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THE PROCESS

PLANNING FOR A BETTER TOMORROW

T he budget planning process is dictated As you can see on the following page,

by our fiscal year, which begins on council utilizes information received from

October 1 and ends September 30, and by the citizen survey and Town Hall Forum to

state and local regulations. The process develop the city?s strategic plan and

provides for citizen input and ensures upcoming budget. Each year, staff meets

transparency. To make sure we meet all our with city councilmembers to discuss

state and local requirements, we begin strategic priorities. While the process itself

work preparing for the next year?s budget did not substantially change this year, the

shortly after we implement the current year city focused more on using the Hurst Way

budget. At any given time, the city is model to develop a strategic plan that will

generally working on three years?worth of be used to guide city council and staff over
budgets; evaluating and auditing the the next several years.

previous year, implementing and

monitoring the current year, and planning

for the next year.

Strategic Planning provides guidelines to set in motion

the future vision of Hurst into defined goals and objectives

toward execution.

David Booe

Councilmember

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