BIG THINKING, BIG GOALS

Good Policy and Cost-Effective

Budgeting Go Hand-In-Hand

There will be a Follow Up Session

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Ask Questions and Seek Answers
During this session
For the rest of your career

YOUR ROLE IN THE LIVES

OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
Citizens Receiving Services, Providers and Their Employees, Local
Government Services, Government Employeeswho else?!

TAXPAYERS!
Economic Incentives Drive Behavior
Employers, Investors, Workers Can Leave Illinois
People are Willing to Pay Taxes for Good Results

Budget Balance

Taxes

Spending

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True Balance

Cost to Private Sector v. Value to Illinois

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Policy

Budget

Program

Service Delivery

Statutes

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 Rules

Map Service Delivery
Identify Useful BFR Metrics in Your
Policy Area

YOUR RESOURCE CIRCLES

Reach Out for Information. Budgeting is a Group Effort.

Your Resource Circles

Colleagues
Agency CFO
Agency Program Staff
Agency Resource Officers
Comptroller
Policy Office
Legal Office
Staff In the Field
Providers
Recipients
Advocates
Other States
Unbiased Experts
Pick up the Phone
Google
Books

Examples and Assignments

Pew Research

Meet With Policy Team

Kaiser Research

Meet with Agency Program Staff

Think Tanks

Set up a Field Trip

Private Companies' Service Delivery

Meet with Advocates, Families,

Front-Line Workers

LONG-TERM PLANNING
OUTCOMES AND METRICS
Budgeting Should be Multi-year and Based on Policy Goals

BUDGETS SHOULD BE
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Priority-Based
Results-Driven
Long-Term Plan

Priority-Based
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Examples??

Priority-Based
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Core Programs
Align with Other States
Low Income Recipients
Needy Recipients
Programs that Educate
Settings that Keep Families Together

Results-Driven: Incentives
Matter
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Examples??

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 Works
Subsidies Dont Work
Sometimes We Have The Wrong Policy

Good Intentions, but Problematic Policy

If Enterprise Programs Can Not be Sustained
Without Government Subsidies, They Should
Not Exist
Why isn't the State Fair self-sustaining?
How Could Museums and Parks Function without Subsidies?

Poor Outcomes Can Mean:

Poor Performance, or
Good Intentions Do Not Always Lead to Good Outcomes:

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

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

Long-Term
Planning
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Examples??

Long-Term Planning
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Moving DD Clients to Community Settings
Reducing Out-of-Home Care in Child Protection
Maximizing Education Opportunities
Universities vs. Community College
Juvenile Justice

Examples and Assignments

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 Policy

Area
Long-Term Policy and Affordability
Goals for Your Policy Area

BIG, HAIRY, AUDACIOUS

GOALS

"BHAGs"

Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal

EPA: More Protection, Less Process
More

PROTECTION

PROCESS

Less
Less

More

Aging Programs

Good
Outcomes

Community Care Program

Nutrition Services
Community Supportive
Services

Poor
Outcomes

Low Cost

High Cost

Assignment: Define Quadrants for your Agency

Template
Good
Outcomes

Poor
Outcomes

Low Cost

High Cost

Policy

Budget

Program

Service Delivery

Statutes

BRIEFING TIPS
Be Prepared, Brief, Responsible, and Opinionated

Keep It Simple, Silly!

Sit up Straigh and Be Concise

What are the Takeaways?
Dont Regurgitate what you Get from your CFO
Make Recommendations
Dont Guess
Get Your Answer

Brief what and why

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 savings?
How can we pay for it?
Are there lower priority spending items that we can substitute this
for?
Are there alternative ways to advance the policy or operational
goals?

Legislators support or oppose?

Constituents for or against this? Constituents for the items we
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 :)

Examples and Assignments

Mock Briefing by Mat

Next Session Everyone Will

Participate in a Mock Briefing
Lead with the Takeaways:
Get to A Decision

Be Respectful of your Role as Governor's Staff

In Meetings
In Public

You Are Part of Something Really Big