New White Paper Release: A Roadmap to Collaborative Budgeting

Balancing Act, which is now part of Polco, co-released a white paper with GovTech companies Envisio and Questica that shows local governments how to bring the budgeting process into the modern age. Old fashion budgeting methods make it difficult for stakeholders to get on the same page. This leads to a budget that does not fully support strategic goals. The white paper, A Roadmap for Real Collaboration in Budgeting, gives readers a straightforward guide to align decision-makers around what is most important.

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🤓 The Civil Review Quiz 🤓 

How well do you think you know American communities? Take The Civil Review quiz to find out. Each month we take a question from one of our surveys. See if you can guess the right data point in a multiple choice poll and learn the answer in the next Civil Review.

In celebration of Older American's Month, we're asking a question from our older adults survey, CASOA. How many older adults attended a public meeting (of local elected officials, like City Council) in the past year? 

Here's how you answered last month's question:

And the correct answer is 🥁🥁🥁 — 53%!

To be fair, that percentage is an average over time. In 2022, 39% of Americans approved of growth in their community. 

Give it another try?