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THE PROCESS

PLANNING FOR A BETTER TOMORROW

T he budget planning process is dictated by survey and Town Hall Forum to develop the city?s

our fiscal year, which begins on October 1 strategic plan and upcoming budget. Because

and ends September 30, and by state and local the 2021 Town Hall Forum was virtual for 2021,

regulations. The process provides for citizen we relied heavily on the citizen survey for citizen

input and ensures transparency. To make sure input. Each year, staff meets with city

we meet all our state and local requirements, councilmembers to discuss strategic priorities.

we begin work preparing for the next year?s While the process itself did not substantially

budget shortly after we implement the current change this year, the city focused more on using

year budget. At any given time, the city is the Hurst Way model to develop a strategic plan

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

year, implementing and monitoring the current

year, and planning for the next year.

As you can see on the following page, council

utilizes information received from the citizen

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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