Question 05s Thinking about the next fiscal year, which action has your jurisdiction taken or is likely to take regarding your jurisdiction's workforce layoffs? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Workforce, Finance Budget and Operations, Employee compensation, Fringe benefits Question 05t Thinking about the next fiscal year, which action has your jurisdiction taken or is likely to take regarding employees' share of contributions to retirement funds? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Pensions, Employee compensation, Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce Question 05u Thinking about the next fiscal year, which action has your jurisdiction taken or is likely to take regarding retirees' share of premiums, deductibles and/or co-pays on health insurance? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Workforce, Finance Budget and Operations, Employee compensation, Fringe benefits Question 05f Thinking about the next fiscal year, which action has your jurisdiction taken or is likely to take regarding actual public safety spending? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Public safety, Services, Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, Service spending Question 07a Thinking about your jurisdiction's last fiscal year, were general fund revenues higher or lower than what they were projected to be in its originally adopted general fund budget? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, General fund balance, Revenue Question 07b Thinking about your jurisdiction's last fiscal year, were general fund expenditures higher or lower than what they were projected to be in its originally adopted general fund budget? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, General fund balance, Spending Question 08 Different local jurisdictions manage their unreserved general fund balances in different ways depending on their specific circumstances. Despite these differences, we're interested in tracking overall changes in these balances over time. Approximately what was your jurisdiction's unreserved/unassigned general fund balance as a percentage of general fund expenditures at the end of its last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories General fund balance, fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Finances Question 09 Thinking about your jurisdiction's fiscal needs, overall, do you consider your jurisdiction's unreserved general fund balance to be too high, about right, or too low? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, General fund balance, Finances, fiscal health Question 10 In your opinion, is your jurisdiction's cash flow and its ability to pay bills in a timely manner a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, cash flow, Fiscal health/stress Question 11a Thinking about the overall fiscal stress of your jurisdiction today and what you expect it to be down the road - including any future financial obligations it may have - on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the best: perfect fiscal health and 10 is the worst: fiscal crisis, how would you rate your jurisdiction's overall fiscal stress today? Survey Fall 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Fiscal health/stress Question 11b Thinking about the overall fiscal stress of your jurisdiction today and what you expect it to be down the road - including any future financial obligations it may have - on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the best: perfect fiscal health and 10 is the worst: fiscal crisis, how would you rate your jurisdiction's overall fiscal stress as you expect it to be five years from now? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Fiscal health/stress Question 13a Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13b Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13c Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14a Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14b Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14c Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 15 First, does your jurisdiction offer any kind of retirement income benefits (defined benefit pensions, defined contribution plans such as an IRA, 401a, 457b, or 401k-type plan, etc.) to any current or former employees and/or elected officials? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, Pensions Question 04i Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in the population of your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, fiscal health, Finances, Fiscal health/stress Question 02b Do you use external data about other governments? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02c Do you not use data about your own or other governments' operations? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 03 Which of the following two approaches best describes your jurisdiction's use of performance data? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 04 Approximately how long has your jurisdiction been using performance measures? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02 During the next twelve months, do you think your community will have good times financially, or bad times? Survey Spring 2015 Categories fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Economic Development, Finances, Development conditions, Business conditions Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? 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Question 05t Thinking about the next fiscal year, which action has your jurisdiction taken or is likely to take regarding employees' share of contributions to retirement funds? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Pensions, Employee compensation, Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce Question 05u Thinking about the next fiscal year, which action has your jurisdiction taken or is likely to take regarding retirees' share of premiums, deductibles and/or co-pays on health insurance? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Workforce, Finance Budget and Operations, Employee compensation, Fringe benefits Question 05f Thinking about the next fiscal year, which action has your jurisdiction taken or is likely to take regarding actual public safety spending? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Public safety, Services, Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, Service spending Question 07a Thinking about your jurisdiction's last fiscal year, were general fund revenues higher or lower than what they were projected to be in its originally adopted general fund budget? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, General fund balance, Revenue Question 07b Thinking about your jurisdiction's last fiscal year, were general fund expenditures higher or lower than what they were projected to be in its originally adopted general fund budget? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, General fund balance, Spending Question 08 Different local jurisdictions manage their unreserved general fund balances in different ways depending on their specific circumstances. Despite these differences, we're interested in tracking overall changes in these balances over time. Approximately what was your jurisdiction's unreserved/unassigned general fund balance as a percentage of general fund expenditures at the end of its last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories General fund balance, fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Finances Question 09 Thinking about your jurisdiction's fiscal needs, overall, do you consider your jurisdiction's unreserved general fund balance to be too high, about right, or too low? