The City of Walnut Creek won the 2013 Helen Putnam Award for Excellence in the Internal Administration category. You might say the City of Walnut Creek is the victim of its own budgeting success. Over the past six years, city leaders have managed to close significant budget gaps with minimal impact on the community. Demystifying the Budget Process The team framed The Budget Story around the priority-based budgeting process Walnut Creek has used since 2009. Priority-based budgeting is based on identifying community goals, scoring city programs against those goals and then allocating funding to the programs most likely to achieve the goals. It is an effective but complicated process, with parallel tracks of community input and staff assessment of programs occurring simultaneously. The team realized that if the community were to believe Key Message 1 — that Walnut Creek manages resources in a thoughtful and effective way — it was essential that they understand how priority-based budgeting works. To demystify the budgeting process, the team created an easy-to-follow info graphic that clearly illustrates the roles played by the city council, the community and staff.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:13:22 +0000
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