bench marking?

[Jeffrey Kerekes]

Is anyone interested and willing to do some benchmarking?  Specifically, I am interested to see if anyone would be willing to collect from the latest budgets of a sampling of CT towns and other comparable cities nation wide and benchmark their spending on some of our biggest categories against ours.  It would mean looking through their budgets on a high level (I don't think you would need to dig too far) and get say police, fire, education, healthcare, pension, workers comp and their overall tax collection and number of residents.  I would be happy to work with a prospective volunteer to tweak the list of data to collect.

While this might be something management partners may do, this data could be useful this year in our budget hearings with the BOA and their final vote on the budget.  I don't believe our BOA members really know how to assess whether the spending/revenue categories are reasonable as they have no point of reference except our spending last year and previous years. I think that is too myopic and some other towns/cities would make their evaluation more valuable.  I am working on a number of other related initiatives and therefore would love some help with the benchmarking.

Thanks,

Jeffrey Kerekes
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www.jeffreykerekes.com
m: 203-676-0880

Jeffrey, a Realtor, is a Connecticut Licensee (License RES.0790996), affiliated with Pulse Realty, LLC, 817 Grand Ave, New Haven, CT 06511

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[Christine Bishop]

Jeffrey,

Yes, I am willing to help with this.  Mark or someone in the city may already have other town's budgets.  Let's talk about what the next steps would be.

Christine

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[Jeffrey Kerekes]

I am curious which towns we should compare ourselves to?  On the one hand, local examples are helpful since people can relate to the comparison which further away cities makes it harder.  I wonder if there was a way to get a list of citys with our same population size?  

I am not sure if the towns surrounding us have their budgets online.  It might be a good place to start.  Thoughts?

Thanks,

Jeffrey Kerekes
jeffrey...@gmail.com
www.jeffreykerekes.com
m: 203-676-0880

Jeffrey, a Realtor, is a Connecticut Licensee (License RES.0790996), affiliated with Pulse Realty, LLC, 817 Grand Ave, New Haven, CT 06511

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