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, General fund balance, Finances, fiscal health Question 10 In your opinion, is your jurisdiction's cash flow and its ability to pay bills in a timely manner a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, cash flow, Fiscal health/stress Question 11a Thinking about the overall fiscal stress of your jurisdiction today and what you expect it to be down the road - including any future financial obligations it may have - on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the best: perfect fiscal health and 10 is the worst: fiscal crisis, how would you rate your jurisdiction's overall fiscal stress today? Survey Fall 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Fiscal health/stress Question 11b Thinking about the overall fiscal stress of your jurisdiction today and what you expect it to be down the road - including any future financial obligations it may have - on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the best: perfect fiscal health and 10 is the worst: fiscal crisis, how would you rate your jurisdiction's overall fiscal stress as you expect it to be five years from now? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Fiscal health/stress Question 13a Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13b Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13c Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14a Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14b Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14c Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 15 First, does your jurisdiction offer any kind of retirement income benefits (defined benefit pensions, defined contribution plans such as an IRA, 401a, 457b, or 401k-type plan, etc.) to any current or former employees and/or elected officials? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, Pensions Question 04i Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in the population of your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, fiscal health, Finances, Fiscal health/stress Question 02b Do you use external data about other governments? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02c Do you not use data about your own or other governments' operations? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 03 Which of the following two approaches best describes your jurisdiction's use of performance data? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 04 Approximately how long has your jurisdiction been using performance measures? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02 During the next twelve months, do you think your community will have good times financially, or bad times? Survey Spring 2015 Categories fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Economic Development, Finances, Development conditions, Business conditions Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? 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Question 05u Thinking about the next fiscal year, which action has your jurisdiction taken or is likely to take regarding retirees' share of premiums, deductibles and/or co-pays on health insurance? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Workforce, Finance Budget and Operations, Employee compensation, Fringe benefits Question 05f Thinking about the next fiscal year, which action has your jurisdiction taken or is likely to take regarding actual public safety spending? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Public safety, Services, Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, Service spending Question 07a Thinking about your jurisdiction's last fiscal year, were general fund revenues higher or lower than what they were projected to be in its originally adopted general fund budget? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, General fund balance, Revenue Question 07b Thinking about your jurisdiction's last fiscal year, were general fund expenditures higher or lower than what they were projected to be in its originally adopted general fund budget? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, General fund balance, Spending Question 08 Different local jurisdictions manage their unreserved general fund balances in different ways depending on their specific circumstances. Despite these differences, we're interested in tracking overall changes in these balances over time. Approximately what was your jurisdiction's unreserved/unassigned general fund balance as a percentage of general fund expenditures at the end of its last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories General fund balance, fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Finances Question 09 Thinking about your jurisdiction's fiscal needs, overall, do you consider your jurisdiction's unreserved general fund balance to be too high, about right, or too low? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, General fund balance, Finances, fiscal health Question 10 In your opinion, is your jurisdiction's cash flow and its ability to pay bills in a timely manner a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, cash flow, Fiscal health/stress Question 11a Thinking about the overall fiscal stress of your jurisdiction today and what you expect it to be down the road - including any future financial obligations it may have - on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the best: perfect fiscal health and 10 is the worst: fiscal crisis, how would you rate your jurisdiction's overall fiscal stress today? Survey Fall 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Fiscal health/stress Question 11b Thinking about the overall fiscal stress of your jurisdiction today and what you expect it to be down the road - including any future financial obligations it may have - on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the best: perfect fiscal health and 10 is the worst: fiscal crisis, how would you rate your jurisdiction's overall fiscal stress as you expect it to be five years from now? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Fiscal health/stress Question 13a Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13b Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13c Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14a Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14b Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14c Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 15 First, does your jurisdiction offer any kind of retirement income benefits (defined benefit pensions, defined contribution plans such as an IRA, 401a, 457b, or 401k-type plan, etc.) to any current or former employees and/or elected officials? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, Pensions Question 04i Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in the population of your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, fiscal health, Finances, Fiscal health/stress Question 02b Do you use external data about other governments? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02c Do you not use data about your own or other governments' operations? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 03 Which of the following two approaches best describes your jurisdiction's use of performance data? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 04 Approximately how long has your jurisdiction been using performance measures? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02 During the next twelve months, do you think your community will have good times financially, or bad times? Survey Spring 2015 Categories fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Economic Development, Finances, Development conditions, Business conditions Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? 