Is Performance Based County Budgeting Working?

III. THE MUNICIPAL BUDGET
3.01 In contrast with accounting records which are retrospective, a budget is generally a projection of future revenues and expenditures. At a minimum, a budget is used to control financial transactions. However, in addition to controlling financial transactions, a budget should also be used as a management and planning tool. Work load and service goal objectives are objectives are included in the budget document.
3.02 Because governments allocate services, budgets are needed to plan for and control the receipt and expenditure of monies to meet these ends. Each government’s budgetary process is affected by numerous variables (e.g., the law; intergovernmental transfers; governmental structure; the regional and national economies; the nature of the service provided; and the personalities of the principal actors). These factors heavily influence the budget process and budgetary outcomes....We do have choices in Municipal Budgeting and I am not so certain "Perfomance Based Budgeting" Is Working For Us So Much As For County Management and BOCC.... For Complete Article Clisk On Title Above.

Hydro Power: The Potential Runs Past Us Everyday

Published: June 01, 2008 12:04 am

HYDROPOWER: RAPID RETURNS?

By Dan Miner - Niagra Gazette E-mail Dan

Several companies are eyeing spots on the Niagara River floor to place a new technology they say could produce hundreds of “green collar” jobs and clean electricity. Essentially, both Massachusetts-based Free Flow Power Corp. and Texas-based Hydro Green Energy want to install finely tuned mechanical water mills, or hydropower turbines, that could conceivably produce enough electricity to power all of the homes in Niagara Falls and then some.....For Complete Article Click On Title Above