Budgeting and Forecasting, Rethinking Budgeting

Rethinking Budgeting in Action: Spotlight on the Fort Worth Lab

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Over the past few years, the City of Fort Worth, Texas, has been rethinking its approach to budgeting. Recently, outgoing City Manager David Cook, who retired in February 2025 as the city’s longest-serving city manager, and outgoing Deputy City Manager Mark McDaniel, who also retired in early 2025, spoke with GFOA to explain why the city decided it needed a new approach, how it got the new approach off the ground, and what some of the early results have been.

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