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Question 05f Thinking about the next fiscal year, which action has your jurisdiction taken or is likely to take regarding actual public safety spending? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Public safety, Services, Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, Service spending Question 07a Thinking about your jurisdiction's last fiscal year, were general fund revenues higher or lower than what they were projected to be in its originally adopted general fund budget? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, General fund balance, Revenue Question 07b Thinking about your jurisdiction's last fiscal year, were general fund expenditures higher or lower than what they were projected to be in its originally adopted general fund budget? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, General fund balance, Spending Question 08 Different local jurisdictions manage their unreserved general fund balances in different ways depending on their specific circumstances. Despite these differences, we're interested in tracking overall changes in these balances over time. Approximately what was your jurisdiction's unreserved/unassigned general fund balance as a percentage of general fund expenditures at the end of its last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories General fund balance, fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Finances Question 09 Thinking about your jurisdiction's fiscal needs, overall, do you consider your jurisdiction's unreserved general fund balance to be too high, about right, or too low? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, General fund balance, Finances, fiscal health Question 10 In your opinion, is your jurisdiction's cash flow and its ability to pay bills in a timely manner a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, cash flow, Fiscal health/stress Question 11a Thinking about the overall fiscal stress of your jurisdiction today and what you expect it to be down the road - including any future financial obligations it may have - on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the best: perfect fiscal health and 10 is the worst: fiscal crisis, how would you rate your jurisdiction's overall fiscal stress today? Survey Fall 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Fiscal health/stress Question 11b Thinking about the overall fiscal stress of your jurisdiction today and what you expect it to be down the road - including any future financial obligations it may have - on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the best: perfect fiscal health and 10 is the worst: fiscal crisis, how would you rate your jurisdiction's overall fiscal stress as you expect it to be five years from now? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Fiscal health/stress Question 13a Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13b Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13c Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14a Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14b Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14c Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 15 First, does your jurisdiction offer any kind of retirement income benefits (defined benefit pensions, defined contribution plans such as an IRA, 401a, 457b, or 401k-type plan, etc.) to any current or former employees and/or elected officials? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, Pensions Question 04i Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in the population of your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, fiscal health, Finances, Fiscal health/stress Question 02b Do you use external data about other governments? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02c Do you not use data about your own or other governments' operations? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 03 Which of the following two approaches best describes your jurisdiction's use of performance data? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 04 Approximately how long has your jurisdiction been using performance measures? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02 During the next twelve months, do you think your community will have good times financially, or bad times? Survey Spring 2015 Categories fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Economic Development, Finances, Development conditions, Business conditions Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? 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Question 07a Thinking about your jurisdiction's last fiscal year, were general fund revenues higher or lower than what they were projected to be in its originally adopted general fund budget? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, General fund balance, Revenue Question 07b Thinking about your jurisdiction's last fiscal year, were general fund expenditures higher or lower than what they were projected to be in its originally adopted general fund budget? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, General fund balance, Spending Question 08 Different local jurisdictions manage their unreserved general fund balances in different ways depending on their specific circumstances. Despite these differences, we're interested in tracking overall changes in these balances over time. Approximately what was your jurisdiction's unreserved/unassigned general fund balance as a percentage of general fund expenditures at the end of its last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories General fund balance, fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Finances Question 09 Thinking about your jurisdiction's fiscal needs, overall, do you consider your jurisdiction's unreserved general fund balance to be too high, about right, or too low? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, General fund balance, Finances, fiscal health Question 10 In your opinion, is your jurisdiction's cash flow and its ability to pay bills in a timely manner a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, cash flow, Fiscal health/stress Question 11a Thinking about the overall fiscal stress of your jurisdiction today and what you expect it to be down the road - including any future financial obligations it may have - on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the best: perfect fiscal health and 10 is the worst: fiscal crisis, how would you rate your jurisdiction's overall fiscal stress today? Survey Fall 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Fiscal health/stress Question 11b Thinking about the overall fiscal stress of your jurisdiction today and what you expect it to be down the road - including any future financial obligations it may have - on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the best: perfect fiscal health and 10 is the worst: fiscal crisis, how would you rate your jurisdiction's overall fiscal stress as you expect it to be five years from now? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Fiscal health/stress Question 13a Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13b Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13c Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14a Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14b Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14c Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 15 First, does your jurisdiction offer any kind of retirement income benefits (defined benefit pensions, defined contribution plans such as an IRA, 401a, 457b, or 401k-type plan, etc.) to any current or former employees and/or elected officials? