Overview

August 27

In local government budgeting, strategic planning serves as a crucial foundation, ensuring alignment between financial allocations and community necessities. By forecasting needs, evaluating risks, and prioritizing investments, strategic planning enhances resource allocation efficiency, fosters financial accountability, and increases transparency in budget decision-making.

Furthermore, strategic planning allows local governments to proactively address challenges, capitalize on opportunities, and deliver impactful results for the public.

So, how can your agency align the strategy and budget to enhance financial success in the face of increased complexity within the public sector?

Join Government Technology and Euna Solutions for a live webinar on August 27, 2024, at 10 AM PT/1 PM ET as Cecilia McCorkell, Budget & Implementation Consultant, outlines the steps to successfully linking budgets to strategic plans with strategic budgeting.

In this session, you'll learn how to:

Engage stakeholders for input
Define strategic priorities and objectives
Link budget line items to strategic priorities
Implement continuous review and adjustment

Speakers

Cecilia McCorkell

Budgeting & Implementation Consultant, Euna Solutions

Cecilia McCorkell has over 15 years' experience providing budget and financial services to local government agencies, including 10 years leading budget development and finance management teams. Prior to her consultant role with Questica, she was Countywide Budget Division Director for Pinellas County, Florida where, as a customer, she managed the implementation of Questica Budget. She is passionate about refining processes and leveraging technology to create operational efficiencies for organizations.

Justin Marlowe — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Justin Marlowe is a research professor at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. His research and teaching are focused on public finance, and he has published five books — including the first open-access textbook on public financial management — and more than 100 articles on public capital markets, infrastructure finance, financial disclosure, public financial technology, and public-private partnerships. He is an admitted expert witness in federal and state courts, and has served on technical advisory bodies for the state of Washington, the California State Auditor, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, the National Academy of Sciences, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and many other public, private and nonprofit organizations. Prior to academia, he worked in local government in Michigan. He is a Certified Government Financial Manager and an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, and he holds a Ph.D. in political science and public administration from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Webinar

Strategic Planning in a Time of Change: Linking Budgets to Strategic Plans