![]() ![]() Although local governments have adopted more entrepreneurial methods of management, Bland and Overton provide the reasons why budgeting processes in the private sector cannot (and should not) be replicated in the public arena. An expansion on themes introduced in previous editions. As the public sector’s equivalent of a broker, the budget analyst brings together producers and consumers of local services, thereby transforming the budget process into a commodity exchange for those services.Here's a snapshot of what you can expect in A Budgeting Guide for Local Government, Fourth Edition: The recommendations made throughout this book are designed to enhance citizens’ confidence in the responsiveness and competence of local government leaders. In a more general sense, effective leadership requires that the public administrator shape as well as follow public opinion. Because the manager must also respond to citizens’ perceptions of an issue, whatever their accuracy, this book also examines budgets in those terms. When formulating a budget, the manager must balance what is economically best, politically expedient, and administratively possible. ![]() This book examines the issues that a local manager confronts in developing a budget- both the choice of public services and projects to provide, and the choice of revenue sources used to pay for them. More fundamentally, today’s managers must deliver services at a time when public confidence in government and its ability to perform have reached unparalleled lows. The convergence of rising expectations from citizens and council members, anemic growth in revenue sources, and unfunded pensions now coming due has complicated the local manager’s task of preparing a budget that balances revenues with expenditures. Navigating the increasingly complex crosscurrents of local government finance has become an essential skill for today’s public administrator. Discover new arenas that shape the “warp and woof” of budgets and the policies and processes managers use to craft spending decisions. ![]()
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