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, Pensions Question 04i Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in the population of your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, fiscal health, Finances, Fiscal health/stress Question 02b Do you use external data about other governments? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02c Do you not use data about your own or other governments' operations? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 03 Which of the following two approaches best describes your jurisdiction's use of performance data? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 04 Approximately how long has your jurisdiction been using performance measures? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02 During the next twelve months, do you think your community will have good times financially, or bad times? Survey Spring 2015 Categories fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Economic Development, Finances, Development conditions, Business conditions Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? 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Question 07b Thinking about your jurisdiction's last fiscal year, were general fund expenditures higher or lower than what they were projected to be in its originally adopted general fund budget? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, General fund balance, Spending Question 08 Different local jurisdictions manage their unreserved general fund balances in different ways depending on their specific circumstances. Despite these differences, we're interested in tracking overall changes in these balances over time. Approximately what was your jurisdiction's unreserved/unassigned general fund balance as a percentage of general fund expenditures at the end of its last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories General fund balance, fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Finances Question 09 Thinking about your jurisdiction's fiscal needs, overall, do you consider your jurisdiction's unreserved general fund balance to be too high, about right, or too low? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, General fund balance, Finances, fiscal health Question 10 In your opinion, is your jurisdiction's cash flow and its ability to pay bills in a timely manner a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, cash flow, Fiscal health/stress Question 11a Thinking about the overall fiscal stress of your jurisdiction today and what you expect it to be down the road - including any future financial obligations it may have - on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the best: perfect fiscal health and 10 is the worst: fiscal crisis, how would you rate your jurisdiction's overall fiscal stress today? Survey Fall 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Fiscal health/stress Question 11b Thinking about the overall fiscal stress of your jurisdiction today and what you expect it to be down the road - including any future financial obligations it may have - on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the best: perfect fiscal health and 10 is the worst: fiscal crisis, how would you rate your jurisdiction's overall fiscal stress as you expect it to be five years from now? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Fiscal health/stress Question 13a Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13b Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13c Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14a Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14b Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14c Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 15 First, does your jurisdiction offer any kind of retirement income benefits (defined benefit pensions, defined contribution plans such as an IRA, 401a, 457b, or 401k-type plan, etc.) to any current or former employees and/or elected officials? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, Pensions Question 04i Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in the population of your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, fiscal health, Finances, Fiscal health/stress Question 02b Do you use external data about other governments? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02c Do you not use data about your own or other governments' operations? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 03 Which of the following two approaches best describes your jurisdiction's use of performance data? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 04 Approximately how long has your jurisdiction been using performance measures? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02 During the next twelve months, do you think your community will have good times financially, or bad times? Survey Spring 2015 Categories fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Economic Development, Finances, Development conditions, Business conditions Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? 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Question 08 Different local jurisdictions manage their unreserved general fund balances in different ways depending on their specific circumstances. Despite these differences, we're interested in tracking overall changes in these balances over time. Approximately what was your jurisdiction's unreserved/unassigned general fund balance as a percentage of general fund expenditures at the end of its last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories General fund balance, fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Finances Question 09 Thinking about your jurisdiction's fiscal needs, overall, do you consider your jurisdiction's unreserved general fund balance to be too high, about right, or too low? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, General fund balance, Finances, fiscal health Question 10 In your opinion, is your jurisdiction's cash flow and its ability to pay bills in a timely manner a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, cash flow, Fiscal health/stress Question 11a Thinking about the overall fiscal stress of your jurisdiction today and what you expect it to be down the road - including any future financial obligations it may have - on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the best: perfect fiscal health and 10 is the worst: fiscal crisis, how would you rate your jurisdiction's overall fiscal stress today? Survey Fall 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Fiscal health/stress Question 11b Thinking about the overall fiscal stress of your jurisdiction today and what you expect it to be down the road - including any future financial obligations it may have - on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the best: perfect fiscal health and 10 is the worst: fiscal crisis, how would you rate your jurisdiction's overall fiscal stress as you expect it to be five years from now? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Fiscal health/stress Question 13a Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13b Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13c Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14a Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14b Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14c Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 15 First, does your jurisdiction offer any kind of retirement income benefits (defined benefit pensions, defined contribution plans such as an IRA, 401a, 457b, or 401k-type plan, etc.) to any current or former employees and/or elected officials? