Five Part Plan to Stabilize our Budget

As Mayor, stabilizing the city’s budget will be my number one priority. Our budget needs to be open, accessible, and engaging, so community members can see where our investment is going throughout the year. While I believe the first step is to get extreme clarity around the school department’s spending, I will also start aggressively pursuing other ways to support the city’s budget. 

I will be a hands-on mayor, leading weekly, internal budget meetings focused on creating budget controls in the school department and across the city that will flag increases in real time to eliminate surprises, lead an ongoing community dialogue about the city’s fiscal realities, and implement a five part plan to get us back on track.

Part 1: Aggressively Increase State and Federal Funds 

Part 2: Find Ways to Save Money and Create Efficiencies

Part 3: New Growth Development

Part 4: Scale our existing revenue-generating business models

Part 5: Invest in Ourselves

If you would like to make a comment, add a contribution, or more, please email me at info@samformelrose.com.

Thank you.