturn began to affect local governments worldwide, ICMA and the Alliance for Innovation began a longitudinal study of its impact and the creative responses of cities and counties. This article summarizes their findings.
Long-term financial planning combines financial forecasting with financial strategizing to identify future challenges and opportunities, causes of fiscal imbalances, and strategies to secure financial sustainability.