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, Pensions Question 04i Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in the population of your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, fiscal health, Finances, Fiscal health/stress Question 02b Do you use external data about other governments? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02c Do you not use data about your own or other governments' operations? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 03 Which of the following two approaches best describes your jurisdiction's use of performance data? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 04 Approximately how long has your jurisdiction been using performance measures? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02 During the next twelve months, do you think your community will have good times financially, or bad times? Survey Spring 2015 Categories fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Economic Development, Finances, Development conditions, Business conditions Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? 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Question 09 Thinking about your jurisdiction's fiscal needs, overall, do you consider your jurisdiction's unreserved general fund balance to be too high, about right, or too low? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, General fund balance, Finances, fiscal health Question 10 In your opinion, is your jurisdiction's cash flow and its ability to pay bills in a timely manner a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, cash flow, Fiscal health/stress Question 11a Thinking about the overall fiscal stress of your jurisdiction today and what you expect it to be down the road - including any future financial obligations it may have - on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the best: perfect fiscal health and 10 is the worst: fiscal crisis, how would you rate your jurisdiction's overall fiscal stress today? Survey Fall 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Fiscal health/stress Question 11b Thinking about the overall fiscal stress of your jurisdiction today and what you expect it to be down the road - including any future financial obligations it may have - on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the best: perfect fiscal health and 10 is the worst: fiscal crisis, how would you rate your jurisdiction's overall fiscal stress as you expect it to be five years from now? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Fiscal health/stress Question 13a Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13b Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13c Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14a Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14b Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14c Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 15 First, does your jurisdiction offer any kind of retirement income benefits (defined benefit pensions, defined contribution plans such as an IRA, 401a, 457b, or 401k-type plan, etc.) to any current or former employees and/or elected officials? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, Pensions Question 04i Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in the population of your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, fiscal health, Finances, Fiscal health/stress Question 02b Do you use external data about other governments? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02c Do you not use data about your own or other governments' operations? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 03 Which of the following two approaches best describes your jurisdiction's use of performance data? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 04 Approximately how long has your jurisdiction been using performance measures? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02 During the next twelve months, do you think your community will have good times financially, or bad times? Survey Spring 2015 Categories fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Economic Development, Finances, Development conditions, Business conditions Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? 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Question 10 In your opinion, is your jurisdiction's cash flow and its ability to pay bills in a timely manner a significant fiscal problem, somewhat of a problem, not much of a problem, or not a problem at all? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, cash flow, Fiscal health/stress Question 11a Thinking about the overall fiscal stress of your jurisdiction today and what you expect it to be down the road - including any future financial obligations it may have - on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the best: perfect fiscal health and 10 is the worst: fiscal crisis, how would you rate your jurisdiction's overall fiscal stress today? Survey Fall 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Fiscal health/stress Question 11b Thinking about the overall fiscal stress of your jurisdiction today and what you expect it to be down the road - including any future financial obligations it may have - on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the best: perfect fiscal health and 10 is the worst: fiscal crisis, how would you rate your jurisdiction's overall fiscal stress as you expect it to be five years from now? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Fiscal health/stress Question 13a Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13b Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13c Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14a Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14b Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14c Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 15 First, does your jurisdiction offer any kind of retirement income benefits (defined benefit pensions, defined contribution plans such as an IRA, 401a, 457b, or 401k-type plan, etc.) to any current or former employees and/or elected officials? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, Pensions Question 04i Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in the population of your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, fiscal health, Finances, Fiscal health/stress Question 02b Do you use external data about other governments? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02c Do you not use data about your own or other governments' operations? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 03 Which of the following two approaches best describes your jurisdiction's use of performance data? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 04 Approximately how long has your jurisdiction been using performance measures? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02 During the next twelve months, do you think your community will have good times financially, or bad times? Survey Spring 2015 Categories fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Economic Development, Finances, Development conditions, Business conditions Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? 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Question 11a Thinking about the overall fiscal stress of your jurisdiction today and what you expect it to be down the road - including any future financial obligations it may have - on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the best: perfect fiscal health and 10 is the worst: fiscal crisis, how would you rate your jurisdiction's overall fiscal stress today? Survey Fall 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Fiscal health/stress Question 11b Thinking about the overall fiscal stress of your jurisdiction today and what you expect it to be down the road - including any future financial obligations it may have - on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the best: perfect fiscal health and 10 is the worst: fiscal crisis, how would you rate your jurisdiction's overall fiscal stress as you expect it to be five years from now? