Comments on: Fiscal Responsibility #2 http://voteheather2008.com/blog/2008/08/11/fiscal-responsibility-2/ Here are some of my thoughts. Please share yours! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:09:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Sue Heim http://voteheather2008.com/blog/2008/08/11/fiscal-responsibility-2/#comment-35 Sue Heim Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:05:21 +0000 http://voteheather2008.com/blog/2008/08/11/fiscal-responsibility-2/#comment-35 selling off the Gato Building --- Might want to check the deed first, because I think it has a restriction that the bldg can not be sold. <em>Another reason this suggestion was way premature! Thanks, Sue. - Heather selling off the Gato Building —
Might want to check the deed first, because I think it has a restriction that the bldg can not be sold.

Another reason this suggestion was way premature! Thanks, Sue. - Heather

]]> By: Bill Hendry http://voteheather2008.com/blog/2008/08/11/fiscal-responsibility-2/#comment-32 Bill Hendry Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:33:34 +0000 http://voteheather2008.com/blog/2008/08/11/fiscal-responsibility-2/#comment-32 In the 1980's, I worked at Coca-Cola headquarters, in Atlanta. They used a zero based budgeting method (pioneered by Jimmy Carter as Gov. of Ga.) It required you to start with a base budget of no more than 40% of the prior year and then justify "increments" of additional money AND staff for well defined and documented reasons. It was more involved than just that, including peer reviews of requests, but the result was trash did not carry over from year to year. Just because "we always did it" didn't make it. This system certianly worked for Georgia and for Coca-Cola. It was NOT painless! But I thought it was very effective. It also made it much easier to decide where to cut, if the time came (and it often did.) In the 1980’s, I worked at Coca-Cola headquarters, in Atlanta. They used a zero based budgeting method (pioneered by Jimmy Carter as Gov. of Ga.) It required you to start with a base budget of no more than 40% of the prior year and then justify “increments” of additional money AND staff for well defined and documented reasons. It was more involved than just that, including peer reviews of requests, but the result was trash did not carry over from year to year. Just because “we always did it” didn’t make it. This system certianly worked for Georgia and for Coca-Cola. It was NOT painless! But I thought it was very effective. It also made it much easier to decide where to cut, if the time came (and it often did.)

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