In a typical year, department heads will build off the previous year’s budget and make adjustments as necessary — say, a request for more money to increase staff or a plan to reduce the budget by cutting unfilled staff vacancies.
City Budget Office director Julie Dingley said that this year, department heads will be starting much closer to scratch in their budget proposals. In a Feb. 21 presentation to the City Council, she said that while the city doesn’t have the technology to do true “zero-based budgeting,” in which they build each budget from the ground up regardless of prior spending, they’re asking directors to get as close to that
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