Modernizing Budgeting: A Transformational Shift to Priority-Based Budgeting (Spring 2025) Limited Seating Available

Local governments have been clinging to the same incremental budgeting approaches for decades. In fact, the practice of line-item budgeting recently passed the 100-year mark. This type of budgeting creates a use-it-or-lose-it mentality and promotes across-the-board budget cuts that don’t consider factors other than a percentage, making it difficult to connect funding with strategic goals or performance metrics.

The primary purpose of priority-based budgeting is to dissociate decision-making from account numbers and line items, instead basing funding allocations on the programs and services that meet specific needs.

Unlike traditional models, priority-based budgeting evaluates each program in various areas to determine its current alignment to the community’s priorities—and provides a price tag for that program to demonstrate how funds are being used to support those priorities.

Schedule:

May 8, 2025

• Module One: Building Greater Alignment with Priority-Based Budgeting Data
• Module Two: Communication, Accountability, and Accessibility

May 15, 2025

• Module Three: Resource Reallocation and Maximization
  
• Module Four: Fueling Resources Towards the Results of the Future

May 22, 2025

• Module Five: Leveraging All of Your Community’s Resources
• Module Six: Let Data Lead the Way
  

Each session takes place from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM Eastern Time (11:00 am to 4:00pm Central Time and 9:00am to 2:00 PM Pacific Time) daily.