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Delray Beach launches zero-based budgeting review, schedules May department workshops
Summary
Budget Manager Savory Avery and CFO Henry Deck outlined a citywide zero-based budgeting exercise for FY2026-27, asking departments to complete templates showing minimum, improved and alternate service levels; staff will distribute templates and hold workshops May 5 and May 19.
Delray Beach staff on April 7 laid out a zero-based budgeting (ZBB) process for fiscal year 2026-27 that will ask departments to justify expenditures by program and identify minimum, improved and alternate levels of service.
Savory Avery, the city's budget manager, told the City Commission the approach breaks the organization into decision units or programs, uses prepopulated templates with current full-time equivalents and budget data, and asks department leaders to provide narrative and line-item explanations for each level of service. "We created templates to collect…
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