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Balance or Bust

Join the city council team in a board game to cut spending or increase revenue by $2,000,000. Roll the die, draw cards, and make tough decisions on service cuts. Track progress and learn valuable insights for city spending priorities.

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Balance or Bust

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  1. Balance or Bust Community Congress March 27, 2004

  2. Objective • Your City Council Team must decrease spending (or increase revenue) by $2,000,000 by the end of the fiscal year. Picture of board

  3. Team members consecutively roll the die and draw cards. Each card describes: • a service that can be cut or reduced, and • the amount of the savings

  4. To Begin • Pick a Mayor and a City Clerk • The Mayor is the group facilitator • The Clerk keeps the record

  5. General Fund Expenditures$31,365,000

  6. Non Department Squares Grant Application Econ. Devel. Opportunity Econ. Devel. Project Fails Grant Award Bad Economic News Pot O’Gold

  7. The Clerk keeps the record City Clerk’s Ledger Sheet DEPT SERVICE TOTAL OF PROGRAM AMOUNT CUT COMMENTS Council Commissioners’ dinner $5,000 $3,000 Scale event down to a reception Sample

  8. Midyear Budget Adjustment • Our Fiscal Year is July 1 to June 30. “Midyear” is January 1. When you reach January: • Stop and review your ledger sheet • Are you going to reach your goal? • After midyear – the cuts are only worth ½ as much

  9. End of the Fiscal Year • At the end of the fiscal year, the team will review the cuts and discuss what they learned about priorities for City spending.

  10. Your group’s “Mayor” will report back to the rest of the Congress on how well your team did: • What cuts did you make? • What cuts were the easiest or hardest to make? • How did the Team Council prioritize its spending?

  11. What criteria did you use to make cuts? • What core values did your Council Team feel were important to the overall community? • What was the single most important thing you learned from this exercise?

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