Action Item:

Demonstrate Priority Based Budgeting Resource Alignment Diagnostic Tool and Fiscal Health Model.Provide examples of how City programs map to the PBB Results.

Staff will use these tools throughout the year and in the biennial budget discussions to demonstrate how proposed changes to the budget support the City’s policy goals, and how proposed spending affects recurring revenues and expenses and ongoing fund balance estimates.

The information provided here reflects current spending, revenue and fund balance.It provides a baseline reference for upcoming discussions and decisions related to the next biennial budget, 2019-2020. 

As discussed at the annual Council Advance, in early 2019, the Council and City staff will undertake a comprehensive review of the PBB framework, to ensure that the identified results and descriptions reflect current perspectives, and to update the inventory of City programs. For 2018 analysis, however, the PBB framework and program inventory will continue to reflect information that was last updated in 2017.

Background:

Starting in the spring of 2014, the City of Bainbridge Island partnered with the Center for Priority Based Budgeting (CPBB) to translate the budget into prioritized programs. The City's CPBB information has been updated to reflect the City's 2018 Budget.

Priority Based Budgeting (PBB) provides a way to compare community values with the programs and services a government entity provides. PBB helps the City of Bainbridge Island and community: 

• Identify key Council and community goals;
• Evaluate the impacts of these goals on city programs and services; and
• Engage in strategic decision-making regarding funding for services and/or changes to service levels for current programs and services.

PBB helps the community and City employees understand the City’s use of its limited resources. This method of budgeting contributes to the City’s long-term financial sustainability by encouraging explicit choices. These choices help the City develop a strategic budget that reflects our community values and ensures a high level of City service to residents.