The Center for Priority Based Budgeting
The "New Wave" of Local Government
2014 Annual Conference
Denver, Colorado | August 5 - 7, 2014
Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
A Revolution in how Community’s Leverage Resources! Leading the Way in Key "Result Areas" - Through the "new lens" of Priority Based Budgeting, communities have unveiled an entirely unique understanding regarding the "Results of Government" that define the very role of modern local government. The answer to the question "why do we exist" has focused on several key "Result" areas most relevant for our time.
This year's conference will showcase leading public and private sector innovators who are inspiring an epic REVOLUTION in local government!
- Redefining how to legitimately attain economic development and measurable local job creation through the use of incubators and partnerships
- Discover new models for achieving safer communities at lesser cost
- Explore revenue generation strategies attainable to every local government that have to date remained hidden
- Dive into shared service models emerging to help local government redefine service levels in key public-public and public-private partnerships
- Understand and digest the complex role of local government in long-term "sustainability"
- Advance past "performance measurement" to reveal a new component to priority based budgeting that includes "results measurement" strategies
- Grasp how credit rating agencies assess municipal credit ratings and how the transparent concepts of fiscal health and priority based budgeting can assist in stabilizing and improving bond and credit ratings
- Expose your organization to the hands-on tools attainable to your community to fulfill the promise of reinventing government
- Bring to light how to harvest the skill sets of the next generation of emerging leaders
- Immerse yourself in the implementation strategies, shared experiences and lessons learned of the nearly 70 communities who have successfully brought the full potential of Fiscal Health and Priority Based Budgeting to their organizations
- And one more thing: the CPBB Conference just wouldn't be the same without a few surprises and unveilings!
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The "New Wave" of Local Government 2014 Annual Conference is brought to you by the Center for Priority Based Budgeting (CPBB) in partnership with the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), Alliance for Innovation (AFI), Emerging Local Government Leaders (ELGL) & National League of Cities (NLC).
The ICMA "Leading Practice" of Priority Based Budgeting is fundamentally changing the way local governments are approaching resource allocation, community partnerships, transparency in financial management and literacy, credit rating management, and our very understanding of the modern role of pro-active governance.
For over five-years, communities across the US and Canada have been implementing and evolving our scalable and replicable core fiscal and economic development concepts, and the outcomes have been nothing short of revolutionary! We are living and working in some of the most extraordinary times in the history of local governance. Thrust into a mode of survival during the Great Recession, communities were forced to re-imagine the very role of local government - what authors Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley have coined as “The Metropolitan Revolution.”
As we’ve seen through the nearly 70 communities who have leveraged their pioneering and courageous work in Priority Based Budgeting to thrive in this revolution, what we recognize today is something even more profound - it’s evolution. The inspiration behind this revolution is the theme of this year’s 2014 Annual Priority Based Budgeting Conference - A Revolution in how Communities Leverage Resources in this “New Wave” of Local Government - and it is our most important initiative to date!
The CPBB’s 3rd annual conference will focus on:
•User Group Experience - with a tipping point of communities having excelled in bringing Priority Based Budgeting to life, with many communities now several years into their evolving implementation, and the first academic research on the measureable outcomes of PBB, it’s time to share the lessons learned. This year’s conference will bring together the leading practitioners in PBB to share the keys to their success, what they accomplished, and most importantly where they are going next!
•Leading the Way in Key “Result Areas” - through the “new lens” of Priority Based Budgeting, communities have unveiled an entirely unique understanding regarding the “Results of Government” that define the very role of modern local government. The answer to the question “why do we exist” has focused on several key “Result” areas most relevant for our time. This year’s conference will showcase leading innovators, redefining how to address economic development and local job growth through the use of incubators and partnerships; new models for achieving safer communities at lesser cost; revenue generation strategies attainable to every local government that have to date remained hidden; shared service models emerging to help local government redefine service levels in key public-public and public-private partnerships; understanding the complex role of local government in long-term sustainability; advancing past "performance measurement" to reveal a new component to priority based budgeting that includes "results measurement" strategies; explaining how credit rating agencies assess municipal credit ratings and how the transparent concepts of fiscal health and priority based budgeting can assist in stabilizing and improving bond and credit ratings, and more!
•Implementing Fiscal Health & Wellness Through Priority Based Budgeting - and of course, attendees will be immersed in the methodology, case studies and lessons learned in implementing Priority Based Budgeting in your community.
The full conference program will be released soon. For conference sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities click here.
CPBB 2014 annual conference updates!
Priority Based Budgeting is a unique and innovative approach being used by local governments across the Country to match available resources with community priorities, provide information to elected officials that lead to better informed decisions, meaningfully engage citizens in the budgeting process and, finally, escape the traditional routine of basing "new" budgets on revisions to the "old" budget. This holistic approach helps to provide elected officials and other decision-makers with a "new lens" through which to frame better-informed financial and budgeting decisions and helps ensure that a community is able to identify and preserve those programs and services that are most highly valued.
The Center for Priority Based Budgeting™ (CPBB), established in 2010, provides technical and advisory services to assist local governments, school districts, special districts and other non-profit agencies achieve Fiscal Health and Wellness through Priority Based Budgeting. This creative and innovative process, developed by CPBB, enables communities to reassess their priorities in order to make sound, long-term funding decisions. CPBB's mission is to be a trusted advisor and a dependable, objective resource, assisting local government leaders who are seeking service excellence, transparency to their stakeholders and a strong desire to achieve the Results that are important to their community.
From large organizations (such as the cities of Cincinnati, Ohio, Sacramento, California and Edmonton, Alberta) to mid-sized communities (like the Colorado cities of Boulder, Wheat Ridge and Fort Collins) to smaller communities (such as Blue Ash, Ohio and Douglas County, Nevada), the processes and tools developed by CPBB have proven effective, scalable, and best of all, repeatable. CPBB has already led 60+ communities through this comprehensive body of work.