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Fiscal health/stress Question 13a Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13b Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13c Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14a Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14b Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14c Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 15 First, does your jurisdiction offer any kind of retirement income benefits (defined benefit pensions, defined contribution plans such as an IRA, 401a, 457b, or 401k-type plan, etc.) to any current or former employees and/or elected officials? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, Pensions Question 04i Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in the population of your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, fiscal health, Finances, Fiscal health/stress Question 02b Do you use external data about other governments? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02c Do you not use data about your own or other governments' operations? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 03 Which of the following two approaches best describes your jurisdiction's use of performance data? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 04 Approximately how long has your jurisdiction been using performance measures? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02 During the next twelve months, do you think your community will have good times financially, or bad times? Survey Spring 2015 Categories fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Economic Development, Finances, Development conditions, Business conditions Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? 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Question 11b Thinking about the overall fiscal stress of your jurisdiction today and what you expect it to be down the road - including any future financial obligations it may have - on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the best: perfect fiscal health and 10 is the worst: fiscal crisis, how would you rate your jurisdiction's overall fiscal stress as you expect it to be five years from now? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Fiscal health/stress Question 13a Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13b Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13c Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14a Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14b Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14c Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 15 First, does your jurisdiction offer any kind of retirement income benefits (defined benefit pensions, defined contribution plans such as an IRA, 401a, 457b, or 401k-type plan, etc.) to any current or former employees and/or elected officials? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, Pensions Question 04i Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in the population of your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, fiscal health, Finances, Fiscal health/stress Question 02b Do you use external data about other governments? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02c Do you not use data about your own or other governments' operations? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 03 Which of the following two approaches best describes your jurisdiction's use of performance data? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 04 Approximately how long has your jurisdiction been using performance measures? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02 During the next twelve months, do you think your community will have good times financially, or bad times? Survey Spring 2015 Categories fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Economic Development, Finances, Development conditions, Business conditions Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? 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Question 13a Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13b Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13c Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14a Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14b Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14c Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 15 First, does your jurisdiction offer any kind of retirement income benefits (defined benefit pensions, defined contribution plans such as an IRA, 401a, 457b, or 401k-type plan, etc.) to any current or former employees and/or elected officials? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, Pensions Question 04i Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in the population of your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, fiscal health, Finances, Fiscal health/stress Question 02b Do you use external data about other governments? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02c Do you not use data about your own or other governments' operations? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 03 Which of the following two approaches best describes your jurisdiction's use of performance data? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 04 Approximately how long has your jurisdiction been using performance measures? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02 During the next twelve months, do you think your community will have good times financially, or bad times? Survey Spring 2015 Categories fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Economic Development, Finances, Development conditions, Business conditions Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? 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Question 13b Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 13c Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14a Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14b Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14c Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 15 First, does your jurisdiction offer any kind of retirement income benefits (defined benefit pensions, defined contribution plans such as an IRA, 401a, 457b, or 401k-type plan, etc.) to any current or former employees and/or elected officials? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, Pensions Question 04i Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in the population of your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, fiscal health, Finances, Fiscal health/stress Question 02b Do you use external data about other governments? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02c Do you not use data about your own or other governments' operations? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 03 Which of the following two approaches best describes your jurisdiction's use of performance data? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 04 Approximately how long has your jurisdiction been using performance measures? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02 During the next twelve months, do you think your community will have good times financially, or bad times? Survey Spring 2015 Categories fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Economic Development, Finances, Development conditions, Business conditions Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? 