The revamped ELGL website received more than 300,000 views this year. Members and visitors were treated to a wide array of stories from the #13Percent to infrastructure to work/life balance. While some of you dropped by to visit the rapidly growing webinar library or check out the latest job postings.
Our crack staff has sorted through Google Analytics to identify the top 10 most viewed articles of 2015.
#10: Engaging the Public in the Budget Process by Kevin Amirehsani – Balancing Act and Engaged Public
Our Take: Sprinkle in a Fat Joe and Dee Brown gif with a lil’ local government budget talk and you have a winner. We challenge you to find another outlet that provides insightful tips from “an engaging budget processes – processes which are built on a foundation of financial transparency, start well before the budget is proposed, and give ample and meaningful opportunities for the community to weigh in with their own budget priorities” to “for a drinking game that will inevitably reach its desired conclusion quickly, just open up any public budget pdf and drink whenever you read “special revenue fund”
Link: Engaging the Public in the Budget Process