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Results For America Highlights Baltimore's Outcome Budgeting System as National Best Practice

Results for America featured Baltimore's Outcome Budgeting system as a national best practice included in their January newsletter, "4 Ways Local Governments Are Solving Problems (Steal These

Results for America Case Study

Seattle and Baltimore: Peer City Exchange on Outcome Budgeting & Racial Equity

As part of Results for America’s Local Government Fellowship Program, the Cities of Baltimore and Seattle recently conve

Intercity exchange

Good Government Book Club Presents: Nudge by Richard Thaler

The Good Government Book Club meets every few months to discuss books pertaining to best practices and innovation in government.

Nudge, by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

City Council Briefed by BBMR on Projected Fiscal 2018 Spending & Revenues

Each quarter of the Fiscal Year, the Budget Director briefs City Council on how the City's actual finances compare to budgeted projections.   The first Fiscal 2018 Quarterly Briefing for the City C

Baltimore City Council Fiscal 2018 First Quarter Budget Briefing

Fiscal 2018 Community Guide to the Budget Published

Learn more about Mayor Catherine Pugh's Fiscal 2018 budget in the City's Community Guide.

Innovation Fund Helps Improve Outcomes in Baltimore's Crime Lab

In honor of National Forensic Science Week, Steve O'Dell - Chief of Forensics with the Baltimore City Police Department - explains how he leveraged the City's Innovation Fund to improve outcomes and quality of work in the Crime Lab.

Budget Director Featured as Guest Columnist

Budget Director Andrew Kleine was asked to share his experience reinventing budgeting in Baltimore as a guest columnist for the consulting firm, Barrett & Greene, Inc.

Good Government Book Club Presents Mayor Catherine Pugh's Selection

Mayor Pugh has selected Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival by Paul Grogan for the next meeting of the Good Government Book Club on September 6th, 2017.

Innovation Fund Project highlighted by ILSR

Baltimore's Camp Small Zero Waste Initiative recognized by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) for its contribution to environmental sustainability. ILSR's mission is to "provide innovative strategies, working models and timely information to support environmentally sound and equitable community development."

Fiscal 2018 Agency Detail Available

The Fiscal 2018 Agency Detail, Volumes I & II are now available. 

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