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BIG THINKING, BIG GOAL

Good Policy and Cost-Effective

Budgeting Go Hand-In-Hand


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There will be a Follow Up Session~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ask Questions and Seek Answers

During this session

For the rest of your career


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YOUR ROLE IN THE LIVEOF MILLIONS OF PEOPL

Citizens Receiving Services, Providers and Their Employees, Loca

Government Services, Government Employeeswho else?!


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TAXPAYERS!Economic Incentives Drive Behavior

Employers, Investors, Workers Can Leave Illinois

People are Willing to Pay Taxes for Good Results


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Taxes Spending

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Budget Balance


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Cost to Private Sector v. Value to Illinois

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True Balance


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Program

Policy

S

Service Delivery

Budget


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Examples and Assignments

What are the Policy Goals for Your

Assigned Agencies or Policy Areas?

Budgeting for Results (BFR): Useful

Metrics?

Read Your Statutes and R

Map Service Delivery

Identify Useful BFR Metric

Policy Area


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YOUR RESOURCE CIRCLEReach Out for Information. Budgeting is a Group Effort.


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Your Resource Circles


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ColleaguesAgency CFO

Agency Program StaffAgency Resource Officers

ComptrollerPolicy OfficeLegal Office

Staff In the FieldProvidersRecipients

AdvocatesOther States

Unbiased ExpertsPick up the Phone

GoogleBooks


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Pew Research

Kaiser Research

Think Tanks

Private Companies' Service Delivery

Meet With Policy Team

Meet with Agency Program

Set up a Field Trip

Meet with Advocates, Fam

Front-Line Workers


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LONG-TERM PLANNINGOUTCOMES AND METRICS

Budgeting Should be Multi-year and Based on Policy Goals


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BUDGETS SHOULD BE

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Priority-Based

Results-Driven

Long-Term Plan


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Priority-Based~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Examples??


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Priority-Based~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Core Programs

Align with Other States

Low Income Recipients

Needy RecipientsPrograms that Educate

Settings that Keep Families Together


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Results-Driven: IncentivesMatter

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Examples??


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Results-Driven

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Keeping Kids and Adults Out of Prison

Off Welfare

Out of Rehab

Education that Leads to a Job

Cost-Participation WorksSubsidies Dont Work

Sometimes We Have The Wrong Policy


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Good Intentions, but Problematic Po

If Enterprise Programs Can Not be Sustai

Without Government Subsidies, They Sho

Not Exist

Why isn't the State Fair self-sustaining?

How Could Museums and Parks Function without Subsidi


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Poor Outcomes Can Mean:

Poor Performance, or

Good Intentions Do Not Always Lead to Good Ou


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Nationwide, only 50 of more than 580 public four-year inst

graduate a majority of their full-time students on time.


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Long-TermPlanning

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Examples??


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Long-Term Planning~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Moving DD Clients to Community Settings

Reducing Out-of-Home Care in Child Protectio

Maximizing Education OpportunitiesUniversities vs. Community College

Juvenile Justice


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Student Spending v. Test Results

Post-College Employment

Recidivism Rates for Substance

Abuse Programs

Cost and Recidivism For DJJ

Long-Term Care for the

Developmentally Disabled

Services for Elder Citizens

Unit Cost/Metrics for Your

Area

Long-Term Policy and Affo

Goals for Your Policy Area


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BIG, HAIRY, AUDACIOUSGOALS

"BHAGs"


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Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal EPA: More Protection, Less Process

PROTECTION

P

More

Less

Less


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HiLow Cost

Good

Outcomes

Poor

Outcomes

Nutrition Services

Community Supportive

Services

Community Care Prog

Aging Programs


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HiLow Cost

Good

Outcomes

Poor

Outcomes

Template

Assignment: Define Quadrants for your Agency


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Program

Policy

S

Service Delivery

Budget


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BRIEFING TIPSBe Prepared, Brief, Responsible, and Opinionated


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Keep It Simple, Silly!


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Sit up Straigh and Be Concise

What are the Takeaways?

Dont Regurgitate what you Get from your CF

Make Recommendations

Dont Guess

Get Your Answer


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Brief what and why


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What policy or operational goal does this advance?

Cost?

If Capital, how long will it last?

If a policy investment, how and when will we realize true s

How can we pay for it?

Are there lower priority spending items that we can substit

for?

Are there alternative ways to advance the policy or operat

goals?


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Legislators support or oppose?

Constituents for or against this? Constituents for the items

wont fund in order to pay for this?

What is your recommendation?

Optics

What is the timeframe for a decision and why?

Get a decision :)


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Mock Briefing by Mat Next Session Everyone Wi

Participate in a Mock Brie

Lead with the Takeaways:

Get to A Decision


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Be Respectful of your Role as Governor s Sta

In Meetings

In Public


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You Are Part of Something Really

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