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Question 13c Regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget surplus this year, in your opinion, what would be the highest priority for using any potential surplus (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to spend the budget surplus on public services or infrastructure, save that money for future use, use it to pay down any debt your jurisdiction may have, or reduce taxes? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14a Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14b Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14c Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 15 First, does your jurisdiction offer any kind of retirement income benefits (defined benefit pensions, defined contribution plans such as an IRA, 401a, 457b, or 401k-type plan, etc.) to any current or former employees and/or elected officials? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, Pensions Question 04i Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in the population of your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, fiscal health, Finances, Fiscal health/stress Question 02b Do you use external data about other governments? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02c Do you not use data about your own or other governments' operations? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 03 Which of the following two approaches best describes your jurisdiction's use of performance data? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 04 Approximately how long has your jurisdiction been using performance measures? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02 During the next twelve months, do you think your community will have good times financially, or bad times? Survey Spring 2015 Categories fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Economic Development, Finances, Development conditions, Business conditions Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Current page 163 Page 164 Page 165 Page 166 Page 167 Next page next Last page last
Question 14a Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's Board/Council would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14b Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14c Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 15 First, does your jurisdiction offer any kind of retirement income benefits (defined benefit pensions, defined contribution plans such as an IRA, 401a, 457b, or 401k-type plan, etc.) to any current or former employees and/or elected officials? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, Pensions Question 04i Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in the population of your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, fiscal health, Finances, Fiscal health/stress Question 02b Do you use external data about other governments? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02c Do you not use data about your own or other governments' operations? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 03 Which of the following two approaches best describes your jurisdiction's use of performance data? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 04 Approximately how long has your jurisdiction been using performance measures? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02 During the next twelve months, do you think your community will have good times financially, or bad times? Survey Spring 2015 Categories fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Economic Development, Finances, Development conditions, Business conditions Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? 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Question 14b Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? The majority of your jurisdiction's citizens would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 14c Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 15 First, does your jurisdiction offer any kind of retirement income benefits (defined benefit pensions, defined contribution plans such as an IRA, 401a, 457b, or 401k-type plan, etc.) to any current or former employees and/or elected officials? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, Pensions Question 04i Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in the population of your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, fiscal health, Finances, Fiscal health/stress Question 02b Do you use external data about other governments? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02c Do you not use data about your own or other governments' operations? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 03 Which of the following two approaches best describes your jurisdiction's use of performance data? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 04 Approximately how long has your jurisdiction been using performance measures? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02 During the next twelve months, do you think your community will have good times financially, or bad times? Survey Spring 2015 Categories fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Economic Development, Finances, Development conditions, Business conditions Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Current page 163 Page 164 Page 165 Page 166 Page 167 Next page next Last page last
Question 14c Now, regardless of whether or not your jurisdiction expects to have a budget deficit this year, in your opinion, what would be the preferred method for eliminating any potential deficit (if it had one) according to the following groups or individuals? Do you think that they would prefer to cut costs/services, increase taxes, use any savings your jurisdiction may have or increase debt (if legally allowable)? You personally in your role as a local official would prefer to... Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt, Taxes, Services, Tradeoffs Question 15 First, does your jurisdiction offer any kind of retirement income benefits (defined benefit pensions, defined contribution plans such as an IRA, 401a, 457b, or 401k-type plan, etc.) to any current or former employees and/or elected officials? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, Pensions Question 04i Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in the population of your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, fiscal health, Finances, Fiscal health/stress Question 02b Do you use external data about other governments? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02c Do you not use data about your own or other governments' operations? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 03 Which of the following two approaches best describes your jurisdiction's use of performance data? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 04 Approximately how long has your jurisdiction been using performance measures? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02 During the next twelve months, do you think your community will have good times financially, or bad times? Survey Spring 2015 Categories fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Economic Development, Finances, Development conditions, Business conditions Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Current page 163 Page 164 Page 165 Page 166 Page 167 Next page next Last page last
