Some aspects of budgeting can be tricky, like accurately projecting the cost of wages and benefits, or building budgets that appropriately manage the fund balance. Also, just gathering the data, making and updating calculations, and presenting it in a useful format to the budget committee and the board can be cumbersome if the tools used are not flexible and easily updated.

Blue Star can alleviate these problems by providing you with tools, services, and advice that will make your entire budget process much easier. This includes developing the budget documents and worksheets, reviewing prior years’ budgets and actuals to help inform the budget-year’s requests, having discussions with department heads and managers about their operational goals and budgetary needs, attending budget committee meetings to provide expert advice, live updates to budget documents as changes are made during budget meetings, and attending the annual town meeting to help answer questions.