Download or read book Managing Budgets During Fiscal Stress written by Jeremy M. Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines what happened to local California government revenues during the recent period of economic problems, which services have been adjusted, how employee benefits have been treated, and what innovations have been introduced. The report is based on both a web-based survey of 245 California city government officials and face-to-face interviews with chief financial officers in most of the state's major cities (Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Riverside, Pasadena and Los Angeles). The report concludes with recommendations for local governments across the nation. These include: Identify and address structural deficits in a finely grained manner, leaving no major budget category unexamined; Foster citizen engagement to encourage widespread dissemination of fiscal information in order to enhance the legitimacy of public policy choices; Improve the state/local relationship to reduce episodic, convulsive impacts on local public finance.--