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Olympia moves to priority‑based budgeting; draft program reports expected before June retreat
Summary
Staff updated council on the city’s priority‑based budgeting work: program inventories and cost allocations are nearly complete, program scoring and peer review are underway, and draft results will be available at the midyear retreat with a consultant presentation planned June 24.
Assistant City Manager Debbie Sullivan and staff reported May 13 that Olympia has completed a program inventory and most cost allocations for a priority‑based budgeting (PBB) system and expects draft program insights for the 2026 budget deliberations.
Sullivan said the city has loaded line‑item budget data into software, allocated personnel and nonpersonnel costs to programs, and is now in the program‑scoring phase. Departments have created 61 programs and are scoring each program against alignment with the comprehensive plan (six focus areas including public safety and environmental stewardship) and…
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