Budgeting and Forecasting

2020 Award for Excellence Winner: East Bay Municipal Utility District

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Like many other public agencies, the East Bay Municipal Utility District (East Bay MUD) is experiencing increasing pressure for financial data transparency. Although the biennial budget document presents an extensive amount of budgetary and financial data, non-financial readers can find it difficult to understand rate increases. Field staff also indicated that they are often approached by members of the public who have questions about the budget and billing rates, but they find themselves unable to provide informative answers. To address this situation, budget staff designed and developed a biennial budget summary in brochure format—known as the Budget-in-Brief—to promote transparency, better inform the public, and draw direct connections between the district’s charges and the services it provides.

East Bay MUD won GFOA's 2020 Award for Excellence in Governance Finance for devleoping a creative solution to a common problem with its extensive field use for the budget in brief.


  • Publication date: December 2020
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