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Title: TARGET FINANCE 3 - Creative Financing: Linking Budget Know How with Strategic Planning

This is part of the "Target Finance" series, which also included the following events:
* TARGET FINANCE 1 - Terms and Tools for Effectively Preparing and Managing Your Operations Budget
* TARGET FINANCE 2 - Capital Budgeting for the Public Works Professional
Date(s): August 12, 2004
Location: Audio/Web Broadcast
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Description: A good strategic plan is the starting point for your agencies operating and capital budget process. Strategic planning will not only help you with your current budget process, but it will help you to forecast future revenues and expenditures. This education component will teach you to link strategic planning with the budget process in order to evaluate:

  • all available funding
  • current financial risk
  • ability to maintain and increase levels of service
  • future commitments of the agency
  • variables that will affect revenue levels
  • effects of community growth
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    Speaker: Scot Wrighton, MPA

    Scot Wrighton, MPA, Management Development Associate, Carl Vinson Institute of Government

    Mr. Wrighton provides training for the Carl Vinson Institute's Management Development Program (MDP), and Georgia's elected municipal and county officials. He facilitates retreats and special training projects for Institute clients, assists city, county, non-profit, association and quasi-governmental boards on a variety of management, organizational and leadership development topics, and is a faculty liaison between the Institute and the Georgia City and County Management Association. Prior to joining the Institute, Mr. Wrighton served local governments for 22 years in Illinois, Kansas and Missouri, more than 19 of them as a city manager. He is an active member of the International City/County Management Association (ICMA).
    Speaker: Jeff Wilson

    Special Projects Manager, Republic Services, Inc.

    Jeff began his career in public works as a general laborer in Mt. Vernon, Illinois through which he learned street construction, paving & maintenance, landfill operations, waste collections, water & sewer line maintenance and wastewater treatment operations. This entry level experience taught a much needed practical side to public work type operations and gave valuable knowledge in relaying planning and budget documents as he went on to become the Director of Public Works in Streator, Illinois and then Commissioner of Public Works in Lexington, Kentucky. This background has also helped him make the transition to the private sector with the third largest waste company in the nation, Republic Services, Inc.
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