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open-austin / budgetparty

Budget Party was built to help people understand and augment a city budget for Austin. It is an interactive app that is best used in context of a "Budget Party" event.
https://austinbudget.party
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Stand up Budget Party for another City #135

Open mateoclarke opened 7 years ago

mateoclarke commented 7 years ago

We would like to expand this project to be adoptable by other cities. In order to do this we should research how budgeting works in other cities. This would be a good task for a researcher, data wrangler or policy wonk.

Then, we should make abstractions in our software that move city specific details into config files and accomodate plugging in new data for other cities. I could also see us creating a CSV template to fill out for a city. We could then run an import script that would do the work of dropping the new values from into the right places in config files.

carlvlewis commented 5 years ago

Just wanted to note here that almost all municipalities follow a similar services/departments/divisions budget hierarchy, and that the General Fund is almost a universal fund among muncipalities.

With some good documentation, it would not be terribly difficult to make this more accessibly reproduced; we’re doing it in Savannah!

carlvlewis commented 5 years ago

@mateoclarke We successfully stood up budgetparty at https://savannahbudget.party – could contribute docs is desired.