Question 15 First, does your jurisdiction offer any kind of retirement income benefits (defined benefit pensions, defined contribution plans such as an IRA, 401a, 457b, or 401k-type plan, etc.) to any current or former employees and/or elected officials? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Workforce, Employee compensation, Pensions Question 04i Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in the population of your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, fiscal health, Finances, Fiscal health/stress Question 02b Do you use external data about other governments? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02c Do you not use data about your own or other governments' operations? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 03 Which of the following two approaches best describes your jurisdiction's use of performance data? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 04 Approximately how long has your jurisdiction been using performance measures? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02 During the next twelve months, do you think your community will have good times financially, or bad times? Survey Spring 2015 Categories fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Economic Development, Finances, Development conditions, Business conditions Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Current page 163 Page 164 Page 165 Page 166 Page 167 Next page next Last page last
Question 04i Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in the population of your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, fiscal health, Finances, Fiscal health/stress Question 02b Do you use external data about other governments? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02c Do you not use data about your own or other governments' operations? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 03 Which of the following two approaches best describes your jurisdiction's use of performance data? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 04 Approximately how long has your jurisdiction been using performance measures? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02 During the next twelve months, do you think your community will have good times financially, or bad times? Survey Spring 2015 Categories fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Economic Development, Finances, Development conditions, Business conditions Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Current page 163 Page 164 Page 165 Page 166 Page 167 Next page next Last page last
Question 02b Do you use external data about other governments? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02c Do you not use data about your own or other governments' operations? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 03 Which of the following two approaches best describes your jurisdiction's use of performance data? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 04 Approximately how long has your jurisdiction been using performance measures? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02 During the next twelve months, do you think your community will have good times financially, or bad times? Survey Spring 2015 Categories fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Economic Development, Finances, Development conditions, Business conditions Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Current page 163 Page 164 Page 165 Page 166 Page 167 Next page next Last page last
Question 02c Do you not use data about your own or other governments' operations? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 03 Which of the following two approaches best describes your jurisdiction's use of performance data? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 04 Approximately how long has your jurisdiction been using performance measures? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02 During the next twelve months, do you think your community will have good times financially, or bad times? Survey Spring 2015 Categories fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Economic Development, Finances, Development conditions, Business conditions Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Current page 163 Page 164 Page 165 Page 166 Page 167 Next page next Last page last
Question 03 Which of the following two approaches best describes your jurisdiction's use of performance data? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 04 Approximately how long has your jurisdiction been using performance measures? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02 During the next twelve months, do you think your community will have good times financially, or bad times? Survey Spring 2015 Categories fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Economic Development, Finances, Development conditions, Business conditions Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Current page 163 Page 164 Page 165 Page 166 Page 167 Next page next Last page last
Question 04 Approximately how long has your jurisdiction been using performance measures? Survey Fall 2011 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Performance management, Performance measurement and management Question 02 During the next twelve months, do you think your community will have good times financially, or bad times? Survey Spring 2015 Categories fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Economic Development, Finances, Development conditions, Business conditions Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Current page 163 Page 164 Page 165 Page 166 Page 167 Next page next Last page last
Question 02 During the next twelve months, do you think your community will have good times financially, or bad times? Survey Spring 2015 Categories fiscal health, Finance Budget and Operations, Economic Development, Finances, Development conditions, Business conditions Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Current page 163 Page 164 Page 165 Page 166 Page 167 Next page next Last page last
Question 03a Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in this fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Current page 163 Page 164 Page 165 Page 166 Page 167 Next page next Last page last
Question 03b Would you say that your unit of government is less able or better able to meet its financial needs in the next fiscal year compared to this fiscal year? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Better/less able fiscal needs Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Current page 163 Page 164 Page 165 Page 166 Page 167 Next page next Last page last
Question 04a Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from property taxes for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Taxes, Finances, Taxes and revenues Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Current page 163 Page 164 Page 165 Page 166 Page 167 Next page next Last page last
Question 04b Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in revenue from fees for services, licenses, transfers, etc. for your jurisdiction? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Revenue, Finances, Revenues Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Current page 163 Page 164 Page 165 Page 166 Page 167 Next page next Last page last
Question 04c Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's amount of debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Current page 163 Page 164 Page 165 Page 166 Page 167 Next page next Last page last
Question 04d Has there been a decrease, an increase, or no change from the previous fiscal year in your jurisdiction's ability to repay its debt? Survey Spring 2015 Categories Finance Budget and Operations, Finances, fiscal health, Debt Pagination First page first Previous page previous Page 159 Page 160 Page 161 Page 162 Current page 163 Page 164 Page 165 Page 166 Page 167 Next page next Last page last