Revised Criteria - Community Priorities and Organizational Challenges/Opportunities

Revised Criteria - Community Priorities and Organizational Challenges/Opportunities

Criteria includes both “primary questions” and “secondary questions.”  Primary questions are intended to apply to all (or almost all) governments and will be used to determine scores for completeness. Secondary questions are intended to provide additional guidance and options for communicating information.  Secondary questions may not apply to all governments and should only be included in budget communications if relevant to a particular targeted audience.  

Budget Questions

What are major challenges facing the organization?
  • How were challenges defined? 
  • Is this a new challenge? 
  • Did the organization analyze the root cause of problems  and act on it?  
  • What time horizon was considered in identifying challenges? 

What are the major challenges facing the community?
  • How were the challenges defined? 
  • Is this a new challenge? 
  • Did the organization analyze the root cause of challenges?  
  • Are all challenges uniform across the entire community or do challenges disproportionality impact a specific community segment 
  • Are other governments serving the community also impacted? 

How does this budget address those challenges?
  • Will the budget solve the problem or slow the rate of degradation? 
  • Is it possible for the government to solve the challenge? 
  • Does the organization have the capacity to achieve the solution? If not, why not? 
  • Is the proposed solution proportional to the problem? 

Are results expected to improve within the budget period?
  • When does the organization expect to see results? 
  • When will we know if the proposed strategy is successful? 
  • What metrics is the organization tracking to measure success? 

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