Improving the Budgetary Process – Meeting the Public Where They Are

While it continues to be important for government to actively measure and improve the services they deliver to the public, it has also become increasingly apparent that more efforts need to be done to link performance measurement data with resource allocation decisions. The goals of this paper are two-fold; First, it aims to identify reasons for US municipalities to provide performance budgeting information online. The second goal is to make policy recommendations that are likely to facilitate greater public participation and engagement.