Shayne Kavanagh

Apr 1, 2024 | publicfinance.org | Bruce McDonald |Sarah Larson |Craig Maher |Shayne Kavanagh

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Mar 29, 2024 | icma.org | Shayne Kavanagh |Maria Church

Many budget officers have had an experience like the following during budget deliberations with the governing board: The governing board spends what seems like (or may be) hours discussing the line item for office supplies (“Can we reduce it by sending more emails and using printers less?”) and then afterward passes a multimillion-dollar capital project budget with little discussion. This phenomenon is not limited to local government budgets.