►
From YouTube: Inside Boulder - Budget Process
Description
City of Boulder's Inside Boulder - Budget Process
A
As
part
of
the
city
charter,
boulders
required
to
produce
a
balanced
budget
every
year
and
joining
us
today
is
finance
director
bob
ikem
to
help
us
understand
what
the
budget
process
is
for
boulder
this
year,
bob
welcome
to
inside
boulder.
Thank
you,
I'm
glad
to
be
here
bob.
How
does
the
city
determine
what
should
be
included
in
the
city
budget
and
what
shouldn't
be
for
the
past.
B
Several
years
we've
used
a
business
plan
approach
and
business
plan
approach
would
break
categories
of
essential,
desirable,
discretionary
and
really
you're
you'd.
Compare
those
to
how
do
they
have
an
influence
on
the
goals
the
city
council
had
set
last
year.
Jane
brodigam.
Our
city
manager
also
wanted
to
get
input
from
the
community,
so
we
had
community
meetings
and
we
take
all
of
that
input.
Take
all
that
information
see
what
the
priorities
were
and
then
that's
would
become
her
recommended
budget.
That's
presented
accounts
about
the
middle
of
august.
A
B
I
think
we
were
ahead
of
the
curve.
The
blue
ribbon
commission,
one
report
that
came
out
really.
Let
us
know
that
the
services
and
the
programs
that
we
offer
were
increasing
at
four
percent
a
year.
The
cost
on
those
and
the
revenues
were
increasing
at
three
percent,
and
we
said
this
is
out
of
balance.
So
we
have
a
structural
imbalance
and
then
along
came
this
recession.
B
You
know
the
deepest
since
the
1930s
and
across
the
country
we're
seeing
people
saying
their
revenue
bases
are
going
to
reset
and
they're
going
to
be
much
lower
than
they
were
before
and
they're
not
going
to
be
coming
back
as
fast
as
they
were
used
to
it.
Okay,
it'll
catch
back
up
and
we'll
go
right
on
with
our
programs.
B
Well,
now
people
are
not
seeing
that
they're
saying
we're
going
to
have
it's
going
to
be
lower
revenues,
it's
going
to
be
very
slow
growth
and
that's
what
people
call
the
new
normals
so
boulder,
we've
known
that
been
working
on
that
for
about
three
years
now,
so
I
don't
know
if
we
were
ahead
of
the
curve
or
we're
just
anticipating
it,
but
the
buzzword,
the
new
normal,
is
very
common
out
there
at
the
federal
government,
state
and
local
level.
How.
B
To
a
new
process
this
year
the
business
plan
was
good,
but
over
time
what
we
found
was
that
80
of
the
items
were
ending
ending
up
in
the
essential
category
and
of
course,
that
really
doesn't
give
you
a
priority.
Everything
is
a
priority,
so
this
priority-based
budgeting
is
a
program
that's
being
used
in
many
different
local
governments
around
the
country,
but
it
it
goes
out
and
it'll.
Ask
the
community
and
ask
our
council
we'll
say
what
are
the
results
we
want.
What
are
those
big
overarching
goals
that
we
want
and
what
does
it
mean?
B
How
will
we
know
that
we're
attaining
that
so
there's
performance
measures,
and
it
says
let's
prioritize
our
programs
from
top
to
bottom
and
those
that
are
on
the
lower
end,
maybe
in
the
third
and
fourth
quartile
would
say
well.
Is
there
another
way
to
do
this?
Can
we
consolidate
programs
so
you're
working
on
both
the
revenue
and
the
expenditure
side
and
that
prioritization
process
doesn't
let
you
lump
everything,
eighty
percent
into
being
an
essential
category?
So
it's
an
evolutionary
step
that
needed
to
be
done
with
the
business
plan
as
revenues
become
more
tight.
B
This
process
will
we
had
community
meetings
and
part
of
that
was
they
were
developing
and
how
it
works
in
in
priority-based.
Budgeting
is
here's
the
result.
Here's
the
goal,
the
outcome
that
we
want
in
the
end,
and
so
that
you
know
that
comes
from
the
community
test
that,
but
also
the
council
and
staff
looks
at
it.
But
then
we
say
when
the
city
of
boulder
does
x.
B
That's
the
definition
that
it's
gonna
help
us
meet.
That
result
it's
gonna
and
that
result
is
the
value,
and
there
are
those
primary
overarching
goals
that
we
want
within
the
city
and
then
we
we
actually
value
programs
and
say
how
do
they
contribute
to
each
one
of
those
definitions
for
that
result
and
outcome
that
we
want
to
happen
so
the
whole
thing
ties
it
together
because
you've
had
your
community
input.
Of
course
you
have
council
input
city
manager
when
she
puts
her
budget
together.
That's
what
a
recommended
budget
will
go
to
those
priorities.
B
It's
a
it's
an
ongoing
process,
but
really
right
now
we're
looking
at
what
happened
in
2009.
What
are
the
trends
going
on
with
our
revenues?
Is
that
going
to
adjust
and
change
the
revenue
projections
we
made
last
year
because
we
made
some
fairly
substantial
reductions
last
year
and
also
in
this
2010
budget
and
then
we'll
go
back
to
council
in
about
april,
and
that's
when
we'll
give
an
update
of
where
we
think
things
are
going
and
also
what
we
see
on
the
horizon?
B
The
recommended
budget
itself
has
to
be
to
the
council.
I'd
said
earlier
in
mid-august:
it's
required
in
the
charter
and
then
council
will
have
meetings
in
late
august
and
they'll
adopt
the
charter
says
we'll
have
the
budget
adopted
by
december
1..
It
doesn't
have
to
be
exactly
december
1.
It
can
be
before
that,
but
it
does
need
to
be
passed
by
december.
1.