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15 results for “budget analysis” · other

  • South Portland, ME | Official Website

    Portland, ME
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    NULL The document is a website homepage for South Portland, Maine that contains navigation menus, event calendars, and links to various city services and news items. It lacks specific budget figures, formal votes, named programs with quantifiable metrics, official decisions, or comparable factual content suitable for cross-document analysis. The content consists primarily of generic web interface elements and promotional links without substantive information.

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  • City Clerk | Buffalo, NY

    Buffalo, NY
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    NULL This document is a static webpage describing the Buffalo City Clerk's Office, its general services, contact information, and operational hours. It contains no budget figures, specific programs with measurable outcomes, formal votes or actions, deadlines, quantitative metrics, or comparable facts suitable for cross-document analysis. The content consists entirely of service descriptions, office location details, and directory links without substantive fiscal or policy information.

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  • FOLLOWING THE MONEY: Understanding Los Angeles County’s Finances and Impacting

    Los Angeles, CA
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    This 2012 curriculum document from Advancement Project, supported by the California Community Foundation, is designed to help advocates understand and analyze Los Angeles County's budget and finances to advance equity in public spending. The material addresses what the organization identifies as significant discrepancies between public fund allocation and the needs of low-income communities and communities of color, with the goal of increasing transparency, accountability, and equitable use of public dollars. The curriculum is structured in five parts covering financial documents, fiscal research, the budgeting process, budget analysis, and power analysis, drawing on Advancement Project's experience winning increased funding for schools and other critical programs through public finance analysis.

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  • Oakland's Roadmap To A Sustainable Budget

    Oakland, CA
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    Oakland's November 2024 roadmap document identifies structural budget deficits driven primarily by police department overspending and proposes that fiscal stability requires reforms beyond departmental cuts. Police and fire services consume 70% of the general fund—far higher than peer cities—with police overspending alone accounting for 56% of the 2024-2025 deficit, predominantly from overtime costs that have outpaced both general fund revenue growth and inflation. The document identifies accountability gaps, including 83% of sworn overtime approval records that could not be located or verified, and notes that the majority of city employees earning over $200,000 are sworn officers, with 64% of those earning over $300,000 in that category. The analysis, authored by Bob Brownstein (former Santa Clara County and San Jose budget official), argues that balancing the deficit through cuts to non-sworn services alone is not feasible and that deeper police operational reforms are necessary to protect critical services and achieve fiscal stability.

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  • Virginia Beach Public Records (Virginia)

    Virginia Beach, VA
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    NULL The document is a directory of links to Virginia Beach public records resources rather than a substantive policy document, budget, or action record. It contains no specific dollar amounts, budget line items, votes, dates, metrics, or formal actions to summarize. It serves as a navigation guide to various city and county departments and record-keeping systems without presenting any comparable facts or substantive content suitable for cross-document analysis.

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  • Portland, ME - Official Website

    Portland, ME
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    NULL This document is a website sitemap for Portland, Maine's official government portal listing navigation categories, service options, and board/committee names. It contains no substantive budget information, specific dollar amounts, quantified metrics, formal actions, dates, or comparable policy details necessary for meaningful summary in the context of cross-document government analysis.

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  • SPUR REPORT MAY 2025 Balancing Oakland’s Budget Sound Fiscal Policy Structural

    Oakland, CA
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    This SPUR report from May 2025 analyzes Oakland's structural budget deficit and proposes nine recommendations to achieve fiscal solvency and economic growth. The report identifies a decades-long imbalance where revenue growth has not kept pace with rising pension, healthcare, insurance, and operational costs, exacerbated by post-pandemic challenges including labor shortages, decreased tax revenues from real estate, tourism, and retail sales, and a 78% disapproval rating of city government according to an Oakland Budget Advisory Commission survey. The analysis notes that Oakland's fiscal crisis mirrors broader challenges in comparable California cities including San Francisco and San José, and occurred against a backdrop of governance disruption following the former mayor's recall in November 2024 and subsequent federal indictment.

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  • Greenville, SC - Official Website

    Greenville, SC
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    NULL The document is a website sitemap for the City of Greenville, South Carolina. It contains navigation links and organizational structure for city government departments, boards, and services but does not present substantive budget data, policy decisions, specific dollar amounts, quantified metrics, formal votes, or comparable facts that would enable meaningful cross-document analysis. The content is structural only.

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  • Frequently Asked Questions - CivicPlus.CMS.FAQ

    Lancaster, PA
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    NULL This document is a Frequently Asked Questions page providing contact information and referral directions for various county and state services in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (divorce decrees, court records, tax sales, election results, birth certificates). It contains no budget information, financial allocations, program initiatives, quantitative metrics, formal votes, or comparable governmental decision-making data suitable for cross-document budget or policy analysis.

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  • Finance Department | Greenville, SC - Official Website

    Greenville, SC
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    NULL This document is a website navigation and informational page for the Greenville, SC Finance Department that describes available resources and services without providing specific budgets, dollar amounts, programs with details, votes, dates, or quantitative metrics. It lists categories of information (Annual Financial Reports, Annual Operating Budget, Capital Improvement Program, etc.) but does not contain the comparable facts needed for meaningful cross-document analysis.

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  • California Budget & Policy Center Independent Analysis. Shared Prosperity.

    Los Angeles, CA
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    This California Budget & Policy Center guide provides an overview of county budgeting in California, covering the structure, revenue sources, regulatory framework, and annual process for the state's 58 counties. The document emphasizes that county budgets reflect community values and priorities, funding critical services from health care to the justice system, and stresses the importance of public participation in the budget process. California's counties vary significantly in size and population, ranging from Los Angeles County with 9.9 million residents to Alpine County with fewer than 1,200 residents.

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  • T O W N S H I P N O R W E G I A N N O R W E G I A N T O W N S H I P B R A N C

    Pottsville, PA
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    NULL The document is a municipal map of Norwegian Township and surrounding areas showing street names, roads, township boundaries, and geographic features. It contains no budget information, financial data, policy decisions, quantitative metrics, or other substantive government actions suitable for comparative analysis on a transparency platform.

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  • RaleighNC.gov | Raleighnc.gov

    Raleigh, NC
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    NULL The document is the homepage of the City of Raleigh's website and contains only navigation menus, service listings, news headlines, upcoming events, and general welcome information. It does not constitute a substantive government document with specific budget allocations, policy decisions, formal actions, program details, or comparable quantitative facts suitable for cross-document analysis on a transparency platform.

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  • I-1 I. Introduction

    Honolulu, HI
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    This is an introduction to the City and County of Honolulu's annual budget report covering revenues and expenditures, which includes an overview of fiscal trends, analysis of prior year revenues and expenditures, and mid-year status of current fiscal year budget items drawn from audited financial reports and budget ordinances. The report notes that FY 2002 financial statements were incomplete at the time of publication, requiring reliance on unaudited information for that fiscal year. The document provides historical and comparative context for evaluating the city's proposed budget, including comparisons of city spending to other jurisdictions and examinations of operational versus capital budget spending.

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  • Legislative Budget and Finance Committee

    Minersville, PA
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    The Legislative Budget and Finance Committee conducted a study pursuant to House Resolution 2013-168 examining police department consolidation in Pennsylvania, with findings presented in September 2014. The study analyzed current funding mechanisms for municipal police services, which totaled $1.3 billion in local spending during FY 2012, and evaluated consolidation opportunities to improve cost efficiency and service delivery. The committee examined multiple service delivery models including individual municipal departments, regional departments, contracted services, and Pennsylvania State Police coverage, while also assessing cost implications for municipalities with part-time or no police departments.

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