Financial Management Capacity Sharing Workshops for City Managers

摘要

A total of 376 city or county managers, administrators, assistant managers, administrative assistants, and management specialists employed by regional planning agencies participated in an International City Management Association's workshop series designed to identify the following most critical financial management problems and need areas facing local managers and administrators: (1) fiscal policy analysis -- identifying and analyzing both the long - term and short - term costs / benefits of public policy options and decisions; (2) risk management -- identifying insurance needs and developing the most efficient mix of self - insurance and private insurance programs to meet these needs; (3) capital improvement programming -- developing, funding and updating capital improvement programs, and including elected officials in the development process; (4) developing reliable long - term estimates of local government revenue and expenditure levels; (5) predicting and coping with both direct and indirect costs of required Federal and State programs; (6) reviewing existing revenue sources to ensure that revenues are being collected as efficiently as possible; (7) identifying the impact that local government has on the local economy; (8) developing easy - to - use methods to identify how successful a public service program has been in meeting preestablished goals and objectives; (9) changing from one budget format or process to another; and (10) using data processing in day - to - day financial operations. Managers identified 17 additional finance - related needs or problem areas that are less critical, but still important. Attachments list local governments represented at the workshops, a summary statement and ten problem specification statements, additional problem and need areas identified by managers, regional workshop invitation packets and agendas, New England regional workshop information packet, a Texas regional workshop information packet, workshop summaries, the needs assessment questionnaire, and a HUD financial management capacity sharing program description.