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Great Neighborhoods
Budget Games Report
Transforming communities with the power of every voice
Steve Dodds, AmbassadorEvery Voice Engaged Foundation
Goals
• Gather prioritized input from citizens on Missoula’s programs and services
• Educate both citizens and staff on issues, values, and alternatives to Missoula challenges
• Provide actionable quantitative and qualitative citizen feedback to Missoula’s leaders
Missoula New Program Priorities
Item Proposal Cost # Tables Rank
4 Implement broadband plan $200,000 12 1
6 Improve park maintenance $200,000 11 2
11 Conservation & Climate Action Plan: Seed revolving loan fund $200,000 9 3
5 Double number of trees removed and replanted (from 100/yr to 200) $100,000 8 4
2 2-3 additional police officers for downtown and parks safety $200,000 6 5
8 Police station facility enhancements $1,000,000 5 6
1 Wet Housing for Transients $100,000 5 7
10 Conservation & Climate Action Plan: Implement Foundations $150,000 5 8
3 Increase neighborhood grants funding $80,000 4 9
9 Create and implement urban deer management $200,000 2 10
7 Partner with ArtSpace for live/work rent-fixed housing for artists $250,000 0 11
Missoula Cost & Revenue Options
Item Proposal Savings # Tables Rank
D. Transfer cemetery ownership $500,000 9 1
E. Eliminate $100,000 in lawn irrigation from Parks $100,000 5 2
G. Extend vehicle/equipment replacement schedule $1,000,000 5 2
K. Increase misdemeanor fines by 10% $150,000 5 4
I. Re-assign Missoula in Motion grant money $300,000 4 5
J. Eliminate Aquatics subsidy $200,000 3 6
B. Increase employee healthcare contribution 2.84% to 12% $180,000 2 7
C. Increase city healthcare deductible by $1,000 $200,000 2 8
F. Eliminate Arts subsidies $100,000 1 9
A. Adjust Non-union employee COLA $150,000 1 10
L. Increase misdemeanor fines by 20% $300,000 1 11
H. Reduce non-public safety, non-union staff to 2006 levels $1,000,000 0 12
M. Increase Streets Division by 2 full time equivalents $300,000 2
N. Accelerate sidewalk building $400,000 2
O. Redo Hillview Way $700,000 1
P. Increase Road District assessments by 5% for each $100,000 in project cost 0
Q. Increase Gas Tax by .2 cents a gallon for each $100,000 in project cost 2
Missoula Budget Game Totals
Table # Participants Available to spend (start $575,000) Spent Difference Percentage
Spent1 6 $2,325,000 $1,830,000 $495,000 79%2 7 $925,000 $925,000 $0 100%3 4 $1,025,000 $780,000 $245,000 76%5 5 $855,000 $800,000 $55,000 94%6 4 $1,705,000 $1,700,000 $5,000 100%7 4 $2,525,000 $500,000 $2,025,000 20%8 5 $1,125,000 $930,000 $195,000 83%9 6 $2,275,000 $1,900,000 $375,000 84%
10 4 $1,325,000 $750,000 $575,000 57%12 7 $2,275,000 $2,230,000 $45,000 98%14 7 $1,525,000 $600,000 $925,000 39%15 5 $1,275,000 $1,000,000 $275,000 78%17 6 $1,525,000 $1,400,000 $125,000 92%
Total Participants 70 Facilitators 26 Council & SME's 9
Missoula Ideas Capture• Fare free bus system (4)
• Additional monies toward broadband plan to build out faster
• Drought tolerant plants
• Empower the Neighborhood Councils
• Left turn arrow at Higgins & Broadway
• Own our own water company
• Pedestrian policeman downtown
• Prisoner labor community service
• Prop. Tax credits for homeowners for planting trees (removal)
• Property Tax review
• Raise healthcare deductible to $550 instead of $1000
• Reduce FTE’s by 5 or 6 instead of to 2006 levels
• Reverse the road diet! - undo all the traffic calming
• Urban deer bow hunting
Transforming Communities with the Power of Every Voice
• Experienced facilitators provide support and manage structure/process, not outcome
• Online and/or in-person events, facilitator training
• Quantitative & qualitative feedback
• Measurable results
• Empowered by The Innovation Games Company
Every Voice Engaged FoundationThanks you!
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